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This whole topic is common enough, sad enough that even cartoons are made of it:

I do pretty good these days.

Just the other day I stopped at a large comic book/gaming store in MN to buy a few pots of paint.

Walked out with a few pots of paint, some knick knacks for the girlfriend for christmas, and Infinity: Red Veil. Oh and a store membership card, for all those other times I go just for a couple pots of paint.

Just like I went to hobby lobby just to get a couple pots of paint, and well, 200 dollars later...

The worst is going to the FLGS just to hang out one day, and left with a landraider, 2 predators, 4 rhinos, 4 BT parts boxes (well ordered), a couple boxes of marines, and some terminators. Oops.

 TheAuldGrump wrote:
Ordered $50 of Reaper paints, because I had to have the goblin carolers for my fantasy steampunk RPG....



The Auld Grump - who may sin again next week....

I got an e-mail from my good lady wife about my getting $50 of paint....

She wants to know which set of paints I got, so when she sends in her $50 order we don't have duplicates... she is trying to decide between the Tinker Gnome or the Snow Fairy for when she sends in her order. (We cannot afford both, even when we egg each other on....)



I couldn't really help her - I couldn't decide, either.... (The gnome would end up being a PC, but the fairy would be a useful NPC....)

The Auld Grump

 MrMoustaffa wrote:

 War Kitten wrote:
One time I walked into my LGS to buy some glue. I walked out with Betrayal at Calth and some glue

This was word for word me except replace glue with agrax earthshade.

In my defense I had a 20% off coupon.

And I had heard a rumor that it was going to be discontinued.


These are not good excuses...

Yes they are.

Soooo, if you haven't heard of Kingdom Death, they've got this kickstarter going on right now that's making my wallet weep like never before

 Bi'ios wrote:
Soooo, if you haven't heard of Kingdom Death, they've got this kickstarter going on right now that's making my wallet weep like never before

You know when a certain GW CEO says their product is the Ferrari of gaming?
Kingdom of Death is the real premium sports car to their Lada.
I piece of me weeps because my wallet cannot handle the strain of that game.
I have to "content" myself with every time FFG releases a new Star Wars product.

Walked into my FLGS today to get a board game for my nephews. Turns out, they are running a 35% off sale on GW. Took all my self control not to just toss my wallet on the counter and walk out with everything I could carry.

Ended up with just a Stormhawk.

(And King of New York for the boys)

 Talizvar wrote:

That was probably the most pertinent cartoon for those who are married.

Lol, not when both of you wargame! Then it looks like this:

"Hm, what's this bag of stuff here?"
*Oh, that's gotta be the Mark 3 Marines from the Burning of Prospero set. Look at the helmets. Owner must have wanted only part of the box and decided to peice it out.*
"$30 is not that bad..."
*No, but these are what you really want.*
"Oooooooh, Custodes! Can I buy them?"
*...what do I get out of it?*
"Um... my undying gratitude..."
*...*
"How about this box of Wraithguard?"
*Deal!*

And this is after blowing a metric ton of money on Christmas presents to the point of only hoping the tax return can pay it off. And we had only gone in with the intention of just talking to people and making friends... oops...

Every single time we go into one of those stores we buy something we did not intend to. It's funny when the cashier asks "did you find everything you were looking for?" Yes, and then some...

 Red_Ink_Cat wrote:

 Talizvar wrote:

That was probably the most pertinent cartoon for those who are married.

Lol, not when both of you wargame! Then it looks like this:

"Hm, what's this bag of stuff here?"
*Oh, that's gotta be the Mark 3 Marines from the Burning of Prospero set. Look at the helmets. Owner must have wanted only part of the box and decided to peice it out.*
"$30 is not that bad..."
*No, but these are what you really want.*
"Oooooooh, Custodes! Can I buy them?"
*...what do I get out of it?*
"Um... my undying gratitude..."
*...*
"How about this box of Wraithguard?"
*Deal!*

And this is after blowing a metric ton of money on Christmas presents to the point of only hoping the tax return can pay it off. And we had only gone in with the intention of just talking to people and making friends... oops...

Every single time we go into one of those stores we buy something we did not intend to. It's funny when the cashier asks "did you find everything you were looking for?" Yes, and then some...

Sadly accurate.

In our case it gets really expensive when Reaper has a Bones Kickstarter.... This last one was brutal, I think we sank around $800 into it, when we put our pledges together.
The separate pledges is so that one or the other of us can yell 'mine' when the other reaches greedy fingers towards our loot. (If you think that I am joking - both of my hill giants from Bones II are now part of Megan's Goblin Army for Kings of War... it is no fair when your lich king gets squished by a miniature that was stolen from your own collection...)

The Auld Grump - and in less than a decade, our baby girl will be old enough to start gaming as well, less if you count HeroQuest. (Megan got started with fantasy gaming while her age was in the mid single digits - her mum had the classic HeroQuest. This is a tradition that we plan to continue.

The Auld Grump