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Impulse Buys - Lets hear em

Picklz

SUDO Make me a SAMCH
This topic came up in the chatbox and I figured It'd make for an interesting thread. So list up your most recent impulse buy(s)! Not talking about that bag of M&M's at the grocery store but things that are a bit more substantial.


My latest was custom leather shift / ebrake boots and armrest cover for the GTO from RedLine Goods.
Prior to that was probably Guitar Hero Metallica
 

YSOSLO

is the word, beotch
We went for a bike ride and saw an open house sign, so we went through it and put in an offer than was accepted about 5 hours later. We weren't planning on buying a new house for a few years at the time.
 

mndsm

I'M OFFENDED!
Lessee..... a Wii... a ps3, an ms3, a mini cooper, GH:WT...... and many smaller items that I cannot remember. I think there was a couch in there too.
 

mOjO

Member
A $2400, 4 day vacation to Seattle for my 5 year anniversary. I was considering superiors north shore for weeks until a friend told me about this resort just outside of seattle. I booked it within hours. FML...er....whatever.
 
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DrWebster

Guest
I've been wanting one for a while, but never justified it -- just bought a $600 18-200 VR lens for my DSLR. Saw a factory refurb one on B&H and jumped on it, about $200 off retail. It's funny, because I usually don't impulse buy stuff, and have agonized over much cheaper items (like a $75 torque wrench), yet went for it with the lens. Go figure.

Pete still wins.
 

niterydr

Legendary Status!
We went for a bike ride and saw an open house sign, so we went through it and put in an offer than was accepted about 5 hours later. We weren't planning on buying a new house for a few years at the time.
Holy shit. :signs109:

That is an impulse buy!
 

dmention7

Hater
And here I was all ready to shock everyone with the fact that my car was an impulse buy (brought on by a frickin shift knob, of all things) but Pete had to go and ruin it by playing the "impulse house purchase" card. :KANE:
 

Bartron8000

New Member
The best impulse purchase I have had in my life so far would have to go all the way back to my last year in middle school where I bought my PS2. Story goes, my parents refused to buy or let me buy a PS2. One day I was at a friend’s house playing his PS2 playing GTA3 and GT3, well I enjoyed it so much I pretty much had to have one. So that Thursday before my family was going to leave for Chicago I told my Dad I needed to go to Best Buy to get a couple of CD's that I wanted to listen to in the car. I told him to sit in the car because I wasn't going to be long and he agreed to wait in the car. Well not even 5min later I came walking out the door with a PS2, GTA3, GT3, Stuntman, a second controller, and a memory card. Total price came between $450-$500. When my Dad saw me his jaw dropped and all he said was "Your mother is going to kill you when she finds out about this." I agreed with him and I told him not to say anything to my Mom. Well since my Mom isn't great with technology she didn't notice the PS2 for an entire year until one day she noticed me playing it and asked when I got it. I told her exactly what I did and she just told me that I wasn't allowed to buy anymore games for it, but I did anyways. Oh and I just remembered my iPod Touch was an impulse purchased. Sorry for the long post but I thought it was good.
 

Schmitty

New Member
We went for a bike ride and saw an open house sign, so we went through it and put in an offer than was accepted about 5 hours later. We weren't planning on buying a new house for a few years at the time.
Way to upstage everyone. Dick. LOL
 
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mazdamn02

Guest
One time I was just walking around outside in the middle of the night, I looked up, and saw the International Space Station. So I bought it. Cuz its shiny.

Take that Pete!
 
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