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 Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:40 pm
My mother will kill me if she finds out how much I spent on thin books in a language I CANNOT READ.
I can't fully understand the urge I feel when I see those doujins all lined neatly in rows on eBay. Maybe I'm fulfilling my childhood urge of wanting doujins but unable to buy. I DON'T KNOW.
It's not like I actually read them continously. I look at the pictures, chuckle, and then leave them on my shelf to gather dust. At the most, I only scan the covers because I am DEATHLY AFRAID of destroying their spines.
So why do I buy? Why does doujinshi hold such a appeal to english fans, even though it's likely that most of them can't read Japanese?
WHY CAN'T I CONTROL MYSELF? gonk
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Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:17 pm
gonk
Hide them from your mother! I actually don't know why they are appealing to English fans, but I brought some last year at this anime convention I went to. I actually spent like over $100 there, and my mother kind of found out... The result wasn't pretty.
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:55 pm
It's not your mom's problem. It was your money. Unless it was hers, then she has a right to be mad at you.
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:39 pm
Chaotic Crescent gonk
Hide them from your mother! I actually don't know why they are appealing to English fans, but I brought some last year at this anime convention I went to. I actually spent like over $100 there, and my mother kind of found out... The result wasn't pretty. Well, they arrived safe and sound, and thank goodness my mom has stopped opening my packages now. xd Now all I have to do his hide my bank account's statement for her, and I should be safe. Thesenis: It's my money - money I earned from babysitting. However, my parents have problems with me buying stuff for my own entertainment for some reason. confused
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:24 pm
Seraphim Call Chaotic Crescent gonk
Hide them from your mother! I actually don't know why they are appealing to English fans, but I brought some last year at this anime convention I went to. I actually spent like over $100 there, and my mother kind of found out... The result wasn't pretty. Well, they arrived safe and sound, and thank goodness my mom has stopped opening my packages now. xd Now all I have to do his hide my bank account's statement for her, and I should be safe.
By the way, your outfit is so adorable. 4laugh
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:41 pm
That's why I'm glad my parents don't care about what I buy. Until I buy it so they can make fun of me for wasting my money on useless stuff...because they're hypocrites, or at least my mom is when it comes to that.
My mom has a closet, the 4-6 drawers under her bed, an armoire, and half of another drawer full of clothes, all of which cost her 2-5$ each. She always comes home with 10 pairs of pants each that cost 2-5$, each needing to be hemmed up so they look nice, or fit properly. She goes on about how they were such a bargain, and that my sister and I should buy cheap clothes like that. But when you add it all together, all of her clothes combined come out to more than all of mine would, and my sisters. The majority of these clothes she never wears, and numerous pants have been hemmed wrong, or are unhemmable, which means she wasted 5$.
Hello supreme redundancy, my name is Brolly.
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:51 pm
My mom complains about how expensive my sisters and my clothes are, and how they are more expensive than her's, which I'm kind of doubting but then again, I don't know how much she spend on her clothes.
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:05 pm
My mom says my clothes are more expenceive than hers too. But thats when I remind her that with all the clothes she's bought for 5$ she's barely spent anything on me.
I havn't bought new pants in almost a year. Actually I think it's been MORE than a year since I've bought new pants. And I only have 3 pairs. xp
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:32 pm
Eh, I got shopping from time to time. There are times where I exchange clothes with my younger sister.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 9:43 am
Eh, my mother complains about how many books I buy. neutral Big suprise.
If I want to fork over $2.50 for a very used copy of An Introduction to Fish Diseases, that's my business.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 11:40 am
My parents give the "You need to save for school" excuse. Damn it, if I have a job, I go to college, and I still can't spend money the way I want to? My stepmother actually took my debit card to curb my "spending habits."
I'm thinking of just getting a new debit card and letting her keep my old one, since she seems so attached to it.
BTW, I haven't bought a manga in 2 months, and it's killing me inside.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:19 pm
I always take out 20$ every paycheck, and that seems to last me for the most part for two weeks, on top of tip-share. I rarely use my debit for two reasons. 1, I don't want to because then I'll probably just blow all of my money. 2, I generally forget I can because it's been unused for so long.
...I can't help but feel this thread has been somewhat hijacked.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:26 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:37 pm
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:42 pm
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