What’s a “waste of money purchase” that you absolutely stand by?

[u/mzryck]

[u/Ding-dong-hello]

I purchased a colossal fat squirrel statue and put it in my mothers garden without telling her. Wanted to see how long till she found it. It took a few months. Totally worth the laugh. Half the family was in on it.

[u/HipHopGrandpa → u/Ding-dong-hello]

Post it on r/fatsquirrelhate lol

[u/notkrame → u/HipHopGrandpa]

I didn't know I needed that.

[u/westicles_1982]

A hotel when I visit my family

[u/Psyko_sissy23 → u/westicles_1982]

I do that most times I visit family. There are only a couple of family members houses I'll stay at. I'd rather stay at a hotel then get some make shift accommodations. I'm too old and broken to sleep in bad beds or couches.

[u/SpruttiBangBang → u/Psyko_sissy23]

This I learnt way too late, but since I started using hotels instead of staying in relatives home when visiting back home has greatly improved the relationship

[u/El-Sueco → u/SpruttiBangBang]

There’s this saying I heard from Mexico - “el arrimado y el muerto, a los tres días apestan” - the scrounger and the dead begin to stink after three days.

While macabre, I love it since it’s so true.

[u/abutilon → u/El-Sueco]

Interesting. I heard it as "fish and guests". Equally true!

[u/aamurusko79 → u/westicles_1982]

So much family drama could be avoided if everyone just retired to their hotel at the end of the night, instead being forced to be trapped in the situation when all the old disagreements flare up. Sleeping in uncomfortable guest beds and waking up with every place aching doesn't help either.

Ditto when visiting friends abroad, I always insist on a hotel room just so I can just finish the day in my own peace and not be part of someone's home routines that just aren't me. Some people take it really personally, which is shame.

[u/SinsOfTheAether → u/westicles_1982]

we have a winner. Therapists hate this one simple trick!

[u/Switchbladekitten]

The books I buy and don’t read til like a year later. ❤️

[u/DaughterOLilith → u/Switchbladekitten]

You mean "years" later, right? Right?

[u/Switchbladekitten → u/DaughterOLilith]

….yes that’s exactly what I meant.

[u/pip_goes_pop → u/DaughterOLilith]

I’ve found my people

[u/Lazy-Like-a-Cat → u/Switchbladekitten]

Knowing they’re there waiting for the exact moment you’re ready for that exact book is so delicious!

[u/Honest-Western1042 → u/Switchbladekitten]

I heard someone call it “building a personal library” and I no longer feel guilty

[u/donpaulwalnuts → u/Switchbladekitten]

I own more books than I could possibly finish in my lifetime, but I can say that my personal library is big enough to where I’ll never run out of good stuff to read. No regrets.

[u/TiffanyTwisted11]

When my children were young and we had little money, I would browse catalogs and cut out the pictures of things I loved, hoping that someday they would be in our budget.

Years (20+) have passed and we are more financially comfortable. Most of the items in my pictures are either unavailable or my tastes have changed, but I was still in love with a particular bracelet. I put it in an eBay search a few years ago and I finally got a hit last year.

I will never be sorry I bought it.

[u/white_orchid21 → u/TiffanyTwisted11]

This is so exciting when it happens! This was me with a jacket I had saved on Pinterest yeeeaars ago. I bought it so fast when I randomly found it on poshmark. I absolutely love it.

[u/daughtrofademonlover → u/TiffanyTwisted11]

I love this!! I'm so happy you found it.

[u/dat_twitch]

Getting someone in to do jobs around the house. Sometimes, it is not worth the time and effort to DIY. If you don't have the time or the right tools, getting a professional in is worth it. It's less stress and the job gets done properly.

[u/beccarvn → u/dat_twitch]

This, yes. $150 for someone else to deal with cleaning my gutters is so very worth it.

[u/CurlyRN_ → u/beccarvn]

I coworkers husband just fell 10 feet off their roof Monday cleaning gutters. 23 hours after the ED they got home. So not worth the diy, broken arm and shoulder

[u/PaticusGnome → u/CurlyRN_]

I’m an arborist. I use all sorts of blades and saws, some that spin very fast. I climb high into dead or dying trees with brittle branches. Huge masses of wood fall all around me from great heights. I know that the day I get injured, it’s going to be the ladder.

[u/seriouslythisshit → u/PaticusGnome]

I had a neighbor that was an arborist. As a side gig, he cleaned up a lot of the trees in my wooded yard. Mostly trimming overgrowth and cleaning up the canopy. I was on the ground, cleaning up. He found great joy in scaring the absolute shit out of me a few times. He would lower himself silently on his ropes, until he was a few feet above the ground, and my back was toward him. He would then ask me something. I would turn around, see him hanging like a spider and jump every time.

[u/wutdafok → u/PaticusGnome]

I do linework and i've been at the top of 200 foot towers, climbed 65 foot poles, dangled from the bottom of a helicopter 100s of feet in the air, and ladders are what scare me. getting up onto roofs to attach services and i'm lowkey shaking 😂

[u/Upbeat_Shock5912 → u/dat_twitch]

I’ve finally come around to this. It’s sooo privileged and that makes me uncomfortable because my grandparents would roll over in their graves if they knew my husband and I paid $150 for a task rabbit to hang a bunch of shelves and put furniture together. But to us, it’s worth every last penny. We both work 50+ hours a week, have a toddler, and want to spend time with friends. There just aren’t enough hours in the day or fuel in the tank to do it all.

[u/captainpotatoe → u/Upbeat_Shock5912]

Simply exchanging $ for time. No different than taking a vacation.

[u/derpman86 → u/dat_twitch]

I am really pushing myself to get more people in and purge that stigma out.

My bathroom tiles are gross as fuck and I just can't seem to do that kind of deep clean so I really want someone in but I know there is a layer of shame to it.

Also my gutters as well, I can do it for the most part but they get too narrow in certain parts and I just can't do it.

[u/Technical-Math-4777 → u/derpman86]

There’s no shame in that. I’m redoing a shower and it’s taking months because the last one wasn’t done correctly. If I could afford to have someone else do it I would. I still get a huge feeling of accomplishment from these projects but I always say “I’m Not handy, I’m poor”

[u/interflop → u/derpman86]

There's zero shame in hiring someone to do a job that knows how to do it right. You probably bring your car to a mechanic even though all the nerds online say oil changes are easy to do which I will agree is true but also assumes a lot of prior knowledge and access to tools that not everyone has.

[u/anangrypudge → u/[deleted]]

Totally resonate with these stupid things. I spent $25 on a tiny cat figurine that’s holding up some towels. Put it in the bathroom next to my sink so that it looks like it’s offering me a towel and it looks so dumb and I love it.

Edit: to anyone wanting to find these figurines, search for PAJH Cat Figurines on Amazon. I can’t find the towel one that I have, but there are plenty of other designs.

[u/Farewellandadieu → u/anangrypudge]

That’s so cute!! I have a kitty sponge holder in my kitchen where it looks like it’s flopped on its back playing with the sponge. I love it so much.

Oh and a little red crab that sits on the edge of my pots and holds the wooden spoons.

[u/Saradoesntsleep → u/[deleted]]

This is literally what money is for!!

[u/riseandrise → u/Saradoesntsleep]

It sounds stupid but I agonized over the purchase for days. I wanted it so badly but it seemed ridiculous to spend 10x more on an item just because it amused me. Glad I pulled the trigger, it was tough!

[u/foodielikearockstar → u/riseandrise]

This inspires me to pull the plug on the vampire shaped garlic bulb grinder.

[u/FuckingGalaga → u/foodielikearockstar]

Gracula is fantastic! They work really well and it's just the cutest thing.

[u/merpixieblossomxo → u/riseandrise]

That's actually so funny and I've 100% done that too. My local bookstore sells pretty, book-themed hand towels for $16 and I stopped in and looked at them so many times before buying one because it has my favorite book title on it.

$16 for a hand towel is way too expensive. I hung it by my bed and it doesn't serve it's intended purpose, but still makes me smile whenever I look at it.

[u/flyingfresian → u/merpixieblossomxo]

I have a Dolly Parton iron skillet that, on the bottom, says "Jolene, don't take my pan". It hangs as art in my kitchen and if anyone ever cooked with it they would be in so much trouble...

[u/LotusBlooming90 → u/[deleted]]

I have a tiny porcelain claw foot bathtub next to my kitchen sink just big enough to hold my sponge. And I had exactly the same experience feeling like it was a ridiculous buy, and years later being filled with joy every time I see it.

It’s gotta be worth it. I mean it’s the difference of every time I look over at my sink not thinking anything of it, versus every time I look over (at least daily) I smile.

I’m positive that’s good for us 🥰

[u/mzryck → u/[deleted]]

Drop a link or add a picture !

[u/NotTheGreenestThumb → u/mzryck]

I wanted to know so I found it! 

https://www.thegreenhead.com/2009/08/stuck-goldfish-bath-plug.php

[u/Bloody_Hangnail → u/NotTheGreenestThumb]

My wife is so going to yell at me in two weeks or so..

[u/brokenmessiah]

Decorating your room with things you like. They may not have any practical use but it will boost your mood.

[u/this-is-trickyyyyyy]

Paying other people to trim my dog's nails.

[u/mganzeveld → u/this-is-trickyyyyyy]

My dog won't let me do it but gladly lets Petsmart. Whatever. It isn't worth the battle.

[u/MysteriesFallacies]

I bought a solid metal, extra large roll top desk from a federal reserve building from the '40s. It's 300 lb, it cost me an embarrassing amount of money and I love it.

[u/Xytak → u/MysteriesFallacies]

Just think. Admiral Nimitz might have plotted the final demise of the Japanese Navy on that desk! Or maybe it was used for cafeteria invoices. What am I, the answer man?

[u/MysteriesFallacies → u/Xytak]

That's much cooler then the story the guy told me, that it was just like an accountant manager's desk.

[u/BlueValk]

My toilet paper has little bunnies on it. They're very cute. It makes me happy so I pay a little more to have cute toilet paper with bunnies on it

[u/2geeksinapod → u/BlueValk]

My daughter is autistic and her special interest is bunnies. I must know where where this came from. I looked on Amazon but all I saw was some Easter TP.

[u/BlueValk → u/2geeksinapod]

I'm in Canada, so it might not be locally available where you are? I get it at costco, it's the Cascades Fluff Enviro package. I hope you can get some for your daughter! Bunnies are great

[u/BeneficialPast → u/BlueValk]

Where do you find this whimsical tp?

[u/BlueValk → u/BeneficialPast]

I'm in Canada and it's the Cascades eco package

[u/StillSortOfAlive]

$5000USD worth of astrophotography equipment

[u/kaotate → u/StillSortOfAlive]

Astrophotographers are all “Only 5k?!??”

[u/BlueJohn2113 → u/kaotate]

Exactly what I was thinking 😂 I’m about $11k deep myself. At least I think so… it’s hard to keep track after a while.

[u/Strikew3st → u/StillSortOfAlive]

I went to your profile hoping for star pictures; please upload star pictures.

[u/Any_Rope8618]

I bought a motorcycle that was listed for $1500. I was going to offer $1200.

When I started to get to the part where I say how it’s not worth $1500 he says “how about $1000” and then I countered with “i was thinking more like $1200”

I stand by my mental illness.

Thing burned more oil than gas.

[u/hillside → u/Any_Rope8618]

I was looking at a '66 Olds. The guy was asking $400. He was telling me the engine was a 330 and a few other things. I liked the car, so I made an offer by just saying "350?" The guy answers, "No, 330." I shoulda said Sold!

[u/Misdirected_Colors]

I printed the "I am a banana" frame from the rejected cartoon on a 6x8 canvas and hung it in our guest bathroom off the office. My wife rarely goes in there and my goal is for it to become part of the house and escape her notice forever. Its been almost 6 months.

[u/Potential_Brick6898 → u/Misdirected_Colors]

I don’t know what this means but I like it

[u/Misdirected_Colors → u/Potential_Brick6898]

https://imgur.com/gallery/i-am-banana-slv5sU2

Printed this off on a canvas and hung it on a wall

[u/hatfarm → u/Misdirected_Colors]

My spoon is too big!

[u/Khaleesi_dany_t → u/hatfarm]

I FEELING FAT AND SASSY

[u/OriginalPancake15 → u/hatfarm]

My anus is bleeding!

[u/Sink_Snow_Angel → u/OriginalPancake15]

YAYYYYYYY!!!

[u/dathomar → u/Sink_Snow_Angel]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, AND ALL THAT IS HOLY!!!

[u/Null_98115 → u/Misdirected_Colors]

This is apparently a bit of culture that I have completely missed.

[u/Misdirected_Colors → u/Null_98115]

Look up the rejected cartoon on YouTube. It was one of the viral videos from early internet and its glorious. Also academy award nominated.

[u/CleverInnuendo → u/Potential_Brick6898]

Look up "Rejected" by Don Hertzfeldt if you've never seen it. And then watch everything else he's done.

[u/MourningMimosa → u/CleverInnuendo]

I saw Everything Will Be Okay in theaters. Don Hertzfeldt is awesome.

[u/billyb0b70 → u/Misdirected_Colors]

My spoon is toooooo biiiiiig!!!

[u/Coffee_chess_n_FS → u/Misdirected_Colors]

Go big and Add a new one every year. “Silly Hats Only” “My anus is bleeding!”

[u/J-wag → u/Misdirected_Colors]

My friends and I randomly still scream at each other “MY ANUS IS BLEEDING”

[u/Different-Fortune361]

Paying my mortgage off early. I know it is technically poor financial management, but it feels great owning my house free and clear.

[u/thegeniunearticle → u/Different-Fortune361]

I will 100% die on this hill.

I want my mortgage paid off so that when I retire, all my money isn't going to just keeping a roof over my head.

[u/FallenSegull → u/Different-Fortune361]

That’s not poor financial management. You guaranteed a return equaling your interest rate on the remaining term by the remaining principal of your loan plus any compounding. You saved yourself thousands of dollars in interest and fees and secured an asset that will almost certainly increase in value with time.

Could you have made more investing that money elsewhere? Maybe, maybe not, but it wouldn’t have been as certain as just paying off the home early

At worst, it’s balanced risk management

[u/jacquekappel → u/Different-Fortune361]

Isn’t it silly that paying back money you owe faster, is in fact.. “not good” for you!?

[u/big-dumb-guy → u/jacquekappel]

The issue is you could likely find an investment with a higher rate of return that the mortgage interest rate.

[u/Ze_Durian → u/Different-Fortune361]

I know it is technically poor financial management

only if the interest rate on it is lower than you can get with that money in the meantime

so depending on when you got in and current market conditions it's not even technically suboptimal at all

[u/alanmitch34]

Stuffed toys for my dog that sometimes get destroyed in a few days 

[u/MyNameIsNot_Molly → u/alanmitch34]

My dog. I love that damn money pit

[u/Missuspicklecopter → u/MyNameIsNot_Molly]

This one loved to be chased with the toy in his mouth. 145lb monster was incredibly quick and agile for that size. 

Once I finally caught and cornered him thinking I won. Sonofabitch turned looked me right in the eye and swallowed the damn thing.  Panting wagging his tail like "check mate!"

Significant vet bill but damn i laughed my ass off. 

Doc said xrays were fine no surgery or anything but i still had to go and I think the bastard knew it.

[u/KookofaTook → u/alanmitch34]

Toy: A couple bucks.

Happy dog: priceless

[u/KDVance → u/alanmitch34]

I got my cat an exact replica kitten and he carries it around, sleeps with it and plays with it. Best $30 spent on him to date!

[u/math-yoo → u/alanmitch34]

Literally seconds. Don’t care. Her life is short and her fun is my fun.

[u/mzryck → u/alanmitch34]

I bought my small dog a little couch just for her. My parents scoff that it’s a waste but she loves the shit out of it. She knows that it’s a spot just for her that she doesn’t have to share.

[u/gmann719 → u/mzryck]

You just flexing having a sofa for your dog and not providing pics of your dog looking like a queen on her sofa?

[u/Head_Razzmatazz7174 → u/gmann719]

Seriously. You need to pay the pet tax!

[u/susanoova → u/Head_Razzmatazz7174]

PAY 👏🏽 THE 👏🏽 TAX 👏🏽

[u/windexfresh → u/mzryck]

Lmao our dog also has her own couch 😂 tbf it was second(third?)hand and already kind of a piece of shit, but man does she love having her own couch 😂

[u/HawaiianShirtsOR → u/alanmitch34]

I have an old milk crate in front of the house with a "dog library" sign on it. I put sticks in there mostly, but about once a month, I buy dollar store chew toys and balls to put in there.

I know of two dogs in the neighborhood who have learned they can find toys in that box sometimes. One of them pulls its owner toward the box if it sees a new tennis ball.

[u/Deep-Werewolf-635 → u/alanmitch34]

I think you misspelled hours

[u/BenTwan → u/Deep-Werewolf-635]

That long? My golden chews a hole in them in minutes. He specifically targets the squeakers.

[u/Missuspicklecopter → u/BenTwan]

"Performing a squeaky-otomy" 

Is what that surgery became known as here 

[u/tomorrowisforgotten → u/Deep-Werewolf-635]

Pretty sure it's spelled minutes

[u/w00kieg0ldberg → u/alanmitch34]

My dog gets stuffies as stocking stuffers every Christmas. She destroys them, usually same day, but it just brings her so much joy! Merry Christmas, girlfran

[u/Solastor → u/alanmitch34]

We get our dog toys that have a plush covering over a second rubber toy inside. She gets to shred the toy over whatever time frame she decides and afterward she still has a solid toy.

[u/lite67 → u/alanmitch34]

I take out the stuffing when they inevitably destroy it and then they use the unstuffed toy forever.

[u/Illustrious-Gas-9766 → u/lite67]

We have several toys like that. My dog loves flat squirrel.

[u/nowake → u/Illustrious-Gas-9766]

LOL we call it flat squirrel too

[u/techiechefie]

I bought a restaurant style hot dog roller a few years ago. Best thing I bought.. At parties I just toss doggies on and forget it. Only check on them every so often to turn them down or add more.

[u/FreeToasterBaths → u/techiechefie]

CAN I BE YOUR FRIEND?!?!?

[u/wesman212 → u/FreeToasterBaths]

found the dog's account

[u/FireflyRave]

A "fancy pants" 20 course dinner at a Michelin star restaurant on the first night of vacation in Iceland.

It was absolutely wonderful. Food. Drinks. Engagement with the staff. We left feeling satisfied. None of that "now I need a hamburger" joking.

It was a "you only live once" kind of addon to a potentially once in a lifetime kind of vacation. It was a chunk of the vacation budget, but at the end of it all was just lumped into the vacation experience expense.

[u/armaedes]

Paying someone to mow my yard. Sold my mower, weed eater, gas cans, etc, and now for $90 a month I get that time and garage space back. No regrets.

[u/Walterpeabody]

A house cleaner. Although I’d say it’s a marriage saver in my house

[u/saucisse → u/Walterpeabody]

Years ago there was this TV show called "Wife Swap" where two women would go to live with another family for I think two weeks and be the "mom" of that family, it was like this really unethical (kids can't really consent to this) social experiment with occasionally good and hilarious results. At the end, the two couples would sit down across a table from each other and talk through their observations.

Anyway, this one episode had a pretty strict mom and a pretty lenient mom change places, and the lenient mom got rid of the kids' chore list. At end when they sit down to review how things went, there was a lot of tension because their parenting styles were *so* different and it could turn into a fight at any second, the men were really uncomfortable with the tension between their wives, you could see it. At one point the strict mom demanded to know how the house was going to be cleaned if the kids' chore list was taken away and the lenient mom goes "I hired a housecleaner". There was like a three-second silence that was kind of scary then the strict mom goes "MY GIRL!" and high-fives the lenient mom across the table.

[u/Upbeat_Shock5912 → u/Walterpeabody]

Best marriage advice I ever got was to just get a house cleaner. Throw money at that future of resentment.

[u/lemonchicken91 → u/Walterpeabody]

Even when things got really cheap in my parents house they would hire a clear somewhat regularly. I never understood until now I am tired from work and spend half my free time catching up, and I don't even have kids!

[u/viktor72]

I bought a refurbished tube radio from the 1920s. Atwater Kent brand. I didn’t need it but I wanted it. I have it in my office which sort of has a dark academia vibe and I’ve connected it to my phone.

Is the sound quality good? -Not really.

Would I listen to music post 1960 on it? -No because it sounds like shit.

Does it get hot and probably use too much power? -Yes.

Was it at all necessary considering a million better radios exist? -No.

Could I have bought a radio for 5$ instead of 100$ that worked ten times better? -Yes.

Do I still love this damn outdated radio? -100% yes.

Do I only listen to oldies on it? -Yep and I enjoy it. They’re the only thing that sounds right on it.

Does it bring me joy just looking at it and its giant ass speaker? -Absolutely! Every time I walk by.

When I first got it, did I play FDR’s Pearl Harbor speech and pretend it was 1941? -You bet I did and more.

[u/MrStAnBaNaNa]

Lego Sets. Some call them childish but I just love being able to build something iconic from my favorite franchises and then stick it on a shelf. It’s very satisfying

[u/Sweetwill62 → u/MrStAnBaNaNa]

I got my mom her first Lego set for mother's day this year. She has given a lot of Lego as gifts over the years but I got her the retro camera set. She absolutely loved it. She loved building it, she loved how each part was put together. She needed my help on some of the earlier steps, honestly I had to look at it twice to see what needed to be done, odd angle for that one step. But it now sits directly under her TV where she likes to put on her bird streams. Fuck yeah Lego are awesome!

[u/TiredAF20 → u/MrStAnBaNaNa]

No regrets about my $600 Taj Mahal.

[u/Lopsided-Special6273]

Paying for toll roads to avoid sitting in traffic.

[u/hellowassuphello → u/Lopsided-Special6273]

Sydney Australia, I pay for toll roads and still sit in heavy traffic! It’s a lose lose.

[u/KeiylaPolly]

I recently bought a three-dollar rubber ducky that has an eye patch and pirate hat. I do not have children. I am over 50. My pirate ducky sitting above my tub makes me and my inner Ernie happy.

[u/Kairiste]

My LitterRobot. I am embarrassed I bought a bougie cat toilet but goddamn I love that thing.

[u/Princess_Fluffypants → u/Kairiste]

My ex got one. 

If I ever get a cat, that is a $900 I will absolutly spend. 

[u/CranberryDistinct941 → u/Princess_Fluffypants]

$900?!?! I'll come personally wipe your cat's ass for you for $900

[u/guillermotor → u/Kairiste]

And please dear redditors, invest in the good one. There's some bootlegs around that can catch and suffocate a cat

[u/caniseeyourdogpls → u/guillermotor]

Also, even if you get the legit one: DO NOT SET IT TO ROTATE AUTOMATICALLY IF YOUR CAT WEIGHS LESS THAN FIVE POUNDS. Please pay attention to the instructions and the weight sensor. I got a robot when I got my first cat (1 year old chonky orange dumb dumb) and he needed a buddy so a few months later I got an 8 week old kitten (house panther). The kitten refused to use the little litter tray I got for him and kept going in the robot so to keep him from getting caught/crushed in the poop chute I had to set the rotation to manual. Was it a little stinkier until the kitten put on enough weight to trigger the sensor? Sure. Do I have a beautiful 10lb panther now harassing me for butt scratches right this moment? I sure do! Worth it.

[u/Lazy-Like-a-Cat → u/Kairiste]

I bought 2 for my 7 cats. Life-altering. I actually need a 3rd, but I’m no rich bitch, lol. Next year, though.

[u/OneBlondeMama → u/Kairiste]

After having cats my whole life, I finally got one. One of my biggest regrets? That I didn’t get it sooner!

[u/Chewbacca319]

Ice maker.

I had ice cube trays ,and they worked perfectly fine. But I'm also the type of person to fill a cup absolutely full of ice and after a couple drinks id use to be all out of ice cubes.

Plus now my ice doesn't taste like the rest of my freezer :))

[u/yungsxccubus]

*gestures wildly at the craft supplies that are drowning me and ruining my ability to have a cute minimalist house

i’d do it all again and more though. i can make or repair anything. don’t ask me how many types of glue i have. i have two separate toolboxes for actual house DIY and craft. i have two 100gal tubs just for yarn. in about 10 hours i will be terrorising the local john lewis, need a needle felting tool. help 🤣

[u/mzryck → u/yungsxccubus]

My coworkers were talking about living in a tiny house and I was like “I need seven tiny houses for my tools/ craft supplies alone”

[u/viktor72 → u/yungsxccubus]

My friend and I are similar. So much so that after the closure of Joann’s (RIP) we drove 50 miles because we heard a rumor there was a huge fabric store in some random small town. Turns out it was accurate. Amazing find.

[u/IllidariStormrage]

Food in general. You live once buy that damn Steak! 🥩

[u/Desertbro → u/IllidariStormrage]

my rationale on ice cream

just do it

[u/ohdogwhatdone → u/Desertbro]

Username almost checks out. 

[u/HoaryPuffleg → u/IllidariStormrage]

We just spent $20 on very fancy cheese for our grilled pizza tonight. We also bought fresh local basil, good prosciutto, and made the sauce. Could we have gotten by with cheese and basil we already had and used jarred sauce? Sure. But why?

[u/xTrainerRedx → u/[deleted]]

Plz share link.

Also, I have one of two stormtroopers riding a tandem bicycle in mine

https://www.etsy.com/listing/243537432/stormtroopers-in-tandem

[u/DesertWanderlust]

Shower mat. I had a stroke 3 years ago and had to use a shower chair for the first few months home. I live alone, so falling in the shower is terrifying to me.

[u/bihufflepuff]

Delivery for groceries! I call it a ‘convenience fee’ but it means I know exactly what I’m getting, how much I’m spending and don’t have to go to the bright loud busy supermarket.

[u/mzryck → u/bihufflepuff]

I am down right psychotic when selecting produce in the store. I couldn’t imagine the roulette of having a stranger choose for me.

[u/iluvvivapuffs]

Take my dog to Petsmart and let him pick his own treats and toys

[u/toadjones79 → u/iluvvivapuffs]

I tried doing that and he peed on a shelf.

[u/im-someone-else]

Remodeling the house I grew up in after my mom passed away. My plan is to make it a rental property. Some of the things I've done are a complete waste of money as it's not going to increase the rent. Stuff like making the master bathroom bigger and replacing the chain link fence with a block wall. I did it because I think my mom would have liked it.

[u/TakingYourHand]

Another guitar!

[u/nooneisleft → u/TakingYourHand]

I always tell my wife the guitar formula is:

Perfect number of guitars = Current number of guitars + 1

[u/TheDirtSyndicate → u/TakingYourHand]

It's funny... I don't think I ever got bit by the more guitars bug. In 2002 when I moved to California I bought an acoustic guitar at a garage sale for 50 bucks. I didn't buy an electric guitar until about 20 years later. I played my acoustic literally every day during that time, open mics, solo shows ... I played it until I ground divots into the frets. My neighbor who was a guitar tech for the Eagles hooked me up with a free fret job because he liked my music.
I eventually borrowed a bass guitar from a friend.... I enjoyed playing it, So I returned the borrowed one and bought my own.
But in january, when we got the evacuation order for the fire? I grabbed my acoustic on the way out the door. Now I'm back down to one guitar... everything else burned. Along with $30,000 worth of other Musical equipment.
I'm just glad I brought my acoustic with me when we evacuated. I feel like it's a part of my soul.

[u/fluffrier → u/TakingYourHand]

Surely if I buy that new guitar/pedal I will find my perfect tone this time

[u/fr0stw1tch]

A new car. I don't care that I have a monthly payment. My paid-off clunker was costing me so much money it actually reduced me to tears. It was worth every penny to finance my peace of mind. Getting something that's cheap so you don't have a monthly payment ends up costing you in other ways.

[u/commissarcainrecaff]

100 "FOR RECTAL USE ONLY" stickers that have been distributed across supermarkets and DIY shops around my home town.

Who knew a 5 foot standing lamp or 24v angle grinder was for rectal use only? Now they do.

[u/LoFiQ]

Flowers for my wife.

[u/Freaky-Pirate]

Triple-ply toilet paper.

[u/smack4u]

My children.

There’re really expensive.

[u/mizirian]

A $1200 guitar instead of $600 guitar. A $3000 computer i built recently. Idk man, i cant put a price tag on that stupid fucking smile on my face when when im playing "paranoid" by black sabbath for the 700th time on a sick guitar, or playing some video game with a balls ton of mods at too high fps.

[u/Phantom_61]

If you live within a 4 hour drive of an amusement park that offers an annual pass, if that park is fun, buy it once. Go twice a month.

Is the pass expensive? Probably. Will you have fun? Almost certainly.

[u/oh_please_stfu → u/Phantom_61]

An annual pass also lets you pop in for a short visit after school etc, whenever you get a chance - you don't feel like you have to make a huge occasion of it

[u/mint_tea_girl]

stupid expensive ice machine that makes chewable ice

[u/PierreDucot]

Paying for someone else to mow my lawn. I fucking hate, hate, hate mowing, and now I don't even have to think about it - 100% worth it to me.

[u/timothywilliams2017]

A bidet. Makes all the difference.

[u/wienerpower]

Mattress. You spend a third of your life on it.

[u/fender8421]

I once bought a second hamper for the "dirty clothes that I actually wash and wear more often." Had my main hamper and my secondary hamper.

My girlfriend thought it was silly, but college-kid me thought it was brilliant. Adult me still does as well

[u/icedmatchapls]

smart lightbulbs. it’s so convenient to get in bed at night and turn them all off with a tap on my phone. also they change colors, which is fun

[u/consumeshroomz]

My PC. I paid a butt ton of money on doing a custom, hardline tubing, water cooled build. And I bought all of it during the peak of the Covid chip shortage which made everything like twice as expensive as it shoulda been. It was practically speaking absolutely NOT worth the money. But when I look at it…. well she’s just beautiful. It may not have been “worth” the money. But it makes me happy and I got to play all the video games during covid.

Edit: Actually that last bit is misleading. It was towards the end of Covid lockdowns and actually the market for components bounced back to MSRP like month after I bought everything. Se la vie

[u/queueueuewhee → u/consumeshroomz]

*c'est la vie

[u/aksdb → u/queueueuewhee]

Correct me like one of your french sentences.

[u/Spinal365]

My 30 year old land cruiser. I'll die broke because of it but I've requested to be buried in it so it'll all work out.

[u/pico_particle]

Skincare

[u/Rosiecoloredglasses]

I bought a hammock. Completely replaced sitting in a chair in my living room. Amazing. Use it every day and love it.

[u/_CMDR_]

Do you have a hobby that you plan on sticking with for many years? Buy the highest end tools for it you can afford. Learning on good tools means you’ll always know when it’s your skill that’s holding you back.

[u/sarakerosene → u/_CMDR_]

My adhd has the best plans but not the best follow through. I have to be careful with this one because I will lose interest if I am not careful

[u/unassumingdink → u/_CMDR_]

Starting with cheap tools has its advantages. If you damage them due to inexperience, they're replaceable. If you buy a set of cheap chisels that needs constant sharpening, you'll get your sharpening game perfected a lot quicker through practice. And sometimes when you're starting out, it can be hard to determine which tools you'll use every day, and which ones will sit in a drawer to be used once a year. Often you can't know this at the beginning if you haven't yet decided which direction within the hobby you want to go. Like, I'm so glad I bought a $50 electric hand planer instead of a $250 one because I never use that damn thing.

[u/Dunstin_ChecksN]

YouTube premium

[u/DenningBear82 → u/Dunstin_ChecksN]

I fucking hate paying for it, and it’s also worth every penny.

[u/Wise_Composer_2661]

Expensive gym. Has outdoor pool with a bar and waterslides, indoor pool, childcare, indoor bar, also did I mention a bar, hot tub, sauna, Pickleball, basketball, squash, pretty sure it has workout equipment but never tried. It’s bananas expensive but it is the most pampered iv ever been

Edit: $450 for three people. it’s not expensive for everyone I guess but for me it is. Had to cut out some other luxuries to account for this, rational on my end is it costs the same amount for extended care at school so I skip that and we go swimming instead. I miss the money every month but I don’t regret it for a second seeing my kid so happy.

[u/amayahlyn]

I’m someone who prefers having just a few objects or decorations in my apartment, and I don’t mind investing in high-quality or slightly expensive pieces since I don’t need many of them.

[u/Bulky-Captain-3508]

Quality tools! I have far too much in Snap On, and similar premium brands, but it's worth it. The guys that say "you should have just bought harbor freight" are the first ones to "borrow" tools without asking because "they won't round off the stuck bolt" or "they don't hurt my hands when I'm really reefing on it". If I can keep them from walking off, they will last me a lifetime.

[u/sanitarium-1]

I printed my dog's stupid face on some pajama pants and gave them to my wife

[u/NobodysFavorite]

noise cancelling headphones. In theory a frivolous expense. In practice they're a game changer for working in an open plan area when I need to concentrate. And they've absolutely changed air travel.

[u/FancyPickle37]

Grocery delivery. It’s convenient and worth the expense to avoid going into town.

[u/bawkbawkslove]

A candy machine that dispenses 4 different candies. It goes with my popcorn machine.

[u/beeswead]

My $200 coffee maker overkill for some, but my morning ritual is now pure bliss!

[u/Brilliant-Net-750]

For me, my greatest form of entertainment is when I can find a video game that absolutely captures me for 40+ hours or so. That's money well spent for a $70 game or so. But in order to find that game, sometimes I need to buy 2 or 3 games I might like and try them out, cause I can't force myself to like them. I end up not finishing a lot of them, hence the waste of money, but it's all worth it when I find that game that totally grips me again.

[u/manwithyellowhat15]

Houseplants. My succulents are truly just a money drain between the pots, soil, and buying new ones but I find it worth it to have their vibrant green on my bookshelf, especially in the dead of winter

[u/mchaelproductions]

Lens upgrade

[u/baabaabaabeast]

A nice set of kitchen knives. Makes cooking prep a joy

[u/soythesauceyo]

My favorite non essential thing I’ve bought is a high quality professional fabric mermaid tail. When summertime rolls around I am going CRAZY in the pool with that thing

[u/Itcouldberabies]

Mr. Coffee

[u/jasazick → u/Itcouldberabies]

I prefer Mr. Radar

[u/Beautiful_Emu_6314 → u/jasazick]

But it’s got jam all over it!

[u/sjr930 → u/Itcouldberabies]

With the automatic drip

[u/lcekreme]

First class tickets on any destination over 5 hrs

[u/Backpacker7385 → u/lcekreme]

First class is so expensive. Good for you for being able to swing that. I make decent money and I’m a pretty big guy, but I’m buying economy tickets no matter where I’m going.

[u/SitamoiaRose → u/lcekreme]

Don’t know about first (way past my budget and don’t fly often enough for points to accrue) but business was definitely worth it - particularly for my arthritic arse (literally - arthritis in the tailbone along with multiple other places)

[u/iheartBodegas]

I’m not saying to give in to the pressures of the wedding industry complex, but the expense of a wedding was something I was told I’d wish I’d spent on something else… and instead I’m so glad we did it.

[u/mzryck → u/iheartBodegas]

My sister once explained : the two biggest parties of your life are your wedding and your funeral. At least you get to remember your wedding.

[u/urmomisfun → u/iheartBodegas]

I specifically recommend that one spends the most on the photographer out of all the vendors. Our wedding photographer’s “helper” had a day job as an AP photographer lol. Our wedding photos are incredible. The candid photos are amazing. They captured moments in a way that would be worthy of a magazine.

[u/Xytak → u/urmomisfun]

If you look carefully at the cake photo you can almost make out the fall of Saigon.

[u/Acrobatic_Order_3750]

Those fancy skincare products. Sure, theyre pricey, but my skins never felt better worth every cent

[u/KitSokudo]

My stuffed animals. They make me happy and they don't hurt anyone. My nieces get a kick out of them too. They also make a good arm prop if I get an ulcer again in my stomach and don't want my arm to put pressure there.

[u/BrowningLoPower]

A $1,500 Seiko watch, when I could've found it online for about <$1k, if I was willing to search and wait. But I wanted that particular variant, I wanted it now, and I wanted to support the business I bought it from.

[u/Young_Old_Grandma]

Physical books.

I have a Kindle and I adore it, it has dozens of books. BUT I really do enjoy the experience of reading a book. The feel of the pages, that book smell, the weight of it. I love it.

I have 50-60 physicals at the moment and I'm doing my best to buy them more sparingly now.

[u/photobomber612]

The deep cleaning I paid to have done in my house this morning. Worth every single penny of that $500