You know you're a maple addict when....

[abbott]

You see a sugar maple log in your neighbor's firewood pile and you get angry.

[blissville maples]

your up at 430 tossing and turning for 2 hours waiting for it to be warm enough to go turn pump on, like a 6 y/o on xmas eve

[Maple Man 85]

If you have religiously donated blood to finance growing your tap count.

If you donate blood 2x per week over the course of a year that's a 5k pay check!!! Hello filter press and bottler

[Super Sapper]

That would be plasma 2 x's a week, blood is once every 6 weeks I think. I did my 977th plasma donation yesterday and yes most goes into my maple addiction.

[Cedar Eater]

That would be plasma 2 x's a week, blood is once every 6 weeks I think. I did my 977th plasma donation yesterday and yes most goes into my maple addiction.

Blood is 8 weeks between donations. And, at least in Michigan, you can't be paid for it. Plasma selling is legal and we called it plasmating when I was in college. It takes a lot of plasmating to get a $5K check. So yeah, I think that qualifies as a symptom of maple addiction.

[Galena]

Time to wake this thread up again! You know you're a maple addict when....

You break your promise to not tap til first week of March, but oh the trees are so ready for you! :-)

[bprifle01]

January 18th rolls around and you can't keep your finger off the drill trigger!

[Cedar Eater]

You tell yourself that you already have enough trees tapped to give you more sap than you can handle, but you find another maple and start working out how you'll tie it into one of your saplines.

[Michael Greer]

...you've already maxed out your equipment, but go out and buy fifty more buckets.

[Trapper2]

..... when you spend $3000 a year on land tax, beer, snacks, equipment, chainsaws, gas and improvements to get $500 of syrup that you mostly give away.