So this thread has gotten pretty serious, so I'm going to explain why I've given into my GAS more over the past year and a half than the previous many decades.
As I was growing up, I watched my parents scrimp and save. My dad's in his late 80s, and still, the only new car he's ever owned was the one he bought as a 23 year old when he first got out of the army in the late 50s. His favorite beer is Miller (which I cannot stand, in part because I really prefer IPAs but also in part due to some...unfortunately excessive experiences with the likes of Miller and Busch back in high school and college), but until I was out of my teens, he'd only buy it a few times a year...because it was too expensive. Yes, Miller was too expensive. But their frugal ways paid off, eventually, and they were able to retire with a comfortable nest egg and stop worrying about money. Until the 2008 crash, when they suddenly lost a third of their life savings. Now, they eventually recouped those losses, but it was a stressful few years until they did, and they spent a fair amount of time wondering why the hell they had sacrificed so long and so hard, and lamenting some of their choices. And just about the time they did recoup, my mom was gone.
The economic, political and environmental turmoil our world is going through makes me think no one really knows what the next 25 years is going to be like (even less than they normally do, of course). So while I'm not going to be an idiot about spending my family's grocery money on equipment, I've also decided I'm also not necessarily going to wait for "someday" to buy a cymbal I really want. Because, as has been pointed out here, when you buy the kind of stuff I do (quality mainstream stuff in used but good condition at good to great prices), it's likely I'll be able to get at least 70% and often 150% of what I paid back should I want or need to sell it. And because, as John Fogerty said and I don't entirely agree with but then again don't entirely disagree with either, someday never comes. So carpe damn diem.