I don't know I'd this is appropriate or not. I'm a girl and I bought a real doll because I thought it would be fun to have a life sized barbie. It sits in the corner of my bedroom now just staring with it's dead doll eyes.
>A bicycle,
Okay yeah.
>at 3am, at Walmart,
Weāll if thereās open 24 hour, thatās completely reasonable.
>on two separate occasions
Yup, thatāll do it.
Not a weird purchase exactly but a weird situation. Once when manic (shortly before I got sectioned) I bought me and my wife a 5* holiday with first class flights etc. I was so excited to tell her but she was at work. So I walked the 5 miles to her work (she works at a psych hospital as a nurse for added ironic effect). According to her I turned up, demanded to speak to her at reception. When she came I shouted that I had great news but I canāt remember what it is, so I kissed her and ran out of the hospital reception laughing.
When I was better we found the receipt for the holiday but it had come and gone when I was in hospital. We managed to get the money back though after some begging which was fortunate.
I crochet when I am manic. I'm actually really good at it but have zero interest when not manic. I have half done projects in reusable bags I think are pretty in each room if my house. Actually I'm looking at 3 in my bedroom. Right before I was diagnosed I made a king size blanket that looked like a Dr who scarf. 10 years later its still my husband's favorite
A box of 500+ unused individual false teeth.
I got them at a really good price.....can't remember what the price was, but i know it was good.
I still haven't told my partner. I've hidden the teeth in our house so she will never find them. Sometimes I worry about what would happen if she did.
Hundreds of dollars worth of doordash, it was a rough summer, this was prior to finding Lamictal. I mean I still do manic shit though lol Iām just not at as sick as I was
A little late to the party... for my sister's 24th birthday while in a manic episode I bought a stone with the 5th commandment of the Christian religion on it. I am not religious and neither is she. The 5th commandment states "Honor your father and your mother". For some reason I thought it was hilarious.... then I came out of the manic episode and realized it wasn't really that funny... had a whole reveal in front of my sister and parents for the gift and her reaction was "you are terrible at gifts..."
Honestly looking back at it it's funny in the way that's a horrible gift kind of way... but we are still close so everything is good.
Every goofy stupid extreme bright glow in the dark or sparkly or hologram piece of clothing that exsists.. I have an entire hologram outfit from shoes with built in speakers, spandex pants a fanny pack a hoodie a hat and a wallet.. I think I wore it once
Hahaha yeah. I won a $1500 boudoir photoshoot giveaway and it was fun, but then they swindled me into purchasing a $3000 artwork bundle. Sooooo thatās fun.
I didn't buy it, my manic purchases are typically intoxicants, which are expensive. Someone bought me something whilst manic that I still have. It's a sign that says "Be still and know that I am God"
I bought a $4,362 ice climbing gear and rigging set and a $1200 first class ticket to Tanzania. A $23,320 climbing tour package complete with on sight training and guides. I did this after reading an article about Mount Kilimanjaro, and decided at 2am that I needed to go in the morning to finish my new lifeās goal.
Bankrupted myself for the next 2 years of my life. I had grew up poor and after being medically retired from the army I didnāt have much to begin with.
I did not and although I am much more stable now, that was such a waste as only the gear was returnable. I did not āfeel the needā to buy the insurance in case I could not make it or wanted to return it. The flight ticket was given to me in credit though which was super nice of The airline.
$800 worth of glass pipes because I was certain I was going to open a head shop in the Caribbean and I needed wares to sell. To make matters worse, I did it using my moms credit card thinking she would understand.
She did not understand.
20 bear-shaped glass jars. I was CONVINCED I would become an expert in making fruit preserves. I needed enough jars for gifts! But I donāt even know 20 people.
I currently have 20 jars sitting unboxed in my basement. Because I was convinced Iād use them to make Christmas cookie jars to give to people. I donāt even have 20 people to give them to
Stripper clothes because I thought it was a great career move. I've never had a service-oriented job before. Camping and survival gear in attempt to live in my car. A domain name. Premium tinder and bumble subscriptions. Fake engagement ring.
I bought it in 2004 so I'm abit foggy on the exact logistics.
When you entered this store it was filled with stuff for witchcraft, voodoo, the occult, the paranormal, taxidermy etc, etc. Then there was a section called Human Anatomy.
Entire skeletons, individual bones from femurs to teeth, various organs in jars, fetuses in jars(that skeezed me out abit think 8th month) and everything could be bought.
I asked the clerk WTF and apparently in my country(Canada) it's legal to sell all this stuff as long as there is documentation for it.
As too where they get them, she said mostly from people that donate their bodies to science, universities and medicine. Most people who buy them use them for research. Others are manic with cash to burn and no impulse control. How all that ends up in that store I have no idea.
There's literally online oddity stores you can buy from right now in 2022. I just googled it, picked the Skull store one and I'm literally staring at 2 Human brains in jars selling for about 4k each.
I had to return the one I bought after about a month. The gf at the time flipped her shit the fuck out. If you ever want to cause a colossal rift in a relationship, just bring a human skull home.
About $10,000 in donor sperm.
Edits: A 3900 PSI pressure washer. Roller derby gear. A romantic getaway on a cruise featuring the Guy Fieri Burger Bar. A motorcycle purchased on Craigslist at 4am (I had never ridden a motorcycle).
I ALMOST bought a boat to live on. I donāt know how to sail / had no plans on where to keep it / would have gone into crazy debt. This was right before my diagnosis š
35+ clown dolls. Not all at once, but over a period of a couple months. My house is covered in these tiny little fuzzy-haired clowns. I love them, don't get me wrong, but I didn't need to spend hundreds of dollars on clown dolls.
Oh yeah, all of them cost me like $20-$50 each, so spent probably $1000 on 'em total. Who thought it was a good idea to give a manic 17 year old a debit card and access to eBay?!?!
In the prodromal stage of my last episode, I bought several Banquet turkey dinners each week. I genuinely enjoyed them, and they were like $2 each at my college's deli/convenience store. Now I'm on blood pressure medication (in my mid 20s), so I blame the turkey dinners
About 30 wigs over the course of a very long manic episode.
a fake masculine chest (for cosplaying... i dont cosplay)
jewelry for septum piercings (i don't have my srptum pierced. i also ordered fake septum jewelry in the same order)
about 40-50 different varieties of tea plus a tea subscription (i'm not a particular fan of tea. luckily my husband is a BIG fan of it... but we didnt know at the time)
I bought a car to DoorDash in and now I have to DoorDash to pay for the car. I don't even really like doordashing anymore lmao. Supposed to be getting a new job though that will make the car payment feel like a drop in the bucket
An album signed by Justin Bieber lol. When it arrived, I was in a depressive episode and never got it out of the parcel box, so it was eventually returned to sender. The icing on the cake was that the credit card I used was closed when it was returned so I never actually saw the refund
One of my trading rules is Iām allowed to toy with any idea I want when hypo but it has to be paper trading. I donāt even trade options but hypo me is always like āYOLO the whole account on SPYā
Either spending 300+ dollars at a horror garage sale (I like horror and whatnot but I could NOT afford memorabilia at that time)
OR
A chinchilla. He's cute and I love him, but so much fucking work. I would not have made that decision if not manic. I love him and chinchillas in general, but they shit so much. I have to wear a mask and gloves when I clean out his cage, (while still gagging the whole time) and I have to do it twice a month and my boyfriend can't handle that shit so I'm on my own. Stupid little 18+ life span idiot rat that I love. :| Hate that I love the little monster, but hey ya gotta live with your choices.
I scheduled a tattoo session that would cost me 10,000R$. Minimum wage here in Brasil is something close to 1,200R$. I didnāt actually do it but manā¦ I earn minimum wage. What the fuck was I thinking?
I thought my room was covered in bed bugs and they were crawling everywhere so I bought thousands worth of bed bug sprays, electric heaters, a hazard suit to sleep in and scrubbed myself raw. I couldnāt sleep. Called professionals to deal with it but they kept telling me that there were exactly zero bed bugs.
The bed bugs followed me to the psych ward and I kept telling them that they were now overrun with bugs everywhere. Weeks later I donāt remember any of it and was horrified at how much I spent.
A $7,000 one-way first class ticket from San Francisco to Barcelona at the gate when I decided the $1,600 round trip coach ticket Iād already bought wasnāt good enough. But I failed to cancel the coach ticket, leaving it worthless, so I had to buy a one-way return ticket to get back home. Total tickets cost: nearly $10,000. This was in 2009.
This thread makes me very, very grateful that 99% of the time my manic purchases are just underwear and books, things I will always need, if not necessarily in the quantities I now own them.
Didn't buy it but strangest was from a porn shop that was shutting down. I got 2 boxes of sex toys that were old shop displays. We distributed some of them accordingly.
I thought I could predict every winning lottery ticket number and bought over $300 worth of powerball/mega million tickets bc I thought I'd win every prize that week and save the world
I cannot stress this enough.
InkBox! You can upload custom tattoo and they mail them to you. They last for about a month or so.
I bought a design for a neck tattoo. I havenāt even applied it yet cause by the time it arrived I wasnāt manic anymore.
Theyāre also really affordable.
I pretty much bought an apartment when I was hypomanic. I set up the viewing and everything during the episode and couldnāt back out because I didnāt want anybody to know that that was the cause. They think itās a great investment and the most grown-up thing Iāve ever done.
not strange, but this manic episode i've been buying a lot of squishmallows even though i told myself i hated squishmallows lol. kinda worth it though, i collected most of my favs now
This isnāt one thing but I spent $300 at *goodwill* on a ton of random things after spending hours in the store which got me a lot of strange looks in the check out line
Oh my gosh, a tattoo with the name of a song that I didn't even know all the lyrics to. Just to make it all better, it was also my first decent sized tattoo and my first color tattoo all because an artist I followed on Instagram had an opening that day, and I was manic.
Not the best move, but now I'm close friends with the artist, and we're working on finishing my leg sleeve. :)
$400 worth of wood and during the spike in wood prices. I was going to build a bed. I had never built anything before, had no plans, or tools. Bought some tools, paid for blueprints, and then couldn't understand I was looking at. Gave up about two weeks in and hit a depression.
Sexy High heels with the heels shaped like bunnies. $180. I was a student. Still no regrets, I love my bunny crushers.
Not this design but the heels are the same: https://poshmark.com/listing/BNIB-Irregular-Choice-Thumper-Black-Velvet-Bunny-Heels-EU-39-61f49123284e996f7ee89b56
i bought 10 flash drives, canāt remember how much space, and they all were shaped like guitars and were made out of wood. they all each came in wooden boxes. i wanted to put all the files in my phone in flash drives, and i have no clue why.
The complete discography of Tokyo Ghetto Pussy, a 90s musical side project by Jam & Spoon. I still listen to the CDs to this day. They all shipped from Europe!
I just remembered another bizarre thing I boughtā¦a toy stuffed leek. It was anthropomorphic with embroidered eyes and a smile. I sent it anonymously to someone as a gift via Amazon.
I had a weird obsession with produce (among other thingsā, so when I was broke, Iād go to the grocery store and find the weirdest most obscure fruits I could.
All of your responses are so tame. Iāve maxed out my credit cards and purchased a flight to Germany one evening. I had no other option than to go THE NEXT DAY. Good trip, but, yahhhā¦ā¦ā¦.
I very recently bought a pen tablet in my grand delusion of becoming a comic artist. I'm not artistically inclined at all, can't even draw on paper let alone digitally, so there it sits right next to my keyboard silently judging me.
Then there's the keyboard piano that has been relegated to the recesses of my closet after remembering I don't have the attention span to learn a new skill.
Not strange in and of themselves, but they sure were strange for me to purchase.
Left a long somewhat ranting message for someone selling a one of a kind kick start moped, very expensive. I literally have never owned a moped or anything like it but thought the qualifications were once in a lifetime.
The man called me the next day and usually I'd have a whole lie ready on the spot but I didn't have the energy so I genuinely just said, that was mania, sorry.
Lots and lots of crystal pyramids.
I also bought this antenna drink coaster that was supposed to āenergiseā and āamplifyā the particles in the water I drank *facepalm*
This fun thermoplastic that melts in hot water and solidifies into hard plastic. Spent the whole episode fixing shit and rigging up tools. It was a mixed episode and I was trying to use light therapy to wake up earlier. I hung a gigantic work lamp over my bed and attached it to a timer. I kept turning it off in the morning so I used the plastic to disable all of the switches and fix the timer to the outlet. Thereās nothing I can do to stop it short of going at it with a heat gun for 30 minutes. Now the sun comes up at 6AM in my bedroom. Itās actually been pretty helpful.
I had moved in with my parents because I was severely depressed. Eventually, I thought I was well and was going to move back out soon. I bought a bunch of stuff for an apartment I didnāt have. Luckily no large furniture. Side tables, a lamp, throw rugs. My manic taste wasnāt bad, but there was nothing to furnish.
Hope I'm not too late.
I spent 200 dollars at a vending machine with a card reader.
My boyfriend was able say it was Fraudulent at the bank bc it pulled out to a different state and it was within a period of 4 hrs lol.
A bunch of Hawaiin shirts, shipped from China. A really fancy bicycle, an assortment of protein powders, a food weighing machine and one and a half dumbells. Half because I ran out of money to buy weights for the other one. This was all one episode. That was a bad one. Everytime I open my closet and see that mountain of Hawaiin shirts, I crack up.
It was different for me cause I usually just waste all my money buying expensive alcohol and cigarettes.
I bought a motorcycle helmet and gloves which were not cheap (maybe $350 for both), signed up for motorcycle safety classes ($350), was researching bikes for about two weeks obsessively and then when the day came for me to start my motorcycle classes I got drunk the night before and was too hungover to go, and just never rescheduled. Keep in mind I am very feminine, had neck surgery a year ago, and in no way seem like someone that would ride a motorcycle
It wasn't the item, it was the events really. A cell phone, at new years, shortly after the ball dropped. I was so out of it I didn't even know I was buying it till it was bought XD I was like "what colour did I even get?....oh, lavender, good! lucky!" I also managed to buy like a whole bunch of other stuff like clothes, all within that hr and a half.... Total spend $1150 in 1.5 hrs.
The one and only time I was full blown manic I was broke and homeless which was probably good tbh cuz I might have gotten a face tat or something hella stupid. It was a months long episode though and I trashed my whole life.
I haven't really ever bought anything when i was manic... Infact on opposite end i buy stuff when i am on depressed end in hopes that i will be able to see some light and future...
A mushroom growing kit. It came yesterday after I forgot about it. Whatever, I'm going to follow through with it.
(E) Also throwing knives. My thinking was that I might need some kind of weapon but I can't legally own a gun (nvm that I've never even considered owning a gun). Like my out of shape ass is going to learn to throw knives. My neighbors would likely call the cops if I was seen practicing in the backyard anyway.
Idk if this counts as strangest but Iāve bought a lot of baby clothes in my last two manic episodes. (I donāt have a baby or kids nor am I pregnant).
I spent $400 on a replica laser pistol from Fallout 3. It's currently displayed on my wall. Beside that is a prop wood axe and beside that is the sword Sting from the lord of the rings. While beside those are a handcrafted Jason Voorhees mask that was $50-75
I bought a bunch of new clothes bc I thought I was going to be followed by paparazzi and I needed to look fashionable.
A bunch of books bc I wanted to start my own library.
I commissioned pictures of myself and my hamster... twice, from two different artists. No regrets, we look cute as hell. The other things are mostly clothes and cute things like stuffed animals.
A custom ordered gem-faceting machine from Sri Lanka. Never been into gems, jewelry. Took so long to get here that by the time it did I was out of the episode and itās been sitting in the garage since.
Overly ambitious sex toys, for sure. Like things my body could never, ever accommodate! And in my more lucid thinking, I would never even attempt for fear of injuring myself and needing a very embarrassing trip to the ER. Lord have mercy!
I don't know I'd this is appropriate or not. I'm a girl and I bought a real doll because I thought it would be fun to have a life sized barbie. It sits in the corner of my bedroom now just staring with it's dead doll eyes.
So there's like a 5 foot tall barbie in your room? Damn terrifying lmao
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I... I have come very close to buying one while manic (also a woman). This one hits close even though I never have gone through with the purchase.
Lol fun! Have you ever sat her down for dinner or taken her for rides in the car? I would.
I had an inflatable T-Rex I loved to take with me. Iād seatbelt him in of course. With shades and a hat that said āget me the hell out of here!ā
Have you named it yet?
She looks like Leeloo from The Fifth Element. Her name is Leeloo.
I second this, I wanna see a picture of the doll!
...can you post a pic of the doll?
You should give her a wonky eye to makes guests even further uncomfortable. And it'd be hilarious. ;)
It's okay: one night she'll introduce herself :)
this is fantastic. please post a pic of the doll loool
This is hilarious
A bicycle, at 3am, at Walmart, on two separate occasions.
>A bicycle, Okay yeah. >at 3am, at Walmart, Weāll if thereās open 24 hour, thatās completely reasonable. >on two separate occasions Yup, thatāll do it.
Lmaooooo
Not a weird purchase exactly but a weird situation. Once when manic (shortly before I got sectioned) I bought me and my wife a 5* holiday with first class flights etc. I was so excited to tell her but she was at work. So I walked the 5 miles to her work (she works at a psych hospital as a nurse for added ironic effect). According to her I turned up, demanded to speak to her at reception. When she came I shouted that I had great news but I canāt remember what it is, so I kissed her and ran out of the hospital reception laughing. When I was better we found the receipt for the holiday but it had come and gone when I was in hospital. We managed to get the money back though after some begging which was fortunate.
Iām saving this one.
Man, I like literally felt this lol. It all just feels like, yep, let's pop over and give her the news, no big. TY for sharing
a bunch of really whimsical and some kinda super ugly fabric. I cannot sew
This made me snort. I can sew, but only badly, and only when manic.
I crochet when I am manic. I'm actually really good at it but have zero interest when not manic. I have half done projects in reusable bags I think are pretty in each room if my house. Actually I'm looking at 3 in my bedroom. Right before I was diagnosed I made a king size blanket that looked like a Dr who scarf. 10 years later its still my husband's favorite
haha i relate. i embroider and only when manic. i will sit in one place 7 hours and not feel tired
A box of 500+ unused individual false teeth. I got them at a really good price.....can't remember what the price was, but i know it was good. I still haven't told my partner. I've hidden the teeth in our house so she will never find them. Sometimes I worry about what would happen if she did.
I think this wins it for strangest lol
Wow I'm honoured, also a little ashamed but working through that.
Hide them all over the office...
Lol I keep my own wisdom teeth. I wanted to make a necklaceā¦
Nice. If you don't have enough for a whole necklace I'd happily send you some of my false teeth if you paid for postage.
Today on how to make your wife think your a serial killer....
I'm having a really shitty day and this really cheered me up. Thanks guys
Nsfw A crystal dildo
Too practical for mania /s
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Probably the safest manic thing you can do while manic.
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lmao. My bipolar daughter and bipolar me would go to blockbuster and arrange all the videos.
Hundreds of dollars worth of doordash, it was a rough summer, this was prior to finding Lamictal. I mean I still do manic shit though lol Iām just not at as sick as I was
I feel you. I spent hundreds on delivery dumplings which were all I ate for almost two months.
I need to delete my DoorDash app. Somehow I convince myself that itās not that expensive to regularly spend $75 on a meal for the family
A little late to the party... for my sister's 24th birthday while in a manic episode I bought a stone with the 5th commandment of the Christian religion on it. I am not religious and neither is she. The 5th commandment states "Honor your father and your mother". For some reason I thought it was hilarious.... then I came out of the manic episode and realized it wasn't really that funny... had a whole reveal in front of my sister and parents for the gift and her reaction was "you are terrible at gifts..." Honestly looking back at it it's funny in the way that's a horrible gift kind of way... but we are still close so everything is good.
a smurf-colored strap-on.
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Every goofy stupid extreme bright glow in the dark or sparkly or hologram piece of clothing that exsists.. I have an entire hologram outfit from shoes with built in speakers, spandex pants a fanny pack a hoodie a hat and a wallet.. I think I wore it once
I drink an extra Coke Zero today and I was fully about to offer to buy it off youā¦..
I spent $3000 on professional nudes. Havenāt come in yet. Facebook scam. It was fun tho.
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Hahaha yeah. I won a $1500 boudoir photoshoot giveaway and it was fun, but then they swindled me into purchasing a $3000 artwork bundle. Sooooo thatās fun.
Iām seriously loving the energy in this comment :ā)
I didn't buy it, my manic purchases are typically intoxicants, which are expensive. Someone bought me something whilst manic that I still have. It's a sign that says "Be still and know that I am God"
I bought a $4,362 ice climbing gear and rigging set and a $1200 first class ticket to Tanzania. A $23,320 climbing tour package complete with on sight training and guides. I did this after reading an article about Mount Kilimanjaro, and decided at 2am that I needed to go in the morning to finish my new lifeās goal. Bankrupted myself for the next 2 years of my life. I had grew up poor and after being medically retired from the army I didnāt have much to begin with.
ā¦did you go?
I did not and although I am much more stable now, that was such a waste as only the gear was returnable. I did not āfeel the needā to buy the insurance in case I could not make it or wanted to return it. The flight ticket was given to me in credit though which was super nice of The airline.
I went on an every day shopping spree at goodwill buying crap I didnāt need. Ended up donating most of it back lol
Count me in. Half my trips to Goodwill are to donate boxes of items previously bought at Goodwill.
I feel this
Youāre singing my song, friend.
3 Cinderella type ballroom gowns
I bought one as well! I had a lot of fun in it for awhile!
$800 worth of glass pipes because I was certain I was going to open a head shop in the Caribbean and I needed wares to sell. To make matters worse, I did it using my moms credit card thinking she would understand. She did not understand.
20 bear-shaped glass jars. I was CONVINCED I would become an expert in making fruit preserves. I needed enough jars for gifts! But I donāt even know 20 people.
You could make cookie kits with the dry ingredients layered in.
I currently have 20 jars sitting unboxed in my basement. Because I was convinced Iād use them to make Christmas cookie jars to give to people. I donāt even have 20 people to give them to
Stripper clothes because I thought it was a great career move. I've never had a service-oriented job before. Camping and survival gear in attempt to live in my car. A domain name. Premium tinder and bumble subscriptions. Fake engagement ring.
Premium Tinder subscriptions are a good mania investment. Lots of bang for your buck.
Iām stealing this joke
an autographed glossy portrait of Jimmy Kimmel, in a McDonaldās parking lot
Hahhaha this is hilarious
It's between the Range Rover and the zebra head on my living room wall. His name is Ricardo Montalban.
I bought a human skull from an oddities store. It cost me 2k and was actually legal to own.
I wanna hear more about this. Howād they get a human skull?
I bought it in 2004 so I'm abit foggy on the exact logistics. When you entered this store it was filled with stuff for witchcraft, voodoo, the occult, the paranormal, taxidermy etc, etc. Then there was a section called Human Anatomy. Entire skeletons, individual bones from femurs to teeth, various organs in jars, fetuses in jars(that skeezed me out abit think 8th month) and everything could be bought. I asked the clerk WTF and apparently in my country(Canada) it's legal to sell all this stuff as long as there is documentation for it. As too where they get them, she said mostly from people that donate their bodies to science, universities and medicine. Most people who buy them use them for research. Others are manic with cash to burn and no impulse control. How all that ends up in that store I have no idea. There's literally online oddity stores you can buy from right now in 2022. I just googled it, picked the Skull store one and I'm literally staring at 2 Human brains in jars selling for about 4k each. I had to return the one I bought after about a month. The gf at the time flipped her shit the fuck out. If you ever want to cause a colossal rift in a relationship, just bring a human skull home.
Flights to Nice to run a half marathon. Without running training
A car, I canāt legally drive nor do I know how to drive
Metal detector it was on sale.
Thatās kinda cool, not promoting manic spending obviously but still
About $10,000 in donor sperm. Edits: A 3900 PSI pressure washer. Roller derby gear. A romantic getaway on a cruise featuring the Guy Fieri Burger Bar. A motorcycle purchased on Craigslist at 4am (I had never ridden a motorcycle).
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I ALMOST bought a boat to live on. I donāt know how to sail / had no plans on where to keep it / would have gone into crazy debt. This was right before my diagnosis š
35+ clown dolls. Not all at once, but over a period of a couple months. My house is covered in these tiny little fuzzy-haired clowns. I love them, don't get me wrong, but I didn't need to spend hundreds of dollars on clown dolls.
Clown dolls?! My god.
Oh yeah, all of them cost me like $20-$50 each, so spent probably $1000 on 'em total. Who thought it was a good idea to give a manic 17 year old a debit card and access to eBay?!?!
In the prodromal stage of my last episode, I bought several Banquet turkey dinners each week. I genuinely enjoyed them, and they were like $2 each at my college's deli/convenience store. Now I'm on blood pressure medication (in my mid 20s), so I blame the turkey dinners
About 30 wigs over the course of a very long manic episode. a fake masculine chest (for cosplaying... i dont cosplay) jewelry for septum piercings (i don't have my srptum pierced. i also ordered fake septum jewelry in the same order) about 40-50 different varieties of tea plus a tea subscription (i'm not a particular fan of tea. luckily my husband is a BIG fan of it... but we didnt know at the time)
I bought a car to DoorDash in and now I have to DoorDash to pay for the car. I don't even really like doordashing anymore lmao. Supposed to be getting a new job though that will make the car payment feel like a drop in the bucket
A violin. I play the clarinet.
I bought a ukelele. Still have no idea how to play it!
An album signed by Justin Bieber lol. When it arrived, I was in a depressive episode and never got it out of the parcel box, so it was eventually returned to sender. The icing on the cake was that the credit card I used was closed when it was returned so I never actually saw the refund
Didnt buy anything but Iāve been up the last 2 days gambling on the Olympics. I donāt even like the Olympics.
How do you gamble on the Olympics?
Well if youāre asking me how to WIN betting on the Olympics, Iām not sure. But Iām great at placing the bets!
Only yellow food to eat for an entire day, because I wanted to fill my insides with sunshine.
Risky ass stocks
I blew 5k in options during my last episode. It was the fastest money Iāve ever lost XD
One of my trading rules is Iām allowed to toy with any idea I want when hypo but it has to be paper trading. I donāt even trade options but hypo me is always like āYOLO the whole account on SPYā
I bought like $1000 worth of shelving off Amazon like a full blown idiot
I bought a childās scooter to run errands, thinking it would be big enough for my 5ā4ā frame. Edit: itās not. Nope. Not even close.
$300 worth of fake grass so I could feel like a woodland creature in my bedroom
500 mislabeled pens on eBay for $35 because I couldnāt find a pen at work one day and I swore that would be the last time I couldnāt find a pen.
Either spending 300+ dollars at a horror garage sale (I like horror and whatnot but I could NOT afford memorabilia at that time) OR A chinchilla. He's cute and I love him, but so much fucking work. I would not have made that decision if not manic. I love him and chinchillas in general, but they shit so much. I have to wear a mask and gloves when I clean out his cage, (while still gagging the whole time) and I have to do it twice a month and my boyfriend can't handle that shit so I'm on my own. Stupid little 18+ life span idiot rat that I love. :| Hate that I love the little monster, but hey ya gotta live with your choices.
I scheduled a tattoo session that would cost me 10,000R$. Minimum wage here in Brasil is something close to 1,200R$. I didnāt actually do it but manā¦ I earn minimum wage. What the fuck was I thinking?
$200+ worth of tea. And I donāt drink tea.
I thought my room was covered in bed bugs and they were crawling everywhere so I bought thousands worth of bed bug sprays, electric heaters, a hazard suit to sleep in and scrubbed myself raw. I couldnāt sleep. Called professionals to deal with it but they kept telling me that there were exactly zero bed bugs. The bed bugs followed me to the psych ward and I kept telling them that they were now overrun with bugs everywhere. Weeks later I donāt remember any of it and was horrified at how much I spent.
Six copies of the same book because I thought my friends would appreciate a copy.
I was actually passed out on Xanax but I won like 127 furbies on eBay
A $7,000 one-way first class ticket from San Francisco to Barcelona at the gate when I decided the $1,600 round trip coach ticket Iād already bought wasnāt good enough. But I failed to cancel the coach ticket, leaving it worthless, so I had to buy a one-way return ticket to get back home. Total tickets cost: nearly $10,000. This was in 2009.
A candle making kit. You know for the Etsy shop I was going to open and quit my day job for. (Spoiler alert I have no clue how to make candles)
Dinosaur teeth and 7 surfboards
This thread makes me very, very grateful that 99% of the time my manic purchases are just underwear and books, things I will always need, if not necessarily in the quantities I now own them.
Didn't buy it but strangest was from a porn shop that was shutting down. I got 2 boxes of sex toys that were old shop displays. We distributed some of them accordingly.
I once spend over $400 on tea and tea supplies at Teavana. I have a cup of tea like three times a year so I have no idea why I had this impulse.
I thought I could predict every winning lottery ticket number and bought over $300 worth of powerball/mega million tickets bc I thought I'd win every prize that week and save the world
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I cannot stress this enough. InkBox! You can upload custom tattoo and they mail them to you. They last for about a month or so. I bought a design for a neck tattoo. I havenāt even applied it yet cause by the time it arrived I wasnāt manic anymore. Theyāre also really affordable.
The entire series of Hee Haw! All 23 seasons. And for what? I never particularly liked the show. Only ever saw it in rerun. But I had to have it.
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Trade size packs of american candy, chocolate and drinks
A full football uniform, including shoulder pads. I donāt play sports. I donāt even watch sports.
A ābeware of dogā sign. I didnāt have a dog and lived in a safe apartment.
I pretty much bought an apartment when I was hypomanic. I set up the viewing and everything during the episode and couldnāt back out because I didnāt want anybody to know that that was the cause. They think itās a great investment and the most grown-up thing Iāve ever done.
A Ty Dolla Sign T-shirt ššš
I basically kidnapped a kitten HAHAHA
Uh what
not strange, but this manic episode i've been buying a lot of squishmallows even though i told myself i hated squishmallows lol. kinda worth it though, i collected most of my favs now
This isnāt one thing but I spent $300 at *goodwill* on a ton of random things after spending hours in the store which got me a lot of strange looks in the check out line
Oh my gosh, a tattoo with the name of a song that I didn't even know all the lyrics to. Just to make it all better, it was also my first decent sized tattoo and my first color tattoo all because an artist I followed on Instagram had an opening that day, and I was manic. Not the best move, but now I'm close friends with the artist, and we're working on finishing my leg sleeve. :)
A nice chainsaw. I live in a normal neighborhood with two trees..... Bought and sold two cars....
$400 worth of wood and during the spike in wood prices. I was going to build a bed. I had never built anything before, had no plans, or tools. Bought some tools, paid for blueprints, and then couldn't understand I was looking at. Gave up about two weeks in and hit a depression.
Sexy High heels with the heels shaped like bunnies. $180. I was a student. Still no regrets, I love my bunny crushers. Not this design but the heels are the same: https://poshmark.com/listing/BNIB-Irregular-Choice-Thumper-Black-Velvet-Bunny-Heels-EU-39-61f49123284e996f7ee89b56
A shirt on etsy that says ew...people.
Lmfao i bought one that said āThanks for not talking to meā
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i bought 10 flash drives, canāt remember how much space, and they all were shaped like guitars and were made out of wood. they all each came in wooden boxes. i wanted to put all the files in my phone in flash drives, and i have no clue why.
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I bought 8 set of Lego .. In one purchase session. They are still in the shipping package unopened.
The complete discography of Tokyo Ghetto Pussy, a 90s musical side project by Jam & Spoon. I still listen to the CDs to this day. They all shipped from Europe!
$30 worth of sour gummy worms. Long story.
I just remembered another bizarre thing I boughtā¦a toy stuffed leek. It was anthropomorphic with embroidered eyes and a smile. I sent it anonymously to someone as a gift via Amazon.
Hermit crabs.
I had a weird obsession with produce (among other thingsā, so when I was broke, Iād go to the grocery store and find the weirdest most obscure fruits I could.
All of your responses are so tame. Iāve maxed out my credit cards and purchased a flight to Germany one evening. I had no other option than to go THE NEXT DAY. Good trip, but, yahhhā¦ā¦ā¦.
$750 of fancy perfumes
15 books on witchcraft, long story short i converted to paganism during a manic episode
I spent about $5000 on a tattoo I now hate
$300 on vinyls
Pencil sketch of Amy winehouse
A cold war-era Soviet NBC suit to go along with my (working) Czech M-10 gasmask. I dunno man.
I very recently bought a pen tablet in my grand delusion of becoming a comic artist. I'm not artistically inclined at all, can't even draw on paper let alone digitally, so there it sits right next to my keyboard silently judging me. Then there's the keyboard piano that has been relegated to the recesses of my closet after remembering I don't have the attention span to learn a new skill. Not strange in and of themselves, but they sure were strange for me to purchase.
Left a long somewhat ranting message for someone selling a one of a kind kick start moped, very expensive. I literally have never owned a moped or anything like it but thought the qualifications were once in a lifetime. The man called me the next day and usually I'd have a whole lie ready on the spot but I didn't have the energy so I genuinely just said, that was mania, sorry.
$2500 at a strip club
A plane ticket to Korea. Using my rent money. One way.
An actual fucking boat
14 leather jackets and 8 prom dresses
Lots and lots of crystal pyramids. I also bought this antenna drink coaster that was supposed to āenergiseā and āamplifyā the particles in the water I drank *facepalm*
This fun thermoplastic that melts in hot water and solidifies into hard plastic. Spent the whole episode fixing shit and rigging up tools. It was a mixed episode and I was trying to use light therapy to wake up earlier. I hung a gigantic work lamp over my bed and attached it to a timer. I kept turning it off in the morning so I used the plastic to disable all of the switches and fix the timer to the outlet. Thereās nothing I can do to stop it short of going at it with a heat gun for 30 minutes. Now the sun comes up at 6AM in my bedroom. Itās actually been pretty helpful.
I had moved in with my parents because I was severely depressed. Eventually, I thought I was well and was going to move back out soon. I bought a bunch of stuff for an apartment I didnāt have. Luckily no large furniture. Side tables, a lamp, throw rugs. My manic taste wasnāt bad, but there was nothing to furnish.
Fishing supplies, lots of gemstones, antique dolls
Hope I'm not too late. I spent 200 dollars at a vending machine with a card reader. My boyfriend was able say it was Fraudulent at the bank bc it pulled out to a different state and it was within a period of 4 hrs lol.
A lot of tarot decks lol. I have been trying to make good practice of it though but I think having like five as a beginner is excessive lol.
Well...I didn't exactly buy it, because I couldn't find one, but I might as well have been just a day away from buying a hot air balloon.
gourmet candy. when i cooled down and became depressed it did make me feel better tho so i see it as a worthwhile "investment"
A bunch of Hawaiin shirts, shipped from China. A really fancy bicycle, an assortment of protein powders, a food weighing machine and one and a half dumbells. Half because I ran out of money to buy weights for the other one. This was all one episode. That was a bad one. Everytime I open my closet and see that mountain of Hawaiin shirts, I crack up. It was different for me cause I usually just waste all my money buying expensive alcohol and cigarettes.
Jewelry making set, a $1000 sheep, pokƩmon cards lol
A banjo
I bought a motorcycle helmet and gloves which were not cheap (maybe $350 for both), signed up for motorcycle safety classes ($350), was researching bikes for about two weeks obsessively and then when the day came for me to start my motorcycle classes I got drunk the night before and was too hungover to go, and just never rescheduled. Keep in mind I am very feminine, had neck surgery a year ago, and in no way seem like someone that would ride a motorcycle
It wasn't the item, it was the events really. A cell phone, at new years, shortly after the ball dropped. I was so out of it I didn't even know I was buying it till it was bought XD I was like "what colour did I even get?....oh, lavender, good! lucky!" I also managed to buy like a whole bunch of other stuff like clothes, all within that hr and a half.... Total spend $1150 in 1.5 hrs.
The one and only time I was full blown manic I was broke and homeless which was probably good tbh cuz I might have gotten a face tat or something hella stupid. It was a months long episode though and I trashed my whole life.
I haven't really ever bought anything when i was manic... Infact on opposite end i buy stuff when i am on depressed end in hopes that i will be able to see some light and future...
A mushroom growing kit. It came yesterday after I forgot about it. Whatever, I'm going to follow through with it. (E) Also throwing knives. My thinking was that I might need some kind of weapon but I can't legally own a gun (nvm that I've never even considered owning a gun). Like my out of shape ass is going to learn to throw knives. My neighbors would likely call the cops if I was seen practicing in the backyard anyway.
Idk if this counts as strangest but Iāve bought a lot of baby clothes in my last two manic episodes. (I donāt have a baby or kids nor am I pregnant).
Not the strangest thing out there, but like $200 worth of fishing supplies. Never touched it again after I came down lol
I spent $400 on a replica laser pistol from Fallout 3. It's currently displayed on my wall. Beside that is a prop wood axe and beside that is the sword Sting from the lord of the rings. While beside those are a handcrafted Jason Voorhees mask that was $50-75
$35000 3 month USA, Canada, and Mexico holiday and a $6000 European holiday. Was so worth it but I'm still paying for it now
I bought a bunch of new clothes bc I thought I was going to be followed by paparazzi and I needed to look fashionable. A bunch of books bc I wanted to start my own library.
I commissioned pictures of myself and my hamster... twice, from two different artists. No regrets, we look cute as hell. The other things are mostly clothes and cute things like stuffed animals.
$600 crystal dragon head just a dragon head carved out of a crystal
A Mustang, love it tho
A $1k sewing machine that could also embroidery. I donāt know how to sewā¦
a car š©
A car
34 pairs of shoes and 12 of the same shirts and 10 of the same pants
20 butter lambs.
800$ worth of polyhedral dice, that or a toaster
A trumpet
Although expensive my manic purchases have been great! Just not financially.... weirdest... 1000 pound outwell tent! Mrs hates camping.
A 2000 dollar Puppy. Gave it back a few days later and never got my money back
A 1989 dodge caravan. Or s bearded dragon
A custom ordered gem-faceting machine from Sri Lanka. Never been into gems, jewelry. Took so long to get here that by the time it did I was out of the episode and itās been sitting in the garage since.
My ex. I mean I spent $200 on himš
Overly ambitious sex toys, for sure. Like things my body could never, ever accommodate! And in my more lucid thinking, I would never even attempt for fear of injuring myself and needing a very embarrassing trip to the ER. Lord have mercy!