New TV or 6 Weeks of ZERO Spending

So I ended up buying a new TV today at Future Shop. I had been eyeing the sales flyers for quite a while from the various electronics retailers around town and noticed a pretty sweet deal on a 32" Panasonic Tau Flat Screen TV this weekend. The TV that is currently being used in my parents place is an old 27" Zenith that is really starting to die. Text is very hard to read due to blurriness, and overall image clarity is sub par. A while back it would go through a weird phase where it would turn all green and the flash back to normal. We were thinking that it was going through its death throes, but then suddenly it reverted back to normal... well maybe not normal, as the resolution appeared to have decreased since then.. at least as far as I can remember. I hadn't really planned on dropping such a large chunk of change right now, but this is going to be the TV I move out with, and as such needs to be both good and able to last. I wanted something that could do component video for the Xbox and had multiple S-Video and Video ports for all my other systems. The Tau has a component, 2 s-video, and 3 video ports. Almost perfectly matching my systems count. (DVD player, Xbox, Gamecube, Dreamcast, Playstation, SNES). We are going to set it up in the basement so that it can be used when my parents have claimed the main TV (which happens a lot). It's going to redefine how I play games... no more squinting at blurry in game text, no more trying in vain to avoid glare, and no more below quality resolution.
While talking about the money I am spending on "stuff" I am reminded of how I was trying to reduce the amount of stuff I had... I was on a mission for this year to "simplify" my life. I have greatly reduced a lot of my "stuff" but still manage to spend money on things. Instead of collecting a little bit of everything (toys, movies, games, etc) I am now focusing on movies and games. I'd like to think that I've been a touch successful in my mission... maybe not as much as I had hoped when I began it. Hopefully I can do better from now on... In fact, I am going to go on a buying fast again (as I did once before in the year). I will not spend any more money on "things" for at least 6 weeks... the last time I did this, it was 4... Saying this, I know that I will not be able to get Fable or some of the awesome DVD releases that I am sure will be out during this time... but I think that this is important. I need to do this again, to atone for falling off the wagon so to speak...
I guess I am a little weird, in that I occasionally will "punish" myself when I fail to do something that I think I should have. Usually this involves cutting myself off from some "vice" whether it be spending, food, drugs, etc. I'd like to think that it reinforces my willpower. In striving to be a better person, there are things that I can do and things that I should do. Its making those things second nature as opposed to needing exertion that can be a challenge.