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?

The first one didn't have the milk frother feature we wanted. The second one the milk frother feature and the espresso feature broke. The last one is still with us but has no espresso feature or milk frother - we bought a separate milk frother that we only occasionally use.

We should have just stuck to the first one but gave it away to DH's cousin when we bought the "fancy" machine.

Ludicrous?
A piano (dd was taking lessons, but...still...£2k!)
Purchases that are still used;
BP machine, hair clippers and bread machine.

I totally forgot about this but my DH also bought an electric scooter during covid and was stopped by police when he was out on the road on it. I insisted that we get rid of it so he gave it away.

Lockdown have us the final shove to just got for it and buy the pony for our DDs we'd been talking about. And we ended up with two. So our memories from lockdown are mainly our DDs riding around the countryside and woods for hours, day after day!

One very lucky girl!

Not a ‘purchase’ but rented a hot tub with a gazebo for 3 nights for around £300 for DPs 40th birthday as we couldn’t find one to buy for any sort of reasonable figure in our area - and there was nothing else we could do ‘party’ wise for his 40th. It was just us and the kids and it was in the middle of winter.

DP bought 10 tins of rice pudding ‘in case there was a food shortage’. I’ve never worked out why rice pudding - he has rice pudding about once every 2 years. They eventually went off and have been thrown away.

I bought my toddler every toy under the sun to distract him while I was wfh. It didn't work of course, since what kids really want is love and fun and tickles and playmates, not just "stuff".

When DC2 came along, we struggled (and are still struggling) to think of things to get her for birthdays and Christmases since DC1 had it all.

A huge wooden climbing frame, DS barely used it and broke his wrist falling off it. Countless patterned face masks

Lots of wool, not used and have no idea what I planned to knit with it.
min my defence I was in a non clinical role for the nhs so worked all the way through, so didn’t really have the free time to do a lot of knitting.

A massive bag of icing sugar that were still working our way through 😆

A 15k sack of flour and and sour dough starter, managed a couple of loaves and found the rest of the flour in the shed when we moved a few years later 🙄

Seeds, compost, growing bins, we ended up with the most ridiculously expensive potatoes and carrots, and the butterflies ate the dodgy looking cabbages, I really can't remember what else we planted they were that memorable. We've since moved house and every time dh mentions a vege patch I change the subject.

About 100 house plants over time (not just first lock down) I blame DD.
None of them particularly expensive & some of them are actually quite large now, some of them did not survive our learning curve, I still struggle to keep Calathes alive for more than a couple of months.
But my house is fabulously green, so I regret nothing!

See but growing your own food is so enjoyable. And because it’s grown from your own soil and not over farmed soil they’re richer in nutrients and vitamins by a considerable margin.

A jigsaw. I never bothered doing it.

A dog that cost the same as the all-inclusive holiday to Greece we couldn’t go on….. lucky I adore her!! 🫣

I bought a huge wood fired pizza oven from Selfridges, at the time when the world was sold out of wood fired pizza ovens. When it arrived it was so huge that I didn't even bother opening it, I returned it pronto.

Spin bike 🫠

@Justputsomeyoghurtonit, thank fuck I didn't give in to a second twatador 😂came close though, during the endless boring hours of lockdown, one brown bastard is enough, I love my boy immensely, but he is a disobedient prick, despite hundreds of hours of training, still howls if we leave him alone, and has occasional bouts of diarrhoea so explosive we had to buy a new telly and rug 🙄

Spin bike - does still get occasional use
Chanel trendy bag - 2nd hand and tbf has appreciated in value over the 5 years I’ve owned it although where I thought I was going to use it during lockdown…
absolute money pit renovation project ‘forever house’ which we love but will never be finished, particularly with how costs have skyrocketed post COVID
See also - cocktail making kit and glasses, giant loo rolls made for toilet roll dispensers in pubs, a wine subscription, a ridiculously expensive ‘recycling system’ (bin)

Not me and not expensive,but dp bought a harmonica

He hates parting with money,so when it arrived I was a tad surprised he'd spent money

By week two,it almost went up his arse

Sideways

A Damien Hirst print

oil paints, acrylic paints, charcoals, expensive felt tips, canvases then when none of these were used an expensive paint by numbers set. I never draw/paint have no idea why I thought I would suddenly become creative and artistic just because we were in lockdown.

We call ours twatface. I sympathise.

But our old boy is a dream, we were seduced into thinking dog ownership was heaven.

Well done for resisting!