To Buy or Not to Buy?

It's that time of year again and again the debate is on... do we buy Hawkeye Football season tickets or not?  Of course your gut reaction is YES, you always buy Hawkeye Football tickets anytime the opportunity presents itself.  And while this is my reaction every year, I have yet to bring myself, or rather Tim's self, to actually buy a whole season.  When we were students there was no question, in fact we would wait by the computer until midnight the morning they went on sale just in case there was some ticket 'shortage' or something that year.  But now that we are "Alumni," as you'd say, this is quite the financial decision we are talking about.  For Tim and I to buy 2 season tickets would cost $720.  Those would most likely be the worst tickets available, so if we'd like better seating, we'd have to start looking into donation options.  So we are looking at $1500 to $2000 for decent seats to every home game (7 games).  Then you start to add in the cost of sitters to watch Graham and the money spent on tailgating food and equipment, we are talking a big chunk of change here.

I love Hawkeye Football and all it entails with all my heart, but do you know all the things we could do with that kind of money?  So the frugalista in my struggles.  The last few years we have been getting tickets game by game.  Sometimes there are tickets through the City Chamber or other things Tim belongs to, sometimes we are given tickets or we end up just buying on craig's list etc.  It's much cheaper, as there is always someone looking to get rid of tickets... but no one wants to be that guy, the guy who is always looking for tickets, forever!  So we are back to our original dilemma, should we buy tickets or not?  Ugg, I just can't decide or think about it anymore... let's just bring on the football season already!



I mean really, how can you say no to that?