Is it time to just quit?


Time to just quit?                      
Buying audio stuff?                             
Posting to an empty house?                          
My gut feeling is no one is posting in the regular 'free' threads. Maybe they all are paying to post? I could not know, since I am way too cheap to pay to just post 'exclusive'.  Being natural paranoid, I think everyone is posting over there, not here?                                       
Then I also just hit my limit on credit card Paypal. Now I have to become "verified' or no Paypal.    
This also happened at a fortuitous moment, when I was starting to overspend...             
So no buying OR selling here for me (unless I am willing to get the Paypal CC. Which I have to think about)So maybe the Universe is telling me "Time to quit".???  
Not quit listening to music, just NOT buying more stuff and NOT posting more gibberish.
elizabeth
My interest waxes and wanes depending on a lot of factors that probably have little rational basis--
I quit posting for a while and started my own blog on older records because I felt that the gear centric sites didn’t address a lot of more offbeat music and the music sites didn’t seem to address sonics and different pressings.

But I still post here- I guess my point is that you don’t have to make a decision that is absolute- like "i’m not going to buy any more gear" when you don’t need anything right now. Two months or two years from now, that could change.
The key- to me- is to have fun, learn something and be able to contribute where you can.
As to speaking to an ’empty house’ I think you’ve got people here who like you, aren’t patronizing and maybe that’s as good as it gets, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth ...

Personally, I've stopped buying new or used stereo equipment. Tweaks are a different matter though. Because of the tweaks I've added over the past two years or so, I honestly don't think equipment changes are an answer to better sound quality at this point. No need. 

Just enjoy the music. With the advent of streaming, thrift stores and garage sales are teeming with really good CD's. They're really cheap too. I consider my recordings, both LP's and CD's as real components. So, for a buck or two, you can find a "new" component easily. Just stop by a thrift store or garage sale and look around. With proper tweaking, it's just amazing how good red book CD's can sound. 

Frank
Liz,
From what I tell you have a terrific audio system and presumably you are happy with it. You seem to listen to music quite regularly and this is a good thing  in my opinion. What more do you feel necessary to purchese ? If you have no pressing needs just relax, listen and appreciate what you have. I agree with Bill and Frank, get even more into the music. You have established a fine home system.
Charles
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Come on ... listening to music? Are you serious? It is so boring....
He he :-)
But listening to digital is like having a shower with thousands 
of tiny ice cubes, listening to vinyl is having the shower with water. And vinyl is a long road (from doing it right), some may find the end, most not.
Don't give up