Probably our car. It’s a great car, I spent weeks researching the perfect car for us. I love it and I’m grateful every time I drive it, but we bought it on credit and it’s way out of our price range to buy. It’ll take us about 6 years total to pay it off.
I still understand my decision at the time, but it was driven by a specific chain of events that made it make sense, and in principle I’m against buying a car on credit, just buy an older reliable car you can afford.
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Some of the considerations we took when choosing the car, I totally agree. I don’t regret the decision, the monthly payments are not a huge burden on us, fortunately, but it was still not the best financial move.
Wondering which car you ended up choosing.
A 2 year old Nissan Leaf from the stand. Meaning, it belonged to Nissan as a test drive car before it was ours.
Nah I’d say that’s a good purchase. I just bought a new car on credit too because I’ve had pretty bad luck with buying used cars before. They always required quite a lot of work to get running and then something breaks and repairs are needed again. Case in point the current car’s AC system broke down a little while ago and after all the repairs that were done already I have a feeling that getting the AC repaired would mean I’ve paid more in repairs than to buy the car. And that’s just not worth it. So I decided to take out a little credit and just buy a new car instead.
It can be a good purchase and still be irresponsible, IMO. I love that car and it will serve us for years to come, I don’t regret it. We could have gotten a much cheaper new car, for example, but at the time we decided our biggest value for money was the car we have now.
Subscriptions, those must be the only things I reflect on that feel irresponsible.
Particularly anything around Apple because they’re impossible to cancel
Possibly a year subscription to Incogni and Discord Nitro Basic then.
- Incogni: I love the idea of this service but as soon as data brokers get more info on you they can keep it again even after the deletion request (as far as I know). I hate that this needs to be a service and I hate that it is a subscription model instead of a one time fee.
- Nitro Basic: I just wanted to use emojis lmao. Nitro Basic is cheap but still, it was giving a company money just to use fancy emojis 🤣. Also I sort of stopped using Discord.
I bought a $600 vintage, late 70s turntable that’s just beautiful, pristine condition. Tbf I paid $25 on an online auction. I keep going up to it every couple of hours and just staring at it in awe. Now I need to buy a receiver and speakers to match it
$25 for a $600 item? That doesn’t sound irresponsible at all. Or even frivolous.
It was irresponsible of them to sell it so cheaply
As of right now, a bunch of Magic the Gathering cards. I have nobody to play with. I regret nothing.
There’s another purchase that would’ve been one of the most irresponsible of my life, but the seller didn’t actually have the thing in stock. No, I won’t tell what it is, I’ll just let you folks imagine
All in bitcoin
Good job. Fiat is too volatile.
You have the perfect username for that comment.
I bought a Steam Deck. Irresponsible for the fact it mostly exclusively exists for gaming, and isn’t a very productive item to buy.
But gods damn is that such a fun device!
Mine has become my primary work machine.
Same. Middle of spring quarter at college and I decided what better way to spend financial aid then buying a portable gaming console?
I’ve almost pulled the trigger on a tortilla blanket for my wife, as she always wraps herself in the blanket like a burrito, but I’m afraid I’m the only one that will find it funny.
Nothing wrong with that.
$4k on a classic luxury car that needed work.
I’m $17k into it and it’s been in my garage long enough that I can’t start it without draining all of the fuel.
It’s really lovely, but good lord luxury classics are expensive to restore. I restored and drive an old truck for $6k and a lot less heartache.
My first parrot Johnny. I purchased him for my husband as a surprise Valentine’s gift when we were dating/living together. While we had done our research and made sure we were ready to handle the responsibility, we were not financially in a great place at the time. My credit card was almost maxed but I made the impulse decision to call the company to get a limit increase so I could make the purchase. And while it did take me some time to get out of my young and dumb credit card debit I never once regretted getting my little turkey bird. He passed away from old age almost 2 years ago but I still miss him everyday.
One time, I walked out of my then apartment and there was a parrot standing on the windshield wiper of my car. (I did not live in a tropical or otherwise parroty area.) I was not prepared for that situation and had no idea what to do with it.
I held out my hand and he hopped over, then just hung out on my shoulder. I carried him around my neighborhood asking anyone I saw if they had any idea where he came from so I could return him, but no one did. He ended up staying in our bathroom with a closed door overnight (we had cats) then we took him to an exotic bird shelter in the morning. Obviously I did what seemed most responsible in that case, but I think I could have become a parrot owner if I had been so inclined.
Hopefully he did well. And here I thought the distribution system only worked for cats!
Tickets to Avatar: The Last Airbender in Concert and the merch I bought at it. I spent something like $200 in total, but it was WORTH. EVERY. PENNY.
Those are fun! I went to 4 or 5 of the Harry potter movies in concert. It’s a fun way to re-watch older movies on a projector above, while having an amazing live orchestra play through the whole movie. It’s really cool that the orchestra director can follow along with the electronic karaoke-like metrenome and keep everyone in sync with the movie the entire time.
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They didn’t show full episodes from the show. Rather, it was clips from the show organized around specific characters, themes, or moments from the show. Sometimes (not often, but sometimes), they would use voice lines from the show as well.
For example, (Avatar: The Last Airbender spoilers)
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they had clips and music about Iroh. It included, of course, Leaves From the Vine with audio and clips of Iroh singing it. I cried through that whole segment. I don’t think there was a dry eye in that theater.
For the encore they made an entire song out of
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the Secret Tunnel song :::.
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1700 dollar massage chair. I can barely move it but I love it so much. I might still get the odd personal massage but using the chair every night helps my sleep enormously and it definitely gets the kinks out.
I hear personal massagers are also good for kinks
A family member bought the egg ones for like 4k or 5k. I thought it was terrible. YMMV but man what a giant money pit. They swore it helped their neck. I swore it was too rough.
Tossed a hefty chunk of change on a Maschine+. AKA fancy beat pad for finger drumming/music production that can operate as standalone device. Did catch on sale, but still a hefty investment.
While not as “responsible” as other things I’m saving for, it’s been a fucking blast! Always fun having an easy way to kick beats without schlepping a full kit, and tbh I have so much more potential for making weird noises with the pad.
I always look at things like these and are tempted to buy them. There is so much cool audio gear out there that I feel like could “up my game”, but then I realize I have no game and already own a bunch of fun production gear that collects dust because I don’t have the time or energy to make music anymore.
I considered selling some of my stuff, but want to hang on to it just in case any of my kids pick up the hobby and all my stuff is cool and “retro” at that point. Shit it is almost already cool and retro - Akai MPC1000, Korg Electribe SX ESX1, Korg KP3, Dsi MoPho, a couple other bits and bobs.
But yeah, always tempted to buy cool new awesome shit that I would never use.
That’s the curse, man. Finally got fun money budget (kinda), but also got zero damn free time. Don’t even have kids! Where the hell is all the damn time going?! HOW is it the last week of August?!
Definitely would keep the gear to try and share with the kids. Old music tech is dope! Old tech in general, still quite cool. Loved hitting retro games on the thicc floppy back in the day. Or whatever other gadget pops would have around. Cherished times.
Motorcycles they’re all motorcycles
I bought a warhammer. Then I bought a second warhammer. Don’t regret either purchase.
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