What's Your Method?

[Bodhi]

I'm currently slightly obsessively collecting plushies for my gallery. 

At the present time, when I buy plushies, I rarely pay more than NP3000 for them, and I'm doing pretty well so far! When I can no longer buy for under my maximum, I will raise it to NP5000 and so on.

 

I was wondering if any of you guys have a method for collecting,or do you just buy at random?

[paperdoll66]

It usually varies based on what else I'm doing on Neopets.  Right now, I'm working on building up my np back up after a big purchase.  I have about one million np left.  I'll probably save a little more before getting another more expensive item that I have my eye on.

 

When I'm not saving up np, I'll usually buy a few items after a big food club win.  I usually decide what I want to spend first.  If it's books, I'll pick a few at different price points.  If it's something else, I go with whatever items look the most tempting that cost whatever I feel like spending.  I want to organize my wishlist by cost, so I can spend more time looking at items instead of pricing them.  I don't like the idea of one day only having expensive items left to buy.

[life_eclectic]

I have a rainbow gallery and so of course collect rainbow items, but right now I am putting everything in my sdb to get the packrat avatar. As for my method, currently I am randomly buying the items I will eventually put in my gallery and I do the same thing with stamps and cards. Basically, if I visit a shop and see an item I don't have and can afford it, I buy it. However, at this point I am not actively searching, it is just when I need to buy a particular item like for a quest, healing my pet, or something like that.