Stash Monster

Is it something about me or is it every knitting/crocheting crazy person that has the huge stashes. Oh that stash monster has me in it's grips and wont let go. But i must admit not all the yarn is just mine and i did not buy it all. Though i am guilty of adding to it.
The stash monster i am now sitting in the middle of does not look to bad... that is until you count. I have over 200 different skeins of yarn. Yes i said over 200 because i have not done a count in some times. How did i get this much. Well most is thanks to my grandmother who i love dearly. She is why i started to knit. I saw her doing it at around 9-10 years old and wanted to do it to. Sadly she lived to far away to learn from her but another elder woman in my church was happy to teach me and my younger sister to knit.
But over time i lost interest and even when we went up to my grandmothers and helped her redo a room, her yarn room, none the less. She had bags... I MEAN BAGS. like garbage bags of unwanted yarn and we gladly took them and stored it not to see the light of day.
That was until i took up crocheting and needed the yarn. I blew the dust off the boxes and brought down four large totes of yarn cracked it open to find.... Some very interesting things. some yarns i think are older then me or my mother. Even ravelry has a hard time finding the yarn. But also newer ones that are now discontinued  but look so beautiful it breaks my heart i can not buy more.
So yes I do have a lot of yarn, but even worse i can not help but make a weekly trip, when fam is out grocery shopping i go to the craft stores. walking around getting lost in colors, and feel of yarns. Fighting with my inter self not to add another skein to my growing stash but the idea of having a new color or brand, or feel to my stash brings me so much joy I just have to pick it up and put it in my basket.
Will this need ever stop... do I want it to stop... maybe not maybe deep down I am very proud of all my yarn and having the ability to just walk up stairs and get what ever my heart wants.