slow yourself down? easy. Paypal whats left in your account to Carrot.
On a serious note, it could take awhile, it took me 4 years...its almost as bad as high school
My advise is to stop buying lights and start using your lights. carry on you a pair of lights for a month then try another, you'll soon notice that some lights seem to better suit your needs. Take what you have, figure out what suits you by testing it out in the field, do not buy a new light because you think it suits you because it fits the needs of the other guy. Field testing doesn't mean your tagging it along like putting a leash on Buddy, Fido, or Spot and walk along the sidewalk. Take any combination of lights and commence your social life at night, go on camping or fishing trips, try out different parks and places with your lights. Get comfortable with the output, familiarize yourself with the UI.
As soon as you are familiar with your lights bu using them, you'll find yourself attached to one or another...by then the urge to buy something new will have weakened because it will force you to compare the new light with the light you've used and loved. Think to yourself: "if the new light is better, then I'm wrong about the light I've been using all this time, but I can't be wrong because of so and so events that proves I'm right about this light, if that is true then the new light is clearly less than the light I have, if so and you agree then there would be no point in buying the new light." Presto!
Of course in real life it would be difficult to attain such a logic so early in your journey. Whenever I see new light I ask myself these questions, my conscious then advises me with such answers.
Will I ever use those features?
If you use strobe 4 out of 10 events you don't need strobe, replace strobe with any special feature and in the course of your use with the current lights if it occurs only 40% of the time you don't need it
Is the battery compatible with your existing lights?
One of the biggest headaches about EDCing spare lights is to find out in the field [AKA outdoors, with friends, in front of the girl you've been trying to court for the last couple of years]that your main light isn't working, you carried cells for the main light but those cells doesn't fit in your backup light. It is in the best interest of anyone seeking to EDC [every day carry] lights to know precisely the runtime of the light they are carrying, as well as what batteries they use. preferrably the same kind. I've made it more simple, I carry three identical lights....thats New York reload for ya.
Its a limited edition custom
Forget it, you buy it and you're probably not going to use it...ever, and it'll sit there depreciating to its hearts content then when you finally decide to let it go the LED technology would have evolved so far ahead the only buyers would be diehard customs fans or those who appreciate its sentimental value or have some capability or access to capabilities to modify it down the road.
looks functional? yes, do you like the design? yes, can you afford it? Not without going on credit
Forget it, you'll need those credit dollars for more important stuff, don't spend it on something you've got a drawer full already. Same applies to socks.
Usually it means theres a factory overrun or a less than ideal demand incurred post-production.Besides, just about anything will go on sale when the economys bad, unfirtunately rubbers seem to sell real well when the economy's bad. A light does not become better just because its on sale, its on sale so it attracts your attention. Did you buy it? no? good, you've survived for another day.
Theres lots more where that come from, but I'm tired and I'll bet your tired of me as well.
