Does anyone have any figure related New Years resolutions?

Pretty much find an end game. I’ll be 51 this year. I need to start being very particular with what I collect going forward. I have two kids starting college next year. I’ve been saving for retirement already but need to pick up that pace as well. Don’t get me wrong I still like to collect. Just comes a point where it really makes no sense when there are much more important things at this stage of my life.

To control my fomo and be patient. I’m going to try and grab a majority of figures on sale/clearance this year.

Mine came to me late, as I was out hunting tonight....

Going to spend less time/effort trying to depend on retail stores for these figures. Last night I hit two Targets, tonight I hit two DIFFERENT Targets and a Walmart. Didn't see one single Elite figure either night. No Ultimates either. No Legends. Every store was pretty much empty, except for a few stray AEW figures and maybe an old Basic or two.

And I began questioning why I waste countless hours & gallons of gas driving around staring at empty shelves. Then usually buying $20-$30 worth of groceries "so the trip was worth something".... which basically means I've fallen for their trap. And not found ANY of the figures I went in there looking for. Because they don't care.

This isn't fun. This isn't satisfying. I'd say I come home totally empty-handed 85% of the time I go out looking for WWE figures. I pride myself on being thrifty, and VERY rarely ever paying above retail (or SALE, or CLEARANCE) for any of my figure purchases. But as I'm getting older, I'm finding the time at home to be valuable too. Maybe I should just depend more on Ringside & Amazon & occasionally ThE Bay for the stuff I really want, & spend more of my leisure time..... oh, I don't know, NOT being stressed about these stores that just don't care about stocking their shelves more than once or twice every-other-month?

So my New Year's Resolution is to stop doing this. I'll just order what I need online, check the stores when I'm going there anyway but not make all these extra wasted trips. I don't know what that means for the Monday Night Wars set, because I really want it.... but I can't see myself driving around nightly to every Walmart in a 30-mile radius & finding nothing. And probably spending $100 on groceries I may or may not need.... "to make the trip worthwhile".....

Gotta cut the retail cord, I think the money I'll save on gas alone (or un-necessary other purchases) will make up for the cost of just paying a scalper for the few figures I really want. I'm really sick & tired of being constantly disappointed by retail stores.

Mine are mostly non-wrestling related...

- In terms of wrestling figures, I'm already mostly limited to Golden- Early Ruthless Aggression figs for the most part. I'll venture outside of that for absolute banger figs, or UE's. But that is about it...

- Unfortunately, even though it was the line that got me back into collecting, I think Black Series is going to take a back seat this year. I definitely will be pre-ordering/paying retail for as few figures as possible...I just find that this past year I became less and less excited when a Black Series figure arrived in the mail.

- GI Joe Classified became a much larger part of my purchasing this year, but I definitely need to stop pre-ordering and paying full price for so many figs here as well.

If you could find and patent a cure for FOMO you'd be as rich as Bezos or Musk