What "Budget Purchase" ended up being your BEST BUY Ever? - Reddit Podcast
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I paid $600 for an ⁸ week old mixed breed puppy from a small dog rescue. I had been fostering him and could not give him up. Years later, a hereditary disease that killed my Mom, took the lives of my brother and sister (ALS). That dog, a min pin mix, saw me through the grief with a deep empathy humans don't have. Priceless🎉
I'm very sorry for your loss and I hope you are doing better these days. You're very lucky for such a wonderful dog that gets you through such an ordeal. And I'm certain he's lucky to have you.
You rescued the dog and he rescued you. God bless both of you.
I bought a pair of combat boots for 15 euros at a military surplus store about 20 years ago. They're still water proof and comfortable.
My kitty. She chose me.
Was at the local humane society and hoping for a siamese. None of them were active or really interested in anything. So I go around the inside area. Saw this large black cat and we locked eyes. I was yelled at to come and pet this fluffy cat. I had to adopt her. This 9 year old kitty chose me. And since she was a senior cat, I got her for free.
7 years later, she's still happy as can be and cuddles with me daily. Sleeps with me every night. Would never trade her for the world.
Have had a few cats choose us. Miss every one of them, though some werent with us as long as others they still have a print on our hearts.
she was a senior cat when she chose you, and you nearly doubled her lifespan with your love. a perfect match.
@@BlessingKnTproducti She's turning 16 in a few days (st. Patrick's day is her adoption and my given birthday for her). Couldn't ask for a better kitty.
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In 2009 I saw a post for some Border Collie and Australian Shepherd mixed puppies going for around $300 on Kijiji. I kept passing it up, but then close to the Thanksgiving holiday they were listed as free. When I called there were five left and once my family got there there were only two left. We picked out my boy Moogie and I was lucky to have him in my life for almost fifteen years. He was my second in command, helped me with my kids and was happy to just spend time with me.
I got a free cat from the humane society. One eye and in poor health, was told he would live a couple years at most. He made it to 18 and was (according to everyone who met him) the BEST sweetest cat ever. He lived 9 years with me .... the vet only gave him 1 to 2 years tops. Loved him so much I made a video about him on my channel.
I bought my hubby a pair of "deck shoes", 16years ago, last summer, he wore them in the sea (so he didn't get hurt if he stood on weaver fish etc.) This year they'll go in the sea again!.. They were £8! 😁
About 40 years ago my wife got me a silver wedding ring for $8. Since my skin reacts to most metals I didn't expect to be able to wear it long, but it turns out that silver is the only metal that I can wear (haven't tried titanium).
My mom is the same way. Most metals give her a rash but her $10 sterling silver band works just fine for her.
You would be safe with Titanium BUT if your origional ring is still going strong, why bother.
The last story of the free box fans really resonates with me. I think they could have been used for creating a negative pressure room, which helps to prevent COVID and other respiratory diseases.
We live in a college town and one day my wife and I were walking and found a microwave sitting on the side of the road for garbage pick up, so we needed one so we went ahead and brought it home, that stupid worked for over 20 years and four homes later before it finally died and had to buy a new one.
11 years ago I bought a pair of $20 flip flops the most comfortable shoes i own and still wear constantly.
$5 flat top grill at the county flea market. Still use it
I bought a pair of jeans from a second hand store a few years back. Nothing special, I just needed a pair of jeans to use for doing odd jobs in that I didn't mind getting covered in dirt etc. Before wearing them I was about to wash them and out of habit went through the pockets. I found a £20 note in that useless tiny little pocket. The one just on top of one of the front pockets. The jeans cost me £5 so I was £15 up on the deal. Not my best buy ever but the first time I was paid to buy something.
I'm still living STORY 13. I miss those sunglasses.
I bought a $5 space heater at a yard sale 2 years ago. It was designed for a small space like a bathroom. I intended to use it to season some sweet potatoes I grew. The following winter we got a severe cold snap and the heater in our pumphouse wasn't enough and the pipes froze solid. We were without water in the house until the little $5 space heater thawed the pipes. Lucky me, the frozen pipes didn't burst.
I used to buy books at garage sales to resell at a used bookstore I used to work at. I went to5 or 6 sales one Saturday and found $150 tucked in one book.
I had one of those tape deck converters that I bought for 5 bucks, and it worked like a dream. I also bought a bluetooth device that plugged into the cigarette lighter and had a headphone jack on it for like 20 bucks. So 25 bucks brought an almost 50 year old car sound system 40 years into the future. Worked great until I sold the car.
A wet pallete. They're cheap, and it's kept my paints going for a long time.
The curtain in my bedroom was bought by my grandparents almost 40 years ago with a fairly cheap price at the time. The seller, the maker and my grandparents all had died a long time ago and that curtain still going strong with no torn at all. My parents just change that curtain this year into a new one just because that curtain has gotten way too thin to the point that you can see through my window.
I started going to rock concerts in 1976. I went to a lot of concerts. Often taking a week off to follow a particular band to a half dozen shows in the SE. I bought the tour shirt for every show. Some venues had different opening acts, so that shirt would be different. I never wore any of these and kept them protected. Just last year, I sold my 80s and 90s collections, save a few, and traveled through Australia for two months.
In 2000 I bought a black Eddie Bauer backpack on clearance at Target for $20. Had that sucker for 14 years and wept like a baby when it finally broke beyond repair. It was huge, went through several moves, college, high school, and my first year of being homeless. Never found a decent replacement.
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I have owned cats for almost literally my whole life, most the time more than one at a time, and have never paid for one. I currently own SIX of them because my home is down the street from an SPCA that is normally full, cat wise, and I am pretty sure people dump these poor things. Of the six I own, only one of them wasn't a dumped or feral cat and that is because the first dumped and extremely loving cat was pregnant and when I rehomed the five kittens, one came back. On top of that there is a gray cat living on my back porch, a fluffy black/orange/white mix in my garage and a handful of toms that prowl my neighborhood that I feed. I have a bleeding heart. Also, all my cats except the most recent one are fixed, he has to get his shots first then will be as well. I have only had one cat my whole life that was stereotypically cat-stand-offish and the rest are like meowing dogs and extremely loving. The ones that were feral before I literally kidnapped them are always the MOST affectionate.
I was running through Walmart and happened to see fleece jackets on sale for 5 bucks. Warm enough for a chilly day but light enough that I don't roast when I go inside. Was given another one a couple of years later(same brand/company), and I think it was 3 or 4 times more than I paid. Still wear them 20+ years later.
I bought a pot from a dollar store in Taiwan. It has lasted 10 years without any problems.
Lol, you will perish in such a posh tone 😂❤
Paid $100 for two really nice book shelves. I’ve been collecting books for decades and have everything from an original print of the Milwaukee Herald to my favorite manga box sets. Makes my room feel significantly more like home and allows me to display my collection with pride.
20:50 my crazy engineer ass would go nuts to figure out what burnt out so I could have the fan in functioning order.
Due to previous broken ribs, I don't wear underwire bras so it's hard to find something suitable. The Salvation Army had a Warners bra on half price so $2.75. They won't let you try things on because of theft so had to eyeball it. Fits perfectly and is so comfortable. Wish they had more!
I also have hello kitty nail clippers I bought in Japan out of desperation 12 years ago. They are the best.
$50 chromebook on ebay
Refurbished plastic beauty of my heart. Just unlocked it (a screw you need to remove inside) and installed linux on it. Makes for a sweet travel laptop as it's small and light.
"But these are pieces of shit" I hear you say. Well, my computer at home isn't crap. I just had to install Parsec and I can remotely use my home PC.
That thing is unbreakable and cute as heck
At an area where pickers sold their finds along with antique dealers, and I found a little old journal issued by the US Postal Service. This is notable because I’m up in Canada. Anyway, I bought it for 15 bucks and found some rather beautiful poetry written in it.
I loved Spiderman, still do, and I decided my mom should get me a Spiderman blanket for my entirely Spiderman themed bedroom, that thing, has worked so well, kept me warmer than every other blanket almost every winter, and looks stunning as ever, even my parents use it, and it's been like 6 years, and believe me, it looks thin, but it's amazing.
Bought a Gordon Ramsay saucepan at a garage sale for $1.50. I beat it all to hell and it still looks and works the same years later. Best pan I ever owned.
Bought a HeroQuest game at the Goodwill for $1.25. HeroQuest was something like a D&D game with tokens, dice, statues and cards. The game was nearly complete and the included notepads were barely used. Sold it a short while later for 80 bucks.
A local dept. store was going out of business and they were selling their shelving. Found a beautiful, sturdy, metal and wood shelf for 10 bucks. Thing could withstand a nuclear blast.
My friend routinely finds functional flat screen TVs in his apartment's garbage room. People get their tax returns, get new TVs and throw out the ones they have. It's a good way to get perfectly good TVs if you're willing to lurk around garbage rooms around tax season.
I have an old Columbia brand windbreaker, it was my property ever since my dad bought it for me from some thrift store while I was in 1st or 2nd grade. It was obviously way too big for me then, but I still frequently wore it. I am now in my 2nd year of college, still sporting this jacket, and you can even see it represented in my profile picture. Best part is that the worst damage it has is just some impossible to remove stains near the cuffs, which says more than my winter coat I haven't had for a full year and it has a mysterious hole on the left arm I had to patch with duct tape.
I bought a seemingly fake dryfit adidas shirt for 3 bucks at a thrift store... After washing it... It was amazing... It was plain with purple and black. I wore it regularly since it was cool and hella comfy! It lasted me 9 years of regular use weekly and even a few times a week at times and only showed signs of wear and tear this year last january...
bought a pair of combat boots at a military surplus store . They're still water proof and comfortable.
I have a pair of tweezers that I cherish like those nail clippers. They're amazing at grabbing exactly what you need them to and they have this curve to them that makes them an amazing tool to prevent ingrown nails (which I have a problem with due to the shape of my toes) The tweezers perfectly adjust the skin next to the nail so I can painlessly work on it thereby preventing painful ingrown nails and infections. Its gross yeah but for anyone who this regularly happens to finding preventative tools is a godsend.
I got a large screen TV from Goodwill for $40 (to use for a second monitor for my laptop) that I figured after getting it home was because it was doing this weird thing where the screen was distorted and green. (It hadn't done so in the store.) I thought I'd bought garbage for a few days and was trying to figure out what to do with it, especially as it would occasionally turn crystal clear for a while and then distort again. Well after those first few days, it stopped doing that distorted green thing and has been crystal clear every single day for over a year. Best computer monitor I've ever had!
Paid $13 for a $400 Canon camera in 2015 still use it to this day
i went to a flew market outdoor personal sellers for those that don't know bought a 40s glass coke bottle for a dollar sold it in the 2000s for 15k used it as a downpayment of my house.. Had to sell cause folks that say it kept trying to steal it.
Not so much a purchase at it was rewards for drinking tons of coca-cola products. This was back when coke would allow people to turn in points for catalog items, so over the years I chose a great pair of Adidas jogging pants-still have them to this day (they are about 16-18 years old, still look new) and a hand blender that I still use around the same age as the pants and a salad spinner that I still use from that era as well. I hate that coke stopped providing items for rewards!
$2 temu phone cases
seriously, phones nowadays are super strong, but still, you want some soft jelly case to take the shock. It's enough
My $5 fake plant from Walmart is one of my favorite purchases
Damn it, every time they say "Narrator" I think of The Stanley Parable.
My son, 14 at the time, needed a nice shirt for work experience at a law firm. Went to TKMaxx and spent £9.99 on a blue shirt. This was 2001 and it was alot of money for me. Got home to find it was 90% off and an YSL shirt. He wore it for years. in 2020 it finally got a wear hole in the sleeve. Out of curiosity i checked their website. £1299.00. Maybe if i win the lottery lol ps my son is now 37. he's worn that shirt once a week for years. other shirts he wore on the same rotation lasted a couple of years, but the quality of this shirt was amazing
I bought a beater bike from craigslist for $50. It happened to match my size and just needed some tuning.
It had one gear but it hauled ass like no tomorrow.
Way bk in the day..i went to a thing that singer sewing machines had where ya had to sit and watch them show it off ( theres a word for this but apparently im having a brain fart).and for going they gave me a free pair of folding scissors..this was back in like 1990s..i still have them on my key chain and they still work fabulously
Oneplus phones last forever, have similar performances to gaming computers, and are much cheaper. Also the chargers that come with them are cracked beyond comprehension.
The cashier was scared to seek the bra, because it was possessed. Haunted hills...... I will see myself out
I didn’t have to pay for this. There was a big bin of Legos in my garage and it has old Star Wars sets. Monster fight sets and a lot of fake Lego, but they were some pieces are missing sadly but if I could get those pieces I could sell those
Another thing my parents got this $20 skeleton thing that sings a song eat can walk perfectly, but sometimes the head gets jammed and I don’t know how old that thing is what came from Kmart
things that didnt happen, 1200 from a pawn shop, if that were true they were probably valued at 25,000
Kick scooter commuting and gas increase dont matter to me.and unlike bikes it looked down upon and viewed as childish it wont be stolen
Where is the full story?
I bought pants for only one dollar.
comfortable as f@#k
Game?
Hot Wheels Unleashed.
@@MaseTheAce thanks!!
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Yeah, before this video blows up. I made this comment.
Your mom.