I bought a safe. wtf do I need a safe for?
I went over to my old boss’s house one time and saw a car under a cover. He explained that it was a custom ultralight racer built off the chassis to a 1967 Lotus Europa. I was blown away and said that I hadn’t realized he was a car guy.
He laughed and said “I’m not. Don’t go on ebay drunk.”
The Lotus Europa is an awesome looking car!
I got drunk and bought a t-shirt on eBay.
It featured a rainbow unicorn with the text “HAIL SATAN”.
I don’t need to be drunk to really really want your t-shirt.
Better safe than sorry.
I read the whole thing. I regret this.
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Better late than never!
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Not from my own experience but something most of us witnessed was Musk‘s proposal to buy Twitter. It will never not be funny how drastically he overspent there, then tried to walk back from it but was ultimately ordered to buy it for his offer.
Some people with bad memory or a broken moral compass will claim he destroyed the platform or turned it into something evil but as we know that wasn‘t the case. Because it was already awful long before that. Remember the never ending headlines of „Trump tweeted“ between 2015 and 2021? Well now you do.
Xitter was always shit but at least more and more people are talking about it now. And that purchase was definitely the most batshit insane impulse buy I have ever witnessed.
A rubber egg. Sold at an odds-and-ends booth at a teaching fair, this egg looks like a real, brown-shelled chicken egg. More than once I’ve dropped this “egg” in front of people while cooking.
Also have one. I keep placing it among the réal eggs. it got boiled once . wife ans kids triéd to crack it a few times. Latest win was placing it in my daughter’s makeup kit. It looks a lot l’îke one of her spongy thingy.
I bought a really nice 4k high 200hz gaming monitor right when I started falling out of love with gaming. I don’t want to sell it because I still hop on to game with the buds about once a week.
Once a week is fine, isn’t it? I wouldn’t worry about it :)
Buddy living on a friends couch dropped $8k on a Hayabusa despite having no idea how to ride a bike at all and the town this took place in having no paved roads. Financed the thing too. Kinda wonder where he ended up sometimes
I bought an electronic whiteboard for like 10k
It arrived without a stand (it had a stand in the photo, but the small print said it was sold separately).
But why
ADHD
Just for 99.99% of people - even with ADHD - that price is outside impulse buy/looked sort of cool territory.
So I’m curious what the motivator was and if you have actual use for it
Wanted a big calendar and board to sketch ideas and stuff (I was making $40k/month at the time - Covid bull run).
Sent it back because I was annoyed at the lack of stand.
The most expensive thing I bought on ADHD-fueled impulse was a $2500 portable radio transceiver. I should probably sell the thing but eh.
Funny thing is it normally comes as a kit you have to assemble, and I paid extra to have it assembled. And it feels like a hand-assembled product, that is, not at all something you could toss around. But it’s supposed to be something you stick in a backpack and hike up a mountain with. I got a battery module for it, but you have to remove some screws and crack that chassis open like a clam every time you want to do anything with the batteries.
I also bought the iambic paddle (the thing sticking out the bottom).
It’s got the ergonomics of a scientific calculator from the 80s.
Understandable, did you get any use out of it though?
Nah sent it back due to the lack of stand. Settled on an eco show 15 and a big analog whiteboard
Impulse bought heelys for myself and my spouse. We have never been cooler.
Depends on the type of safe. There are safes that protect primarily against theft, and those, that are better against fire. Use the latter to store your documents. Or your backups.
Most normal fire safes won’t protect backups. They just keep paper from combusting.
Even that isn’t guaranteed. House fires can get hot enough to burn the paper inside a safe even if the safe itself is “fine”.
I bought a hand made squirrel shaped water pitcher at a ren fest. It was like $200. Pretty sure it’s one of a kind and you won’t be able to Google what it looks like.
When I went through a breakup two years ago, the first day I bought a $200 bong made out of titanium
You can literally drive over it with a pickup truck, it is amazing
3000 years in the future archeological digs will find it and believe it was used for some special ritual.
you should rub your dick all over it, as a joke. it’ll be hilarious in 3000 years dude.
lemme hit
I bought a turd shaped stress squeeze toy at Dollarama in Quebec for C$2 or C$3
Safes aren’t just for theft prevention. Indeed the small ones probably don’t do anything in that regard ,but many are fireproof as well, so you can keep documents safe if your house burns down.
I’ve made way too many impulse purchases but off the top of my head I can’t think of one that’s “funny”.
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