Originally Posted by jmg

I suffer the same affliction! It doesn't matter if it's a $10 doohickey or a $80k car, buyer's guilt has been ingrained in me since I was a poor kid growing up in the inner city of Los Angeles. My parents were frugal when I was a young kid. By the time I was in high school, they were well-to-do but that fundamental inner frugalness never really left me.