If you don't have to buy options, don't do it.
Options typically are an act of desperation.
In the times I have been addicted to options, an optionholic so to speak, I never did well. Once, because I had no money, I viewed options as a form of credit. That's a real sucker's game. The second time was because my wife didn't like the market. So I played it in calls because she wasn't in charge of that portion of our trading.