Anyone else fill a 'cart', think better of it, and empty it shortly after?

Insipid Moniker said:
Oh my, yes. My usual strategy is this.
Step 1: See new knife that looks cool.
Step 2: Obsessively research knife.
Step 3: Make sure that I want to spend that much/start squirreling away some knife money.
Step 4: Add knife to cart.
Step 5: Start nitpicking very small dislikes of knife or of perceived cost.
Step 6: Decide I don't want knife and remove from cart.
Step 7: Realize I have cash saved up and impulse buy something entirely different.
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These 7 steps hit eerily close to home.

Related to steps 5 and 6, recently I deleted a knife in my cart because I decided the handles weren’t shapely enough at the terminus and not having a sharpening choil was an unforgivable offense.

Regarding step 2: have you made yourself sit through YouTube reviews by folks who clearly have nothing to offer because your convinced you’ll notice something you won’t like about the knife?

“it’s BigTedSurvival94 here with another knaf review.” *opens new knife with new knife from last week’s episode*
 
So... I crumpled like a dollar bill on Sunday.
Anticipating a hard week at work (and not looking forward to it) I put the order in for exactly the items I deleted initially, because life's too short.

... so much for emptying a cart...
 
As a follow-up, I’m going through this acutely, over the last several days!

I have a birthday coming up and there’s a certain Spyderco I’ve been contemplating. Birthday is a great excuse, right? Bam! Into my cart.

Do I really need another knife? Yeah, like a hole in the head. Bam! Cart emptied.

But small-ish knives make up a minority of my collection…Bam! Into the cart.

I already have a small Inkosi; a similar size knife that’s nicer. Bam! Empty.

Some days I don’t feel like carrying something that premium, due to loss potential, abuse potential, etc. Bam! Full.

And so on….
 
I handle it this way. Find a knife on the internet that I might like. Backspace to get out of the cart. Bookmark and then review hours later.
 
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