I think I have a problem...

Well, I started collecting slabbed coins about 5 months ago and today I realized something, I have 43 (44 will be here in about a week) certified coins. For the first 3 months of collecting I was on summer vacation and didn't have anything to occupy my time. I added about 10 coins a month for 3 months reaching 32 coins by September 1st. After that my collecting has slowed to about a coin a week for 2 months, and that's with me working as hard as I can to take it slow. I've added about 1000 registry points a month for 5 months. When I get coin #44 I'll be over 5000 points. I've spent about $2500 in the last 14 months building up my collection (both raw and certified). I think that without realizing it I've gone completely insane. Even realizing this I can't help but think about what the next purchase is going to be.

I feel so guilty about having spent so much on something frivolous in such a short span of time.

In all fairness to myself though, I'm a college student with no bills to speak of other than food and I've still been managing to build up a reserve of a few hundred dollars cash from being completely broke at the end of the summer. I'm also financing my collection solely through my part-time job without outside help.