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  • L.W. Baxter
    can eat fifty eggs
    • Sep 2003
    • 23618

    your worst impulse buy

    i jumped the shark a few weeks ago, internetting under the influence.

    this is actually a decent quality...thing, but it's been on the back porch for a week and every time i walk by, i smh. of all the things i actually need...

    make me feel better with your tale of woeful decision making, tia

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    gratuitous kubota is gratuitous
  • Figment
    Gluten Enthusiast
    • Dec 2001
    • 13635

    #2
    Re: your worst impulse buy

    The Mako was an impulsive misadventure. I had a chance to bail on it a few weeks later, but didn't, so it went on for a few years.
    People today will buy a car with square wheels as long as the steering wheel is heated.

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    • AlanMc
      Senior Member
      • Jul 2017
      • 7635

      #3
      Re: your worst impulse buy

      what in the hell is that thing?

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      • TomF
        Recalcitrant Heretic
        • Jun 2003
        • 50976

        #4
        Re: your worst impulse buy

        Apple cider, just waiting to happen.
        If I use the word "God," I sure don't mean an old man in the sky who just loves the occasional goat sacrifice. - Anne Lamott

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        • Paul Pless
          pinko commie tree hugger
          • Oct 2003
          • 124805

          #5
          Re: your worst impulse buy

          not a nail gun thread eh
          Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.

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          • L.W. Baxter
            can eat fifty eggs
            • Sep 2003
            • 23618

            #6
            Re: your worst impulse buy

            Originally posted by TomF
            Apple cider, just waiting to happen.
            and i don't even really like cider. i'm good for about 8 ounces a year.

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            • AlanMc
              Senior Member
              • Jul 2017
              • 7635

              #7
              Re: your worst impulse buy

              Originally posted by TomF
              Apple cider, just waiting to happen.

              i thought it looked like a press. but why the side screw?

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              • L.W. Baxter
                can eat fifty eggs
                • Sep 2003
                • 23618

                #8
                Re: your worst impulse buy

                Originally posted by Paul Pless
                not a nail gun thread eh
                i did finally buy a passlode gas nailer about a week before they became obsolete. did the same thing with my first flatscreen t.v.

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                • paulf
                  Senior Member
                  • Jan 2012
                  • 6933

                  #9
                  Re: your worst impulse buy

                  Originally posted by L.W. Baxter
                  and i don't even really like cider. i'm good for about 8 ounces a year.
                  Now buy a pot still to go along with it!
                  PaulF

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                  • L.W. Baxter
                    can eat fifty eggs
                    • Sep 2003
                    • 23618

                    #10
                    Re: your worst impulse buy

                    Originally posted by AlanMc
                    i thought it looked like a press. but why the side screw?

                    the grinder rotates away and the press flips up. its all very high tech.

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                    • rbgarr
                      43.50.918 N, 69.38.583 W
                      • Apr 1999
                      • 25479

                      #11
                      Re: your worst impulse buy

                      My brother bought a house here in Maine. Briefly thought they might move here. Never even spent a night in it and sold it several months later.
                      For the most part experience is making the same mistakes over and over again, only with greater confidence.

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                      • TomF
                        Recalcitrant Heretic
                        • Jun 2003
                        • 50976

                        #12
                        Re: your worst impulse buy

                        apples need grinding up before they can be pressed. The side screw is probably for the grinder. Though LW, I understand a bit better why this is a lousy impulse buy if you never drink more than a single glass of cider/year. That's a long, long amortization you're looking at ...
                        If I use the word "God," I sure don't mean an old man in the sky who just loves the occasional goat sacrifice. - Anne Lamott

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                        • L.W. Baxter
                          can eat fifty eggs
                          • Sep 2003
                          • 23618

                          #13
                          Re: your worst impulse buy

                          Originally posted by Figment
                          The Mako was an impulsive misadventure. I had a chance to bail on it a few weeks later, but didn't, so it went on for a few years.
                          how many outboards?

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                          • L.W. Baxter
                            can eat fifty eggs
                            • Sep 2003
                            • 23618

                            #14
                            Re: your worst impulse buy

                            Originally posted by TomF
                            apples need grinding up before they can be pressed. The side screw is probably for the grinder. Though LW, I understand a bit better why this is a lousy impulse buy if you never drink more than a single glass of cider/year. That's a long, long amortization you're looking at ...
                            about 600 years, i reckon

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                            • ron ll
                              Seattle WA USA (Ballard)
                              • Oct 2005
                              • 24274

                              #15
                              Re: your worst impulse buy

                              I bought a couple of tools at Harbor Freight.

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