Urging to simplify

I go through this cycle of feeling the need to simplify my life, and then the urge to diversify. I relate the feeling of calm, objectivity, and a better understanding of life with the desire to simplify. And when I want to acquire things, and leave things in a general sense of disarray I equate it with a sense of unrest, anxiety, unresolved issues, something that is bothering me that I'm not dealing with.

I'd prefer that I confront whatever is bothering me, and just get it done with rather than go through this bothersome stressful cycle of acquisition and finding how to reasonably get ride of whatever I've acquired. Though usually I just keep cause I know my mood/desire will swing around again, and I'll re-find that item or sport, or led's or whatever the project was...