$900 in puzzles!?!?

[ianini]

$900 does seem quite a lot of money for just twisty puzzles. It's hard even for me to get a shopping cart with $100 worth of cubes at Cube4You, let alone $900. Just save some of that money or buy something else with it. And I don't think you would be proud to say to your friends/parents that you spent $900 on puzzles

 

[TeddyKGB]

How did this turn into a monkey thread?

It's only a monkey thread if you wantit to be a monkey thread, it is your thread after all

on-topic: $900 seems to be a bit much to spend on cubes, if you wanna spend $200-$300 on cubes thats fine but you dont really need every cube ever invented. I'm sure you can think of something better to get than a bunch of cubes you're rarely going to even touch.

 

[FatBoyXPC]

Unless you have the money to compete with jaap's collection, I wouldn't even try...

Seriously though, if you've got the cash to blow on cubes, why not? You're decently young (although at 14 you should probably start thinking about other festivities with your hands and dexterous fingers), and have a pretty decent hobby. Twisty puzzles are great to help people learn how to think and helps with spacial recognition.

I'm not saying blow all $900 on puzzles, but given that the average cost is usually $10-12 per cube, 20 cubes would be $200. That's just 3x3's, then you could get into 4x4's, etc.

Maybe you could buy every cube that comes out and write really good reviews about them? Maybe help come up with a Cube Review Standard?

 

[hyunchoi98]

$900 does seem quite a lot of money for just twisty puzzles. It's hard even for me to get a shopping cart with $100 worth of cubes at Cube4You, let alone $900. Just save some of that money or buy something else with it. And I don't think you would be proud to say to your friends/parents that you spent $900 on puzzles

REALLY?

I could easily get $200 on C4U...
but $900 seems a bit too much.
My opinion is around half goes to puzzles and the other half goes to something else.

 

[Tim Major]

Ok, order the V-cubes set, and see how much you like the 7x7, BEFORE you decide to buy an 11x11. Same with giga/teraminx. If you don't have a megaminx, get one. If you decide you love megaminx and 7x7, after a few weeks, then think about buying bigger puzzles. And you might think you like them, but try them for a few weeks. I'm not saying don't buy a giga/tera or not to buy a 9x9 or 11x11, but try the smaller (and much cheaper) varieties first.

 

[mcciff2112]

Please don't waste $900 on cubes. It's not worth it. Put at least half (if not all) into a savings fund of some sort. Trust me you won't regret it. When it comes time to buy more important things (car, college, ect.) you'll be glad to have a good chunk of change saved up so you won't have to start from scratch. I'm 17 years old (only 3 years older than you), I just bought my first car, and getting ready to go to college. I'm working two jobs right now because I need the money, not fun. Honestly, I'm amazed you would even be willing to spend that much on cubes.

Get a few cubes if you have to but please please please don't spend any more than 100 bucks on cubes.

 

[riffz]

For goodness sake, get something you'll use. Sure you could buy $900 worth of puzzles, but what good will that do you?
Unless you have exuberant amounts of time to solve and master each puzzle you buy, they're just going to gather dust and take up room.
Later, in the future you'll look back and regret that you spent/wasted so much money on things you never really used, much like old Pochmann or Yu-Gi-Oh cards.

That's how I read it.

 

[hawkmp4]

For goodness sake, get something you'll use. Sure you could buy $900 worth of puzzles, but what good will that do you?
Unless you have exuberant amounts of time to solve and master each puzzle you buy, they're just going to gather dust and take up room.
Later, in the future you'll look back and regret that you spent/wasted so much money on things you never really used, much like classic Pochmann or Yu-Gi-Oh cards.

That's how I read it.

Fixed.

 

[lorki3]

Dude you should probably save half of it... For like a car or something... If not over half...

I see purpose in spending, say, $100 on cubes, but $900 is just a little ridiculous...

Yeah, and ordering cubes fun imo.
If you buy for $900 of cubes there is not much to buy anymore.

 

[mati rubik]

with $900 you can buy all the cubes in lightake, and buy me a cube (5x5 YJ please)

 

[Crosshash]

Gosh, i'm almost offended at how much of a materialistic **** the OP is.

 

[hawkmp4]

Gosh, i'm almost offended at how much of a materialistic **** the OP is.

I tried to say this politely...

 

[Nestor]

Wow. Try saving some of that stuff for callege!

LOL

Epic

 

[ottothedog]

use all the money for inventory of a new cube store (and maybe sneak some of the cubes for yourself), or you could put it towards a new laptop/desktop

 

[Thompson]

I used to love buying every single kind of twisty puzzle there was. However, now that I've gotten faster, I find that the only puzzles I actually use are the official events. I can look back now and see how much I've wasted on puzzles I don't even use. If you really think that you're going to be constantly solving all these puzzles in the future, then go ahead and spend your money. But if you're like me and not going to use them, then it's going to be a waste of money. Money that you could actually save for the long run. Like others have said, spend some money on some cubes you really want, and save the other half for your education or a nice car.

 

[Ethan Rosen]

I personally think that this is probably your best investment

 

[~Phoenix Death~]

Wow. Try saving some of that stuff for college!

LOL

Epic

Kids. I fixed it -_-

 

[Micael]

Do you like multiBLD? I like to have many good cubes at hand.

 

[TheMachanga]

That's just wrong if you spend it all on cubes, even WE don't think that's right. I've tried the 11x11, It was boring, hard to handle and turn, that's how the teraminx is too, just wastes of money.

I can see where you're coming from, but being the dumbass that I am, I very badly want to try them for myself.[/QUOTE]

Go to a competition. Most of the time someone will have one. Don't worry, you wont have any trouble waiting for your turn to try it out, because nobody cares.

 

[ariasamie]

save a 100$ of it for 2 years.
when you become 16, you may need to spend a night with a hooker.