So today was SELWG, the start of the new year so far as this experiment goes.
Bit of a final splurge on eBay - some out of print role playing game books, some Star Wars minis and some old Ral Partha dinosaurs - and some miniatures from Discount Hobby, all of which adds up to £74.6.
Grand total for the first year is £738.43
So, how about year two?
Including a bus ticket and entrance fee I spent £87.68 today. There wasn’t any impulse buying which was a good thing, instead I bought stuff that I’d had my eye on for some time (plus two Star Wars Universe boosters, sigh). Namely, The Starmada X Brigade rulebook; two DZ Miniatures Mammoths and two Wooly Rhinos (now available in resin from Stratagem, also available: three cave bears and a Glyptodon - very similar to, but a bit larger than, the Steve Barber version); a bunch of starships from GZG, including a Glowbug 
class free trader; and some of those little ‘gemstone’ markers that CCG players use and which I need for Chez Goth games with Lettice. The only thing I was after but didn’t get was the Serenity RPG book.
[...] Limit my wargames/role playing games spending. I did a little experiment a while back and the results were a bit scary. I’m aiming for a lower figure this year - £500 total, so I have a limit of £100 per quarter and an extra floating £100 for magazine subscriptions and similar costs. [...]