If you are saving for a large purchase in wow account, then you will want to avoid impulse buying in the Auction House (AH). What is impulse buying? It is easy to allow that huge pile of wow account to burn a hole in your virtual pockets.

 

Since your character cannot really bank the account, it is always with them, tempting you to spend. When you see thousands of account right there as you find that perfect new weapon or other fun item in the AH, you might be tempted just to start spending. That is impulse buying. Like real life at the candy shelves in the grocery store checkout line, you must resist! Use a smart system to gather account in game. You are going to love the rewards of buying the Uber gear you really want rather than dwindling away your wow account on small purchases.

 

I suggest always having a bank "Alt." An "Alt" is an "alternate character" that does not do much adventuring but rather stays near the bank and mailbox in a home city. Make it a habit to send your extra piles of account to this character on your wow account. That way, when the urge hits your Main character to just spend on the latest gadget rather than saving for the one purchase you most truly want, you will not have easy access to the money. I know you can just log off, relog on the Alt character, send the money to your Main, log off the Alt and log back on the Main. Hopefully, having your money only accessible through this long process will quench the fire of the impulse purchase burning in your mind.