I flirt with becoming a camera snob…
I buy something fresh, highly rated and expensive (for a nanny/student) use it compulsively until it breaks and then use my cellphone camera for long streches of time, always forgetting (putting off?) buying a new one. I get used to the cellphone camera, the quality (or lack thereof) and features.
And then I bite the bullet and buy a new camera and am over the moon about it until I start to think “what could I be doing with an even better camera?!” Guess it just boils down to having Leica* taste and a Canon point and shoot budget.


*which, sadly retails for about as much as my first car