Yep, I know the feeling...
I used to have a heavily modified 'Yard Beast'. But I got out of that years ago.... It just got too expensive for me at that time in my life...
I never really got that heavy in to the rock crawling. All the good places around here are about three or four hours of driving distance..
Now I am back into the expensive stuff. BMW=$... But now my wife just laughs, shakes her head and walks back into the house.......