Help! How do you resist Steam sales?

You could apply to work at Valve, they get all the present and future Steam content in their accounts. That way, you'd never even have to bother about the sales.

It was easy during this "sale." Lackluster discounts are quite easy on the wallet. Other than dishonored, which was a glitch, there wasn't much to write home about.

Couple of methods I use are pretty simple:
-Make use of the shopping cart. Don't purchase items one at a time because you'll find yourself thinking "oh this is ONLY 2 bucks!" "and THIS is only 6 bucks!" ... couple purchases later you've spent 50 dollars. Unless the deal's going to end in literally minutes, put it into your shopping cart and keep shopping. Then go and look at the total. It'll give you a much clearer look at what you're about to spend.

-Ask yourself if you're going to play the game RIGHT NOW. If the answer is no, then don't buy it. More often than not we have games that we're already working on or games we intended to play just waiting. The new purchase will be thrown right onto that pile and before you know it the next sale has come and that games is even cheaper! And you STILL haven't played it.

-Slightly related to the above: keep in mind sales events that you KNOW are coming up. Like you KNOW tons of services will offer christmas sales. If you don't need the game right now then hold out to the next sale (rinse and repeat if you continuously find yourself saying you don't need the game right now). You will probably find a better deal since most games depreciate in value over time (not really applicable to sales that are this close together but I'm talking more like if you wait on games for a year or so).

In the end there's nothing for it but self control.

Empty wallet and red eyes from crying because I can't get them. Then I eat some ice cream to ease the pain.

Simple, save your money in useless stuff so that when your impulse is coming back you have no worry. OCD thinggy aren't counted as useless stuff, keep in mind.

1:Do not go to work.

2:Do not make any money to buy steam cards

3:Try not to sell your home

4:Profit.

this is how to resist steam sale's :P

There's nothing worse than wanting to play a game that has been 75% off, but currently isn't.

For bundle deals, backlog. For steam sales, not enough discount. (Obviously more flexible for game I really really want.)
On the other hand, I'm a sucker for PC sales. I'm on the edge right now for 500$ for a new custom tower. And with that much of a purchase, I expect to get 100$ worth of bonus free stuff.

Just dont buy anything... that's what I do. If I see a game I want to play, I buy it, otherwise I obviously dont buy it... (0 games bought this sale)

Beeing poor helps... But... just buy what u want to play..and finish the game.

By actually play the game you bought...helps for me.

Become the steam, and instead of paying money for games, make money off games, be one with the steam

I don't own a credit card, so that helps a lot. Ditch yours and you'll see how it gets better!

It's a lot easier to resist the sale when you already own... ALL THE GAMES!

Take a look at the huge backlog you have on Steam.
Kept me from buying anything this sale.

I usually go like this:
1) Is it at least 75% off?
2) Is it less than 5-6 bucks?
3) If it's a sequel to something, have I played all the previous games in the series?
4) Do I really really REALLY want it?
5) Have I not bought too many bundles lately?
6) Have I not eaten out at KFC much lately and therefore have extra money from eating cheap frozen pizzas all the time?
7) Do I actually think I'll have time to play it any time "soon"?

If all of those score a "yes" then MAYBE I buy it.
Try it, it works. :P
(Well, with buying stuff for myself at least. Doesn't work so well when it comes to buying gifts. T.T )

Try completing every single game you have. It will make you forget about the sales. I spent $150 during summer sales and $1.5 during the current sales. I still haven't been able to complete some of the games I bought during summer :P
Edit: Create a game purchase budget for yourself. For me, after summer, I never let myself buy more than $80. The limit should always be first even when some great game goes on a huge sale.

what you do is...you buy all the things you want in this sale or the next or a combo of both. sooner or later there will be very few things you want...then when the next sale happens you can see all the great deals on things you already have and you will then be able to make a thread proclaiming that the current sale sucks (not cause it actually sucks but because you own everything that is a good deal)

lol first world problems, huh? how many STEAM sales have you been through? because I just sort of stopped having your problem after 3 or 4 STEAM sales.

Also, this is not something I have actually done to address this problem but maybe you could try charging your STEAM wallet with the money you want to waste and be done when the wallet reaches 0? I could see that working for some people.

Play in offline mode till sales are over

I just buy everything as soon as it's out on Steam so i don't have to buy it again on summer/autumn/winter sales, therefore i'm saving money

I used to buy everything I could if the price was low. Coming from consoles, the prices was too good to pass up.

Now that I have way too many games, I've stopped. Before buying anything I say "Will I play this in the next 6 months? What other games do I own that I want to play in the next 6 months?"

If I can't justify it or can't see myself ever playing it in the next 6 months I skip it. It will either be in the next big sale or I miss out on it and it's no big deal. How important could it have been if I can't even see myself loading it up in over half a year's time :)

Easy, just do it like me. Be poor and not have money for when the sales arrive.

Try trading your spare bundle keys first for games you want to buy.

Like right now, I really want to get the Super Hexagon deal but I'm checking first if I can trade it with one of my games.