# Non-Impulse Purchases
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-impulse-purchases/34556
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [September 26, 2000, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-impulse-purchases/34556 "2000-09-26T04:42:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-impulse-purchases/34556/1 "2000-09-26T04:42:28Z")
My sister bought a car today. Chevy Malibu LS. Very nice š. Came in about 15-20 minutes ago all excited and asked me to āGuess what?!ā Dragged me outside to have a look at it (in the darkā¦I had to ask what color it is. :D). I welcomed her as she joined the Deeply In Debt.
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### Author:  [@Bear\_Nenno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bear_Nenno)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-impulse-purchases/34556/2 "2000-09-26T04:47:21Z")
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> Non-Impulse Purchases
A non-impulse buy!!! You mean people actually plan on making purchases beforehand? And they check their money and make sure they can afford or even need what they are buying??? I donāt think I have ever witnessed such a thing. Never personally made a non-impulse buy. Isnāt that why credit cards were invented š
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-impulse-purchases/34556/3 "2000-09-26T04:54:29Z")
Well, Iām assuming this was a Non-Impulse Purchase, unlessā¦you think she was lying when she said she was visiting car dealers and just ran out and bought one today to cover up whatever she was _really_ doing? Now that you mention it, Iām sure that has to be what happened. Now I just have to find out what shameful secrets sheās been hiding.
š
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### Author:  [@Chickenhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chickenhead)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-impulse-purchases/34556/4 "2000-09-26T05:01:37Z")
One time I purchased a set of Louis Vuitton luggage for my wife, because I thought that she would like it. It set me back almost sixty thousand dollars. My wife snubbed the gift, so I gave it to my mother as a Motherās Day present. I will never make such a silly purchase again without asking my wife.
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### Author:  [@stuyguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stuyguy)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-impulse-purchases/34556/5 "2000-09-26T05:43:03Z")
Chicken:
SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS? DID YOU SAY SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS?
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### Author:  [@Homer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-impulse-purchases/34556/6 "2000-09-26T06:10:10Z")
If youāre going to go throwing 60000 dollars around, throw it towards me.
Iād like a 1999 Eclipse GSX with a sunroof, and leather. Color does not matter.
Thank you.
āTim
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### Author:  [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2000, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-impulse-purchases/34556/7 "2000-09-26T06:14:40Z")
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> \*Originally posted by Chickenhead \*
> **One time I purchased a set of Louis Vuitton luggage for my wife, because I thought that she would like it. It set me back almost sixty thousand dollarsā¦**
SIXTY THOUSAND DOLLARS? Are we talking AMERICAN dollars??Good lord, how big was the set?? For that kind of money, I wouldnāt even buy the luggageā¦just get to the destination and buy a whole new wardrobe!