I have to say that since your last column I had often wondered how you were doing. I’m glad to hear you’re OK.

The experiences you have gone through have made me stop and think about my own behavior and about the motivation behind some of my purchases. While I don’t think I have a problem, I can see how easy it might be for someone to lose control over their buying habits and go into the kind or depressive downward spiral you described.

I think it’s important to remain cogniscent and make sure that something like collecting doesn’t get out of hand and become obsessive or destructive.

I appreciate your insights and think they are helpful to other people out there who might be heading down the wrong path. I think that a lot of collectors will be helped by your articles and by the kind of a “there but for the grace of God go I” sort of feelings they invoke.

Oh how I beg to differ!! :-p

Brilliant Top 10 list. I’m glad it doesn’t apply to me because I don’t have a problem. I can control it. It doesn’t control me.