I can't seem to save money.

Regarding my previous (first) journal: It's been five years since I started collecting again. You'd think that with a Ph.D. in astronomy I'd be able to count to five correctly the first time...

For months I've had in mind to save money for one of the up-coming pre-Long Beach auctions. But I keep spending anyway. Yesterday I upgraded one of my late date large cents to a 67BN, and today I added a very nice MS66 seated half dime, both from the Heritage auction in Orlando. The former is still listed in someone else's set, so it won't appear in my registry set for a week or so. So now I'll need to sell something in order to get anything from next month's auction.