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Impulse buys!

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Bigteamug · 01/05/2023 17:58

Hi, has anyone else been making impulse purchases recently?

I only went to my favourite garden centre for a cup of tea and came home with this (oops)

I'm not sure what to do with it yet

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Mumconnect · 19/04/2025 14:28

Bigteamug · 19/04/2025 10:11

Love hearing about all your impulse buys, they all sound great. I daren't go near a garden centre again for a while as it always ends up costing so much!

I'm really pleased with the impulse buy that inspired this thread, I wasn't sure for a while as it only had a few branches but it's really come on.

I took a picture but edited the clutter and unpainted shed out of the background so it looks odd 😄

Can I see the pic please? I need inspiration 🧡

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 19/04/2025 17:00

I succumbed.

Bought some gaura and a couple of geums.

APurpleSquirrel · 19/04/2025 19:04

Last week I went to my favourite garden centre to buy some Easter bits for a friend’s daughter & came away with a reduced patio pear.

I still have 7 reduced David Austen roses I bought a few weeks ago - how could I not?? They’re staring accusingly at me on the patio as I’ve still not decided where they can go…

Myblueclematis · 20/04/2025 08:37

My absolutely biggest and most expensive impulse buy was going to another garden centre and coming out having ordered an expensive shed.

I told myself I did really need one which was true but I definitely hadn't expected to fork out for one when I'd only gone with a friend to their lovely coffee shop and a mooch around the rest of the place.

I am a pushover though sadly, my bank account can testify to it.😆

JamMakingWannaBe · 20/04/2025 22:48

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 19/04/2025 17:00

I succumbed.

Bought some gaura and a couple of geums.

@ChardonnaysBeastlyCat Can I ask where you bought your gaura from please. I lost mine over winter.

ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 20/04/2025 23:23

JamMakingWannaBe · 20/04/2025 22:48

@ChardonnaysBeastlyCat Can I ask where you bought your gaura from please. I lost mine over winter.

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BarrelOfOtters · 21/04/2025 07:05

I bought a £14 patio apple tree yesterday in Tesco, in really good condition, I have no room for it….

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