I recently wrote about my acquisition of Canon A 550. Let me tell how I got about it. Last year, I was testing out a bunch of sites, one of which was 43things. I had put in a "thing-to-do" buy a camera and it used to send out reminders to "dear future-self". And that was how I was constantly reminded to buy it (I know it sounds like a job one's wife would be doing!!!). And I eventually got down to buying it one such mail. How about going a adding one for yourself?