I buy last-year's special thing, and use it up. Phones, cars, bicycles, whatever. It was good enough last year, so it must be pretty good. And I treat it like a

I buy last-year's special thing, and use it up. Phones, cars, bicycles, whatever. It was good enough last year, so it must be pretty good. And I treat it like a tool. Saves a lot of money too. I long ago categorized that 'too good to use' impulse as a childish one. As a kid I wouldn't want to use up a new box of crayons or whatever, and would end up never using them much at all. Later I recognized this as a feeling that I wasn't good enough for nice things. I consciously shed that attitude, and taught my children to be confident enough to open everything and use it up. Life is too short.