Always evaluate your options before making any purchase for your home. Ensure that you really do need it or that you really will want to live with it for a long time. Make sure the item will provide you with the satisfaction you crave. Once you have an affirmative to these three criteria, you are ready to acquire the item.
Unfortunately, there are those items that do not find their way to yard sales, thrift shops, and rarely are bartered. When you have exhausted all alternative avenues of securing what you are seeking, then do not beat yourself up if you have to pay full price. Enjoy it, safe in the knowledge that you did so as a fully informed and competent purchaser who knows how to get the most for your money.