Quoted from JohnnyPinball007:I confess that NIB games did sticker shock me at first, several years ago, but after I learned that as long as you do not buy a game that not many people like, you can play it all you want in the comfort of your home and not lose much when you decide to sell it.
For the first time in a couple years going on vacation soon.
Some motel prices seem a tad high, but not enough to say sticker shock.
But menus at restaurants in the areas I will be, damn!
I have no problem with a $15.99 shrimp dinner, but lunch was like $10.99 lowest price for a burger. Hell no!
I confess I have never used anything except the fridge in a motel room that had a kitchen, but in the future I may have some cooking ware with me on road trips.
Everything is going up, and I am pretty much fine with everything except food prices going up.
Jay sent me a link to a restaurant that had very awesome reviews, won awards, etc.
I looked at the menu, and sent him a pm back that the prices were kind of high.
Jay came back with yeah, and you will pay 8k for a pin.
Well, that 8k pin we can enjoy for a long time without having to go anywhere, and not lose much at all when we are ready to sell and get something else.
That $25.99 rib eye steak has no resale at all, it is just gone in a few minutes.
Am I missing something?
I mean I could be missing something, I was here forever before anyone told me about the basement here.
I mean is there some kind of fertilizer program going on that I have never heard of, that if I have that $25.99 rib eye I can resale the poop for $21.99?
And maybe that $15.99 shrimp dinner is worth $12.99 in this program?
Confess at home, we eat on less than $100.00 a month, and not eating any noodles.
I confess this whole pinball addiction has been awesome for me.
Used to I did eat out all of the time. And I lost all of that money, but no regrets.
Once I got back into this pinball addiction, I mean pinball hobby, I started looking at ways to save more money to be able to get my next fix.
Yeah for a long time we were doing the dining pass at the Six Flags 5 miles from here, worked ok, sucked sometimes when it was a tad crowded.
I confess a very long time ago I had steak almost every night, and now I do not even care about steak.
I love how pinball machines hold their value so well, and are so fun.
Food, blah, total waste of money but we do have to eat, and not doing any noodles but Aldi does have good prices on chicken and ground beef.
And used to on summer holidays charcoal would be a great deal and I would stock up. Sucks that did not happen the last 2 years.
Pinball is awesome when you are not rich. It will help you to pinch pennies and see what you are wasting money on.
Pinball machines are never money wasted, they always have value.
My wealthy uncle is the worst at trying to get breaks with anything. I just roll my eyes.
But that is just his hobby it seems, and he enjoys that crap.
Over 30 years ago when I was doing flea market crap sometimes I would hear a Dad trying to train his young son on talking prices down, and that pissed me off, and I would say NO, before the question was even asked.
I have never talked any prices down, I pass if I do not like a price.
Yes I will ask about volume discounts sometimes, I think that is legit.
I would never ever ask LTG for some discount, it is a game room, it is not like he has 40 cases of #0 bubble mailers in overstock that he wants to get rid of that I could use if cheap enough that it would take me 5 years to use them, while in the meantime taking up space while storing them until they are all gone.
I 100% agree with that. But like I just said at times in the past kids were being coached by parents, and it ticked me off.
I really doubt any kid enjoys getting put on the spot, and in the middle of something, that some tight ass parents are trying to teach.
Independence, KY
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