Impulse buys

calicocat

The Pier shop.

kboss2010

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Its a real pity if it's genuinely wasted. I can't believe you would buy food and not use it?!

As for chazzer finds, if you're not using them then there is the option of donating them back, which means that the money spent there is not wasted but going to a good cause.

ETA: just realised yours was the last post on the Sneaky Ways... thread, good on you!

I’m quite good at using up stuff but it’s more like I spend a lot on food I don’t need & then it takes effort to find ways to use it.

pattypan4

purpleybat wrote: »

could these not go to friends, family or neighbours? maybe as a trade for something you do like to eat/drink?
me and my pals do this quite often, better someone has the benefit of them rather than the bin

The thing is purpleybat that these sort of high sugar/high fat things are not good for anyone so why would I want to send friends to an early grave on the rubbish that I impulse bought. Believe me I have kept anything nutritionally half decent. Anyway I learned from this, next year will be avoiding this rubbish and will be getting better nibbles like pickled walnuts and peaches in brandy and roasted salted nuts instead of candy coated nuts, all in small quantities I hope

Magazines used to be very much better, they used to be informative and not glossy. I had my impulse buying thrill and am now settled into using whatever I have in. Yankee candles come to mind and so do those yankee tarts, I impulsively bought a lot of them, maybe 2 years ago and still they are taking up space. Must put one on today

VfM4meplse

I had several impulse buys this lunchtime: 5 items from the chazzer that I intend to use until their death for £8.50, and a load of containers for £7, so 11 items for £15.50.

I only went out for a walk and some pumpkin seeds

Slinky

Oh dear, I sinned earlier. I called in a shop to see if they had any leftover Christmas puddings reduced, as we like a pud (they had, and they weren't). I came out with a bottle of low alcohol beer, and 2 cans......

phoebe1989seb

I don't do many impulse buys these days - DH is more the one for that, lol! He bought me a winter coat I admired a few months back (£250 :eek:) when I had no intention of succumbing to temptation. Mind you, like a previous poster, it was the first item of clothing I'd bought all year so not really an extravagance, especially as my previous newest winter coat was purchased ten years ago

Since then I did impulse buy a couple of jumpers (one had a RRP of £200 but was £20 in TK Maxx, a place I usually hate for clothes shopping), the other was a fleabay (my preferred shopping destination) purchase - All Saints, as new, huge reduction on original price.....

I'll admit we used to impulse buy candles - decent quality/aka expensive brands - but only when they were on sale, and used to have a sideboard drawer full, but now only buy these when I think we need one

Neither of us were tempted by anything in the sales, although we did need a new, larger utensil jar for our newly finished kitchen and found the perfect coloured pot by Burgon and Ball in a local (ish) independent shop. It wasn't reduced, but at only £15.99 it was too good to pass up. We hadn't set out to buy one, so I guess it was an impulse buy although required!

We do look in charity shops, but there seems to be a severe lack of good quality stuff in this area. Think the last time I made an impulse buy in a charity shop was in Ludlow about three years ago - a velvet cushion with a bird/floral pattern for £3, in perfect condition and £30 new. DH occasionally finds books/DVDs in the charity shops/carboot sales which are impulse purchases, but these days decorative item wise, it's quite unusual for us to buy anything even to add to our collections (Arts & Crafts Movement mainly) as we've been trying to slim them down so it would have to be something pretty special for us to be tempted.

I guess, if anything, I'm most likely to make impulse buys for the garden - which was almost devoid of flowering plants when we bought the house two years ago - and I confess to being occasionally tempted by a new, interesting plant Actually, an impulse buy of a few months back was when the local Wyevale was closing and all their seeds were reduced to 50p per pack. I think I bought about 40 packs, lol!

VfM4meplse

A couple more (well, three actually ) for me today because I couldn't resist returning to that same chazzer. A Regatta coat, Uniqlo ultra light down gilet and M&S Collection jumper - for an amazing total of £4.50. It would have been rude not to :dance:

pattypan4

I have been good for three days, I mean surely I cannot count the extra bowls I just bought to match my new crockery. Of course they are not impulsive, I might need them and they might discontinue the range and I got my endorphins


My neighbour, last house, was incredibly impulsive for her garden, she always came home with new plants which she stuffed into whatever tiny space. Her back garden looked glorious in full bloom but it became far too difficult for her to manage, tiered and up steps. The weeds started to embed themselves and she could not get in to take them out. Five years later and it was a jungle and any dainty plant had been strangled by weeds

calicocat

Wraithlady wrote: »

Places like the Works do canvases and paint sets for not that much - alternatively, maybe ask on Freecycle or Swapping sites locally? Painting is one of those things which people take up with great enthusiasm, then lose interest and are left with a load of stuff - especially things like brushes and palettes.

Precisely why I will be keeping spending to a minimum as I am not Picasso .

calicocat

VfM4meplse wrote: »

A couple more (well, three actually ) for me today because I couldn't resist returning to that same chazzer. A Regatta coat, Uniqlo ultra light down gilet and M&S Collection jumper - for an amazing total of £4.50. It would have been rude not to :dance:

Exceptional bargains, and totally correct that it would have been rude not to.

Another thought for this year is going to chazzers this year if anywhere.

No impulse buys today for me.....not even t’internet.

Easel arrived. It was a pile of wood, but asked nextdoor blokie to give me a head start on it. Instructions in Chinese , but that’s what you get going cheap. Anyhow it will do the job nicely. Now researching how to paint on the cheap as let’s face it it , it is for myself, doesn’t need to prove anything, and doesn’t need to last a life-time or be restored in the future. :rotfl:

More stupid clothes used to fill Moroccan pouffe thing better as foam meant if you sat on it you fell over. 4 pairs of jeans, and 5 tops in the bottom now to give it more stability.

Impulse buys from past re-cycled .... :T