In article ,
says...
A year has gone past, and some.

It started out so innocently. The question "shall we get a pet?"
cropped up, and since we live in rented accommodation, I couldn't have
a cat.
This "look how I got on over the last year" is to try and impress the
newbie with how much $ is spent on fish.
.....
Total cost (roughly) £355 ($635?)

Yes, £355. How much was the initial fish? 49p

That sounds about right to me. ;-)

I didn't start my fish diary/logs until I'd passed the
first 6 months or so, maybe even longer. I therefore
can't document my own nightmares as completely as you,
but I promise I went through similar problems, and I suspect
the majority of readers here did as well. Those who claim not
to are either liars or deluded somehow.

It seems to me that hobbies all share a common trait: they're
at least partially designed to separate the hobbyist from
as much of his/her money as possible in as short a time as
possible. (E.g. golfing is way more expensive, and you don't
get the benefit of seeing the balls wag their tails and beg
for food.) So it's probably best to NOT record expenditures,
else you'd start worrying about that and not get the benefit
of the hobby. (I'm sure there must be some benefits, right?)


Gunther