Yes Geoff, been there myself at one stage and thought about all that expensive Tak stuff sitting in the Observatory idle.
I did get out of it for a while and once I sorted myself out personally, (we wont go into that) i did get back into it but in a different way.
Kept at it and enjoyed it, but then i took another turn in my life's direction and sold the lot, bought a 5th Wheeler and truck to pull it, and I could not be happier.
Astronomy can and dose become an addiction of sorts
and we, well at least me, accumulate so much gear at great expense and the rest is history, as you have noted.
My wife and I now travel around this country of ours,
we both have some nice camera stuff, and a few nice lenses,
and love ever minute of it.
I still love Astronomy,but there are other things in life equally as pleasing.
Leon