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?

I bought a kitten who turned out to be a neurotic diva.
DH bought a petrol lawnmower. It's still in the box in the garage, right next to the 'normal' electric one. Apparently he bought it because he was annoyed by the cord on the old one, which he's still using over 5 years later.

Oh God, I forgot I bought a bike for my 'daily exercise'. Rode it for about quarter of mile up the lane, got a sore backside and was convinced I had contracted sudden onset asthma.

It was much easier in my head.

Peloton

Oh and a stupidly expensive, self inflating, 6 man tent. DH thought we could pitch it in our garden and that 'it would make a nice change of scene from sleeping in our house.' DH and I have been together for 34 years and knows that my idea of camping is being able to see trees from the window of my 5* hotel room.

A very frank exchange of views was had.

Needless to say, tent is still in its packaging, somewhere in the depths of the garage.

Oooo @SnugglyJumpersMakeItBetter thank you ! Too expensive new but maybe one will come up on eBay

thanks !

A Peloton. Everyone called it The Twat Bike. It’s literally saved my life, it was set up with disco lights next to it and it kept me sane through the continual rule changes. I did many challenges, joined Facebook groups, got up stupidly early and at one point rode for 24 hours for no good reason than a bunch of random women I hadn’t met were also doing it.

It gets a lot of hate but I have a very soft spot in my heart for that bike.

A jumbo parasol for the garden. Remember the weather was amazing for months? Well it’s been crap since and it’s not been out the garage since 2020.

Hair clippers. I might have broke the rules going to an Argos in the next town to collect them even though it was my closest one.
I wish I hadn’t bothered, DH uses them to save £10 and cut his own hair. He makes such a mess of the back, it looks home cut and gives me the absolute ick. However, he’s delighted and thinks they are magic as he’s saving money.

Rug I get, but telly? That is some major diarrhoea! 😂

I didn’t really realise this was a thing. I spent less money in lockdown than usual- I was hardly earning anything 😂

I did buy a GIANT tin of tinned tomatoes which I I found in a local Indian shop. I think it was 3kg and I was chuffed to bits ‘cause tinned toms were hard to come by at the time.

@AllTheChaos he got it on the screen😳and I ruined it trying to get it off. 🤢

A hot tub

I bought a massive tin of rice pudding. Like huge.

Several bottles of Chardonnay.

During the initial panic, all the shops had sold out of Sauvignon blanc.

The horror

We bought 5 ducklings. Raised them from day 2 in our bathroom and then in the garden. We’ve moved house since then and now live on a farm (not because of the ducklings). Unfortunately, over the years, a few got taken by foxes, one just died, but one of the girls is still going. We also now have 12 chickens.

My lockdown purchase well

I had planned on buying a caravan from a great company but then I considered a lovely wooden lodge on the woods on my land

But then

I built a house
Conjured up during lockdown
Moved in 2021

Ludicrous because I did not have a mortgage and had only planned on spending 20-30 k
It cost 210k 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️😝😝🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Nothing. I have never worked so hard in my life as trying to keep my organisation afloat during lockdown.

I love that. The thought of the inexplicable and fleeting passion you must have felt in that moment.

I..... will be a dancer! 💃

A peloton treadmill. Still use it most days though.

Dartboard which we still use,
Pool table,
dog hair clippers and human hair clippers. As we couldn’t go out I just shaved my husbands hair and sons hair completely off.

2 foals 😂

Every possible size, shape and type of baking tin, tray etc, and used them all regularly at the time.

Partner only mention recently about the distinct lack of baked goods recently. We met just before Covid and think he's disappointed that the domestic goddess in me has disappeared.

Will make Christmas cakes this weekend but that's about the extent of it since 2021.

School summer uniform, bought in a fit of optimism in early May 2020, mixed with paranoia that if schools re-opened suddenly there would be a rush to buy summer uniform and we wouldn’t be able to find what we needed.

Random tinned items bought at the local corner shop for an extortionate price when the supermarket shelves were bare. They were emergency rations, were never used, and as they were still in date, ended up part of a Harvest Festival donation in autumn 2021.

Hair clippers - still in the bathroom cupboard. Used on DH’s hair twice; he banned me from going anywhere near it ever again. Suffice to say that if I ever change careers, it won’t be to become a hairdresser - I’m truly terrible at it.

Stock pile of hand sanitiser, still working our way through it.

A kids’ garden golf set for DD, used once as the balls ended up in the neighbours’ gardens and lockdown rules meant we didn’t feel we could ask for them back.

I’m sure there must be more!

I had glitter ones and the men would only wear black ones

A second fridge freezer for so that I could go shopping once a fortnight and store all the batch cooking. We still have it but really need to get rid now as it's just become a very large drinks cooler with a freezer compartment that badly needs defrosting.

A couple of days before lockdown went shopping for school shoes (assuming they'd be needed for the next few months), also bought a huge thing of powdered milk and some mung beans just in case there was an apocolypse. All thrown out without being used.

Hair clippers still in regular use, none of the family have returned to the hairdresser since.

A swimming pool, tense wait for it to arrive as it was supposed to be essential shopping only by then. Loved it, used it, have replaced with a slightly bigger one since.

We bought clippers during lockdown. I gave my lot regular trims right through into 2021 when I got fed up pand refused to do any more. They liked the convenience of not having to queue at the barber’s. It was just one more damed chore for me. 🙄

We got a kitten, completely by fluke. Someone had reserved him and pulled out about half an hour before I rang the breeder to go on a waiting list. We love him to bits.