How often do you swap out equipment in general

Every month?

If you had said every other year, I'd have said, "Yeah, okay, that is not too bad."

If you had said every year, I'd have said "That seems a bit much, but if you haven't upgraded lately, that seems okay too."

But every month?!
Wow man.
I have to say, that you got it bad.
You might want to either take a break for awhile, or seek professional help, or get married.
(I have found that getting married really slows down the upgrading! At least for awhile anyway.)
:-)

Good Luck!

kurt: this past week, my mother-in-law was here from
seattle. no kidding. i started twitching after 3 days
of no sounds. i was getting ideas of what to do next
and with what, and i was getting obsessive about it. (you think??)
maybe i do need a doctor. i've only upgraded a few times
over the past 3 or 4 years, but i'm constantly switching
crap. i just wanted to see how nuts how i was, relative
to the rest of my peeps.

Jorgeparrapuppy:
you sound "normal" to me ;)