What was Your Biggest Purchase You Made

Went to buy my wife a new Mercedes (planned - to replace her old one) and came home with (2) of them.

A $22,000 preowned car. It was fully loaded with low miles:-) Still in over $50,000 credit card debt from 2 years of manic sprees and lots lost on gambling and drugs.

I once spent about $5000 just purchasing gold. It was shiny and cool and... shiny! This was back in 2004 when gold was a LOT cheaper than it is today and not going up as fast. I held onto it for a year, trying to salvage something from the impulse purchase, before having to cash it in for a small loss to cover some bills, now days I really wish I had held onto that gold!

Another time, I invested about $4k in a bunch of worthless stocks and eventually lost 90% of that money when all the stocks fell. Another time, when I was single, I spent over $1,000 over two days on hotels and hookers - fortunately I didn't catch anything from that experience.

Now days, when I go hypomanic, I tend to buy books that I think I'll read through and learn everything I need to know from. Technical books, self-help books, Programming books - you name it. Now I got shelves full of books Ive never read and will never read most likely.

On a related topic, anyone want to purchase some books on JSP and XML programming? They're only a few years out of date and the covers look really cool!

I am an impulsive buyer in general. I spend 20-30 dollars extra than what I intend...almost always. Even when I am not hypo or mixed or whatever. A really good friend of mine had my credit card for several months.

I spent 350 dollars on a plane ticket to meet a friend. (She paid me back half later on) 450 on a new t.v. Spent my whole paycheck on it. U_U;; Probably a couple hundred dollars between my boyfriend and I on playing cards. Couple hundred on a cat, whose had 2 emergencies already. @_@;; (He's about 2 and healthy now!) I am not hypomanic but I can spend 200-300 dollars in a week, easily.

Small purchases add up! I am thinking that I will have to learn how to budget somehow. :|

Last year it was $440,000 on a new house because 2400 sf was just too small for a new family of 3. (the house I bought has 5200 sf) Earlier that year it was $42,000 for a shiny new BMW. The house I can live with, the car I regret every day.

I bought gold too (in 2007) while manic! YES shiny and cool! I bought gold stock which I still own as well... I still have the gold pieces and of course now I just wish I'd bought more! Also traded in my sensible Volvo for a loaded pre-owned Mitsubishi Eclipse. (Shiny cool silver color). I still drive it and I do love it, all except for the cigarette burns on the driver's seat which occurred while I was chain smoking and wildly gesturing while driving...( I don't smoke anymore). I also bought lots of clothes, purses, accesories and make-up. Oh, and I spent money on travel, airfare, rental cars, hotels. It's taken time but I was able to pay everything off without consequences. But truth be told that manic spree was loads of fun and at this point in time, with the depression I'm experiencing, it's the one thing that makes me laugh when thinking about it.

I have gobs of manic Java and Java 2 books, along with other programming languages.... want them?

I've never really done anything too extreme in terms of spending.... Though, I am still a teenager so the only money I have to spend is the little bit I make that I'm not saving for college. The most I've ever done was feel really manic and decide I wanted to go out to eat for lunch so I took my entire family which wiped me out because I almost didn't have enough money for it. But food is my weakness, it's usually what I purchase when I'm manic.

Reading through these have really cracked me up and it's very interesting to read. Thanks for posting the topic!

Lets combine our stashes and start an online book store! We can call it "Book Mania"!