I bought a safe. wtf do I need a safe for?
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 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.
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!
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
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
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
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.
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.
I’ve bought some weapons strictly because they were in games/movies I like.
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 :)
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.
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.
I was on Twitter somewhere in 2009 I think, and I agree, it was shit then.
I bought a turd shaped stress squeeze toy at Dollarama in Quebec for C$2 or C$3
I wondered what the most tacky Che Guevara merch would be, and decided it was his face on a beanie.
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
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”.
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!
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”.
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.
Make sure the ones that protect against fire also protect against water. The 2 features are not always guaranteed to come together.
All while the threats come together when the firefighters drown your house, indeed. Watertight sillicon bags for harddrives come to your rescue.
Better safe than sorry.
I see what you did there
It sounds like they are sorry they bought a safe.
Ah yes. Let me try again: Buy a safe, then sorry.
I read the whole thing. I regret this.
I read the whole thing. It was interesting, but too long. I don’t reccomend doing that.
