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Well that was one hell of an impulse spend

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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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mamabear715 · 17/02/2023 10:42

I did the leather coat thing too, thankfully online so I could send it back. I thought I'd look svelte.. I actually looked like a fat 1970's bus seat..

Shannith · 17/02/2023 10:46

Ultraninja · 17/02/2023 09:01

I stopped in a village to buy a sarnie, rather scruffy after a horse training session. Saw the dream house in the local estate agents window. Asked to arrange a viewing for when my partner came back into the country in 2 days time. They wouldn't speak to me, no proof of funds, didn't believe there was no chain, clearly thought I was just being nosey... told me to come back with partner and proof of funds and they'd arrange us a viewing. Agent was doing that massively, exaggerated polite thing that's so rude.
Partner (he with the funds to buy) came home. We went to the village, had lunch in the pub before going to the agent, and a chat with the landlord. He rang the owner, who invited us over to view and we brought it privately. Agent loses lots of commission.
Coronation chicken sarnie to country house purchase agreed within a week.
My sister went to buy a car and came away with a horsebox, but that's another story. 😁

That's so funny - almost exactly the same happened to me. Saw a gorgeous house in a random estate agent window on the way back from the yard, (I was getting coffee) with space to keep said horses that were the reason I looked like a tramp.

Treated as if I'd wandered in from a field (I mean I had) with that faux polite way you describe.

Luckily for me and not them it was listed with 2 agents. We bought it via the other one.

Note to estate agents, the kind of people that buy country properties often look like tramps. Because they live in the country.

pilates · 17/02/2023 10:48

I am more impressed that you have a NHS dentist 😀

Ineedwinenow · 17/02/2023 10:49

I nipped out to fill the car up with petrol and came back with 5 chickens and a cockerel! I had never wanted chickens, knew zero about them ( I learned quickly) had no box to put them in (neither did the homeowner who I bought them off) and obviously no coop! They were wandering around my car loose enjoying the ride and my husband was a bit bemused when I got home at why I got them! To this day I have absolutely no idea, I just saw a sign next to the petrol station that said “chickens for sale” and thought it would be a great idea at the time!

TheWeeDonkeyFella · 17/02/2023 10:58

Itawapuddytat · 17/02/2023 10:07

Oh, we haven't done too bad than. The worst so far it's been only the "we went to pick up milk and cat food from Tesco and left with a big TV too" and ""went to look at cars as there's a sale at Arnold Clark and we bought one there and then". This happened twice already Wink

PP mentioned someone buying a long skin leather coat Matrix style. I did the same in the autumn of 2000, a bit of an impulse buy but I have really wanted one for a few months so "oh, they have one, I look good in it [or so I thought 🙄😂] I've just been paid so I'll get it". It was quite pricey, but good quality and I still have it somewhere in a cupboard

We've done the TV thing too! Years ago me and DS stopped off at Asda for beansprouts and came home with 2 flat screen tvs!

alloalloallo · 17/02/2023 10:59

Went to our local Tesco Express for oven chips, ended up buying a blue velvet sofa.

There was one of those quirky furniture shops in the same row of shops that Tesco Express is on. I’d been banging on for years about a blue velvet chesterfield. Saw it in the furniture shop window and fell in love.

However, it is hands down the most uncomfortable sofa I’ve ever sat on, but I made such a stink about it, I’m stuck with it for a few more years yet.

FebName · 17/02/2023 11:10

Went out to buy some free range eggs at a farm, ended up with a peacock!

Hesma · 17/02/2023 11:30

Whatever you never… EVER…EVER… set foot in Aldi or B&M, you’ll be bankrupt 🤣🤣🤣

itsgettingweird · 17/02/2023 11:33

Hesma · 17/02/2023 11:30

Whatever you never… EVER…EVER… set foot in Aldi or B&M, you’ll be bankrupt 🤣🤣🤣

And IKEA!!!

I always say I can only go when I've not only saved up enough for what I want but also all the things I didn't know I wanted need until I get there Grin

Mookie81 · 17/02/2023 11:35

ChrisPPancake · 17/02/2023 08:42

Went to IKEA for 2 plates and 2 bowls. Came out with a sofa, sofa bed, wardrobe and 2 lounge cabinets.

Ikea is lethal! I'm heading there today for 2 small toiletry boxes, let's see 😂

NellietheElephantpackedhertrunks · 17/02/2023 11:38

DanteThunderstone · 16/02/2023 17:17

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

😂🤣😂

LookItsMeAgain · 17/02/2023 12:10

doingitalllagain · 17/02/2023 10:09

Nipped into IKEA to replace a pasta bowl that got smashed, left £980 poorer.

Holy Shit! that's one pricey pasta bowl!

ChrisPPancake · 17/02/2023 12:19

Mookie81 · 17/02/2023 11:35

Ikea is lethal! I'm heading there today for 2 small toiletry boxes, let's see 😂

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Good luck @Mookie81 Grin

hennaoj · 17/02/2023 12:24

Spudlet · 17/02/2023 08:07

Bloody hell, an NHS dentist. There are none of those left in our area, none at all. Even the private ones are mostly no longer taking on patients. I had to ring around the houses to find one that was taking new patients and would accept a nervous Nelly and child with ASD (our NHS dentist went private and delisted us), and we’re now saving up for the first visit in a couple of months…!

Enjoy your shiny white gnashers OP 😁

Community dentists take on children with Autism. They are brilliant.

Rebellious23 · 17/02/2023 12:27

Hesma · 17/02/2023 11:30

Whatever you never… EVER…EVER… set foot in Aldi or B&M, you’ll be bankrupt 🤣🤣🤣

I sent my dad to get a prescription for me
2hrs later he wasn't back so I ring him
"Ooh there's a brand new b&m so I just popped in..."
3.5hrs he was gone!

larchforest · 17/02/2023 12:36

VanGoghsDog · 17/02/2023 10:31

I have an NHS dentist. £23 for a check up which I get refunded by work. I have £125 a year to spend via the work scheme and I find it disappointing that the dentist has never suggested anything else to me so I can never utilise that benefit!

They don't even send me to the hygienist. I did ask, they said I don't need it.

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I used to have an NHS dentist when I was expecting my dc. I went for the regular checkups you are entitled to when pregnant and for a year afterwards. Nothing needed doing, not even a scale and polish. Until, that is, immediately that time was up and all of a sudden he found all sorts of work that needed doing after all, and which I would need to pay for. Hmmm. So I left there and went private instead. That was over 20 years ago now.

newtb · 17/02/2023 13:19

Hope nobody goes to Costco, that can ruin you. Not to mention the storage space requirement.

ApricotCrush · 17/02/2023 14:08

I was browsing Facebook and found myself applying for a 9 year old cat from a rescue centre that no-one wanted. We’ve never had a cat or dog in over 50 years of marriage but she looked so sad and lost and I just wanted to make her happy again. That was a year ago and she’s fast asleep beside me now. We love her so much and she has enriched our lives.

ErrolTheDragon · 17/02/2023 14:28

Note to estate agents, the kind of people that buy country properties often look like tramps.

Tbf the people most likely to look like tramps will have inherited their estates and have their own 'agent'.Grin

BettyOBarley · 17/02/2023 14:35

Ha this happened to me recently as well OP!
Went for a crown fitting (which was already costing me £300) and came away with no crown (yet) and paying another £320 for whitening!
(Which has only lifted my teeth by one shade so far, so feeling a bit meh about it!)

ScottBakula · 17/02/2023 14:54

Billybagpuss · 17/02/2023 07:27

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What a great story , thank you for the link.

sueelleker · 17/02/2023 15:02

ErrolTheDragon · 17/02/2023 14:28

Note to estate agents, the kind of people that buy country properties often look like tramps.

Tbf the people most likely to look like tramps will have inherited their estates and have their own 'agent'.Grin

They're the ones that get mistaken for the gardener by visitors, aren't they?

MuggedByTheSleepThief · 17/02/2023 16:09

The stuff of legend in our family is the time my mum went out for a cauli and came home with a wig. A proper high end wig not a joke one. Nothing wrong with her hair then or now but I guess on that particular day she wanted a blond bob instead of being a long haired brunette

DMCWelshcakes · 17/02/2023 16:28

Things I have accidentally bought:

A grand's worth of solid oak furniture by turning the wrong way out of Primark in an unfamiliar shopping centre.

An estate car by driving past a Volvo dealership whilst looking for a pub.

A Land Rover Defender for the same reason as above.

A house by randomly perusing rightmove in a spare moment and getting a bit carried away.

I also adopted a cat because I got bored on a Tuesday afternoon and DH had always wanted a cat. He was an absolute bastard but we loved him.

Cat. Not DH. DH is lovely.

GinAllAround · 17/02/2023 16:55

I went to Ikea to get a bookcase and came back with a bookcase, new dining table, several saucepans and a new husband.

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