Thanks everyone for the continuing positive words.
To be honest, I don't really remember exactly how much MOCs cost. I have never been a high earner and I ran stalls selling toys and comics to supplement my collecting. Even back then, dealers knew when they had special pieces on their hands and the best MOCs cost a fortune (although not a patch on today).
I expended pretty much all of my expendable income on Star Wars collecting and that included everything connected to it. Collecting purely MOCs is a style of collecting I was unaware of before joining this forum. For me personally, if it's Star Wars, I've got to have it!
Craig.