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Eggster
How do I cure it?

Just do what Bapu did ... buy all of them. 

Then there is nothing else to live for other than trying to sell them on KVR.

Eggster
Ha! Loads of great answers - Its what makes this forum great!!! I'm off to chain smoke a pack, have a whisky or two, play online poker while I consider my next purchase...

Thanks for the witty replies and the serious ones!

There is the Mental Health Clinic in the Coffee House. Just spill your story.

You mean some people actually do this???

It is real easy to become addicted to buying plugins and softsynths. The companies push their products into your mailbox in mass quantities and they sell your email address to others in order to make additional money. Every day my mailbox is flooded with offers from these software distributors and peddlers. They have tracking cookies which make offers appear on your favorite websites and you wonder why your credit card bill is growing. I had to add rules to my Outlook mailbox to keep from getting the offers I have no intention on ever investing in. I also set my web browser to delete tracking cookies at the end of using the browser.
JUST SAY NO.. 😁

Addiction is the key word.
 
Dynamic slightly different than a compulsive hoarder. TV spotlight shows some poor wretch with mountains of physical debris and clutter that you can see taking up 3D coordinates, crowding out rational living space in the excess.
 
Digital hoarding can take up more than the library of congress in volume, but reduced to bits and bytes on a hard drive. Harder to see the illness if you can carry it in your pocket, and harder to see how it can invade or misdirect available creative space.
 
Think I finally am getting a grip on my own distortion, not completely, but getting there.
 
Deals and new toys fly by without my credit card getting automatically beamed up. Latest and greatest Kontakt libraries don't thrill the way they used to. Not that I'm losing touch just yet, but think of the wasteland of my accumulated libraries that I thought would save humanity for a day or two. Then recede into oblivion with the next must have.
 
Not a popular or politically correct thought on this, but less is maybe really more.
 
John

I used to be really bad at collecting toys, most of which I didn't need. FX more than instruments. I fancy catching that disease again for a while, just for fun. Where's the best place to ogle these things now? I used to spend a lot of time on KVR. 

Marshall
I used to be really bad at collecting toys, most of which I didn't need. FX more than instruments. I fancy catching that disease again for a while, just for fun. Where's the best place to ogle these things now? I used to spend a lot of time on KVR. 

Our deals forum...I'm guaranteed to break your wallet! 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/Deals-f85.aspx

Say no more.

Work with what you have and when you see you're lacking in some area then only look to buy plugins that fill that need.

Buy only stuff you can demo.

If you aren't into UAD yet just get into it. Many of those plugs are good enough they made me quit looking for other stuff.

There are a lot of uglier/nasty things you can invest in...I've gone thru phases of "no coffee", "no beer/wine" phases to justify spending the duckets on some intriguing new thing.  This can be a very positive refocus, as music is beyond all the bullsheist we are urged to become slaves to.
 
I went thru a phase... bought all the big stuff... Spitfires, HeavyOcity, SL, EWQL, etc... It provided an AWESOME foundation NO studio had available to it a decade ago. I have 6 hard drives full of this stuff... This kind of ended last year as I realized I was overwhelmed and overstocked with clutter I'll never use...
 
Along the way I'd consistently supported the "little guys"... people I felt a connection with... Like Greg from Orange Tree, Skippy from Plug in Guru, many sound designers like Matt, Luftrum, and Arksun... these folks do amazing things and are just like you and me, strugglin' to survive by doin' what they're compelled to do... I will NEVER stop supporting and connecting with such humans... they are special... Little folk like Dmitry Sches, creating Diversion and Tantra... oh, I love these people and am soooo glad to have come across them and supported them in my meager way.
 
Looking back, all the IK crap, and lots of the stuff from EW, SL, and many others are totally irrelevant to what I am doing today.  But in the end, I have few regrets, as I love the realm we are in and wouldn't trade my choices for all the coke in Afghanistan.  I spend duckets on decent stuff... Many don't!