Consooming: The BP Edition - What dumb shit did you spend money on now?

[Street Meat]

From the trinkets on impulse racks at stores to the "people also bought..." button to drunk/high purchases: what was the last dumb thing you spent money on?

I've wanted a record player for a few years now, earlier this week I said to hell with it and got a cheap one.
I also grabbed a KitKat at the grocery check out the day before last. They're my favorite sweet, I can't resist.

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[sasazuka]

In December, I bought a used Panasonic pocket camera (Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH27), which was only around $6 at the thrift store although, like most thrift store cameras, I had to order a battery and a charger off of Amazon to be able to use it.

I got it because it has a medium-length optical zoom (10x) and also a slightly larger lens than the Canon I mainly use. It takes decent pictures however one drawback to the camera is that most functions beyond the shutter button and zoom control can only be accessed by touchscreen while I prefer to navigate with physical buttons and switches.

I suppose the touchscreen gimmick was meant to make pocket cameras more appealing to people who were already used to taking photos on smartphones. Adding touchscreens doesn't seem to have worked in preserving market share for compact pocket cameras against the competition from smartphones since most camera companies either stopped making pocket cameras altogether or only make really low-end pocket cameras anymore. (Some high-end mirrorless cameras are borderline pocketable but that's a separate category of camera as they have larger lenses and DSLR-sized sensors and, as such, can't be as compact as the older point-and-shoot pocket cameras.)

 

[Fooster]

Two of these fucking things

 

[Easy Peasy]

Mason jars.

So. Many. Fucking. Mason jars.

I've been open about living in utah, I'm not worried about kiwis showing up at my house (bring vodka). I'm not mormon, but food storage is a huge thing among the mormies. I got interested in it because of shortages due to rona, I love to cook anyway, bada bing, bada boom, I have a pantry of stuff now.

Enter the mason jars. There was a shortage of those too, so anytime I saw them at the store, I grabbed them

Well now they're taking over my house, so no more fucking mason jars.

As an aside, anyone want some strawberry whiskey jelly? Its based

 

[Gone Ham]

Laserdiscs, cassettes and vhs. Getting ahead of the nostalgia trip that will be coming soon

 

[Moguro Fukuzou]

Mainly I impulse buy books from the local thrift shop that either sound interesting or focus on one of my hobbies, then they usually sit around unread. I've picked up a bunch of books on early film history that probably all cover the same stuff and just history books in general. Extra weak towards old books.

Haven't been able to get into the right mood to just sit down, zone out, and read a book.

 

[Ronnie Rocket]

A used Nikon D90 body for $100ish.

 

[e-gf]

I bought a buckling spring keyboard for a little over a hundred dollars.

 

[big jeff]

Servers for self-hosting everything I'd otherwise require a 3rd party glowie for

 

[Vulva Gape]

Boomboxes. Old school ones that still work better than 99% of the stuff you can get today. I still buy my cds cause I like physically owning my content. It's nice and I can bring it to my bros workout outside and play some mixtape i made. Loud as fuck too.

 

[Swan]

A tamagotchi.

I'll see myself out.

 

[Ronnie Rocket]

A tamagotchi.

I'll see myself out.

I still have my old one from 1997... haven't turned it on since 1997, but I can't bear to get rid of it.

 

[Swan]

I still have my old one from 1997... haven't turned it on since 1997, but I can't bear to get rid of it.

I think the one I had from 2004 went in a housefire but I'm getting this one to be a cute little keychain on my bag

 

[The Shadow]

Some mesquite chips for my smoker.

 

[Aaa0aaa0]

An ita bag. Because this bitch is my fashion inspiration:

 

[Fooster]

A tamagotchi.

I still have my old one

This made me nostalgic. Today's useless purchase will be a tamagotchi.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

This but with a blue ceramic bezel insert.

 

[Aaa0aaa0]

Got some clay for autistic arts and crafts time.

 

[Iron Jaguar]

Got some clay for autistic arts and crafts time.

The difference between autist and artist is "U".

 

[furūtsu]

Contemplating getting a French Press. My smooth-brain ass impulse bought a Moka pot a few weeks ago and I keep fucking up by burning the espresso, I need to get something simpler but won't make shitty bitter coffee like my Keurig.