I must confess it's been a while since I was so attached to any piece of photographic gear that I would _seriously_ regret selling it. I use the filter functions in Lightroom to gauge how much I use each lens. If a lens is unused for two years in a row, it goes. I sometimes miss the image quality and working distance of the A*200/4 macro, but not often enough to trigger any itch to buy again.
Upgrades to optics I do use are different, of course. Like when I sold the FA*600/4 to buy a Sigma 500/4.5. There was a wait involved; a gap between sale and purchase when I seriously wondered whether I did the right thing.
If anything, I regret a bargain I let pass. When coming off the ship in Ushuaia after the Antarctica trip, I found a cheap FA* 85/1.4 in a local photo shop. At the time I was a bit saturated on the picture taking, so I dismissed it on emotion rather than thinking. That's never a good thing... :-)
Jostein
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