I'm assuming you are being serious, so here goes...
You need to clearly define for yourself the difference between needs and wants. I usually don't want anything unless it serves a specific purpose in my music.
Something that helps is not using credit cards. Before I bought my last guitar, I had the money in cash...literally. I spent days looking at the small stack of $100 bills and thinking about what all could be done with that money before taking the plunge. I think I probably enjoy my guitar more than most because I'll never forget that visual of holding that money and thinking about what I had to do to get there. My guitar is precious to me. Yup, there are more expensive ones out there, but I love mine (Taylor GC8).
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