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Well that was one hell of an impulse spend

214 replies

GetUps · 16/02/2023 15:25

I've just been to the dentist. Check up, all good, £23 on the NHS.

But the dentist did a brilliant job of up selling and I seem also to have spent £230 on being fitted for teeth whitening trays and that's only half of the total cost!

I might buy a sports car tomorrow 😆

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Fourfurrymonsters · 16/02/2023 20:51

I’ve found my tribe 🙌
My husband took the dog for a walk at 10pm one night and came back with a motorbike (he didn’t steal it, he bought it from a bloke in the village who happened to be tinkering in his garage when DH walked past 😬)

SchoolTripDrama · 16/02/2023 23:16

DanteThunderstone · 16/02/2023 17:15

Went to buy socks at M&S, came home with a 300 pound (in 2001!) leather trenchcoat. I think the vibe I was aiming for was The Matrix but I looked more like the Gestapo guy from Allo Allo.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

SchoolTripDrama · 16/02/2023 23:18

RagzRebooted · 16/02/2023 17:30

Went grocery shopping and bought a boat.
It was an inflatable 3 man dinghy from the Middle Aisle at Lidl... DH tried to dissuade me, but I was getting increasingly overexcited and loud about my boat and we were getting looks, so he agreed.
That was 2 years ago and I'm yet to use it as we are half and hour from the sea and no where near a decent river, but 8 have hope. I refuse to be parted from my boat. Also, it was £40.

I did this once. Local River. One foot in the boat, one on the river bank. Big mistake. In I went.....

Perry34 · 16/02/2023 23:20

I nipped into John Lewis for a browse and walked out with an £1k+ Apple Mac. Except I didn’t have a fucking car so me and the kid got on a bus with the massive heavy lump. 😂

DH did not seem impressed but it paid off when he suddenly had to WFH in his new job 😂

VanillaSox · 17/02/2023 02:25

Just love this thread!!!!! My people!

Summerhillsquare · 17/02/2023 02:56

I was going to say the people who causally acquired a partner won until the donkey appeared 🤣

A nomination for Classics surely?!

amarante · 17/02/2023 03:06

LadyLaLaa · 16/02/2023 18:07

My friend is a dental hygienist.
She saved me £300 from the dentist 'teeth whitening offer'
Bought trays off Amazon for £9 , did it myself really easily, you just put them in hot water and mould them in your mouth. They fit perfectly, then I bought the whitening gel from the dentist at £30!
Hygienist friend says they're so overpriced at dentist with a big mark up and it's an unbelievable rip off that so many people's fail to research.
( Sorry that's no help to you op but maybe anyone thinking about it in future)

Can we buy the whitening gel easily?

Tarkan · 17/02/2023 03:18

I once got drunk and applied to a TV quiz show.

I got on and won a 5-figure sum from it.

I then got drunk again another night while speaking to a friend in Alaska so then spent over £2k to go visit her on a whim.

It was the best holiday of my life and I'm so glad I jump into things like crazy when I'm drunk (which was also the way I met DH but that's another story) 🤣

Tarkan · 17/02/2023 03:23

And maybe what I won is pennies to some people but at the time I was a newly single mum to 2 kids and a diabetic dog who cost me every spare penny in his vet bills so the thought of spending that much on a holiday by myself was massive and definitely impulsive.

Things are much better for me now (I sadly lost DDog since then, but I have 3 amazing DDogs now) but I still wish I could get back to Alaska sometime soon.

Popetthetreehugger · 17/02/2023 03:30

When H ( mark 1) was about 8 , he was sent to pay the rent , he came back with a football and a tortoise!

Angliski · 17/02/2023 03:41

Travelling in our camper round Italy, decided to waste some time by visiting some for sale properties- ina random little town, you know, just to play ‘shall we live here’.

three months later, moved into do-er upper in said town!!!

its turned out to be a massive source of joy and we use it for house swaps when we aren’t there but… ahem. Costly day out much!!!

billycat321 · 17/02/2023 03:45

My DH once went out to buy a packet of mange tout seeds and came home with a Jag

ScottBakula · 17/02/2023 03:51

DanteThunderstone · 16/02/2023 17:17

I've now googled and the plump fascist I was left resembling is apparently called Englebert Von Smallhausen.

Did he have a picture of the fallen Madonna with da big boobies ? 🤣🤣

EmmaGrundyForPM · 17/02/2023 03:52

Dontsayyouloveme · 16/02/2023 17:11

Do t worry, I’ve just put £395 on an empty credit card for 6 sessions of radio frequency to lift my arse! Wtaf! I’m so pissed off with myself 😡😩😢! I really need to learn to say NO!!

Radio frequency to lift your arse? Tell me more

TheAustralian · 17/02/2023 03:59

Went into town to buy sunglasses before summer got here and went home with the sunglasses and a new house. Two years later watching tv in 1am with the children, it was in the high 30s at 1am still so we couldn’t sleep because of the heat and humidity. An ad came on the tv for a state on the other side of Australia (6 day drive in 45°+) . It was their autumn and lovely and cool. 60 minutes later we were packed and heading for cooler temperatures, for a holiday. 3 years later we came home.

FiveShelties · 17/02/2023 04:42

I was walking my dog around the estate where we lived and the lady who ran the show home down the road was just putting up a poster to say the show home was for sale. I went in and had a look around, made an offer which was accepted. My husband was away at the time in Germany and to say he was a little surprised that we were moving would be a huge understatement.

It all worked out well and 28 days later we moved and that must be one of the fastest house sales we have ever done in the UK - they have usually taken around 28 weeks.

kateandme · 17/02/2023 05:11

Angliski · 17/02/2023 03:41

Travelling in our camper round Italy, decided to waste some time by visiting some for sale properties- ina random little town, you know, just to play ‘shall we live here’.

three months later, moved into do-er upper in said town!!!

its turned out to be a massive source of joy and we use it for house swaps when we aren’t there but… ahem. Costly day out much!!!

do you advertise.i really want to see this place!?

marchella · 17/02/2023 05:12

I had sold my house and had 6 weeks to find another. I saw one I loved on the internet and rang the agents. They said it was sold and was exchanging on Monday ( this was a Saturday) and asked what it went for - to get an idea for other places - and they told me. I later texted that's a shame as I would have offered 10k more. Cue , flurries of phone calls. Apparently a text constitutes a legal written offer. I had no idea! Moved in 6 weeks later. Feel a bit bad for the other people but they were getting a bargain and had apparently stuffed around for a few weeks so not TOO bad. Best text ever. Love my property.

Charliecatpaws · 17/02/2023 05:30

Following for the teeth whitening

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 17/02/2023 05:37

Mid 90s:
Went out for mushrooms.
Came home with a ball gown.
Did I have anywhere to wear it? - no!

Bansheed · 17/02/2023 06:01

Not in the UK..

My mate went to the zoo and they had tiny tortoises for sale, the kids begged. They bought two.

They were African Spurred Tortoises and now weigh 40kgs each and they have a dedicated tortoise fridge for the kilos of lettuces, tomatoes that they eat, daily

Ionlydrinkondaysendinginy · 17/02/2023 06:46

Don't buy a sports car, buy a llama that's how you truly impulse buy 🤣🤣

TaffyandTeenyTaffy · 17/02/2023 06:47

I'm another one who went out to buy a new tyre and ended up with a car. It was a beautiful racing green Peugeot 205 with a glass roof and cream leather and suede interior. Would have been perfect if we hadn't also had a cocker spaniel.....

When we had just moved into our first house we didn't have a cooker - I went shopping and bought a fabulous monsoon dress and jacket for a friends wedding. It has always been affectionately known as my "half a cooker suit" 20 years later I still have it. It has only been worn once as it is too small for me, but it is my unachieveable goal dress!

I am now wondering how/where I can acquire a donkey!

Mightysocks · 17/02/2023 06:57

My parents went to Costco to buy some toilet roll and came back with a hot tub.

StaceySolomonSwash · 17/02/2023 07:05

A friend (with his own craft business) trading at a craft fayre spoke with the lady who was selling home made fudge and said she was wanting to sell the equipment and retire but hadn't got a buyer yet. He chatted it over with her and when he got home told his wife they now had a home made fudge business too. Still going strong, even during lockdown when it seemed everyone wanted to sit at home and eat fudge 😂