I was always gassing for guitars before in my quest to find the tone that's in my head. GAS was killed when I decided to have a custom guitar made by our local luthier and it was crap. That stopped my GAS with guitars.
For pedals, nothing much. an overdrive, distortion and a delay would suffice me.
For amp, it was until I had a 12 inch speaker amp that gave justification to my guitar and stomp's tone. My first amp was a small Boston M6 which was so thin and squishy sounding amp.
I started offering guitar wiring and modification in our locality. With that, I have the chance to feel, test, and enjoy someone elses' guitar I get to repair or modify it. Nag-enjoy na ako, na test ko pa, and pinaka higit sa lahat, libre pa. The only way to test fully the guitar is to buy it. Now, in my case, it's free!