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So I kind of impulsively bought a Steam Deck OLED this weekend, I hadn't really done much research and I haven't really played any games in about 15 years.

Now I have to wait for it to be delivered and, I'm worried this is something I'll use a few times and forget about it.

What's something you impulsively bought and fell in love with?

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[–] ptz@dubvee.org 58 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

My house lol.

TLDR: Unfortunate life event caused me to have to accelerate my house shopping by 2-3 years. Bought right before COVID hit and everything could not have turned out better (and I'd have been worse-off buying a house in 2022 than I was when I had to impulse buy on in 2019)

[–] lunarul@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

right before COVID hit

Isn't that a year before house prices and mortgage rates dropped to all time lows?

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Yeah. But it was hard to actually house shop due to COVID restrictions, precautions, and such. I did refinance my mortgage in late 2020 (less than a year into it), though, since rates had dropped so much.

[–] arin@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm wearing a mask while house shopping right now. Idk how that's any harder.

[–] papalonian@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Not sure what exactly you're saying, many places were not allowing real estate agencies to do showings of houses during COVID, it wasn't about wearing a mask or not you literally could not get an appointment to look at the house.

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