The only time it causes problems is because I make less money than him. And even though I'm not the one who buys the expensive things, it costs more to run them. So I had a talk with him that if I'm the one who pays for all the cat's food and litter etc... then I shouldn't have to pay the extra electricity that comes along with having a huge surround sound and HD DVR and all this other crap. He agreed. So he gave me some extra money last night to cover the extra stuff that is from gim. Like the directv bill is about 30 bucks more every month when you have HD. The electricity bill is almost twice as high because he has about 30 things running at once.

I'm just an energy nazi. And I have never had bills this high before. But when I talked to him about it he was fine with paying extra.

I can't tell if he buys them just because he can or if it is to fill some kind of emotional void. I could definitely see it having some kind of emotional attachment because he will get upset if anything gets the tiniest scratch on it. I told him just wait - if we ever have kids he wont be able to 'love' all these things anymore. He says he knows and that's why he likes doing all of it now, while hes 26 with no real commitments like children. If thats true then he can go ahead. But I told him, when you have an infant that is puking on you a few times a day and, most likely, will pee AND poop on you......you can't really care about your expensive things anymore lol