Getting a sense of responsibility?

This evening, on the way home, we stopped by Woodcraft so that I could talk to the folks there about connecting my ShopVac hose to the band saw. Well, okay, it was really so that I could break in my new Woodcraft card (it arrived last week, finally) and use my new $20 coupon. It just so happens that they recently received a shipment of new and different exotic woods, so in addition to the pen kits I was going to buy anyway (and a plastic connector to help with the ShopVac/band saw issue), I bought some pieces of the exotic woods to see what pens would look like when made from them. I bought smallish (about 4 pens' worth each) pieces of:
Lignum Vitae (a dark green, almost mossy-looking wood)
Redheart (the piece varies from light to dark red within a short span)
Tulipwood (Just a funky, reddish-orange wood with neat grain)
Osage orange (even more orange than Padauk)
Blackwood (a pen blank's worth, to see how it turns)

Where does the responsibility kick in? Well, I have decided to keep track, starting August '07, of how much I spend on woodturning. Today's total, which SHOULD keep me from having to buy too much more for a while (I always say that), is $53.04. Only $33.04 out of pocket because of the coupon.

We'll see how much posting about the amounts will pressure me to keep those amounts down. :-)