Get the lifetime. It will be worth it. And Steve has said that he hopes to do some articles that include some of the distaff meshes in Poserdom (like Natalia, Dina, Koshini, Sara, etc). But he only has one set of hands (damned inefficient of him)and limited time. If there were a louder cry for some of the other kiddies, that might speed things up a bit.... O:)