How much gear do you own?

Just sold my final piece from last week's Craigslist postings. All total, sold 7 pieces. All had their original packaging too, so I picked up quite a bit of shelf space. Now, on to round 2. Don't know how much stuff I'm going to sell, but 1500 CDs and a huge CE shelf that houses all of them, is likely on the list. Might also sell the complete set of 5 Thiel PowerPlane in-wall speakers that I accumulated for an HT setup that never materialized. And the Receiver and Subwoofer that was purchased for that setup. Liberating!

I have only one of everything that I need, but after buying a mostly-clean TD-124 I haven’t been able to stop thinking about buying another, in rougher shape, to restore.

I have three kids and an 80-hour per week job. I need a project like I need a hole in my head. And still I can’t stop thinking about it.

Perhaps this is mental illness.

3 integrated amps, 7 turntables, 3 cassette decks, 4 pairs of speakers ( that’s not counting my dedicated home theater 5.1 + atmos)...4 headphone amps, 4 phono preamps, 15 cartridges, 15 or more pair of headphones, 5 tuners, 3 dacs, 1 sacd player, 1 cd player, 2 cd transports, 1 mini disc player/recorder, 1 streamer, 2 bluetooth modules, countless cables and interconnects, tubes, etc....and I lost count on the LP’s, CD’s, cassettes....I'm sick...

I cycle through gear and sell what I'm not using. I've seen too many episodes of HOARDERS to do otherwise.

But I'm also realistic. I know if I sell my Oktoresearch DAC8 Stereo or Krell amp I'm going to hate myself. Even my wife, who is gear agnostic, advised me to keep the Okto, because she knows how amazing it is and how hard to get. 

At least 7 integrated amps. 3 CD players, 2 turntables. 1 tuner, 2 streamers. Multiple cables, 5 pairs of speakers. That's only for two rooms. 

In my late 60s time pair down, just been too lazy.