Afternoon #Warhammer Community Following on from previous year's spending record I've kept another log for 2024 [and will do so for 2025]. Funnily enough when I first started writing this the final figure was just under £746. But now it's just over £858, representing a significant another increase on last years gross spend of £621, almost a further 30%! And there was me hoping 2024 would be frugal. However, I had saved up some Christmas money and my Google Adsense finally matured. That helped subsidise my spend on the hobby by £180. Then I just went on a second Christmas binge, with some early Christmas 2024 money so I could get some Warlord Titans [wait until you see the deals I got]. This brings my net spend to £582 which is around £48.47 a month. Here's the breakdown:



I'll admit I am somewhat disappointed in how much I've spent. It's a lot more than I expected to and again a lot of additional figures and games too. That said I know some of those purchases are a mix of getting the best value for those figures while they were still available; and also retail therapy. There were times when I said to myself 'just buy it, life's too short'. It's not a strong justification and not helpful when I get satisfaction from being frugal but ultimately it doesn't really matter - I can always try and do better in 2025. I genuinely want to crack on with some of these purchases. I've just restated my hobby goals for the season. Now I have a much clearer idea of what I want to do before August.


And actually it's not unreasonable to think I can be more frugal, even after such a blow-out. Last year I predicted I'd get the Armigers, Adeptus Titanicus and an Acheron, which I did. Going to the weekday MESBG tournament was unexpected but I refuse to feel bad about spending money, or on spending time with my friends. So, for 2025 we may well go to some more events. Although, there are rule changes for MESBG and none of us are prepared for a 40k tournament so maybe not. Figure-wise I can't foresee anything, unless the new Knight Codex brings new models...? As it is my plans focus on painting my Cerastus Knights and my Leviathan Tyranids as well as my new Titans. However, my hobby efforts are slowing a bit as there is less motivation, so they should keep me busy and therefore discourage any purchases - we'll just have to see.