More frivolous purchases, stuff you don't need..

[Joshsl]

I brought this yesterday for three very good and very important reasons
1) I have a stupid fetish for snap on tools
2) because I wanted it
3) it was quite cheap





I have no need for it and no idea what I’m going to do with it once I have finished putting it up my nose( where else would you put a second hand borescope that will probably be coverd In old engine oil)

[Captain Smerc]

theguvernor15 said:

One of these:

https://www.speedyfeet.co.uk/collections/electric-...

& yes it's taken a while to learn how to ride it.

You've got a wheel of death , top work

[Mafffew]

Mr Obertshaw said:

Just picked this up for £10 facebook. Given the price I think it was more nessecary than frivolous. Unsure why, but my wife seems pissed off that it's in the hallway! My 2 year old is going to be over the moon when he wakes up the morning though. I Just need to find a bigger motor!

I want one for myself, I'm sure a 6ft man can fit?

[1ians]

Regret flicking through this thread earlier. Decided that I need some new headphones so after a bit of reading have ordered ibasso headphones and an earstudio es100 Bluetooth receiver.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

I sometimes think this thread should be renamed to the "Frivolous headphones purchases" thread.

[eybic]

Mafffew said:

Mr Obertshaw said:

Just picked this up for £10 facebook. Given the price I think it was more nessecary than frivolous. Unsure why, but my wife seems pissed off that it's in the hallway! My 2 year old is going to be over the moon when he wakes up the morning though. I Just need to find a bigger motor!

I want one for myself, I'm sure a 6ft man can fit?

Define "fit"

[Clockwork Cupcake]

eybic said:

Define "fit"

You could wear it as a shoe.

[NDA]

Mr Obertshaw said:

Just picked this up for £10 facebook. Given the price I think it was more nessecary than frivolous. Unsure why, but my wife seems pissed off that it's in the hallway! My 2 year old is going to be over the moon when he wakes up the morning though. I Just need to find a bigger motor!

He's going to love that!

I bought my son a Jaguar XKR pedal car when I also owned an XKR - he was welded to that car for a long while.

There were many dents at the bottom of dishwashers, fridges and tumble driers. Be warned!

[NDA]

poing said:

LarsG said:

12x18 bag multipacks of Wotsits.

216 packets of them..... thought I ordered one multipack

I did something similar with bananas, thought I'd ordered 12. I ordered 12kg of them.

Hahahhahaa

I bought some deodorant from Amazon recently that arrived in a lorry. I thought I was buying a couple - I now have a lifetime's supply.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

NDA said:

Hahahhahaa

I bought some deodorant from Amazon recently that arrived in a lorry. I thought I was buying a couple - I now have a lifetime's supply.

About 20 years ago, I bought a kitchen worktop leg from IKEA. Or so I thought. But what I actually bought was a box of 6 of them. Only got charged for the 1 though.

I'm still using them for occasional DIY projects even now - I think I have 2 still unopened just waiting for when I need them.

[NDA]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

NDA said:

Hahahhahaa

I bought some deodorant from Amazon recently that arrived in a lorry. I thought I was buying a couple - I now have a lifetime's supply.

About 20 years ago, I bought a kitchen worktop leg from IKEA. Or so I thought. But what I actually bought was a box of 6 of them. Only got charged for the 1 though.

I'm still using them for occasional DIY projects even now - I think I have 2 still unopened just waiting for when I need them.

When our 20 year old cat died, my kids insisted on a home burial.... with a headstone. This was duly ordered but I clearly had confused millimetres with metres - this became obvious when a hydraulic crane was used to deliver a stone the size of a Pharaonic declaration into the garden. Although, it must be said, I had managed to get the font size correct. 'Toast', for that was the name of the deceased, floated lost amongst the acres of slate.

In the millenia to come, archaeologists are going to be extremely confused and will assume that Toast was some kind of tribal elder who held sway over the local village.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

NDA said:

When our 20 year old cat died, my kids insisted on a home burial.... with a headstone. This was duly ordered but I clearly had confused millimetres with metres - this became obvious when a hydraulic crane was used to deliver a stone the size of a Pharaonic declaration into the garden. Although, it must be said, I had managed to get the font size correct. 'Toast', for that was the name of the deceased, floated lost amongst the acres of slate.

In the millenia to come, archaeologists are going to be extremely confused and will assume that Toast was some kind of tribal elder who held sway over the local village.

Did it go up to 11?

[Lazermilk]

Hmmm, surely the cost is way more for a lifetime supply of deodorant than a couple of cans and a huge headstone again would be way more expensive than a cat sized one?
Do you not check how much things cost when ordering online?

[Sheepshanks]

I'm visualising a 50 metre tall monument to the deceased pussy!

[NDA]

Lazermilk said:

Hmmm, surely the cost is way more for a lifetime supply of deodorant than a couple of cans and a huge headstone again would be way more expensive than a cat sized one?
Do you not check how much things cost when ordering online?

Through the acrid stench of body odour, I did not notice the price. Nor did I see, through the tears of grief, what that giant slab in the garden cost.

You're right, I should have paid attention.

[SCEtoAUX]

NDA said:

Hahahhahaa

I bought some deodorant from Amazon recently that arrived in a lorry. I thought I was buying a couple - I now have a lifetime's supply.

You haven't met Pauline from our accounts department then.

[SCEtoAUX]

Sheepshanks said:

I'm visualising a 50 metre tall monument to the deceased pussy!

Again, I refer the poster to Pauline from accounts.

[SCEtoAUX]

Does a Cooper S convertible count?

It qualifies under the thread title rules.

[rossub]

NDA said:

When our 20 year old cat died, my kids insisted on a home burial.... with a headstone. This was duly ordered but I clearly had confused millimetres with metres - this became obvious when a hydraulic crane was used to deliver a stone the size of a Pharaonic declaration into the garden. Although, it must be said, I had managed to get the font size correct. 'Toast', for that was the name of the deceased, floated lost amongst the acres of slate.

In the millenia to come, archaeologists are going to be extremely confused and will assume that Toast was some kind of tribal elder who held sway over the local village.

Thanks for that, I’ve not laughed like that this year so far!

[gregs656]

poing said:

I did something similar with bananas, thought I'd ordered 12. I ordered 12kg of them.

This used to happen all the time when I was driving for Sainsbury's. Usually bananas or carrots. It was always pretty predictable that the purchaser of an otherwise ordinary sized grocery order didn't want or need 10-20kg of bananas or carrot, but they were always grateful when they got what they wanted for free and the rest taken back to the store.