My 1 year anniversary!  

kin1117
Congrats and if I may offer one bit of advice: keep in mind that you can always trade up.
I've scored countless great items (furniture, decorative objects, art, housewares, etc) at auction over the the past 15 years and I loved many of them so much that I couldn't imagine every parting with them. But inevitably something of the same type as one of my "forever" pieces would come along. Fortunately for me (because otherwise I'd be a serious hoarder), I figured out early on that it was ok to let go of previous notions and move on. I'd do a sort of "pick one or die" thing to help me figure out which to keep and usually it was the old one that would go.
I don't go to auctions anymore and I've moved to a much smaller place. I'm still shedding stuff that I used to think I'd have forever, and it feels good! I feel like my collection is more honed than ever. It looks better and better as a whole, more perfect for the space I'm in and less and less like the random group of things that it was when i started.
Anyway, what I'm saying is, keep yourself open to evolution. It's just as fun as the acquisition part.

Good point, Spanky, but the...
Good point, Spanky, but the difficult part is learning to let go. On a separate thread, I was debating between which 607's I should part with, and as of today, I still haven't made up my mind. I love everything I've acquired. As my wife puts it, I may have what she calls "choosing disorder"........