I’m well over 100 cars owned 
since passing my test in 1983 
My shortest ownership is 2 days , it was a mk1 escort , should have kept it 
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My wobble is that i keep looking at Fiat 124 Spiders, the new models from about 2016, I do enjoy the pride of ownership that I get with my NC, however if the economic climate and job security was better i reckon i would give the Italian cousin a try…
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Now you mention it, yes me too but I’m inclined towards buying a car of the folding (electrical type) top variety.
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I have a wobble pretty much every time I go outside and see the car on the drive under its cover. Have probably only put a hundred miles on it this year. Sold the hard top a few months back to clear space in the garage. Now debating whether to sell the car in the spring and just stick with the motorbike. Would be a wrench to sell as I do love the car and enjoy driving it, but I just don’t seem to get out in it these days.
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Quite the reverse. After 5 years/50k in my NB, I swapped it for an immaculate Peugeot 206CC,
my friend said he’d give it a year before I bought another.
He was wrong, I bought my NC 18 months later…
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing! I should never have sold a 2dr mk2 escort with a slightly breathed upon 1.6 - thought i was clever selling it for £3k at the time - god knows how much its worth now 
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Tell me about it - I sold a Mk1 Mexico for £600
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A couple of weeks ago we had a dry day, and because the MX-5 hadn’t been out of the garage for 2 months we went for a 45 mile run to nowhere in particular. Not that I had really had a wobble, although it had occurred to me that it has been a fairly redundant luxury this year. We’re also building a house and I am beginning to wonder whether we will have any money left when it’s finished.
Any thought of selling the MX-5 was put away in the first 5 minutes as I was reminded of why we have it. It’s a grand wee car and I really can’t think of anything newish that I’d substitute at any price. And that includes any ‘supercar’. Cars too powerful to use properly, which now includes even some hot hatches and ubiquitous family saloons, don’t interest me at all.
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All this talk of wobbles I had to go and get rid of some cobwebs… If there’s ever a hint of a wobble a drive usually cures it 
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I bought my MK3.75 in February 2020, and a month later the world went into lockdown.
Major wobble due to the prospect of losing my job (which I had only started in December 2019).
I was gutted, as I had been 18 months without a car prior to this purchase, following health issues.
Thankfully, I was offered a different role in the company within a week of that first lockdown, only because I had a car.
So for 4k miles, I got payed to drive my baby, and I remained in employment.
My MX-5 saved my year.
Like you, I try not to be too precious with my affection for the car. It is a tool after all, even though it has become a mate, and it will bear scars and signs of our history together.
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I had my fair share of wobbles years ago usually after I had about 6 pints ah those were the days.
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My wobble was 15 years ago when I sold my NA. Always regretted it so bought 3 in the past year to stop wobbling!
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It’s a human trait having doubts especially if it’s a second car, as long as there is someone else out there with more cars than you or someone that swaps them more frequently than you, then I generally justify it to myself that I’m not the worst.
One post above said they have had over 100 cars (tick - I’m not the worst serial car buyer here -31cars)
One post said the shortest they’d kept a car was 2 days (tick - my shortest was 3 months)
Same with the number of cars currently owned (tick - ok so sometimes I’ve had 5 at a time, but currently just 3)
See how easy it is to justify to yourself 
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True, I get the ‘not being the worst’ element, but the ‘keep/let go decision’ I would suggest has other elements; for example ‘am I getting value from continuing to own the car’ which will include costs, amount of use etc. Also because owning something like an mx-5 is very different from owning an ‘A to B’ car there’s the ‘owning something special’ element - which for many (me included) is high on the list. 
Went to my Son’s yesterday where my other 5 is kept and in bits, the wobble hit when i saw the car and i am still undecided whether to flip it and get my money back before i spend too much on it, (which i will).
My 1st 5 which hasn’t had an advisory in eleven years of ownership is still my main concern and hasn’t done 1,000mls this year and isn’t going anywhere.
Christmas around the corner, five birthdays in my family with a new addition, two cars to tax, one car to MOT, one car to insure, house to redecorate all in the last two months of the year.
Maybe i will just sit on it until Springtime then decide when finances settle down a bit.
I can’t drive three cars…or can i.
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I can see why your situation could cause a decent sized wobble! I guess the key to all good decision making is to make sure it’s not rushed. Often a first reaction can lead to a bad decision. Costing a few different scenarios might help…? 
A mate of mine had one in orange (rebored engine) went like stink…mind you he was a nutter.
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Try horses, young frisky jumpers, and a lot brighter than the usual rental hacks.
Many years ago one of the ladies who rented some of the riding school stables as livery kept four such lively horses there.
Sometimes instead of riding them one at a time as the rest of us did, she used to harness them together (just the four horses no saddle) and depending on how they were linked (two by two or four abreast) stand on the backs of the rear or centre pair and drive them around the paddock at bleeping-bleep breakneck speed (her colourful phrase in the presence of gawping pre-teens sitting Thelwel-like on the riding school ponies).
It was spectacular.
She first tried the idea as a sundowner bet after watching the then new Ben Hur film, and got such a buzz she did it at shows for a few years after.
I think it’s Ok to have a couple of ‘second’ cars if you enjoy fixing them up and can financially support them. I’ve had two second cars at the same time a few times and the answer definitely is “No, I don’t end up driving them both” I would truly loved to have kept my mk1 that I just sold as I knew every inch of that car, but experience showed me that every time I have two cars the one that is less accessible or reliable/comfortable never gets used because it’s just ‘easier’ to use the other one.
The exception to this rule is when you have that one dream car, for me it’s a Porsche 356 coupe which I haven’t got a cats chance of owning a real one so it’s not a problem
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Whenever I get a wobble, I take the cover off the NC and drive it. Then I’m good for at least another week. I just suffered an attack, so a quick blast does me the world of good.
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