I hear ya!!!!! I just bought my first house and I am the poorest person I know. I went through the mind game of do I sell my gear for a down payment or not? Thanks to one of my best friends he said to just be poor and don't sell because as we all know when you first start jumping and buying gear it takes forever to get everything and paying all that money out at once will suck in the future. I only have two jumps in since I bought the house three months ago...mostly because of money but also because I never knew how much stuff there was to do on a new house. I went from jumping on the weekends to painting on the weekends. I find myself going "crap it's Sunday night, I missed out on jumping again this week." If you have no money to jump it's still good fun to go to the DZ for the day to hang out with friends and I have found that as much as I hate to pack so does everyone else in the Arizona heat so making $20 a day at least pays for the gas out there. You'll get through it but there are ways to do it without selling your gear you will just find that your gear takes up more room than you ever thought... the last guy I heard say "I'll give up the sport temporarily" hasn't been heard from since.
