1. I got rid of all credit cards. Must pay cash, or planned check. I have to ask DH permission to use his CC, so it has to be really special to ask-stops on-line purchases.
2. Save up cash and plan to spend it at a special time (on a trip, at a quilt show) or for a planned project. Got a retreat planned at Tahoe for end of June. Just heard this idea: save every $5 bill I get.
3. I shop in my stash
4. I cruise the store, then seriously think of the stash I have at home (which often is more to my liking then what I find in stores)
5. I plan money and projects for when I get to go to my favorite LQS which is a 4 hr drive away.
6. I leave my purse in the car.
7. I shop on one trip without any purchases, then have to make another trip on a different day to buy.
8. I give myself permission to buy on my birthday, which by the way, is TODAY (got 20% off, used a gift card, YEH. I'm really special on MY day).