Hi, Greg:

That's an interesting problem. I have friends of mine who somewhere along the line were transformed from listeners to acquirers. When they talk about their collection and say that they have 7,000 albums, 4,000 videos and counting on CDs, I say to them, "If all you did for the rest of your life was to eat and sleep and listen to music and watch videos, you couldn't get halfway through your collection." They recognize that, being intelligent friends. I have a different approach. I have set aside as much space as I'm willing to give to my music collection (which is still pretty substantial) and when I get something new, I give something away. It works fine for me. What it means is that through time, the QUALITY of my collection has improved dramatically, I haven't used any more space, and I've passed on a lot of music that I would probably have never listened to again to someone who got a lot of enjoyment out of it. If they didn't, I encouraged them to keep passing it on until it ended up in the hands of someone who would really treasure having it. Seems to me that I have the best of all worlds. I don't have to climb over my collection to get to the bathroom, I bring a lot of pleasure to other people, and my collection keeps getting better and better.

Jerry