>get into new line
>try to stick to just my favorites
>start getting "companions" for them
>end up planning displays
>number bloats to the point where I'm not just collecting what I like, I'm just hoarding
How do you anons deal with this? I got into 1/6th a while back, and while I managed to keep it under control I'm racking up too many wants. I got into it to escape from the completionist mentality I had with smaller and cheaper scales, but I'm starting to make the same mistakes. Take Star Wars. I decided to stick to the Jedi and the Sith. But I need a Thrawn, so I need to set up an Empire display. To do that I'll need some Imperial Guards to flank the Emperor, and at this point I'll need a Tarkin and a Stormie. I've got a Luke and passed on Han but now it ticks me off. I've got hundreds of FF comics and was planning to get the whole team, but it'll cost me upwards of 1K, when I most certainly don't like Johnny/Sue/Ben as much as, say, Doctor Strange or Conan or Aragorn or whatever other figure I could buy with the same cash. When I started I just wanted a clean, museum like display of just my absolute favorites. Now I'm falling in the same 6" pitfalls.
>oh yeah that movie/game/comic is a classic, I've gotta have the MC
I feel the need to buy the upcoming InArt Cavill Superman, yet I've never even read a Superman comic or like him.

How do you deal with this? I'm collecting some other lines too and it's straining me financially and mentally. JoyToy 40K, 1/6th, Omni collecting, and the odd One:12 Mezco and import figure aren't cheap or easy to deal with. You've got make this pre-order deadline, you've gotta make room, you've got to get it all once you start buying a specific team. And if I don't complete it, I feel as if I've failed and lose interest in it all. Dunno, it's hard.