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Impluse buys you regret?

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  • #32
    Oops69
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


    Treadmill and also a set of weights , useless and also too bulky and heavy to get rid of easily, I have a set of weights in the spare room , I hate going in there , it's as if they're taunting me , the bastards.


  • #33
    Wilberto
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 8,585 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wilberto


    I struggle to spend money. Like, I often compare myself to Monty Burns in the Simpson's episode where Homer uses an auto-dialler to phone everyone in town and sell eternal happiness.

    "Eternal happiness, eh? I think I'd be happier with the dollar."


    :pac:


  • #34
    Hooked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Hooked


    The Cunning Linguist wrote: »
    Me too. Played bowling a few times, then fecked the yoke into the press, haven't used it since.

    Stick it on eBay!

    People will buy ANYTHING on ebay! ;P


  • #35
    Hooked
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,047 ✭✭✭Hooked


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    Bought a Drone, used it twice for a bit of perving. Been in the garage for 3 months.

    You must have got some smut if you're still in the garage!!!


  • #36
    antodeco
    Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,722 ✭✭✭✭antodeco


    Honey Monster wrote: »
    A fish tank. I don't own fish.

    Rather that than fish, and not owning a tank


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  • #37
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    fermanagh_man wrote: »
    Tipsy eBay is the cause off my mammoth dvd collection

    Yup. I'm more a cars guy...tipsy Adverts gets feckin spendy, fast...


  • #38
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    Yup. I'm more a cars guy...tipsy Adverts gets feckin spendy, fast...

    So you are the fella who is offering swaps.


  • #39
    SkyBlueClouds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭SkyBlueClouds


    Oversized Snuggle dressing gown for 12e anyone? Goes down to your toes!


  • #40
    SkyBlueClouds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭SkyBlueClouds


    scwazrh wrote: »
    I spent 180 euro on the nespresso website last night on impulse buys.Why we need a Totem dispenser for coffee capsules , I don't know but there is one on the way to us , along with some spoons that cost 15 quid.

    We have an nespresso machine in work. Those capsules are ridiculously expensive, however the coffee is great :D. I'm too stingy to pay that much for 'gourmet' coffee so it's a good thing the company provides it for free!


  • #41
    Packrat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,099 ✭✭✭Packrat


    Luke92 wrote: »
    Want a great gaming headset that's on sale. Paid monthly and not paid til Thursday so totally broke. Thinking of items I can sell to fund my purchase because I NEED this headset!

    Try us....
    Oops69 wrote: »
    Treadmill and also a set of weights , useless and also too bulky and heavy to get rid of easily, I have a set of weights in the spare room , I hate going in there , it's as if they're taunting me , the bastards.

    Free treadmill? ;)


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  • #42
    scwazrh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 2,994 ✭✭✭scwazrh


    fermanagh_man wrote: »
    Tipsy eBay is the cause off my mammoth dvd collection

    As Robin Williams said in one of his last stand ups "Alcoholics and ebay are a bad mix"


  • #43
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    I'm also awful at spending money, even if its something I know I want. Little voice in the head telling me to stop and save my money.

    I did spend £130 on a fancy radio last year. Saw it in John Lewis, convinced myself I was gonna listen to BBC radio all the time and become cultured and stuff. To date, haven't taken it out the box.


  • #44
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Kevin McCloud wrote: »
    So you are the fella who is offering swaps.

    Swaps are for cissies.


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 18,046 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Day to day, never really buy stuff.. Supposed to go clothes shopping again this morning after trying every weekend for three months but always putting it off. My hungover impulses are great though.. Everything I've spent anyway decent money on in the last few years has been bought the day after a session.

    Basically, I look like crap everyday because clothes aren't fun to buy. But I've never regretted any impulse buy.. I've got a nice motorbike, a massive tv, good phone, etc that sober me wouldn't really be that interested in going out and buying.


  • #46
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    A Wii U. I never owned a Nintendo console before (but have played their handhelds on and off since the 90's Pokemon Yellow represent :D)
    I did the same thing with a used cheap PS Vita.

    The **** was I thinking, I can't even enjoy Nintendo, nevermind/buying PS3 games, I think I just got old and my interests changing.
    Looks my occasional interests changed to books and quality movies AND I CAN'T GO BACK

    Gaming career Adamantium (1998-2010) R.I.P :(
    The 3rd world weeps for my plight.


  • #47
    Wompa1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,360 ✭✭✭Wompa1


    A pair of prosthetic arms, they reminded me of me own arms


  • #48
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    Bought a Drone, used it twice for a bit of perving. Been in the garage for 3 months.

    Do you not have Google Earth for that Keith?!


  • #49
    Remmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭Remmy


    a lasso for 50 euros. It was a length of rope ffs.


  • #50
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    One of those things that you hold in both hands and it measures your body fat and some other stuff.

    Never worked properly, or, I never worked out how to use it properly.

    Sat there in the wardrobe mocking me for quite a while before I got rid of it.


  • #51
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Macavity. wrote: »
    Trampoline. Waste of money.

    TRAMAMPOLINE!!


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  • #52
    Nyla Lively Spaciousness
    Posts: 81,308 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Nyla Lively Spaciousness


    Yesterday I was completely convinced the thread title was some sort of profound piece of wisdom: impulse will only buy you regret.
    Now I get it

    I'm smrt


  • #53
    How Soon Is Now
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,277 ✭✭✭✭How Soon Is Now


    The sex and the city box set :pac:

    God i had to much money and not enough sense back then !!


  • #54
    the evasion_kid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,740 ✭✭✭the evasion_kid


    Honey Monster wrote: »
    A fish tank. I don't own fish.

    Ha I bought a fairly expensive fish tank and had it for about 3 years,moved apartment four times and still never got fish for it!I just left it in the last place I was staying,hope someone is making use of it!


  • #55
    shruikan2553
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,113 ✭✭✭shruikan2553


    Steam sales. Oh look, a game I heard of that's completely terrible? Might as well try it for less than 2 euro! This game looks interesting and only 1.49? That's a great offer!
    I have a category for games I have no interest in now to keep them separate.

    The Wii was also a bad choice.


  • #56
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    The 10 pack bag of crisps I bought yesterday since no bag has more than 103 calories, yeah not many of those packs left now.:(


  • #57
    KungPao
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,796 ✭✭✭KungPao


    Kinect.


  • #58
    Birneybau
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,455 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Seriously, all you Wii owners, buy 'Legend of Zelda:Twilight Princess' and take the Wii down from the attic.

    Impulse buy I regret is a Barnes and Noble Nook (eBook reader), wherein, as a resident of Ireland I can't use their bookstore, even though I bought it here. And it's heavy. And crap...


  • #59
    Sam Mac
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,227 ✭✭✭Sam Mac


    My €2,500 Panasonic plasma and my 1000 title Blu-ray collection.

    Watch most of my films on my PC via torrent files.

    :(


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