How long have you been collecting?

klet · Post by **klet** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:27 pm

Hmmm . . . about a year, year and a half? I was looking for Esca stuff and stumbled across some cels. Oddly enough, my first purchase ended up being a MMB cel.

kira · Post by **kira** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:53 pm

i think a year or year and a half.

i bought cels from anime-link. went down hill from there.

sailorsv13 · Post by **sailorsv13** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:57 pm

7 years
Rubberslug site wasn't created until much more recently as I used to run a website through geocities.
I began collecting because I met a friend through her Sailor Moon website who had a cel of my favorite character Cooan. When I did a little cel-searching online I discovered the perfect cel of Cooan for sale by a private collector and she became my first cel ^.^ Since then my cel interests have varied, yet I have always collected from my foremost favorite character. With few funds available, I have collected only what I could really not afford! ^_~

~ Bri ~

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:27 pm

Six years and... three months!

*points finger at Kymaera while he's away and can't defend hisseff*

It was HIS fault!

(in case you thought friendships born online can't last. We met each other in a game in, um... late 1993 I think).

vapalla · Post by **vapalla** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:33 pm

Four years this Autumn. Wow that time flew! Wow, the collection grew too!

samiamew · Post by **samiamew** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:39 pm

I got this 'new fangled' thing called a com-pu-ter on June 1st 2003 -- three days later I discovered 'painted plastic' on line.......Inuyasha, in particular --

I was in love with the new show Adult Swim had on on Saturday nights at 11:00 (or 11:30??) and was googling "All Things Inuyasha" -- couldn't peel me away from the computer

And my pocketbook is history...*ahem* I mean--> 'and the rest is history'

RoboFlonne · Post by **RoboFlonne** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:48 pm

(in case you thought friendships born online can't last. We met each other in a game in, um... late 1993 I think).

Wow, Baakay and Kymaera! I was like 9 years old!

syan · Post by **syan** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:54 pm

Just a little shy of 5.5 years.

aernath wrote:I was cruising ebay looking for anything Tamahome. Saw a cel, thought what the?

Same here, but with Hotohori of course, instead of Tama. Ended up with a Tasuki cel that I still have.

animeobsessed · Post by **animeobsessed** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:56 pm

I won my first auction on YJ right after Christmas of 2002....it was a cel of Hiei.

tex-chan · Post by **tex-chan** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:00 pm

Hmmmm ...

I've been collecting for about ... two years. Well, probably a bit longer than that, but not quite two and a half, I don't think. I believe I started "seriously" collecting in Feb/March of 2004. I put up my RS gallery in April of 2004, and I began acquiring cels a month or two prior to that.

In some ways, it's hard to believe I haven't been in this nutty hobby for longer, considering how it quickly became MY LIFE. o.o *is skeered* Although my collection is pretty small compared to lots of Beta galleries, I'm still pretty surprised at how quickly it grew.

I only planned on buying " a couple" of cels. Heh. Famous last words.

I actually got my very first cel as a gift from my hubby, around October of 2002 or 2003. It was a Kenshin cel, and he got it for me for our anniversary, because he thought it was neat. I thought it was neat, too. A month later, I purchased my very first cel on my own (a very cheap Mikagami cel off of ebay, which, oddly enough, was also my first-ever ebay purchase.

I think it cost around $20, including shipping from Canada! LOL). But, I didn't buy anything else for a while. I was more into other anime stuff, like building up my dvd collection, etc. I had always thought I would collect cels at some point. It was just a factor of waiting for "the right time". *shrug* (Sadly, I'm still not sure if this is "the right time" ... but here I am, so ... *ahem*

)

graymouser · Post by **graymouser** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:15 pm

I'm not sure where to start counting from.

I got my first cel about 9-10 years ago (not sure exactly) as a freebie. I did a lot of looking around but didn't start collecting seriously until about 7 years ago.

Like someone else said, there was no rubberslug back then, so I ended up creating a gallery on my own. It has gone through a number of revisions, but is still in the same spot. I never have gotten around to using rubberslug. It's easier to keep what I have now than move everything over there.

vampyreshoujo · Post by **vampyreshoujo** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:19 pm

I just took a look through my saved email cel orders and the earliest one is dated 7/15/2000..... (for three cheapie Tenchi cels... wow, and to think it all snowballed from there...)

......

Holy crap! I just passed my 6 year annivesary! Has it really been that long??

Baakay · Post by **Baakay** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:32 pm

vampyreshoujo wrote: Holy crap! I just passed my 6 year annivesary! Has it really been that long??

Strange feeling, isn't it. I still am not 100% sure what happened to all those years.

Unfortunately I am more than certain I know what happened to my pocketbook! Soooo sad...

Elfstalker · Post by **Elfstalker** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:45 pm

eep, I feel old. I started August 1997. It'll be 9 years this year!

I'm not actively collecting, but I'm still around. If I see my dream cel pop up, expect me to pounce with a vengeance! Until then, I'll be an old fart and sit in my rocking chair watching all the youngin's play.

Sugarflower · Post by **Sugarflower** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:47 pm

I started around mid-2003. My first cel was of a Mahoujin Guru Guru character. I purchased it from IntenseAnime on eBay.