Since you can catch bass(fish) with very basic MH or M spinning set up spooled by 8lb mono line, some 3/0 hook with some soft plastic which costs less tan $100 all in all, Made me think of majority of us that we always buying and upgrading our gear. We don't only have bass fishing as hobby but we have another hobby that I think we can call it tackling :).
I mean I really enjoy to buy and collect all the gear I can. But to be honest with you I am sometimes not using them in months, For example I have 5 BFS combos and two of them were used only once last year simply because I like the most one of them and I do majority of my BFS fishing with that combo.
This applying to my lures and soft plastics as well, you imagine I fish 200 days plus in one year and whole last year even with tackle shortage I still have bunch of soft plastics.
If you want to be honest 90% of tackle I have are extras and I just have them and using them because I enjoy to do so.
another example of what I did was unnecessary is my 11 travel combos 6 spinning and 5 casting combos, Since day one I didn't go to travel so I didn't use them as their purpose.
I am going to wrap it up, this 90% unnecessary purchase belong to my other hobby call tackling haha...
Thanks for reading, I just wanted to share my thoughts.