Don't go shopping for kitchen utensils and ALWAYS take a shopping list for grocery shopping. It became a joke in our house whenever I headed out - my DH would say "don't forget to buy tongs and taco shells". I bought 4 pairs of tongs and who knows how many boxes of taco shells during my pregnancy with DD#1. Whenever I was standing in front of them in the supermarket aisle I'd look and think "Oh, I need some of those!"