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
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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.
8 inch googly eyes. Put them in the Christmas tree.
Test tube full of little googly eyes. When I'm feeling depressed I stick them to random stuff around the house.
Stick those suckers on everything, everywhere, all at once.
My fridge has some. My monitors used to have some too but those damn new thin bezels. :why_holding_up_hands_and_looking_up_in_slight_anger:
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".
My buddy had a manic episode and bought an above ground pool because our friends' parents were out of town for a week when we were teenagers
Girlfriend broke up with me so I proceeded to buy a $900 motor scooter (fast mo-ped). My best friend also wrecked it and bent the front wheel after owning it for approximately 30 minutes. It did not bring all the girls to the yard but it was fun!
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.
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
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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 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.
Warhammer 40000. That is all.
I love worldbuilding and lore, even for franchises I'm not otherwise invested in. In 2018 I devoured every wiki article and YT video I could on 40K. I thought the AdMech was a really cool faction (still do, actually ⚙️💀) and looked into the models. Nope. I'm not paying that much for a sprew full of plastic that I'll inevitably mess up.
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I got an entire cake decorating kit. Guess how many times I've made cake and icing after the first time.
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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.
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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.
A peanut butter pie. I ate the whole damn thing in one sitting. No regrets - that thing was good.
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