<prompt> Human: I mean, lets face it; life has its ups and downs, and I come from a background where spending money on toys was an instant pickmeup.I had such an instance a few days ago, when I spent the entire day bored out of my mind, down about stuff and wanting to take my mind off of things, and just bought a video-game system completely out-of-the-blue, completely unplanned and certainly not within my entertainment budget.Now, Im doing well enough that the purchase isnt going to hurt me... but Im very disappointed in myself, because this is exactly the kind of behavior that my family had that kept us poor growing up, and Id dig you guys advice on overcoming this sort of bad habit.Or do you guys have this happen on occasion, as well? My knee-jerk reaction is to say Okay, I went over my personal budget, Im just going to deduct that from next months budget to compensate for it, but that seems more like a bandaid than a legitimate fix.  <response>: Maybe next time buy a video game instead of the whole console P. That said, its okay to spend on yourself sometimes. Totally unrelated... but sometimes my frugal friend would say that hes going to bed for dinner. Someones comment reminded me of that lol 