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Recently I bought a rare bottle of rum. I don't normally drink and after drinking a bunch of it ...I remember why. Haha

I bought a 5kg can of beans for 0,99€. Not sure what to do with it.

I bought an ATI Rage Fury Maxx for a lot of money on eBay. It's one of the first dual GPUs, based on the Rage 128 chip.

However, back then there was no flow control between the two graphic chips, which means a lot of games horribly stutter if one of them renders a bit faster than the other. There are a few games that work really well with it, and a shit ton of games that don't.

The card is an absolute novelty, a piece of history and it looks cool. But there is no good reason for putting this in a retro computer, because even a regular Rage 128 will run better.

I don't regret getting it, but I regret paying too much for it. 🫠

I bought a custom sectional sofa for way too much money to shove into a too-small room.

I think my thought process at the time was that I would have a place to relax and also a spot for guests if I had them over for entertainment, but it took up so much space that it was more of a hindrance and I very rarely had people over and when I did they didn't want to be packed into a small spare bedroom that I used as a computer room.

Couldn't sell it either. Had to pay junk removal to take it away.

I once impulse bought a motorcycle but I can explain why I did that so...

For the purposes of this thread, I think buying a Mini-2 SE drone is the purchase to talk about. I've always been interested in radio controlled flying things, and I had the extra money, and it was on sale, so I bought it. I don't regret it at all, though, because it turned out to be incredibly useful and fun. I had it for a couple of years until two weeks ago, when I flew the poor thing camera-first into a steel beam, which didn't destroy the drone but put it firmly in the "cheaper and easier to get another drone than to fix this one" territory.

Now I have a license and people pay me to take pictures sometimes.

I did this a lot before I closed my amazon account. They make it way to easy for people who get addicted to shopping. The last thing I bought was a telescope. I have no idea how to even begin to use it. It has all kinds of different lenses and I have no idea what they are for. I guess it looked shiny. It was $260 and is now sitting in my storage building.

Christy Mack Fleshlight. Used it once and never touched it again. Think it's still in storage

My first car was a broken down lemon of a 2001 BMW 325i. Electrical problems out the wazoo. Overheated and lost one of the grills on the way home. I had to replace the radiator. It needed to be kept on a charger just to start. I later learned the gas line needed to be ripped out and replaced. That was on top of the standard stuff. Brakes, rotors etc.

It was my first car purchase. I was with my Mom and we went to this real sketch back ally used car guy. In hindsight it was probably a junkyard or a parts yard. We got down to 2 cars. An manual Acura that my Mom drove and was kinda giddy for because she wants to drive a manual, and the beamer. I really wanted a BMW. I drove it around the block and it made it far enough without me noticing any problems. I was like, that's my car now and got no push back what so ever. I paid $1500 and put in an additional $1000 before I figured out the car will probably never be a daily driver. It lasted for about 3 months. The only bright side was that I learned how to change brakes, rotors, brake lines, batteries, a radiator, and an alternator, all from that one car.

So no I don't regret it. My Mom regrets it more actually. She always says, 'I should have stepped in.' Well you didn't, ohh well.

My next car was the best car I ever owned. A 1995 Toyota Avalon. That car was so smooth. I could get it up to speed and it could stay there no gas for I shit you not 10+ miles. I'd still be driving that car if not for the fact that it got rear ended totaled.

Too many to count. What do I even need a safe for? I guess I can put important documents but I truly didn’t need it for anything.

I have ADHD so, yeah. A lot. I've made a rule the last few years, if it's not a NECESSITY or a time sensitive thing (sales don't count), it needs to sit in my cart for 24 hours minimum before buying. It's helped a lot.

I live in an apartment. I was at a yard sale and saw an old pipe wrench. About a meter long and weighing about 5 kilos. Testosterone told me that I needed to own this. Brought it home and left it in the closet for years.

Last week the kitchen sink was stopped up. Took me about twenty minutes to locate the monster, but I knew I had kept it. Another five minutes to set it to the right size and position it. A half turn loosened the bolt on the U pipe. I was able to snake out the drain without calling the super.

Now I can boast about my mighty feat on the interwebs!

I don't remember why but I bought a $50 manual pencil sharpener that came with own leather carrying case. When it arrived I opened it and there was just a regular brass sharpener inside so I returned it. I was actually relieved when it wasn't the item I ordered and had an excuse to return it.

I guess I don't have anything to regret.

A cheap 3060 on a local Finnish used item online store (Tori)

Was so excited about the price I completely missed that the description said it was only partially functional and likely had a single fuse burnt or something.

Spent days trying to figure out why it kept outputting on 240p for the OS except in text only mode, only to eventually go back to the listing to see if I could return and read that they mentioned it wasn't fully functional.

Deep regrets.

If anyone knows how to repair a graphics card though and wants it however, let me know and I'll give it for cheaper than I paid for. I'll regret it much less then.

Just a friendly note that if you find yourself doing this periodically, get checked for bipolar disorder.

Right after we had a baby and moved into a new place, my husband and I decided we wanted to get a tapestry to hang over our bed to tie the room together. For some reason it turned into this really difficult thing. Like we were deciding on matching tattoos or something permanent, and we just couldn't make a decision. For over a year, we would send each other tons of examples, agree on a bunch, narrow it down from there, and then still end up not picking one for one reason or another.

One day ~3ish years ago we were just hanging out listening to music. My husband noticed the very bizarre album cover art for Minnie Riperton's Adventures in Paradise, and showed it to me like "THAT'S FUCKING AWESOME!" and then jokingly said "that's what the tapestry should be."

I can't remember much else, but it seemed so ridiculous it almost felt like a challenge. I looked into it and found out it's surprisingly cheap to just make your own tapestry by getting an image printed on cloth. So I ordered it and then we immediately forgot about it. Several weeks later I had no idea what it was when it arrived in the mail.

We were probably sleep deprived and loopy, but other than that 100% sober when we made this decision. No regrets:

I blew around 4k on travel in 2019 and 2020. I blew another 2k on SCUBA gear and training. My only regrets are not spending more on gear that would be easily repairable so I wouldn't need to buy a new set and not buying a much better camera.

My wife had passed away and I didn't know what to do. My only emotion was pain and sadness. I had a little cash left over after her memorial and cremation. Nearly everything was impulse at that point.

I bought myself a new name on impulse.

I had been joking about considering taking that name on and off my whole life, but didn't expect the name change approval papers to show up a couple of weeks after a bender.

Turns out joking about stuff for a long time can just rewire your brain, and I'm actually really happy with my new name.

I got drunk as shit and bought a 6' samurai sword. After that I hung my wallet on it so I would have to look at that dumb shit before I bought something.

I've got an injury at the moment that means I have to order my groceries online and have them delivered. So many items I don't remember ordering and bitterly regret. Jelly snakes. Chocolate. Bombay mix. Fancy sourdough crackers.

I had an opportunity to buy a juvenile peacock. Why not? Learned a lot about caring for peacocks very quickly.

I’m very financially sound and price shop, never impulse buy things. I’m not cheap, but I don’t rationalize something I want unless I’ve researched it.

But then there’s medicated me… I don’t take prescription painkillers unless absolutely necessary. High doses after a surgery have found me binge shopping on places like w00t for the dumbest things. I of course don’t remember ordering at 2am, 120 led candles with remotes and color changing flames. Or after a car accident I felt the need to buy 100 non-refundable boxes of emergency break ice packs (break the capsule and it gets cold for 20 min) - donated these to the local highschool sports club. And my all time favorite was ordering a go-cart, $3500 for no reason.

After some hard financial lessons, my ex just took away my phone if I was going to take high doses of painkillers.

That bag of potatoe chips last night was unnecessary AF and I regret buying it with all my belly.

I have ADD, so everything I buy is an impulse purchase that I can’t remember. And I. Regret. Nothing.

Part of a sprinkler system to bury in ones lawn, that extends upward with water pressure.

I do not own a lawn.

Long fingerless gloves. I don't remember why but I must have been in a 2000s mood because I bought a bunch of bracelets too. Not too much regret for the bracelets

I got an Amazon Credit card while drunk. I completely regret it and I'm ashamed it took me way too long to cancel it.

Kagamine Len cosplay kit

It turned out okay, so no regret on that. I also found out there's anime convention next week, so I figured I should wear it there.