Yeah, I'd definitely have to agree that getting 
your priorities straight is important. And, if 
you can, try and stick to collecting cels from 
only one or two of your favorite series, or even 
just one or two characters. 

That should help a lot, and I wish I would have 
been able to do that. Right now I'm promising 
myself to just stick to a few characters, and 
even then, only buy cels of them that I *really* 
like and are worth all that money.

Or, as someone else also said, you could try some 
other hobbies as well. I'm not saying that you 
should give up cel collecting alltogether, but 
maybe if you had a few things you collected 
instead of just one, you wouldn't be worrying 
about cels and checking 'Keep Track' all the time.

That sometimes works for me. I collect tons of 
Saiyuki and Weiß Kreuz stuff besides just cels. 
Sure, you sometimes end up spending a lot of 
money on merchandise, but so far nothing I've 
bought has cost me nearly as much as my cels.

I could go on forever about how addicting this 
hobby is and ways to try and stop yourself from 
spending so much money on this stuff, but 
basically, what I try to do is just make a list 
of a few cels that I would really love to have, 
and then just wait and wait and save up your 
money until one of those cels shows up. That way 
hopefully you won't have to worry about going 
into debt by spending too much, and you'll have a 
cel that you know you will really love since you 
wanted it before it even came along. In my 
opinion, impulse buys are the worst... you end up 
spending money you probably don't have on a cel 
that you hadn't even planned on buying.

Hope that helps a little. I wish I had some real 
advice to give out, but these are just my own 
opinions. All I can say is that maybe your 
addiction will get better over time. I know I've 
actually gotten much better about this. I can 
actually go and look at cels, find one that I 
want, and actually not buy it! I mean, I've spent 
so much money on this hobby already, and I really 
love my collection. Do I really need to spend any 
more money on cels? 

Yes, I think they're very beautiful, and of 
course I can think of a million more scenes or 
characters or whatever that I would love to have 
cels of. But, I've been so very lucky to find the 
cels that I have, I should really just relax and 
be happy with what I've got. It's important to 
remember that cel collecting should be a *hobby* 
and not an addiction. 

               ~ Hakuei no Miko