ECCC Jitters

[captain_slinky]

Can't stop thinking of The Convention! Must blog advice to everybody!

First priority: Buy $10 worth of Quarter Bin comics. This serves three very important purposes!

ONE! It's time consuming and fun. Pull out every single comic that even REMOTELY appeals to you and then trim that down to $10 worth. Stuff that you scoffed at for $3 an issue is now readily available at the incredily low price of THE ENTIRE SERIES FOR $2.

TWO! It stokes the fires of your natural love of Comic Books. Thumbing through 27 boxes full of comics that are a quarter each sends you down memory lane and sparks interest where there may have been none before. I bought an entire run of Youngblood out of a quarter bin a few years back on a whim and was pleasantly suprised. Not worth $3 an issue, but at 4 for a dollar? Sure, it was fun!

THREE! Lugging a shopping bag full of comics through the convention makes you less likely to buy any more big-ticket items. "Do I REALLY need that Star Trek Phaser? I'm already carrying a shopping bag full of comics..."

NEXT POST: ECCC BINGO CARDS!!!

Comments

[hallerlake.livejournal.com]

Where's a good place to unload a bunch of comics these days? Other than going to the convention and selling them, which I'm not really inclined to do.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

There aren't any good places to "unload" comics right now... economic turmoil and the likes you know. Unless you're just looking to get rid of them and make a tiny bit of cash instead of recouping your investment and maybe making a profit, it's best to just put them in a closet or a storage unit and pass them on to your kid once she gets interested (and it's genetic - she WILL be interested).

How big of a collection are you talking about? I'm always up for an appraisal :)

[aurora77]

That's actually a great idea. Too bad I'm not going to ECCC. Don't want to spend money on it. :(

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I am extremely proud to say that if you use my tactics you can successfully do a convention with under $20 spending cash. And best of all, you'll have MONTHS of reading material after you've gone!

I found that it's cheaper for me to just go to the convention and spend $20 than it is to not go to the convention. Because for weeks after the convention I'm bloated with that great "I've still got so much stuff that i haven't read/watched/played from the Convention yet" feeling that I'm to guilted to go and spend money on any other entertainment! If I don't go to the convention I try to fill that void by spending more money on the weekends on lame, fruitless entertainment with the justification of "I can do this because I saved so much money by not going to the convention".

[aurora77]

I think I'll be okay with missing it this time. I'm going to Norwescon instead and I love Norwescon. Not the same, of course, but I usually pick up a few used books there, so that should give me about the same level of entertainment.

Then again, I have a big stack of books already.

I don't feel so bad about having to miss ECCC because I know there's SDCC to look forward to. This is something we'll do when we go to SDCC this summer (already pre-paid the hotel, airfare and registration, so we're going whether or not I have a job). With all the fantastic stuff for sale at SDCC (especially art!), it's hard not to spend money there. ^^;;

Also, I have a stack of unfinished video games and books that I should get through.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I see... the the "Guilt Stacking" does nothing to curb your spending like it does for me :)

SDCC excites and terrifies me at the same time. it's kinda like the thought of Sex was for me as a teenager! I think about doing it all the time and it scares the bajeepers out of me!

NorWesCon has never really floated my boat for some reason :(