Cheap Decks? Expensive Decks? Does it matter? What are YOUR experiences?

[Laura Borealis]

It's not that I won't read with an expensive deck, I will sometimes, but I usually do use cheaper mass market decks. One thing I've experienced is my more expensive ones being less usable. Cardstock too stiff for easy riffling, or too fragile. I'm not picky about cardstock but if it takes special care then I'm not going to reach for it often. Fortunately most of my favorite decks are already mass market ones.

 

Now with blank books/journals? I absolutely prefer a cheap notebook, like a composition book or spiral bound. I live in fear of messing up a nice blank book. I've tried! I have forced myself to use them but inevitably I misspell a word or want to revise something and then that blot is forever there. I don't mind in a cheap notebook though. I'm free to scrawl and be sloppy. My current tarot notebook is a crappy little spiral bound from the grocery store.

[gregory]

Notebooks.... I have one I sort of jot down odd notes in and then forget ever to look again till I have another thing to jot down. But it is a cheap spiral bound one - I prefer that so I can rip out pages I don't want or need any more. It's a cheap one bought in France - which does mean it has an elastic that flips round it - I do like that, to stop it flipping open and getting trodden on and torn. I am not a NEAT person.....

[Sar]

On 12/25/2023 at 7:44 AM, Misterei said:

but its interesting to discover that most of my "daily drivers" are on the low to middle range.

The worth is not always relied on money spent. 

 

On 12/25/2023 at 7:44 AM, Misterei said:

What is your experience?

Almost the same as yours. I have more or less quit buying expensive indie decks. In case anything happens to them, I won't be able to repurchase. 

On 12/25/2023 at 7:44 AM, Misterei said:

Do you get more pleasure or enjoyment from expensive / quality / limited edition decks?

I get my pleasure from the fact the deck is readable, something I can use predictive. Great art is not always needed in that case. 

On 12/25/2023 at 7:44 AM, Misterei said:

Do you prefer cheaper / mass market?

Yes, so I can replace it immediately when deck is no longer readable. 

[Misterei]

11 hours ago, Sar said:

I get my pleasure from the fact the deck is readable, something I can use predictive. Great art is not always needed in that case.

Yes. Reliable predictions are a HUGE factor in what makes a deck valuable to me. And price is no "predictor" of prediction accuracy };>

 

@Sar said

<< ... so I can replace it immediately when deck is no longer readable. >>

 

LOL I now have enough decks this issue doesn't arise.

But back in the day I had only one RWS deck. I would wear it out and then go buy a new one just like it. I burnt the old ones.

[Sar]

11 hours ago, Misterei said:

 

LOL I now have enough decks this issue doesn't arise.

But back in the day I had only one RWS deck. I would wear it out and then go buy a new one just like it. I burnt the old ones.

I tend to go for the same decks all the time because of the energies they give me and proved readable, so when they can't be usable anymore, I want another copy of it.

[Maryna]

My most expensive deck costs $50. I like the quailty of the cardboard and how my deck looks like after more than a year of reading, so i think $50 is a good price for good energy.