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<blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6034229" data-attributes="member: 1465"><p>This is what I've always done, and the result has been that I've actually spent very little overall (think like ~25 books in 10 years, mostly concentrated in a 5 year period). Maybe 9 times out of 10 that I questioned if I really needed something I was about to buy, the result was NO. For me it was usually enough to think "wait another month" or better, "wait until next discount round" to have my interest in a certain book wane below the threshold.</p><p></p><p>But at the same time it might be too harsh to reason this way. After all, it's your hobby, and you don't really NEED any of this, you buy stuff because it makes you happy. It makes you happy not just to play but also to read, to own, or even simply just the act of buying it (shopping makes a lot of people happy, at least <em>at the moment</em>).</p><p></p><p>Before you try going cold turkey... <u>why don't you just set yourself a monthly budget</u>?</p><p></p><p>It's the same concept as when quitting to smoke: a lot of people just can't go cold turkey without getting depressed and then failing again into the same bad habit. Setting a budget e.g. 10 smokes a day (assuming someone smoking normally more, but not a lot more) is easier.</p><p></p><p>So you can try e.g. to set a budget of 100$ or 50$ a month. If next purchase would put you above your budget, you don't buy it now, but you have to wait until the 1st day of next month, when your budget refreshes.</p><p></p><p>If you have a purchase in mind that alone is more than your budget, you have to "save up" a month of budget (or part of it) by not using it, in order to buy that bigger purchase the next month.</p><p></p><p>Try this way first, and if you can manage then you can probably easily lower the budget even further later, or you'll find out that you won't need even that because you don't use all your budget at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Li Shenron, post: 6034229, member: 1465"] This is what I've always done, and the result has been that I've actually spent very little overall (think like ~25 books in 10 years, mostly concentrated in a 5 year period). Maybe 9 times out of 10 that I questioned if I really needed something I was about to buy, the result was NO. For me it was usually enough to think "wait another month" or better, "wait until next discount round" to have my interest in a certain book wane below the threshold. But at the same time it might be too harsh to reason this way. After all, it's your hobby, and you don't really NEED any of this, you buy stuff because it makes you happy. It makes you happy not just to play but also to read, to own, or even simply just the act of buying it (shopping makes a lot of people happy, at least [I]at the moment[/I]). Before you try going cold turkey... [U]why don't you just set yourself a monthly budget[/U]? It's the same concept as when quitting to smoke: a lot of people just can't go cold turkey without getting depressed and then failing again into the same bad habit. Setting a budget e.g. 10 smokes a day (assuming someone smoking normally more, but not a lot more) is easier. So you can try e.g. to set a budget of 100$ or 50$ a month. If next purchase would put you above your budget, you don't buy it now, but you have to wait until the 1st day of next month, when your budget refreshes. If you have a purchase in mind that alone is more than your budget, you have to "save up" a month of budget (or part of it) by not using it, in order to buy that bigger purchase the next month. Try this way first, and if you can manage then you can probably easily lower the budget even further later, or you'll find out that you won't need even that because you don't use all your budget at all. [/QUOTE]
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