The day I stopped bagging my pulls in alphabetical order

For like 15 years I sorted every Wednesday's comic haul by title, A to Z, before even reading them. Took me 45 minutes each week just to get them in order. Then last month at my LCS in Austin, a guy saw my stack and goes 'you're wasting the best part of pulling day.' I tried just reading them in whatever order they came out of the bag. Honestly, I actually remember the stories better now and I'm done in 20 minutes. Has anyone else changed a weird little ritual like that after years of doing it the same way?

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annajenkins1mo ago

Twenty bucks says my old system was worse, I used to separate by publisher first (DC, Marvel, Image, Dark Horse) and THEN alphabetically, so it was basically a whole evening thing. Honestly, I think the ritual gave me a little dopamine hit of control before the chaos of reading, you know? Now I just grab em like a wild animal and I actually finish my stack before bedtime instead of midnight.

murray.cora1mo ago

Hell yeah, it's like we're all just shedding little control rituals as we get older.

xena_bailey181mo ago

Catch myself arranging my paint chips by color family before I even start a job, then I just grab one and mix it by feel anyway. Total waste of a perfectly good system.