Straight to the point:

I never dare to use (rare) items. It's a nasty habit. It makes games a whole lot harder and it proves I'm secretly a cheap-***.

Some examples;

In pretty much every FF, I finish the game with tons of mega-potions, x-potions, mega-phoenix and what not unused.

In the Elder Scrolls: Oblivion, whenever I find a rare enchanted weapon I tend to keep in a safe place until the time comes when I really need it. After a couple hours more into the game I find much more powerful weapons, making the others (which didn't want to "waste" for some reason) useless (thus, wasting them, irony anyone?).

Action games suffer from this aswell. Rare guns in shooters, money in pretty much every game, special techniques, i hardly ever dare to use stuff like that because I guess I'm affraid of wasting them.

I want to break this habit!

Anyone else have the same thing going on?