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Originally Posted by bluebicycle
Yeah. What usually happens when I shop online is that I find something I like. Just a single item. Nothing more, nothing less. Then I see that the site has something like 10% off $50 or more. Then 15% off $75 or more. Then 20% off $150 or more. That's when I think, "wow, what a great deal I'm getting! I'm getting all these items for 20% off because I'm spending $150!!" I then start adding more and more s*** to my cart. I also then say to myself, "whoa, maybe I should get accessories with these items. Accessories would be soooooo cool!"
Sometimes I'll even be randomly browsing a site and then I see a "featured product." I'm like, "huh... what do we have here?" Then I'm like, "ohhh, this looks cool! I think I can turn this into a hobby!" Then I proceed to buy a bunch of items related to said "featured item," even though I have NO idea if I will like that type of product.
I've also been known to watch random YouTube videos (via "YouTube recommendations") and get inspired to buy things. Like, I may see a video where someone is like, "I'm gonna watch Tik Tok videos on my old iPad." Then I'm like, "I have an iPad. But wait... that looks like a NEWERRRRRR iPad than mine! I want a new iPad even though mine works perfectly fine!"
bleh. I'm bad at this...
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Yeah, this sounds all too familiar. I also tend to be unable to moderate my purchases in the sense of getting just what I need for a new hobby. Instead I want the absolute top of the line product. For example I might decide that my new hobby is going to be astronomy and so I need a telescope. Rather than buying a simple one first and seeing if I like it I'll just go all out and buy a super expensive semi-professional one. Then the hypomania dies down and I lose interest, and I have this telescope just sitting around for a few years until I finally get rid of it. My wife tries to stop me but I can be very hard to control at times like that.