I bought everything I was very interested in over the years, compared what I had, sold most of it and kept the things that sounded best and that I liked the most.
GAS continues if there are unexplored avenues.
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Sounds what i need if you find the link to who she is pop it in 
Please share what you kept. Its all good.
I’m mostly in the box now expect for DT2, Intellijel Cascadia, a few euro modules, Thermionic Culture Vulture 20th Anniversary Edition, all Neumann monitoring, some midi controllers.
Had a room of synths and euro, groove boxes etc.
Having the gear allows you to understand if you can re-create what you like about it with other gear, as well as what you need, of course, for your given application.
Many items were sold once I figured out how simply I could recreate the sound adequately with what I had. I have been auditioning every distortion plugin going to sell my CV. Unfortunately for me that is not happening.
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Ahh I think her reels got the chop in a recent saved post cleaning, but I kept this one by an elder fashion designer who summed it up even better, and I kept it probably because it has less focus on marketing.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C7rdTMFgoCr/
Love coming back to that
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Thanks ill check it out. Oh great its Vivienne Westwood. I know her. She dressed the Clash and other groups in early 80s late 70s a great designer. Ill watch it now…
Cheers. You know your experience is invaluable.
Ironically I saw this at the time and that cinematic sub bass part literally pushed me to get a Syntakt 
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Has this been posted yet? A ~250 page book on GAS.
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First of all, I suggest you start buying second-hand, if you don’t already. It reduces the cost of buying, and the losses on resale. I did that, it’s a good first step.
Then, why not see a shrink to understand the problem and try to fix it? It helps. (I did that too.)
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GAS isn’t the problem. It’s a (not great) solution.
If you’re willing to acknowledge and work on the real problem, GAS ceases to be an issue for you.
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Your bang on. Its a symptom. You have to treat the underlying issues.
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I’m reading this book during this week, in which I have also lock myself down only with the Digitone.
It’s really good. Most of the data and analysis come from guitar world, but you can see the parallels with this world clearly.
I recommend it.
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Limit youtube videos and website reviews and forum threads to those that are only about the gear you already have. Tjen you learn things and get inspired to use those instead of gasing for new crap things
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Problem is the videos with people showing your gear will have other stuff that you will see. Unless its a solo instrument video. I think you cant watch or read them to be safe.
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its this:
the first time you woke up crying alone in your cot and reached for a teddy/dolly blanky whatever - that memory is held somewhere and eventually turns into gas