I bought a safe. wtf do I need a safe for?

  • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I got drunk and bought a t-shirt on eBay.

    It featured a rainbow unicorn with the text “HAIL SATAN”.

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    11 hours ago

    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.

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      7 hours ago

      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.

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    2 hours ago

    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!

  • auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 hours ago

    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).

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    1 day ago

    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.

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    14 hours ago

    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.

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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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      1 day ago

      I was on Twitter somewhere in 2009 I think, and I agree, it was shit then.

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    2 hours ago

    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

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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.”

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    1 day ago

    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.

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        6 hours ago

        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”.

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        16 hours ago

        That’s something to keep in mind but I think that’s changing a bit. Lots of commercial grade safes now say they’re good for electronics.

    • KittenBiscuits@lemmy.today
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      22 hours ago

      Make sure the ones that protect against fire also protect against water. The 2 features are not always guaranteed to come together.

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        11 hours ago

        All while the threats come together when the firefighters drown your house, indeed. Watertight sillicon bags for harddrives come to your rescue.