*feels hunted*
Ah! No worries, this is someone who understands!
Items: 2,671 | Qty: 15,326
I've had much more previous years. D:< I wish you could sort your SDB by quantity, I'd love to know what I've got those large quantities of!
Anyway, every item I attain gets a CC-potential assessment. x'D I set myself rules though!
Initial CC phase - Started out not allowing myself to spend a single NP towards it; only using what I'd accumulated since the last one.
Second phase - Started stalking the Money Tree for r80+ items. I went as far as creating lists of the stuff that showed up on the reg, so I could learn them all. https://items.jellyneo.net/mywishes/jellysundae/
third phase - Prior to the last CC, I started allowing myself to buy Stickies from the Healing Springs; they're only 25 NP, that hardly counts as buying for it, right?? I also fully expecting them to end up disallowed, but justified the risk as the monetary lose would be very insignificant by Neopian stardards. So them just getting nerfed was actually a bonus, lol.
fourth phase - where we are now; triggered by 6NP Money Tree douchebaggery - actually caving and buying stuff. 2-pointers at no more than 5 NP, 4-pointers at 50, and 6-pointers at 100. Those prices lasted all of about 5 minutes, mostly because @Secrewas buying up everything in sight at the time. I actually really enjoyed buying, there's something so fundamentally satisfying about stock-piling! and if you manage to snap up some r90+ items for 25 NP?...
The 6 NP people have finally stopped being such jerks though, so the MT's pretty much back to normal, and I'd forgotten about buying.
But,,, seeing as it's a bye day... and I'm thinking about it now... to the SSW I go!
Oh, I also still visit Hagan daily, despite no longer needing to, just to try and get those nice 6-point books out of him!