Impulse buys and do you regret them?

A red coat is a great pick me up on dark winter days, for goodness sake wear it otherwise it is a waste of money. How many of us can afford to spend money on something we say we wont wear, ridiculous, you must have a few bob. If you are not intending to wear it then donate to a worthy charity.

Fantastic. Just what I could do with. Hope you purchase some long, black boots soon.

The coat is lovely and warm. I'll feel great in it just as long as I don't catch sight of myself in a mirror or window. The shock could be considerable!

You will look fab in it. Also it will cheer you up on a cold day it's a nice bright colour. When I wear mine I will admit I stand straighter LOL

My best impulse buy was an orange wool jacket ,
I don’t wear wool and hate the colour orange, but it was in a sale !

Too many impulse buys to mention over the years but nowadays I talk myself out of it and regret it when I get home. I hope you wear it and enjoy it Jane10 because it sounds wonderful.

Yes your coat sounds lovely,be nice with a black scarf and a pair of gloves.
Years ago i used to wear a black maxi coat and was sad to part with it.

Why not wear it and see how it makes you feel? You might find a few compliments from others or an unexpected reflection in a shop window will tell you that it was just right for you. If not, you could always see if a refund is available, or failing that , how about giving it to a charity and that will allow someone else to try!
My life is one round of impulse buys; the small ones seem ok, it's the big ones I often regret - like the hugely expensive curtains that I now don't like.

How many of us have given stuff to charity shops with the labels still in tact ? I’m very guilty of that !!

I wish I were more impulsive. Then I would have leapt at the cobalt blue fedora that I saw a couple of years ago at a craft fair. It suited me to a tee, but I walked away from it and left without it. I have regretted it ever since. Likewise a marine painting we saw in a gallery in Wales. We couldn’t consider it as DH had just been made redundant, and there was little spare money. The gallery owner said we could come to an arrangement. But we didn’t have things we couldn’t pay for. A couple of months later, he got another job. I phoned the gallery and the painting had gone. The artist went on to become sought after, and then we truly couldn’t afford his work!

Unfortunately it has not been confined to a just this once impulse purchase and I could open a shop with these 'did I really need it'.

Love the sound of the red coat.
When I do regret impulse purchases is when I don’t actually have anything to go with the impulse buy and spend perhaps weeks and often quite a lot of money looking for it.
Alternatively 2 cheap buys which are not quite right when one more expensive item would have been perfect.

I rarely go clothes shopping so am not tempted. However, last winter, aided and abetted by GN members, I was tempted a buy a Joe Brown faux suede embroidered coat on line. I have yet to wear it as I am a hot body and don't really wear warm coats so I do regret the purchase.

I like to watch the Create and Craft TV channel and have been tempted a couple of times recently to buy unsuitable items. One was a set of large fancy frame cutting dies only to discover that the larger ones were too big for my standard sized Big Shot machine. So what did I do? I bough a new A4 sized one! I have also bought bargain packs of card topper kits even though I don't make cards from pre-printed stuff.

kwest I'll be bringing the tearoom to a standstill by ordering 3 pounds of sausages of course!

I've been swearing for years. Don't forget that I'm the commanding officer of the official GN expletive squadron!
I do draw the line at spitting though. I leave that to the Argy Bargy 'ladies'.

There are two ways to go with this.
1) Buy a purple hat and learn to spit.
2) The coat sounds lovely and will brighten people's day at this miserable time of the year. Wear the coat, perhap's with a slightly mysterious smile. People will be jealous and wonder what you are on. You may notice, in any tea-shop or cafe, people requesting " I want what she's having".

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Warningpoem
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit.

You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.

But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.

But maybe I ought to practise a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
Jenny Joseph

Buy a purple hat or scarf and wear that too.

Definitely wear the coat! Bright colours cheer up against the winter blacks and navy blues.
MOnica I love the sound of your red boucle short coat/long jacket - would you mind sharing where you bought it as I’ve been looking for something similar?

Why won't you wear it?

I should have mentioned that the neighbour was wearing a red fleece at the time and is rather rotund.

Ooh, Jane, if you have white hair, be prepared. My neighbour was mistaken for Santa last year by pre-school children and their piping voices carried so well, much to the embarrassment of the childminder.

you, not your
Does it correct typos - perhaps I should buy one, or ask Santa for one

gosh! I can't keep up with your grannyactivist!

I don’t enjoy shopping so I’m rarely in a position to buy on impulse, but today I sort of did.

I’ve been saving up to replace my very old iPad mini, which I hoped to do this week, but our youngest son just had a very expensive and, for him, unaffordable car repair bill. I had to force him to tell me how much it was and just yesterday I gave him what I’d saved to partially offset the cost. Then today, most unexpectedly, I got what I imagine is my winter fuel allowance - and popped into John Lewis and bought my new iPad that had £100 off!

Do you like it? It’s about 100 times quicker than my last one.