Work out if I really want it or just think I want it. And can I get it cheaper elsewhere. Half the stuff you think you want, you don’t really, you just think you want. Just look at all the threads on here about iGadgets, yet I bet you can manage perfectly well without them. I’m happier going through the process of shopping for it, realising that I don’t really want to spend the money, and then forgetting it.
I also have a fear of finding something cheaper elsewhere once I’ve bought it.

I don’t think OP was having an affair.

Not when theres such quality cottaging going on in shopping centres up and down the country.