What was your ludicrous Lockdown purchase?

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Mine was a £1000 mini trampoline. I think I've probably used it about 30 times altogether! To be fair it is top quality and lots of fun when I can be bothered to use it. I don't regret it.

What about you?

My friend bought a blow up hot tub and a cat. The cat clawed the hot tub and deflated it the first time it was allowed out. 😂

Urgh yes, can confirm that cyclists go everywhere and anywhere- often in view of windows! We can see you. The dogwalkers around here are very good at picking up poo. Wish cyclists were also followed around by attendants, since they don't feel the need to clean up after themselves.

Hmm. Lockdown. I didn't go mad but I did buy an ab wheel. Still in its plastic wrapping when I threw it away a few weeks ago

Nothing crazy. I did however go to the supermarket in mask and gloves so that I could fill my trolley to bursting. We used the food over a 10 day or 2 week period but I was storing stuff in the cellar that then got forgotten about or just went mouldy quickly so I chucked a load out.

But I always buy and have a lot of food. I never liked to get low on loo roll tinned tomatoes or chickpeas even before lock down. I'm slightly better now.

This is amazing. I absolutely love cats, but they are massive, intentional dicks.

Electric piano, a very good one. We bought it for our son for Christmas. He barely touched it. I was full of good intentions but must have only sat down to practice a handful of times. Felt guilty every time I dusted it that another six months had gone past without anyone touching it 😆

Feel less guilty now as we ended up selling it this year to DS's friend for £100.

A Dolce e Gabbana juicer.

I don’t think I made one… I continued to work full time but had to take a 10% pay cut anyway. So I was skint.

A big firepit ... on it's second use I got pissed, tripped and chipped my front tooth on the edge of the firepit ... thank god I didn't face plant into it, could have been so much worse. Put me off using it after that.

A car. Went home from work in the March, never went back to the office since other than for odd days here and there and we live half a mile from the train station. Couldn’t have needed anything less!

The original purchase was not that ludicrous - a couple of 1000 piece jigsaws because everyone was doing them.
However its turned into an obsession and I now have 100s of the damn things in the cellar (completed) and 50 in a pile waiting to be done and yet I keep buying new ones.

A little black kitten 🫣

He’s now five and a half and shows his gratitude by brining me things he’s clearly pinched out of other peoples houses - last time it was a freshly baked scone 🤣

They will probably have helped tbf. The % of O2 that got into your alveoli would have been greater even though the pneumonia filled them with fluids because the air you were breathing had a greater % of O2. That means that your blood will have had marginally greater access to more O2 through diffusion bringing your O2 stats up. Although very minorly and very temporarily.

Theyre not an exchange for actual oxygen treatment… but they will have helped you feel better climbing stairs.

Really missing the laugh emoji on this post ...

@SnugglyJumpersMakeItBetter - I mostly want to know how on earth you spent £1k on a MINI trampoline?

Don't think I have any confessions, bar spending a ridiculous amount on plants, but at least the garden full.

My friends DH went out to the supermarket as lockdown was looming to do some ‘prepper shopping’.
He returned with hundreds of huge catering packs of tinned potatoes, tinned ham in aspic, corned beef, tinned mackerel, tinned green beans and bbq ramen. None of which they have EVER eaten in the 20 year relationship.
They left to move overseas last year and found the lot in their understairs cupboard untouched and mostly out of date.

I bought a bread maker and made everyone bread ( I know it could be contaminated but none of the neighbours refused it )

A digital piano costing £800 after the £30 keyboard on Marketplace we saw had sold and things escalated. No one could or can play but there it sits.

Children’s foot measurement things, so I could order shoes online. Had to get 2 sizes as youngest was a baby and started walking and eldest is a giant for her age. I should really put them on FB Marketplace or something.

Oh and a birthing pool, then I had to be induced

They still aren't legal.
Crazy things.
Goodness only knows why people buy them for kids. The speed and child's lack of awareness is dangerous combination.

Yes similar here. All rescue centres closed so got it into my head to spend £700 on a Maine Coon kitten. bought from a private owner - who is now nearly 5. The most feisty cat I have ever owned (putting it mildly) and appears to hate us all (but we love her of course).

Not expensive, and I didn’t think it was ludicrous at the time, but I brought home 6 giant 5L containers of mineral water, just in case….
Don’t know how far I thought 30L of water would stretch. They’re all still in the garage, awaiting their moment of glory….

Pretty liberty print face masks.
I only ever wore the medical blue ones.
They're unused and totally useless.

A patio heater

5 litres of industrial alcohol for homemade hand sanitiser... it's still under the sink.

read that as 'potato heater' and now I want one.