Anonymous
Post 07/05/2025 20:57     Subject: What do you want to buy that you have zero need for?
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Anonymous wrote:This is a sad one.

I had a not-so-great mother, who liked to deprive me of things we could easily have paid for. When I went to college, she didn't buy me anything, and I bought my own twin sheets with the money I made from my job and I didn't know to get twin xl and so they didn't fit. So I had sheets that I just had to lay on even though they literally didn't attach to the bed at the bottom. My duvet thing didn't fit either. My roommate complained that the room didn't look good because of it.

Pottery Barn Teen has a dorm room supplies build-your-bed feature, and I can spend hours choosing various Love Shack Fancy sheet, duvet, throw, and throw pillow combos.


I'm so sorry that happened to you. You deserved a mom who would lovingly pick out and purchase the things you needed to make your college dorm room a home.


My mom didn’t do this either, but I didn’t expect it of her? Are moms really supposed to decorate a college dorm room? Isn’t that the opportunity for kids to learn how to decorate on their own and get their own stuff? I bought my sheets/dorm stuff at a thrift store, and it’s how I learned to make my money stretch.


The kids may pick out what they like, but parents generally buy it. You having to sleep on sheets that were used by strangers is very sad, as is you having had to pay for it.


What about when you stay in hotels?
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2025 20:57     Subject: Re:What do you want to buy that you have zero need for?
Anonymous wrote:An American Girl doll. I loved dolls when I was young but those hadn't come out yet. My one kid, a son, had no interest in dolls. There's no reason at all for me to get one but I do enjoy looking at the website.


You should ask in your neighborhood and around, someone may be trying to sell their unused doll
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2025 20:49     Subject: Re:What do you want to buy that you have zero need for?
Handheld chain saw
Power washer
A riding mower.


Anonymous
Post 07/05/2025 20:25     Subject: What do you want to buy that you have zero need for?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This is a sad one.

I had a not-so-great mother, who liked to deprive me of things we could easily have paid for. When I went to college, she didn't buy me anything, and I bought my own twin sheets with the money I made from my job and I didn't know to get twin xl and so they didn't fit. So I had sheets that I just had to lay on even though they literally didn't attach to the bed at the bottom. My duvet thing didn't fit either. My roommate complained that the room didn't look good because of it.

Pottery Barn Teen has a dorm room supplies build-your-bed feature, and I can spend hours choosing various Love Shack Fancy sheet, duvet, throw, and throw pillow combos.


I'm so sorry that happened to you. You deserved a mom who would lovingly pick out and purchase the things you needed to make your college dorm room a home.


+1

I am so sorry too…..

I had a Mom just like yours and it is weird how even yrs later what our Mothers did still impact our lives one way or another, huh?
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2025 20:18     Subject: Re:What do you want to buy that you have zero need for?
Celebrity beauty/skincare lines.

Though I know using them will not give me the kind of skin that they have - nevertheless I have this irrational urge to try them just to see on my own.

I am a weirdo, I know.
Ha!
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2025 20:16     Subject: What do you want to buy that you have zero need for?
Anonymous wrote:Nothing is more foolish than jewelry. One decent watch, fine. The rest is an exercise in vanity.


Totally disagree. There is jewelry that dates back to the Stone Age and adornment has been part of most cultures throughout human history. It’s been a way for women to pass wealth to their daughters when they couldn’t have bank accounts, and something small enough to sew into clothes when fleeing bad times. I cherish pieces I inherited and also have sold stuff I didn’t like and paid for home renovations. I’m also coveting some Tiffany hardware but not in my budget for this year.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2025 20:00     Subject: Re:What do you want to buy that you have zero need for?
Anonymous wrote:An American Girl doll. I loved dolls when I was young but those hadn't come out yet. My one kid, a son, had no interest in dolls. There's no reason at all for me to get one but I do enjoy looking at the website.


You should get one. I just bought myself a Steiff llama because I wanted it.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2025 19:51     Subject: Re:What do you want to buy that you have zero need for?
An American Girl doll. I loved dolls when I was young but those hadn't come out yet. My one kid, a son, had no interest in dolls. There's no reason at all for me to get one but I do enjoy looking at the website.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2025 19:40     Subject: Re:What do you want to buy that you have zero need for?
I want a bunch of the cute summer dresses I see advertised all over my FB page. It is debatable whether I “need” them. I probably could use 1 or 2 but not the many I want.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2025 19:16     Subject: What do you want to buy that you have zero need for?
Anonymous wrote:For me, it's stationery. I have nobody to write to though. So I kill time happily looking on Amazon and Etsy and Crane at stationery I'd like - this one for letters, that one for thank you notes, etc. I pick out different types for different moods I might be in, different types of people I'd send notes to (elderly aunt vs. my many famous friends vs. my more artsy famous friends vs. stationery that would be solely for one friend bc it'd make them laugh, etc.).

Your turn?


Whoa, that's me. Who the heck are you??
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2025 18:36     Subject: What do you want to buy that you have zero need for?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:A big fluffy and soft throw blanket. I already have too many.

Any Lego set over $200. I have a huge collection and putting them together is such a relaxing activity for me. But it can get to be very expensive.


Costco has a couple of the really pretty flower sets.


You also might try Ebay. I've bought several new sets at big discounts for my son.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2025 18:35     Subject: What do you want to buy that you have zero need for?
Anonymous wrote:A luxury bag. I am aimlessly online shopping now - going to Europe this fall and debating buying one over there. I have zero need for such an item!


+1. I'd love to have one but would need to have someone gift it to me. I just can't get myself to spend more than $200 on any bag, except luggage.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2025 18:35     Subject: What do you want to buy that you have zero need for?
Anonymous wrote:A big fluffy and soft throw blanket. I already have too many.

Any Lego set over $200. I have a huge collection and putting them together is such a relaxing activity for me. But it can get to be very expensive.


Costco has a couple of the really pretty flower sets.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2025 18:28     Subject: What do you want to buy that you have zero need for?
A big fluffy and soft throw blanket. I already have too many.

Any Lego set over $200. I have a huge collection and putting them together is such a relaxing activity for me. But it can get to be very expensive.
Anonymous
Post 07/05/2025 18:19     Subject: What do you want to buy that you have zero need for?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:An old Bronco (vehicle) I keep looking at them online. 😂


Yes. A vintage bronco in a pastel
color - beautifully restored . Or a vintage jeep Cherokee with wood paneling


The old Wagoneers w the wood panels are soooo nice