nisaba said:
back to some general de-enabling, folks. Help me Keep Strong against the urge to backslide? Relevant bits you might like to underline:
1) I'm on a very low income, and while I have a couple of hundred I *could* spend on decks, there's also a power bill for $170 sitting there waiting to be paid,
2) anyone with more decks than Real World friends is pretty sad, and if I keep it up I'll even have more decks than Facebook friends,
3) I can't even fit all of my active reading decks on a table let alone all of my collection, and it's bad form not to be able to share things of beauty ...
4) whatever the clincher is that I don't know myself well enough to say to me, that will turn me off buying for life.
#1 is all I need to see. You can't enjoy any decks if you don't have the power to be warm (or cool in summer), and without lights you can't see at night, not to mention not being able to get on AT. Paying your power bill is a non-starter. Just do it.
#2 so what - I have more decks than RL and FB friends.
#3 That is where I am today. Selling decks for less than I paid, so that they may be *enjoyed* by someone else. I never thought I'd sell my Blake Tarot, but I wasn't using or enjoying it. And you know what? I don't miss it.
#4 This recession is going to be looooong and deep. If you're low income anyway (like moi), then you don't need to buy more decks. You can't eat decks!
Perhaps you should join the PDR or IDS, and work with one deck at a time exclusively. When you know them all, *then* consider buying another.
OR - you could do the "one in/one out" thing and require yourself to sell a deck for every new one you buy. If you're like me you'd still lose money, but not as much.