How much gear do you own?

I figured I wasn't alone in my misery.  😉

I live with just my teenage son in a house so I haven't been blessed with the more intelligent of us giving proper guidance on what toys not to buy.  Or questioning why certain rooms and closets have foregone their intended purposes to house audio gear.

I probably have over 3k records and have listened to maybe 20 records this whole year.  And yet I can't bring myself to letting them go.  99.9% of my music listening at home is streaming.

Just the stuff I have is too much.  Oh, when I got out of audio a decade back I got into electric basses with the same devout fervor that I applied to electronics and ended up with, like, 40 or so basses.  I've sold a bunch but still need to dump 25 or so.  And yes, I suck at playing bass.  And no, I was never in a band.

I sometimes wish I'd get burglarized.  But with my luck they'd just take the big screens and a few Bose speakers as all my other gear wouldn't have name recognition to your average thief.

I'm envious of those with the minimilist lifestyle.  

I currently own 28 pairs of speakers.  Twenty-nine if I count the desktop AudioEngines.  And most of them are mid to higher end stuff, and they all sound pretty good in my room.

I think my treated, smallish (12x16) listening room makes damn near anything I throw at it sound good.  So whenever I've attempted to pick a winner in an attempt to select gear to keep it's been a pain.

2022 I'm doing it, though.  Goal:  Just one of everything, with a backup.

OK.  So I’m already starting to back-track my decision.  Maybe I’ll “keep” the gear that’s difficult to replace should I ever decide to get it again but still dump the majority of the stuff.