My geeky nature led me to purchase a pair of Gargoyles ANSI Classic sunglasses one spring day, both for their serious 80s retro factor and the fact that you really can't have an authentic Terminator convention costume without 'em. These suckers are bulletproof, durable, scratch-resistant, polarized, mildly dust-resistant, and actually helps enhance the wearer's vision (I wear glasses, which makes this a big plus). Since purchasing them some months ago, I can count the number of times I've worn them on one hand.

I have had roommates who tended to be this way with foods that they considered particularly gourmet ... but which were also perishable. When I notice that they have just bought a pint of strawberries, I can reasonably bet that the strawberries will mold over before they even get halfway through the container. In fact, strawberries can develop mold in a just a couple days' time ... you really need to eat them as fast as possible, even though it seems excessive and gluttonous.

More annoyingly, I was once on a system of shared food with a roommate who plays this trope very straight. This caused some disagreements when we began planting herbs and vegetables. He would actually protest my usage of modest amounts of herbs because he thought we were going to deplete our supply. This continued pretty much throughout the whole summer: the herbs would never seem to reach a point when he would consent to harvesting more than a tiny amount. Of course, by the end of the summer, we had so much in excess that most of them wound up dying. Same with some tomatoes that we grew: they dried up on the vines, we had so many unused. We also planted some rosemary, which grows year-round: two large bushes. He objected to my using a single stem (maybe a dozen leaves or so) several months after they'd been planted, saying it wasn't harvest-ready. One of the bushes wound up dying before it was ever harvested from again, just due to neglect in watering. Needless to say I brought our shared food arrangement to an end.

This troper almost always turns off his electronics (save for his [=iPod=]) when they officially hit low battery status. He's found the last few bits of battery life are Too Awesome To Use. Additionally, if he has spare money lying around, and there's something he wants to get for that much money, he's afraid to use his money.

Additionally, if he finds a song that he really likes, he doesn't play it very often, out of fear of wearing out the awesomeness.

This tropers sister has lots and lots of shoes, yet still buys more, the reason? Half of them are too awesome to use due to printing/patterns on the sole or fragile decoration.

This troper would never spend more than about £400 on a bass for this reason.

This Troper once was in a roleplay where his character needed to create (with much-needed help) the most potent attack spell he could. Basically a big beam of death that drains health as well as mana and requires a long period of noticable charging-up. Thanks to all that, it was pretty much never used except against the few threats that actually merited a big dose of energy to the face.

This troper has Derwent Pencils. Nuff said.

Um, no. What the hell are those?

According to TheOtherWiki, they are pencils. Made by the Derwent Cumberland Pencil Company. Yeah, I don't get it either.

They produce Artist grade art equipment. Not sure ifthe first troper has Graphite pencils or Color Pencils, but either way, they are high quality, produce great colors and lines, but most important of all, really, REALLY expensive.

This troper's new jacket is too awesome to use... I'm afraid it'll get dirty.

This troper's bottles of special edition Innis&Gunn...

This troper's brother got his sophomore Letter Jacket and was very careful to not spill any liquids on it. Then he quit wearing it.

This troper received a leather-bound Moleskine book from his grandmother. The next day she passed away. Almost six years later, he still hasn't made a mark in it.

This troper has a bit of a problem with this trope. She has a tea that she refuses to drink save on special occasions or on 'perfect' days because its so great and she doesn't want to run out. She has a wooden pen shaped like a chicken that she won't use in case it runs out of ink. She has pretty paper that she wont touch because there's nothing 'worthy' enough to write to justify the use, and she has cool socks she never wears because she doesn't want to wear them out. This is becoming a problem.

This troper Would rather use His one Polaris Raven that He's commanding, despite having a fleet of 6. SIX!!!

This troper has quite a bit of alcohol that qualifies. Not only is it too awesome to use, it'll be even more awesome in the future.

this troper bought some {{the world ends with you}} pins for $25, and is too afraid to wear them for fear of them falling off

A few teachers at this troper's school hand out homework passes around Christmas. A textbook case of this trope.

If it's expendable in a videogame, this troper LOATHES using it. This has lead to her beating videogames, not only with 99 of most items in her inventory, but also, in games like ''FinalFantasyI'' and ''FinalFantasyII'', where you have less spell slots than possible available spells, to her beating the game with only half a spellbook. Because what if there is something BETTER or a strategy I didn't think of when I stupidly filled those last available slots! WHAT THEN.

This Troper got $100 from his dear Grandma for a Graduation Gift last year, to this day he is still unsure if he wants to use it or not, despite the fact he could easily, say, get God of War III, or a PSP with it. It's just too awesome to spend!

As far as I'm concerned, there's only one reason to use Master Balls: shinies. And as we all know, shinies are damn near impossible to find. So here I am, almost three years after Diamond and Pearl were released in the US, and I still have my Master Ball.

I have had my shiny for 3 years, I stole your shiny apparently.

We are the police. You are hereby arrested for shiny-stealing. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you.

I can beat that. I have 3 or 4 master balls, all saved for shinies. I've found a few shinies, but each time I do, I end up catching it with an ultra ball or something, because what if I find a shiny pokemon that can use whirlwind or something to run away?

This troper worked 10 months at his job and only used 2 of his 20 days of annual leave. He probably wouldn't have used any more if he wasn't going to lose them at the 1 year mark.

4 years ago this troper bought two smoke grenades from an out of sate fireworks store on his way home from a trip to Texas. They are still in my shorts drawer.

This troper bought a Kindle so she could always have a book handy wherever she was without worrying about finishing one novel and having nothing else to read. However it was so expensive, plus white and shiny, that she fears taking it any where with her in fear of breaking or even scratching it.

This troper has a jean jacket that is COVERED in hundreds of dollars worth of novelty pins and buttons. She refuses to wear it because she's scared she'll forget it somewhere or that it'll get stolen. She instead opts to keep it on display in her bedroom to show off to friends.

This troper gets a bad case of this trope where ammunition is concerned. TheLegendOfZelda? I might as well not even have the bow. ResidentEvil4? I finished the game with approximately 30 grenades of various flavors. SuperMarioGalaxy2? I've maxed out my star bits both in the bank and in my general stash, and I'm STILL loath to fire them off during a level. Similarly, this is why I prefer binders and warlocks over wizards, even if they're not as powerful.

This troper feels this way about new cars. He just can't bring himself to drive them, because then they wouldn't be ''new'' anymore.

This troper was this way with the legendary weapons in Fire Emblem Fuuin no Tsurugi. Save for the Sword of Seals, all my S rank weapons were left unused, even on the final chapter.

This troper feels like any fancily-decorated cake is too awesome to eat. Same with any dessert actually.

Also in a more typical example, he hardly ever uses "dummy" items in [=RPGs=]; it seems like almost always he'll end up using something awesome on a weak group of enemies or using something very pathetically weak on a boss, wasting a turn.

He also tends to have a lot of Elixirs and other rare healing items left in his inventory by the end of any FinalFantasy game.

MassEffect 2, with customisable armour, gave ThisTroper the ability to stockpile ''two'' shots of the mini-nuke launcher. I ended up shooting it four times. Once when two giant YMIR mechs popped up in a mission. Once to defend the ship against a giant eye robot thing, and finally the last two against the giant human replicator terminator robot collector guy thing. One in each eye. Final boss killed in approximately 45 seconds.

IMO, Ad-free days on {{We7}}.

This Troper has a tendency to so this a lot in ''Super Mario RPG''; from Forest Maze onward, he usually has so many items in stock that he actually has to ''trash'' some of them to make way for better ones.

This Troper used to feel this about Dayler Rowney Sketch Books. She'd buy them, but just cannot bear the thought of DRAWING stuff on it, and making it all dirty. So in the end, she has piles of shiny, but ununsed Sketch Books.

This Troper, Edgy, earned some special time with his wife four months ago for doing specialized housework in a timely manner. She gave me one hour and 10 minutes to do whatever I wanted (wink wink nudge nudge).

This Troper is arguably the physical embodiment of squirreling. In video games he needs to have max everything, lamenting when he needs to use something perishable. This feeling intensifies the rarer the item is, but he can sometimes ignore the gut-wrenching feeling in order to use it on the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon or similar events. In real life he keeps almost everything ever that could possibly have a use. He replaced his PC's PSU about 3 years ago and kept the old one in a box. It finally had a use, when his neighbor's PSU Fan died, necessitating a repair this Troper couldn't manage without a flat-out replacement. His old PSU was perfect, with a single conversion cable. This does not help his behavior.

When I eat a bag of candy, I tend to save the last one or two of my favorites until the very end.

Any one-off item in a video game, whether an inportant one of a novelty item.

This troper doesn't like to write in notebooks because she isn't sure if she'll finish the story and wants to keep the notebook at the original number of pages. She also doesn't want to erase anything. Needless to say, she likes computers better.