I try to tell myself every year to refrain from buying anything during the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas because someone *might* gift it to me and it sucks to tell someone that you just bought it for yourself.
A lot of games I want got released recently, so the ones that didn't have a special preorder bonus or aren't at the risk of being rare very soon, I refrain from buying for a while.
This would include:
- Professor Layton & the Miracle Mask
- Paper Mario: Sticker Star