I don't buy anything -at all- anymore. If it's not on MU or DCI, I just don't even try anymore.
Kids, man. Kids...
I hear ya on that, but if Pop (me) doesn't get at least one splurge or entitlement, I am cranky. And it's not like if have a love life and spend money on dates.
Too true. I actually just recently had a talk with the wife last month; I started buying myself ...stuff. For the last 2 years, with 2 kids in daycare, medical bills from their surgeries and mine, I have. not. bought. myself. a thing.
I've used saved birthday and christtmas money to re-up Marvel Unlimited and DC Infinite. and that's all I've done for years now.
And my sacrifices weren't doing a damn thing to our debt. Not that my wife was helping with that either, but that's a looong talk not worth going into.
So, I bought myself 2 game manuals, a new baseball cap, art from a podcast I like, all over the last 4 months. It's honestly the first things I've bought myself in years.
So, I stay in debt. I'll die with those same damned debt numbers. But I at least did something for myself.