SALE, CLEARANCE, LAST CHANCE BARGAINS!

I have an addiction. To sales. Yeah, I know old story, but seriously it's a problem. Don't misunderstand me, I'm not talking about a shopping addiction, only a sale addiction. I will almost never allow myself to buy something at full price. Good, you may think, thrifty. Well thrifty indeed, and yet sometimes I think this is not always a good habit to have. While I do think I end up saving a lot of money with all my "thriftyness" I may be missing something in the long run. Sometimes what will happen is I buy so many "sale" items, I still spend a good chunk of change. Or, I might not get the quality that comes with spending a little more dough on things. I do buy at thrift stores, and that alone is a sort of sale price, even there I usually only get the colored tags that are discounted. Could I be missing out on some really great stuff? The only loophole I give myself is when I spend someone else's money. Then, suddenly I'm able to really splurge on myself. Recently I received a gift card for my birthday and just bought myself a much needed new black purse (I'm serious when I say I needed it) and it wasn't that it was so expensive, but I know myself and I never would have purchased it with my own money. It was a new arrival type item and not on any sort of sale... I wouldn't have given it a second look. Oh, and I loooovvvve it. So I'm not really sure what the cure to my addiction would be, and if I'm really honest I don't know how much I want this addiction to end. I'm very prideful when it comes to my thriftiness, I love a good sale :)