"--Hey, that's actually really smart??"

No for real, that advice was, honestly, pretty damn solid.

"I've always been a buy-on-impulse kind of guy, so nipping that in the bud is actually something I might have completely messed up."

He's already looking at a few things a little longingly, like a table that's selling cute paper lanterns that he could decorate the cottage with...

Little battery-powered tealights inside... uaghagh...

"Those, those are cute, right?" He's gonna' point them out.