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Helpful Considerations may or may not help some people focus their answer, these are blurred to not bother those who have their own ideas.
I try to keep an emergency funds on my savings account at all times. But when I was already a bit low on money late last year thinking I should slow down a bit to save up again and at that exact moment the German Surf-Pikachu popped up (third copy I had seen in 10+ years time, and the first one I had the opportunity to buy), I of course did everything I could to try and win/buy it, which luckily I did.
Despite that being in September last year, I’m still recovering right now since I also bought a bunch of other cards in December last year, and had a lot of stacking non-collection expanses this year (e.g. I’ve bought a house battery; the usual multiple start-of-the-year taxes; the annual car check + repairs; etc.).
But, I’m happy to say, after I brought my car to the garage past Wednesday and also paid off one last tax, I am now saving up again to a reasonable amount on my savings account, and will then start catching up with all new Pikachu; Seviper; FA Supporter/CHR; and Yu-Gi-Oh rarity releases between September last year and now.
But as already mentioned above: they’re more what you’d call guidelines, not actual rules.
