knitting blogs: inspiration or facilitator of compulsive spending?

so yesterday i'm going through the list of knitting/crochet bloggers on kimmy's blog (hi kim!) and i happen upon the carla knitalong on the my life in stitches blog. how awesome is this sweater?

so i, being the ADD knitter i am, go and purchase the "it's a tape thing" book from the knitting garden. THEN i go to ebay and start placing bids on rowan tape yarn. i figure if i don't win this auction, i could always go to elann and pick up some katia ola as substitute. then, while i'm on ebay browsing for yarn, i notice someone has GGH Muench Mystik. earlier i had seen on creazativity a finished knitty honeymoon tank. how fantastic! so guess who places a bid on that one? you got it. so yesterday, i have total bids up to $80 and a knitting book in the mail for $17. can i ask something?

what the hell am i doing?

i'm not even close to finished with hush hush. i have a deadline of august 12th, now (i had assumed the wrong date). not to mention i have a stash the size of a small mountain. oh, yes, and i'm poor. that too. :-P is there a "knitter's anonymous" anywhere? lol...