Shock I say....Its a lot of money....The "Your Wish Army)

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**Jihadin**

You never really know how much into a hobby you are till you have them physically in front of you.....money wise....and the only good thing is I get it all back at Tax Season on return.....and I looked back on three years of taxes......

Whats bad...from the Dark Eldar I'm missing five Beastmaster...5 Kymeria, 2 Fiends, two Razorwing flock, two Venoms, two Razorwings, ten Scourges, 10 Hellion, six Grotesqe Two Twelve man Kabalite Squad and one Wych squad...three Cronos

Tau the Riptide, two Fire cadre....missing two 12 man squad...their somewhere in the house...

Clan Space marines....five Devastator working on, five tactical marines working on, Venerable Dreadnought working, 12 bikers from Forge World OTW, retouch the pewter 5 Vangaurd and 5 Sterngaurd Marines

Dakka Warband....5 termies I need names for....5 more tactical mairnes I need name for...Helldrake conversion to complete...five more "new" raptors to work on...

I look back on my Battletech Mechs.....124 IS mechs plus reinforce mechanized battalion...60+ assorted tanks and troops carriers plus attack choppers....over 100 clan Omni and 2nd line mechs for a Galaxy...

Then my collection of MTG cards....started collecting at "Unlimited" to a complete set and stopped at what ever expansion the "Ritual of the Machine" came out.

OMG......That's a nice down payment on a very decent size house with all the funds I pumped into my hobbies.......collecting DVD's is not...well can be close to a hobby...we are not going there......

**d-usa**

So shocked you posted twice!

Looks mighty fine though.

**Jihadin**

I had like a serious lag spike...drop...basically popped all over the page....I didn't think the first one go with all the pics loading on Dakka in 3 secs...

Games Workshop where I play
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Dang...D-USA....your one of my Apothacary.....so which clan....Star Adder or Blood Spirit eh?

**hotsauceman1**

Yeah, I look at them sometimes and think "I spent so much on this"
Then i remember my cousin telling me how he spent 1000$ on beer last year

**rubiksnoob**

hotsauceman1 wrote:

Then i remember my cousin telling me how he spent 1000$ on beer last year

What is this, amateur hour?

**Jihadin**

BTW Rubiknoob....That liked your Forge Master lol....an your name on the Land Raider Redeemer....with a Rubic Cube drawn above it

Also like Hotsauce symbol of "My Little Pony" Rainbow on the shoulder pad....it was so cute a couple females said

Ever sine GW put into position of a young vibrant female to run the store. Been quite a pick up in there.

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I barely drink anymore and if I do...it Gentleman Jack and Coke 8)

**Ouze**

Jihadin wrote:
I barely drink anymore and if I do...it Gentleman Jack and Coke 8)

I'm with you on that one. I don't like Jack Daniels, and I don't like Coca-Cola. But if you mix them together, suddenly it's awesome.

Inexplicable, but true.

**Jihadin**

We be sophisticated individuals Ouze

**TheDraconicLord**

Ouze wrote:
Jihadin wrote:
I barely drink anymore and if I do...it Gentleman Jack and Coke 8)

I'm with you on that one. I don't like Jack Daniels, and I don't like Coca-Cola. But if you mix them together, suddenly it's awesome.

Inexplicable, but true.

Mixing Whiskey with something else?! HERESY!

**Nevelon**

Jihadin wrote:
You never really know how much into a hobby you are till you have them physically in front of you.....money wise....and the only good thing is I get it all back at Tax Season on return.....and I looked back on three years of taxes......

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OMG......That's a nice down payment on a very decent size house with all the funds I pumped into my hobbies.......collecting DVD's is not...well can be close to a hobby...we are not going there......

You deduct what you spend on minis from your taxes? Who is your accountant, and can I steal him/her? I guess if you played professionally, they could be a business expense. Or am I reading that wrong, and you dump the cash from your returns into your hobbies?

I sold the bulk of my magic cards back in '99, and while it didn't make the entire down payment on my house, it did make a dent in it. Sold the rest a few months ago, and it's whats letting buy new GW stuff.

I'd be afraid to tally up what I have. Collecting for years, a chunk of that when I was still living like a starving college student, but with a grown-up job and paycheck. But you need to do something to keep sane, and all hobbies cost money. At least we get something to show for ours, rather then just a hangover or a ticket stub.

Speaking of hangovers, as the topic of drinks has been brought up, I take a gin martini or a dark & stormy if given a choice.

**Chongara**

My hobby spending is basically on a freeze. I've got so much sitting around that isn't even painted or in some cases even assembled, I can't justify more purchases right now. Not when I have probably like $200 of stuff just *sitting* doing nothing.

I really must hurry up, I kind of want to be able to have eReznik when comes out.

I did manage to feel a bit better when I sold all Space Wolves stuff that I knew I'd never play with again though. Of course I put it right back into more Menites... but still.

**mega_bassist**

TheDraconicLord wrote:
Ouze wrote:
Jihadin wrote:
I barely drink anymore and if I do...it Gentleman Jack and Coke 8)

I'm with you on that one. I don't like Jack Daniels, and I don't like Coca-Cola. But if you mix them together, suddenly it's awesome.

Inexplicable, but true.

Mixing Whiskey with something else?! HERESY!

Bah, it's a sour mash. Yes, it's a whiskey, but that's totally fine to mix with soda.

**daedalus**

hotsauceman1 wrote:
Yeah, I look at them sometimes and think "I spent so much on this"
Then i remember my cousin telling me how he spent 1000$ on beer last year

I've been known to drop $100 in a night at a bar before. Spending $1000 on beer in a year is, uh, nothing.

Consider a 6 pack of Amber Bock at approximately $8.00. While not an amazing beer, it is still a high end beer you would expect to see in just about any gas station anywhere in the midwest at least, and quite drinkable. $1000 gets you 125 of them, for 750 beers total. Divide that by 12 and you've got 62.5 beers a month. Divide that by 30, and you've got about 2 beers a day. That's not even getting drunk. That's something tasteful that accompanies a dinner.

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mega_bassist wrote:
TheDraconicLord wrote:
Ouze wrote:
Jihadin wrote:
I barely drink anymore and if I do...it Gentleman Jack and Coke 8)

I'm with you on that one. I don't like Jack Daniels, and I don't like Coca-Cola. But if you mix them together, suddenly it's awesome.

Inexplicable, but true.

Mixing Whiskey with something else?! HERESY!

Bah, it's a sour mash. Yes, it's a whiskey, but that's totally fine to mix with soda.

What about a Manhattan?

**rubiksnoob**

Jihadin wrote:
BTW Rubiknoob....That liked your Forge Master lol....an your name on the Land Raider Redeemer....with a Rubic Cube drawn above it

I'm honored!

**Jihadin**

What Hell happen that thread anyway?

I get my cash back due to its consider PTSD treatment. Paints, brushes, novels, codex, mini's and the big Armor books...anything related to 40K....soon to be X-Wing......today I found a quite a few A-Wings, Tie Intercepters, and more Y-Wings...

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ALright...so I did a bit of pondering while driving a lot today...
Five man Space Marine squad from Expendable (movie)
Imperial Guard...looking at the Brown Coats. "Bayonets and Blood"...Malcolm Reynolds unit.....Firefly....Command HQ unit...Firefly crew...
Chaos Space Marine on our new Mod "Janith"....or something....need a hook....

**Jihadin**

OMG......just brought today...Bretonnian Battalion and codex.......why oh why.....and all I canthink of....is how I would do individual miniatures.....Kronk...a Knight....Oh My....

**Experiment 626**

Even more dangerous is working for GW... and getting the staff discount.

It's oh-so-glorious, yet absolutely terrible.

I no longer have a bedroom - rather it's a small GW store with a bed in it!

**Jihadin**

I still have to take more 40K stuff to add to my four armies....Build Up of Arms....Apocalypse Formations....think so far I put eight points into our store...I actually claim a "Trial of Refusal" being that the 40K SM Apocalypse formation was codex SM.......I won the Refusal due to my paint scheme

**KalashnikovMarine**

I get the staff discount for my company's product line now. 50% off... oh goddess going to be buying so much. Now the real question is if I can call owning my company's product line a work related expense on my taxes.

**Jihadin**

If you deployed and think you have PTSD.....