# How Often Do You Buy Things You Turn Out Not Wanting and How Often Do You Sell/Give Things You Later

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**Created:** [November 3, 2014, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-buy-things-you-turn-out-not-wanting-and-how-often-do-you-sell-give-things-you-later/703426 "2014-11-03T06:11:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![GreenElf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@GreenElf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenElf)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-buy-things-you-turn-out-not-wanting-and-how-often-do-you-sell-give-things-you-later/703426/1 "2014-11-03T06:11:27Z")

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How Often Do You Buy Things You Turn Out Not Wanting and How Often Do You Sell/Give Things You Later Obtain After Realizing You Really Want It?

I used to buy a lot of things that I turned out not wanting, but am getting better at not doing this. Sometimes I’ll sell/give something, then later realize that I really do want it and get it again.

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**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-buy-things-you-turn-out-not-wanting-and-how-often-do-you-sell-give-things-you-later/703426/2 "2014-11-03T06:52:46Z")

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God, I have been plagued with this for a couple of years now. It drives me crazy.

I swear, at the time I’m buying it, I’m thinking, “Wow! I really like this, I’m getting it!” By the end of the season, it’s sitting unworn and I’m wondering ‘what I was thinking?’

I tried taking friends with me shopping, but their influence didn’t affect the outcome much. And I was losing more and more confidence. It was, in large part, a fashion crisis likely triggered by aging, but it’s still quite disconcerting.

GoodWill is seeing all the benefit, so hardly a tragedy, but I can feel those garments mocking me as the weeks pass and I realize, “I’m never gonna wear this!”

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**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/22080_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-often-do-you-buy-things-you-turn-out-not-wanting-and-how-often-do-you-sell-give-things-you-later/703426/3 "2014-11-03T11:17:33Z")

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It’s happened a few times with clothing, and like **elbows** , I’ll pass my folly along to Goodwill et al.

The one and only time I got mixed up in Black Friday Craziness, I came home with a metric butt-ton of stuff. Once it was in the house, I surveyed it all and thought “What the _@_#%$#&\* \*was I thinking??” I ended up taking most of it back a few days later.

Once I bought a shirt on line, and when it arrived, it was way uglier than it was on my computer screen, but it was sooooooooo comfortable, I just couldn’t return it. I’ve still got it and I still wear it and it’s still ugly, but it’s soooooooooo comfortable…

Is it any wonder I hate shopping??