Do some reading on the work of B. F. Skinner. Basically getting more snakes makes you happy but owning them doesn't. People are like this with most things. Let me make an example that occurred to me yesterday. Someone bought a lottery ticket, scratched it off and then pretended like they won as a joke. "OMG I just won $2500 dollars." I said "Wow, cool" in a very calm voice. How does this tie back you say. Well the point is that winning $2500 dollars would be awesome and make most people really happy but its the winning part that makes them happy. Not the $2500 dollars. Most people if they are being responsible have more than $2500 dollars in debt and really should just pay down their debt. NOT FUN. My initial thought is that $2500 dollars won't buy much. Your best bet is to slow down the collecting. If you can slow down and find ways of getting joy from having the snakes then getting new snakes will be far more meaningful in the future.









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