Well, things are not as bad as they once were. I've been thinning the herd. So far in the last two years I've gone from 16 to 9, and four of those are Fender basses.
I have sold or traded the Gretsch, a Ventura copy of a Country Gent that I used for slide, an MSA pedal steel, an Ibanez 5-string bass, a Carvin bass, a mutt Jazz bass copy, an Epiphone Biscuit resonator, a Takamine resonator, a Strat, a Ric 12 string electric (from '67), several no-names and probably some more I'm not remembering. (The numbers don't add up because I have also acquired a few while I was at it.)
I'm left with the four basses (two are on the block), the LP, two acoustics, a Dobro and a '30s Regal spider-bridge reso. The bare minimum....