hahaha dumb ass supplies...i'm doing the same, not because i'm poor but because i'm cheap, which is why i'm not poor.
Boy do I know the feeling man...But I love adding more tech. into the room, like you I need a sentinel room controller, thinking of the chhc-4 as I want to go CO2 in the future and a portable AC for summer, which is a while away so got more time to save. Got like 3g's into it already and with all this new shit will push it to 4g easy and I haven't even grown ONE bud and am losing faith in my abilities as my plants yellow and growth is slowing. I'm determined though, haha.
For me i'm justifying it by not buying bud once I get a perpetual harvest going and I don't have to deal with run-around, up-charging dealers on anything good which forces you to buy schwag of sketch quality from mexico. 3-4 years ago I had no problem finding the good bud for 210oz but it was called "dro" which you can get still, its just called "exotics" or "headies" and its 350 an oz. The real headies was and still is 450 an oz. That 350oz shit is just beasters, which is good, just not worth 350 IMO.