How to stop upgrading and aviod going bankrupt????


So I've built my system, and I love it. I don't want to get into the whole buy/sell/buy loop where I am constatly upgrading, and I certainly don't have the money to do so. But I am obsessed.

I love reading about high end audio, but it's not THAT satisfying. I can't keep running into my dealer's to hear things if I know I am not going to buy. It's not fair to him. And I keep hearing about new products coming out, and wonder if they are better than what I have. Maybe I should stop reading, but I enjoy it.

How do you deal with the upgrade bug?
joyelyse
Good morning,

Do a search for "Words from the Wise" (or something very similar). A lot of hard earned advice there. Or for that matter "How do I get off this merry-go-round" Again, I might have the wording a bit off but you should be able to find it. I have printed off both and read them on occasion. Usually keeps me in line.
Stop reading hi-end magazines & e-zines. They are like pouring gasoline on a fire for us addicts...Oh, & I must stop checking "new today" on audiogon.
I know how you feel I just spent a lot of money I saved for 3 years and while sitting in that hot desert in Mid East courtesy of George W Bush. I got the upgrade bug and cannot stop. I have used credit cards to max, and keep going with savings and paychecks. Just a few of the major items I bought in about a year. Mark levinson 331,334.336, 436 amps; Krell FpB 250 mono blocks, KRC HR preamp, Krell 20I Cd player; Mark Levinson 380S, 360S, 38S, 360 and 2 37s, Proced PMDT, Sony sacd777ES, Lexicon MC-1, Magnum Dynalab 102, dCS Purcel1, and more. Runco Sc-4200 line doubler, Sony projector, a pile of power cables, interconnects, and speaker cable. Acoustic Zen Ref II, NBS, Virtual Dynamics, Shunyanta, Transparent, Audioquest, Kimber and on and on....I am addicted...Compulsive Obsessive Dissorder maybe...any doctors out there?

Help me!