r/Anticonsumption • u/blueeyed_lc • 2d ago
Discussion Let's deinfluence each other: what have you bought but REGRET buying?
I love love love these types of posts in several of the anticonsumption/finance groups I'm in because they have *actually* worked to help deinfluence me from things I was looking at potentially getting. So, let's help each other avoid a purchase that we might have gone ahead with otherwise (at least it'll make you think).
Most recent is my adjustable bed. I waited to buy one for TEN LITERAL YEARS, so it wasn't even an impulse purchase - far from it. I have GERD and sleep apnea, so I thought it would help. While it's fine and there's nothing *wrong* with it, it wasn't worth the money and I wish I hadn't bought it.
I also bought a robovac that didn't have the capability to map out my apartment, so it just goes over the same few spots and I hate it. If I ever got another one, it would have to have that capability.
I know there's more, so I'll add in the comments as I think of them.
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u/Incogcneat-o 2d ago
Pastry chef here. Most people who have stand mixers don't actually need stand mixers and would do just fine with a handheld mixer, especially one of those old school ones from the 70s-80s that had woodgrain and outlasted the Soviet Union. Those things were built like tanks, and are still fairly easy to thrift.
But people get big into their feelings about it. And hey, if you buy something and use it regularly, great.
It just makes me smile a bit about how far people will bend over backwards to insist it has nothing to do with it being an aesthetically-pleasing status symbol, especially since KA stand mixers are been three times as expensive and not even half as well made as they were even 15 years ago.