I have some sort of disorder

[ray1970]

I'm sure it's not shocking to some of you that there's something slightly wrong with me.

When it comes to my hobbies I am impatient and impulsive and sometimes buy or sell things on a whim. I've been doing better recently but lately my compulsion is rearing it's ugly head again.

I've been waiting patiently for CZ to start getting the P10C in stores so I can get my hands on one. This is a purchase I have had planned since I first heard and read about it so it isn't t part of my impulsive disorder.

But....

I'm getting impatient and wanting something new to play with. The internet is the devil's playground and I've found several things that are tempting me. Trying to resist the urge on an impulse buy and hold out for that darn CZ. What I'm really trying to avoid is buying something and then having the stupid CZ show up a week or two later and then having to buy that too.

Someone slap some sense into me please.

[blacklabel]

I'm the exact opposite. I'll read and research and ponder for months before I decide to make even the most mundane purchases. I almost wish I could be that impulsive.

[ray1970]

Your way seems much less frustrating. If I was more patient I could probably reason my way out of making a purchase.

[JohnnyEgo]

Count me in the semi-impulsive category, as a learned trait. I used to research everything to death. Found myself getting too jacked up over which was the better clothes dryer, etc... Then I read a study where people like me who research the crap out of everything are generally less satisfied with their purchases then the impulse buyers. So I quit doing that. I actively limit my research desires to a few minutes to an hour at most, and then I either buy it or I don't. And once I have bought it, I don't go back to research more, as I will be no happier knowing all the potential pitfalls or thinking I should have bought a better product.

On the plus side, I am much happier. On the minus side, I've somehow accumulated eleven 10mm handguns with this process, when I could have been perfectly happy with only three, if I had bought them first.

[Irving]

Sell the other 8?

[Bailey Guns]

I'm the exact opposite. I'll read and research and ponder for months before I decide to make even the most mundane purchases. I almost wish I could be that impulsive.

I do that (maybe not for months) with some guns I know I shouldn't buy. This is how it goes with me:

1. Find gun I want in gun store
2. Talk myself out of purchasing gun on the spot
3. Go home, research gun
4. Think about it for a week or two
5. Decide to buy it
6. Rush to gun store
7. Breathe sigh of relief when it's not there

It's like I've developed some sort of overspending defense mechanism.

[Gman]

I'm the exact opposite. I'll read and research and ponder for months before I decide to make even the most mundane purchases. I almost wish I could be that impulsive.

I have this affliction. When I decide on what I want to pull the trigger on, my wife goes with it because she knows I've researched the daylights out of it. We have a new washer and dryer arriving this weekend...which was the latest acquisition project.

[CS1983]

Will you get the CZ? Probably
Will the CZ need to be fed? Yes
Will you have as much $$ to feed the CZ after purchasing X? No

Wait, feed CZ, CZ will be happily fed and you will grow in the virtues of temperance and patience.

[ray1970]

I do that (maybe not for months) with some guns I know I shouldn't buy. This is how it goes with me:

1. Find gun I want in gun store
2. Talk myself out of purchasing gun on the spot
3. Go home, research gun
4. Think about it for a week or two
5. Decide to buy it
6. Rush to gun store
7. Breathe sigh of relief when it's not there

It's like I've developed some sort of overspending defense mechanism.

Leaving without purchasing and going back a week or two later to find it gone is one of my coping mechanisms.

Although, sometimes I go back and it's still there. I figure that's a sign that its meant to be so I go ahead and make the purchase.

[TEAMRICO]

For me: #1 Will the wife find out? NO...Make the purchase. #2 If YES then I wait until #1 is possible.