limited editions of beers that are now gone forever
beers that sold out, so I committed to an order without them, only for them to appear on the shop the next day
limited cool tee to support businesses I like
so so so many gig tickets
cheap travel (of course it was smart to spend £100 on trains to Birmingham rather than the £50 I could have spent if I’d committed a week earlier ffs)
Lost so much money and opportunities due to faffing, and gained almost nothing in return
Only slight justification is that maki decisions stresses me out and sometimes I need that extra time to feel comfy with my choice. If the opportunity disappears in that time sometimes I think it clearly just wasn’t meant to be, and if I’d committed earlier I’d have still felt unsure and pressured
didn’t fill in some basic forms more than a year ago because I had to ask three people to sign it, didn’t do it again when I had the chance in January, now I have to pay loads of money and there’s an outside chance the work of several years will count for nothing. Should be a lesson there, but will there be???
When I got my professional qualifications, I didn’t bother upgrading my chartered institute status from student to full member because it involved a (short) form. Three years later my big boss noticed on the membership fees that I was still down as a student member and surely there’s been some mistake?
Been meaning to go to end of the road festival for the best part of 10 years. I always just delay the decision until the point that it’s too late cos tickets have sold out or whatever. I think I like decisions being taken out of my hands. Decisions are stressful.
Always for me. It’s partly I think because as you get older you get less bothered about ‘stuff’ due to experience. So you start to think, “Yeah, that Switch looks sweet, I’d like one, they are cool,” and then you go to buy one and you look at the price and your brain is just sitting there going, “You’re not going to use it are you? I mean you will a bit but you’ve not time to do stuff as it is, why are you looking at spending £250 on a games device that will be gathering dust in 3 months’ time?”
Well, that’s how it works for me. Usually I will only buy something once it drops below a certain price point. I don’t even know what that point is, it’s just a weird place where the “you won’t really use it” part of my brain is drowned out by the cost. Hence I finally bought a ‘smart’ watch when I found one for $130 AUD that did all the stuff I wanted.