Patient Hunter

You have a list. The list contains things you want, at the price you'll pay, in the condition you'll accept. You check it weekly. You've been tracking a specific coat for two years. You got it. It was worth it.

You have the discipline of a small-time professional gambler and the patience of someone who has never once paid full price out of impulse. When you finally strike, you strike clean.

The cost of the game: sometimes the perfect deal never comes, and you go without something that would have made you happy for two years while you waited. Patience is a virtue. So is occasionally just buying the thing.