Quote Originally Posted by hyped78 View Post
I buy way more comic book collected editions than I can keep up with reading. In other words - my rate of purchases is far higher than my rate of reading. One of the reasons is that I want to buy collected editions before they become OOP; if OOP wasn't an issue I would just buy at a "normal" rate.
But hey, I don't spend money in drinking, smoking, I have no other pricey addictions (I buy video games, board games but not at an alarming rate) and I don't have money problems, so...
My only problem is space!
Space has definitely become my biggest issue, and no matter how hard I try I can't seem to get ahead of it.

I too blame scarcity sometimes. There were a few books that I screwed myself over on by waiting (like, 10 yrs ago) and my knee-jerk reaction was to pre-order *everything*, even if my interest was minimal. Cuz, ya know, just in case. I kept that up for way too long, and to this day I fight that urge every time I scroll through solicits!