Shopping Strategy

​Bear with me, because I never feel like I explain this right, but it works really well in my own head... 

Pick a low dollar value that is high enough to make you stop and consider. This will be different for everyone! I like to use $60.

Now, if you're shopping somewhere and you start to think "why not? It's only $_!" or "yeah, that seems like twelve dollars worth of fun" INSTEAD, think to yourself "would I buy this if it was $60?" "would I want this enough to spend $60 on it?"

If the answer is yes, great, bring it home! If the answer is no, put it back. You didn't really want it that badly in the first place.