|
Community Links |
Social Groups |
Pictures & Albums |
Members List |
Search Forums |
Advanced Search |
Go to Page... |
View Poll Results: What does your significant other think? | |||
Ok with it and helps. | 169 | 50.00% | |
Just ok with it. | 69 | 20.41% | |
Does not know about it. | 13 | 3.85% | |
Wishes you'd stop. | 28 | 8.28% | |
Wishes you spent less money on it. | 59 | 17.46% | |
Voters: 338. You may not vote on this poll |
|
Thread Tools |
04-24-2008, 12:42 PM | #101 |
Banned
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: South Texas RIO GRANDE VALLEY
Posts: 11,700
|
I agree I mean I tell her I don't gamble, I don't spend on booze, or drugs; I just collect for my own personal gain. Whereas others do it for monetary gains I do it because it brings back a childhood of as a kid I never had that many GI JOE's to open out of a package as my own. I was lucky as a kid though the closest way to making a big collection was at a local flea market. I remember picking up a Straight Arm Snake Eyes for 25 Cents. Of course it had no weapons just figure. I lost entire collection in fire so the only original GI JOE figure I have is Swivel Arm Cobra Commander and he was 15.00 with file card and gun. I guess it shows the value of money goes down after awhile.
|
04-24-2008, 12:43 PM | #102 |
Banned
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: South Texas RIO GRANDE VALLEY
Posts: 11,700
|
So getting 25th is closest way of regaining figures I once had and some I never had.
|
04-24-2008, 12:45 PM | #103 |
T.A.R.G.A.T
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Utah
Posts: 3,220
|
Quote:
The wife supports me and my habbit. She will even go out hunting for them while I am at work! She knows how much of an impact it had on me growing up and how I wished I had kept all my original joes in the packages. I am pretty much collecting them for my 3 year old son for when he is about 25.
|
04-24-2008, 01:23 PM | #104 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Melbourne, FL
Posts: 197
|
Well my wife wished I didnt spend so much on it- mainly because she supports my star wars fixation much more-- I keep telling her Im not collecting as much as I used too (I sold off all my vintage joe about 2 years ago)- but the 25ht sucked me back in-- at least I know I will only get the redos of the vintage guys -- no weird repaints when they are released.
|
04-24-2008, 02:21 PM | #105 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: mars
Posts: 382
|
reading this board makes me realize all of the cool woman out there...i have a young son and tell her they are for them...what I dont tell her is that i have three of everything...but honestly it pisses me off when she comes home from the store and i ask her if she looked at the joes and she says no i dont know what to look for...she doesnt ask its like she doesnt care...i guess its not that bad but i will be damned if someone is going to tell me how to spend my money..BUT when that marriage question comes up i think of all you guys that have the "cool" wives and wonder...THANKS guys for breaking up a happy home!!!!! LOL
|
05-04-2008, 04:04 PM | #106 |
Viper Mechanized Corps
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Junction City, KS
Posts: 813
|
My wife really helps out a lot. Between field time and deployments it gets really hard to keep up if it was not for her.
__________________
I was a Soldier, I am a Soldier, I WILL ALWAYS BE A SOLDIER XBOX LIVE: HandOfGod11B CoD Black Ops Homefront CoD MW3 |
05-04-2008, 04:28 PM | #107 |
Cobra Viper
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: illinois
Posts: 115
|
My girlfriend is pretty cool with it, she thinks I'm a huge dork, but it's cute to her. She even went as far as too buy me all the comic packs and set them up around her house for Valentines day. She researched all the characters online to find out who all the characters were and then she wrote little clues and a little storyline of her own and made me go on a "hunt" to find them in her house. She even included the romance between SE and Scarlett. I was pretty impressed. Especially coming from a girl who doesn't collect anything except shoes.
|
05-04-2008, 06:46 PM | #108 |
Billy Beane's adviser
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Oakland,CA
Posts: 733
|
My wife is ok with me buying Joes,but I think she hopes this line comes to an end soon.
__________________
Quote:
Henderson played on nine teams, but he's sure to be inducted as an Oakland Athletic, like Eckersley, and depicted wearing an A's cap on his plaque. The A's were Henderson's first and favorite team, so much so that he returned three times and wanted to return a fourth so he could retire in green and gold.
"In Beane We Trust" |
05-19-2008, 07:06 AM | #109 |
McGuffin Device Inventor
Join Date: May 2008
Location: South Carolina
Posts: 1,028
|
My wife is just happy that I have dropped all of the other stuff I was collecting and sticking to just GI JOE. I used to have a pretty bad toy habit. Legends, Transformers, DC Heros, anything...you see how this list is going, a really bad habit. Now, thanks to TSA(Toy Shopaholics Anonymous), I am really doing better.
__________________
Stand and Deliver, or the Devil, He May Take Thee! |
05-24-2008, 08:05 AM | #110 |
Crimson Viper
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Arkansas City Kansas
Posts: 210
|
After I started seeing 25th joes all over instead of just at a few specialty shops, I kinda gave up on HeroClix. (I have about 3000 of them) She hates that I gave up a 30 dollar a week hobby, playing tournaments every weekend at 10 a shot and 2 boosters at 10 a shot for 20 to 30 a week for Joes all because the heroclix take up less space.
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
My wife tells me I need to be patient... BAH!!! | Xerofall | G.I. Joe Toys Modern & General Discussion | 25 | 07-19-2018 08:00 PM |
My wife and kid are so good to me!! | slg | G.I. Joe General Discussion | 7 | 06-09-2008 05:39 PM |
"My wife is AWESOME", or "NEW DETOLF!" | Derek2783 | Toys | 17 | 03-08-2008 07:36 AM |
My wife thinks Collin Ferrell should play Destro? | SHIPWRECK"N"POLLY | G.I. Joe Live Action Movie | 10 | 11-12-2007 07:02 PM |
|
|
Recent Off Topic Threads |
Hisstank Late Night thread... |
DarkLordMordred... |
Last Movie You Watched? |
What song are you listening to? |
G.I. Joe March Madness 2024 Championship Battle Armor... |