Most expensive item

Probably $700 on a guitar including accessories. For whatever reason, I had myself convinced I'd be the best songwriter ever if I had one. I was the start of my credit card debt I'm still paying for. I probably spent close to the same amount a year later on a trip to Nashville.

I bought a computer last year for about $1000. Then I didn't touch it for a year bc I do everything on my phone. But now that I'm in online classes I need it so I don't regret it. I had the money to spend and I would have had to spend it this year anyway, and now I don't have it so it's better that I bought it while hypo.

I get the urge to spend money while hypo but for a long time we were poor as **** so I literally didn't have any money to spend. I only have one credit card and it was maxed out. Thankfully I didn't open any new ones.

Well I don't think I was manic... at least not yet but it was before I became manic. It was slightly impulsive purchase was a $40k suv. Lease payments are large.

An astronomy course for $900 and the books I think cost $300. I literally looked at the stars at night, said "oh pretty" and signed up for the class. I went to two days of the course and dropped.

Escapeartist, I did almost the same thing! Many, many years ago (at university, aka College: Round One <ding!>) So many pretty space pictures. Alas, the material is not artistic. The only thing I remember (besides my complete lack of aptitude for grasping so much motion in 3 dimensions) was learning the word "nadir". Little did I know how appropriate that word would become.

I'm among the "little things add up" crew, so I can't remember it that way. BUT. I do remember the most ridiculous price I paid -- $105 for a music cd(!!!) And to top it off, I positively gushed to the seller about how thrilled I was(!) This was on Ebay. I suspect in this bidding war, the other bidder was hypo/manic too. Seller's dream, eh?

That was part of a long episode (before dx, so clueless and unquestioning of the "rightness" of it all). I'd give anything to have all the money back instead of having the many colorful stories from it...

Same here. I've been known to spend $1000 in Walmart. At one time. Then again, there was the time I went out to buy groceries and came home with a new car...