I’m very financially sound and price shop, never impulse buy things. I’m not cheap, but I don’t rationalize something I want unless I’ve researched it.
But then there’s medicated me… I don’t take prescription painkillers unless absolutely necessary. High doses after a surgery have found me binge shopping on places like w00t for the dumbest things. I of course don’t remember ordering at 2am, 120 led candles with remotes and color changing flames. Or after a car accident I felt the need to buy 100 non-refundable boxes of emergency break ice packs (break the capsule and it gets cold for 20 min) - donated these to the local highschool sports club. And my all time favorite was ordering a go-cart, $3500 for no reason.
After some hard financial lessons, my ex just took away my phone if I was going to take high doses of painkillers.
Oh it’s worse, I’m on the tail end of Gen X, very early millennial depending on your interpretation of the defined years. And our definition of major purchase is very different.