Delusions & Musings

Auctions, Wishlist cels & Storyboards
last modified: Sunday, October 01, 2006 (12:50:24 PM)
I'll split this Entry into the three parts of the title though the first two heavily Relate.

First Auctions:

We pretty effectively stopped collecting for 6 months we didn't look at dealer sites, YJ or ebay and have only just started again but, with our own little rules in place.

First: Cel purchase are to average no more than $600 ever 2 months (that's a $3600 a year cel budget which actually isn't much considering what we're interesting in buying these days but, if we want to save we have to do it)

Second: We're going to buy all those dealer cels we've been wanting for years and not buying on auctions unless we see wishlist cels. (and granted there is a wishlist cel on auction right now but, I'll get into that later)

So alright for the first part we're fine we've bought 3 cels lately and the one of sara and Lena updated yesterday $125 one not here was $50 including shipping and the other is $95 including dep fees. The $95 cel we just won today which presents a problem with the second recollecting stripulation. It is not a wishlist cel it is an OOH Pretty! cel. Honestly I was happy to win it and it went right up to my head bid so I sat refreshing going "please don't get anymore bids I can afford to spend not one cent more!". I won but, still feel kind of guilty about it it's beautiful cel but, I still feel like I broke my own rules and if I do it once. I'll do it again. I've just ogt no self control at all. On the flip side my borthday is in Five more days so if I just claim to have treated myself to an early Birthday present it all balances out in the end right?

Second wishlist cels:

One of Jen's Major wishlist cels is for auction right now and fits in the Wishlist category but far exceeds the spending limit it's about $900. Which since it's such a major wishlist cel isn't that much of an problem. Coming up with almost $1k is though. We've been carfeully budgeting as it is and just payed out $300 for a car repair. So I don't see anyway to swing it I just feel bad because it's her ultimate wishlist cel and when I wanted that last unicorn cel we sold off high end things in pursuit of it but, I just can't go through another gallery clean out. It's stressful & annoying. Not to mention we've purged most of the things we should ever want to already. I still feel like I'm inadvertantly Saying "My wants are more important than yours." And I'm not sure how I can fix it.

And finally Stroyboards:

On a postive note, I've scanned 20 more Storyboards and after doing som resizing and numbering, I'll have them up (hopefully by this evening) Again so lovely but, such a pain the scan. We're actually planning on getting seprate cel books just for them so we can easily display all of them at once.(of course not that it would help anyone who wasn't in our immediate area see them...) But, that's all my ranting for now. Whew good thing that's over! ^_^

~Stephanie
re: Auctions, Wishlist cels & StoryboardsSunday, October 01, 2006 - 7:50:36 PM
Leah

Oooooh, I hope you find a way to swing the funds for that wishlist cel!!!
Maybe a bake sale or car wash? j/k
Maybe it won''t get sold, and you can convince the seller to hold it for you until you get the funds?


Car Wash....Monday, October 02, 2006 - 7:00:28 AM
acetateaddiction

I wish I could raise funds in one of those ways find some friends and put on cheerleader outfits, (as it''s usually the female sports squads who end up doing the car wash fund raisers) "We''re Auction cheerleaders and Raising Money so we can afford to bring a Japenese exchange cel into our community".....I don''t think it''d work though and since we live in the way northern part of Minnesota, as late in the season as it''s getting we''d be lucky if thew water didn''t freeze on us. o_O All my years as girl scout (10 of them) would help me at a bake sale though I get the impression people want to see girlscouts go to Disneyland more than they want grown women to Buy painted bits of platic. (though I don''t see why...)

Oh and, Thanks for the good luck wishes I''m sure we''ll need them!