I don't think I'm addicted, but if I am, I'm 
having too much fun to stop. *g*

I've been collecting cels on and off for-- oh, 
about six years now. I'm not a hard core collector 
by any means; my buying tends to go in cycles. 
Months and months can pass without my buying any 
cels because I've become distracted with something 
else or I haven't wandered across any cels that 
I've liked for their price.

My collection is probably worth a pretty penny at 
this point, but then again, it has been six years. 
And if I wasn't collecting cels, I'd be collecting 
something else. I do collect other things too, but 
my cel collection is my most beloved. And my most 
compact, which is also very nice. I've been a 
student the entire time I've been collecting, so I 
haven't the ability to go out and splurge on 
really high priced items like some other people 
can afford to do. (I crave one perfect Charlotte 
cel from VHD2. As the quality I crave will 
probably set me back $1000+, it'll be awhile 
before I get her. *sg*)  My spending has increased 
over time with my finances, but never to any point 
that has hurt me. (My first cel was $125 and 
thereafter for years the median price for my cels 
was ~$50. Now I'm paying off my most expensive cel 
ever at $275. A cel of the same character as the 
first cel I ever bought. A cel I've been ogling in 
a private gallery for nearly as many years as I've 
been collecting, so I can't really complain. I've 
gotten some incredible deals over the years.)

Cel collecting is my fun little leisure time hobby 
so I try not to stress over it. If I'm really in 
the mood for a cel, then I'll turn on my software 
that keeps track of cel site updates, otherwise 
that software remains off and I basically wander 
around windowshopping at my pleasure. There have 
been two times that I've gotten really upset over 
losing a cel and in the end -- if years later-- I 
ended up getting them both BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA 
*cough* So I really enjoy windowshop-- err 
browsing through other people's galleries and I'll 
get my own up some... year or other. ^^;