Hey everyone, just wanted to share something I do and see if anyone does anything similar.
I have a piggy bank app on my phone that lets me set saving goals, and I have a generic “Pokemon Card” fund. Whenever I do one of the habits I’m trying to develop (reading, exercising, meditating, cleaning my apartment, etc.), I add a certain amount to this fund, which I scale according to the difficulty of maintaining the habit.
I only use this for card purchases that aren’t “fixed”, like the booster box I buy for every new set. It’s for things like graded card purchases. I could endlessly search eBay for graded cards, but limiting my spending to whatever is in my fund keeps me from even bothering when my fund is almost empty.
While I do this for Pokemon cards, it could obviously work for any kind of purchase you want to make to reward yourself.
@clearlyascalper
This is pretty much the same what I’ve done in last few years. The thing is I used to be obese most of my life, in early 2014 I stepped on the scale after long break, first the monitor broke in half and then I saw the number in it, 133 kilos. I instantly realized something had to be done, luckily I had re-started collecting right before this so I used it as encouragement tool: every time I lost weight I bought something from ebay etc. and all new additions made sure I kept going out for a walk.
My original goal was losing 30 kilos but to this day the final number is actually 53 kilos, feels good man. Pokemon hobby certainly changed my life to better.
