I've been buying and selling gear for quite a while, and, I'm done.
It seemed like I was enjoying the hunt and the deals more than, you know, actually playing the gear. So, I am done with G.A.S.
I used to wake up and start looking at ads and sales- Now I wake up and start playing. It turns out that actually playing the stuff is lots of fun, and there's lots to learn and skills to acquire and develop. Who knew?
It's not like they're mutually exclusive or anything, but I found that, for me, the getting was taking precedence over the playing.
So, I now have S.A.S.- Skills Acquisition Syndrome.
Please, enjoy the gear that I may have bought, I'm done with all that. Besides perishables like strings, picks, drum heads and sticks, etc, I'm done with the gear getting.
I'm just going to use what I have, and, maybe actually get gooder at the musics and stuff.
I've always been a bit of an auto-didact, and strive to be so at a high level, so, if not mastery I'd like to at least be able to be marketable as a player on each, in some fashion.
I was a semi-pro touring bass player for years, I have been playing drums for quite a while now, and recently got a new guitar that is played for hours a day, so, already have gear covered. I still appreciate seeing and even trying new gear, and always appreciate seeing that of others, but, I really have enough. I even listed an old keyboard for sale the other day.
Having given up on the shopping bit gives me even more time to play and learn, and I'm okay with that.
However, I'm not advising others follow my S.A.S. course- it's just the course I'm on.