This was my cost: - as a sit-in - no registration fee - hotel - paid my portion of the room with a Misaki doll (also stayed in different hotel that was cheaper) - getting there - drove my BF's car and still owe him 60 USD for gas - food - didn't eat anything but what we got at meal functions plus few snacks I brought with me and redbull and frappucino (brought with me too), kept refilling the same water bottle with water - dolls - I had to get tickets from registered people if I wanted anything but got these: twins - traded for another Misaki Dasha - sold a repainted doll while sitting and doing "room sale" in the hall, otherwise I wouldn't be able to get her in IT sales room - one 60 USD grab bag and nude DG body for 25 Dynamite girls - Theo let me use one of her two preregistered spots so I was able to do it and then also on Saturday late they had few spots open so I did another one. So I got two YAY - won a right to purchase Saturday night centerpiece but sold her later that night for cost to somebody who wasn't at convention - room sales - didn't visit any rooms but Kazue - can't miss and Rob/robsdolls -to chat with him. What I got plenty off - endless heartache - when I couldn't keep any of the gorgeous doll we got for free as I had to ship them to the person who paid registration. All the dolls and everything I bought was funded from my Show and sell and from selling couple of Momokos and Blythe. I haven't been to work much in 3 months (only 6 days total) so I have no paychecks... I was probably the poorest person at the whole convention. So yes, you can do it for cheap and broke if you are strong about not keeping any dolls you get. I wasn't this year, couldn't help it and broke down at the end but still if I can do it again I will still go. Now what I got after convention: Theo sold me nude Agnes for 150 and also got nude Giselle from Vin for the same price, she should be here today. Still desperately looking for Elise Swan from W luncheon. I was a sit-in at luncheon too so even if I would have won right to purchase her it would go to Uriah who paid for the luncheon.

"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap." ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. This is basically a cast of a toy boat being capsized by chocolate money. It sums up the current state of our system, a rather twisted consumerist capitalism that serves to protect elite old money, not really capitalism at all. We bail the banks out for billions of dollars due to their incompetence & yet they're still giving each other million dollar bonuses for their failures. If only we could all fail that profitably. Ah capitalism, not really a long term solution, especially when you have a finite amount of space to live on & finite resources to live off. Do you really think they'll develop solar energy when the sun is free? Yellow gelcoat resin with expanding foam core.