You know you're a cel/genga collector if........

Goldknight · Post by **Goldknight** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:04 am

I need a good laugh so I thought this would be fun. How would you complete the sentence in the title of this thread? Maybe you have several endings to the sentence. How many can we come up with?

moonrabitt · Post by **moonrabitt** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:50 am

It sounds like a good thread

Let's see...

You know you're a cel/genga collector if........

Your cel collection is worth more than your house....
Your cel collection has life insurance and you don't...
You don't sleep for a whole day to just see an auction end...
You bid money that you don't have and later on sell your first born...
When in your Rb wishlist you put "Will give kidney" and you really mean it...

You break up with a friend because they won an auction that you wanted...
The only time you travel is once a year to another state to an anime expo to look at cel. (but you didn't go to your friend's wedding because it's too far away)
You missed your own wedding because an auction was ending...

*thinks of more to add*

usamamo · Post by **usamamo** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 3:34 am

That is hilarious. And so true.
*starving off sleep to watch an auction end atm actually*

transmet · Post by **transmet** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 8:08 am

If you've been sick as a dog and missed work for 2 days, yet somehow manage to drag yourself out of bed to make a last minute bid on an auction that just happens to end at 4 a.m.

Shampoo · Post by **Shampoo** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:28 am

When you cut your vacation short and speed back home,
because your friend has just called and informed you your
beloved Naruto wishlist genga has just been uploaded for
sale.

EternityOfPain · Post by **EternityOfPain** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:24 am

You know you're a cel/genga collector if:

You work purely for cel/gengas.

When you do work and see people spending tons of money you think "damn that could have gotten me a few cel/sketches". At this point, you begin not to think of money not as a currency but purely by how much cels/sketches you can buy.

When you check your email over 100 times a day waiting to be shown some scans of your favorite series.

When everyone around you thinks your crazy for spending so much money on some pieces of paint and paper drawings.

When everytime you hear the doorbell ring you think its the mail-lady dropping off a EMS package (even if you haven't ordered anything)

When you spend every dime you earn for cels/sketches.

When you realize that cels/sketches run your life.

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:28 pm

You know you're a sketch collector...

1. ...when your home becomes a fire hazard because of all the paper you possess.

2. ...when your dehumidifier's main purpose is to prevent your sketches from aging prematurely (changing colors and becoming brittle in 15 to 25 years)

ReiTheJelly · Post by **ReiTheJelly** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:51 pm

When your postman suggests that you rent a P.O. box so that he doesn't have to walk flat packages up to the door every week or so...

Post by **JWR** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 12:58 pm

When you are asked to adress a group of senoir citizens and give a talk about the superiority of Anime cels, sketches & storylines over their American counterparts.

When you spend 5+ hours scanning your latest pieces and still have a few piles left.

You come close to tears when you realize that what your watching in reverse is a pile of all the cels and sketches being burned on the ending credits of a Kare Kano episode.

buttrflym · Post by **buttrflym** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 4:31 pm

I like what other people wrote so far.

When you sneak away and check the very sloooowww connection on a cruise ship on your honeymoon.

otakusin · Post by **otakusin** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:34 pm

...when you complain about the rising cost of gas but not once about the cost of cels.

...when you budget your monies you consider cels as bills and not mad money.

...you think twice on spending hundreds/thousands on anything else in your life but only a few hours on a high end cel/hanken.

So so sad but so so true

sugarcels · Post by **sugarcels** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:52 pm

... you spend hours checking the 100+ pages at Yahoo! Japan for anything you might miss.

... you watch a show, see a scene/frame and think "That would probably go for $100 at least/I couldn't afford a cel of that."

... you seriously consider putting a room aside to showcase your cels someday.

moonrabitt · Post by **moonrabitt** » Mon Jan 28, 2008 7:26 pm

You know you're a cel/genga collector if........

1).You hide your credit card statements from your family so they don't see how much in debt you are....
2).The worst day you can ever recall is when you lost an auction
3).You have 3 computers turned on when an auction is ending, in case something goes wrong with one....
4).You CRY when you lose an auction
5).You can go a day without eating to see an auction end....
6).You've spent more time searching then sleeping
7).You marry someone else that collects cels (to get closer to their collection) XD

.The only thing in your pre-nup...is that if you both get divorced...that you keep the cels....

Maiko · Post by **Maiko** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:42 am

EternityOfPain wrote:You know you're a cel/genga collector if:

When you do work and see people spending tons of money you think "damn that could have gotten me a few cel/sketches". At this point, you begin not to think of money not as a currency but purely by how much cels/sketches you can buy.

...you have no idea how often I think that when I see people betting a couple thousand a hand on my tables...every time I'm like 'damn, that's at least 2 wishlist cels in there....'

Carla · Post by **Carla** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:52 am

You know you're a cel/genga collector if........

Your already trying to figure out what to buy with your tax return

Anime-Beta TNG

You know you're a cel/genga collector if........

You know you're a cel/genga collector if........

hmmm