Resolution, Restraint, or a Reason to buy?!

So back to my 'special' items, we're 2 days into 2017 and I've already bought a Brad Sears brush and Wolfman handle, so much for restraint, it will kick in next week, I technically ordered the M&F brush in 2016, and there's only a couple of things else I really want and I have soap until 2047

I completed an entire No-Buy year in 2016. I still have enough soap and DE blades, so I'll continue to restrain there. I do plan to pick up some additional SE blades, I plan to get one or both of my Gillette Adjustables cerakoted, and I'm toying with the idea of doing a knot transplant or two on some brushes I have that I love the handles but not the knots.

... it is likely true  that the happier man is not the man who bought everything he wanted, but instead the man who wants everything he bought.

Wow. That is so true. But not just for this kind of stuff but for everything in life from the car they drive to the house they bought to the restaurant they just ate at to ... well everything.

Well said. How many of us can actually say that?