Tarot = $$$ gone....

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 11 Apr 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Demonesse	11 Apr 2003
Have your spending habits been influenced by Tarot, so much so that you've had to sacrifice other pleasures? I find I've spent far too much on decks and tarot-related items lately and am suffering an attack of the *guilts* because of it, and yet at the same time am still drooling over all those new and unreachably beautiful new decks....in my sordid tarotholic past I've chosen decks over new clothes and once almost forwent getting a new tooth filling done for a deck. :D Common sense won out in the end, though. This is bad. Or good, depending on how you see it!

Melissa`	11 Apr 2003
ooh yes.. Thank Goddess for my tax returns.. My thing is.. I try not to buy tarot decks online.. its too easy for me now to drop money into my paypal account and go happy buying all over the net for all the decks on my wish list. So instead.. if a bookstore I visit just *happens* to have it.. I buy it... I also try not to get the stores to order it for me.. might as well charge up the paypal account.. The only sad thing is the stores have had a lot of the decks I have wanted lately.. thats why I've bought five in the last 2 weeks.. :( Blessings, Amaya

Silverlotus	11 Apr 2003
I tend to go in cycles with what I spend my money on. For a while it was video games (easy, since I worked in a video game store), then books, then cross stitch, now tarot. Who know's what it will be next. :) I try not to spend more then I can safely afford, but occasionally I do. I have very little self-control. :(

Sobeknofret	11 Apr 2003
I'm contemplating doing just that very thing right now. Wondering if I can justify buying a deck that I don't really need, can't really afford, and probably won't be anything other than a collectors piece anyway. But I WANT it sooo badly lol! I also have a new deck on order, so I really shouldn't do it. Good to see I'm not the only one with this same problem... :D

Emily	11 Apr 2003
I have pangs of guilt sometimes lol, but saying that since I've been concentrating on tarot and related books I haven't been spending my money on other things, like other books or magazines. I also used to do alot of cross stitch and needlecrafts so used to buy kits and materials, books and suchlike but I don't buy them now. I am at the moment in the throes of guilt, I want the Tarot of the Spirit and book to go with it but its only been a couple of weeks since I bought my new Thoth and a few books to go with that, all my other books are Rider Waite, - I was determined to get to know the Thoth and not buy any other decks for a while - I posted on the fact that I was not going to flit from deck to deck again because I thought I had found what i wanted in the Universal Waite and the Thoth. I still want the Tarot of the Spirit but I am winning the battle, I am going to wait before I order it to make sure it won't turn into another one of the decks that I know I'll never use lol :)

WolfSpirit	11 Apr 2003
Mwahahahaha, everybody will want the Tarot of the Spirit next }) Some decks I have collected just to have them - because I thought they were beautiful. I had in the back of my mind "well maybe I will read with it as well...maybe it will be the best reading deck ever", but I only told myself that to ease my guilt, I feel a bit guilty about just getting decks because they are pretty. Decks that I think I will really work with I don't feel guilty about. If I had bought less decks, I probably would have bought more blues cd's - I have to divide my money (apart from money for living of course) between music and tarot. But then I know people who have collected about 100 bootlegs of the same artist, well then I feel I spent my money more wisely. Must say I do not only want to HAVE the deck, I love the whole process of: searching for the deck, searching for the best deal: should I bid on ebay or just buy that second hand in good condition or... and then the waiting for the postman (yes I think the waiting actually makes it better), receiving the parcel, opening it...oooh I am just so addicted })

azuremariposa	11 Apr 2003
heh...tarot = $$$ gone? hell yes! shouldn't have spent that money on my new VR deck...but i'm still thrilled that i have it!!! :D it's a sickness...i'm sure... many blessings! ~azure

truthsayer	12 Apr 2003
i don't even want to think about the amount of money i've spent on decks in the past year. that's including the fact i've traded lots, too! a rough estimate would be close to $1000 usd. but i love them! yes! yes! yes! i love them! i don't regret it! bwahahahaha! life is too short not to do what your heart calls you to do. the only problem is that my heart calls me to buy art supplies, camera supplies, and books, too! uuuuuuuuummmmmm...think my inner tarot gremlin is starting to raise her ugly little head...me better go...mine preciousssssssssss ccccccallllllllllllllllllsssssssssssssssssssss me!

moon_mermaid	12 Apr 2003
Yes, lately I choose decks over other things. Still I wish list grow longer and longer URGH~~~. I have little self control when I see the beautiful decks and hearing them say "BUY ME! BUY ME!" I do feel guilty when I have spent too much on the decks, but soon the feeling vanish as I receive them. "BUY ME! BUY ME!"

Athara	12 Apr 2003
I'm beginning to have the same problem. And AT is to blame! Where's the promised disclaimer on the front page: WARNING! Visiting this site can and WILL lead to addiction and severe money problems... AT is to blame, but I still thank you for that! :D *Can't wait for the Fey to arrive...* Hm, Tarot of the Spirit? Must...check...out... Love and luck, Athara

Ruby7	12 Apr 2003
I am living frugally at the moment, walking to work (rather than taking the bus), simple diet of vegetables, rice, fruit, and whatever I have left in the freezer (luckily some fish and chicken), all because I have spent WAY too much money on tarot cards just in the past two months. I received my notice from the post office yesterday that my William Blake Tarot of the Creative Imagination has arrived, this cost $39.99 U.S. from Ed Buryn in the U.S. Not too bad if you live in the U.S. But I'm in Canada and It cost me $68.00 Canadian (shipping included) and now my post office notice says that I have to pay another $10.00 (for customs?) So almost $80.00 for one deck. The guilt!!!! Anyway by 1.00p.m. today I will have the deck in my greedy little hands (if I can scrape the $10.00 together) I still want the Victoria Regina, Shakespeare, Inner Child, but they will have to wait!!!!

Emily	12 Apr 2003
I am now over my guilt trip of yesterday, I know I will use The Tarot of the Spirit, my Thoth agrees with me :) , I have no other hobbies, I work hard for my money - I'll be ordering the Tarot of the Spirit and book as soon as I get back from my trip :) - I feel better already :)

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