Financial problems of course derailed my collector bug...but at some point during my self-imposed exile from collecting...I began to lose interest in it.
Since January I think I might have bought about 5 CDs, none of them jazz...I used to not be able to go through a week without buying stuff, but it doesn't really hit me anymore.
Part of "getting out of the habit" was not paying much attention to what is being released, if I don't know about it, I'm not going to miss it.
I'd much rather spend money on social things now, instead of buying a CD to listen to, I'll go see a band instead.