(I will use the word “torch” as we are both Commonwealth English posters)
- Buy first torch, realise there are better ones out there.
- Fascination with LED technology. Still remember as a kid wondering if anything other than dim 5mm red, orange and green LEDs would ever be available. (Blue & white 5mm LEDs came out mid 90s, high-power LEDs in the mid 2000s?)
- Try different torches out and see which ones “fit”. Then shelve unused torches indefinitely rather than sell or give them away.
- Realise there can be a size or type of torch/headlamp/lantern for different occasions so set out to acquire a decent collection
- Desire to have the latest and greatest (I use two Zebralight H60s with XR-E LEDs daily but the temptation is to add a third headlamp?)
- Buying stuff just because it’s cheap, rather than really necessary.