When "Treating Yourself" Goes Sideways

what was your biggest treat yourself regret i just passed my exams in university so decided to treat myself to some ben jerry's i woke up covered in hives vomiting and burning up apparently i had an unknown allergy it was the worst week of my life was it tree nuts same crap different dessert happened to me i bought a pair of quad roller skates on a whim meaning that i did no research turns out there is quite a bit of intricacy with skates i had purchased a pair meant for speed meant for indoor rinks my intended use was for outdoor skating this resulted in falling on my butt a million times outside and having zero control on my newly paved road after buying softer wheels meant for outdoors wow it's a huge difference i should have done some research and saved myself a good chunk of money i regret the spur of the moment purchase but i am glad that i got the skates and new wheels hi i did the exact same thing busted my shoulder not bones just bad muscle pain i should know better thought i've never been on a cruise i want to go on a cruise now so booked a two-week caribbean cruise in a suite with the wife who on arrival decided she didn't like me anymore and spent two weeks avoiding me so i spent two weeks on my own on this bloody ship we're divorced now this is why i have never gone on a cruise i really like my wife a pair of labels not comfortable the soul wears away incredibly quickly heels easily get scraped on grates i live somewhere with lots of graves bought a pair of used snowmobiles for two thousand dollars had them for two years first year we both got the flu the one week the snowmobile trails were open so never use them and second year my wife was pregnant so we decided to sell them ends up one no longer wants to start and the other one runs but now has issues ended up selling them for five hundred dollars never once used them besides unloading them from the trailer when we bought them all you can eat sushi bar did the math on how much sushi i had to eat to save money from just buying the rolls individually i hit my goal but at what cost i was trying not to throw up for the whole drive home and spent the rest of the day in bed clutching my stomach and rethinking my life i once bought a good quality regulation pool table eight feet x44 with all the accessories for about four thousand dollars but after moving to a new location i regretted the purchase because there was no room for it other than to give up the dining room and replace the dining room chandelier with a billiards light fixture bought a telescope but then i needed a camera to take pics then i needed a camera and smaller scope to guide it then i needed a better more expensive mount then i needed another camera to help set up the more expensive mount then i needed cases and storage for this stuff and another camera and a star tracker then all of a sudden i have thousands in gear that i've used exactly never because it's freezing and cloudy most of the good viewing season anyways i know what you mean my telescope is a little more advanced than just beginner but it's such a struggle to move and now that i don't don't a backyard there's nowhere to spot from without driving there i bought a laptop from razer worst decision ever already had to send it back to them once now it's just out of warranty and having more problems never again bought a bmw 135 i when i already had a perfectly good nissan 350z that was paid off i was young and dumb and had just started making serious money for the first time in my life so when i looked at that monthly payment i said this is fine i can totally make this not taking into account all of the other bills that can suddenly crop up one of the worst decisions i ever made easily an acquaintance of mine had a toyota rav4 and traded it in for a used bmw x3 not even a year later the x3 broke and he had to take the bus for a while because he couldn't afford the repair cost he ended up buying an old corolla shitbox while the x3 sat in his garage i haven't heard from him so i'm not sure what happened later getting the cyrus xm deal 30.6 mo for my car since when i do drive it's cross state and then forgetting to cancel threaten to cancel so i got charged 120 for the next six months call and cancel even after they bill you you can always get the 30 deal and they will credit you back the pro-rated difference i've been calling every six months to cancel for years and have never had a problem went to vegas and spent more money than i had intended had a blast but flash forward a month later i had nothing to pay my car payment and in florida if you are late one month they can repair your car they did i spent around 300 pounds on all the talisman board games and a further 200 pounds on a custom-made box to keep them all in largely due to covet i've played them once i've been unemployed for over a year now and hadn't bought anything nice for myself in months while buying groceries i saw some pomegranates and i decided i deserved a treat i found the biggest one in the pile looked great and bought it when i cracked that sucker open that night it was rotten inside with no sign it had gone bad on the outside i actually cried because i felt i had wasted precious money i shouldn't have if that ever happens again or happened recently enough what you do is take that sucker right back to the store they'll let you exchange it after years of wanting to experiment with my hair i finally convinced myself that dyeing my long healthy brown hair purple was the best way to treat myself i was originally given a price of 150 dollars give or take depending on amount of die used anyway when she was done styling i was happy and it looked pretty i got to the counter and the total comes to 500 now i'm not a confrontational person also i was young and kind of stupid to not argue with them so i just paid left a 50 mandatory gratuity and left i know for the next two weeks everything that came in contact with my hair was stained purple every time i washed my hair it bled purple my shower was stained the skin on my back pillowcase sheets the back of my shirts purple the worst part was that my long beautiful healthy brown hair was a heaping faded broken pile of straw after those two weeks so i went out and bought a box dye similar to my own color dyed my hair back and swore off ever dyeing my hair ever again got a promotion that meant i would be driving most days to an office after commuting by train for years he bought myself a tesla for the new ride took delivery on the 14th of march last year haven't driven to the office once between the down payment and the monthly payment since i've spent about seven dollars a mile to own the thing then go drive it for fun and decrease your ownership costs per mile i caught myself but i was about to buy a 3080 off ebay for about eight hundred dollars it turns out it was just a picture of it and the goal was to get bots to buy it but i didn't read the description and almost bought it maybe i am a bot i dropped one thousand dollars on a gaming pc when i was a sophomore in college took out a credit card to put it on that and i overestimated my ability to consistently make more than the minimum payments ended up finally paying it off like two years later having paid probably an extra three hundred dollars in interest but learned a valuable lesson and also had a better pc than all my friends that's a freaking cheap lesson on credit cards at a zero on to that for me when i was an idiot 24 year old and i thought i got off easy compared to some of my friends bought myself luxurious body gel i used it one time got an allergic reaction my left leg doubled in size because of how swollen it was it hurt was stinging as heck and it was overall a disaster the bottle was not even 90 milliliters and cost me more than 180 kr frick you company that made this bulls comma my left leg doubled in size because of how swollen it was i guess you can skip leg day now actually quite recent i got two extra vacation days to be used in december couldn't go anywhere so i figured i'd get a nice hotel room and try a spa day the spa was not relaxing the tub wasn't big enough to relax in the mushroom's eye cake into didn't work and the tv had cabled but no streaming or hookups so for the first time in a decade i had to wait until the next half hour for new stuff to be on i can't wait to be disappointed by the continental breakfast i said aloud to myself at 10 p.m it was a pre-packaged muffin and two yogurts in a brown bag continental breakfast should not be advertised as a perk those are a straight up negative my darling boyfriend got into streaming when the pandemic hit and we went into lockdown he gained a small following speed running games he had some fun during the height of all this i thought i'd give it a try i streamed my sims builds like once or twice but for a multitude of reasons just thought it wasn't for me one of those reasons being i don't know anything about the tech i just swapped out my laptop for my bfs when i streamed my boyfriend has an elgato capture thing when he saw that i wanted to get into it he bought me one as well crap was not cheap as the world was shut down and everyone and their mother wanted one of these things i didn't qualify for unemployment and he was making only about two stroke three of his normal paycheck from pandemic relief unemployment so i was not happy at all his reasoning was that we can both stream at the same time and do dual streams he had such good intentions but for someone who knows so much about the technology and setup he ought to have known that we combined simply don't have a powerful enough computer to dual stream the way he wanted to i know he just wanted this to be a fun activity we could both do together so he treated himself and me i guess to a second el gato it's never been used now we are back to work and he doesn't stream at all so now we have two unused tailgaters what makes me mad about elgato c cards is that they don't have their own encoding hardware they only capture not to mention no displayport and therefore no g-sync freesync my brother posted a picture of a ninja motorcycle on fb with the caption treaty yo self i was surprised because i'm really into motorcycles and i had never heard my brother express any interest whatsoever didn't even know he knew how to ride one less than a week later he slammed the bike into the back of a ups truck and broke his shoulder bye bye ninja fortunately other than the damage to his shoulder he was fine minecraft story mode was all excited i won 50 bucks in halloween raffle and why the frick did i not research that hot butt garbage first i was lucky enough to have bought minicrate when it was just in beta we're talking the first release off of the in-browser version so every update after has been free i think it was 15 back then which was worth it but i think it had gotten quite expensive now i bought a used base amp on ebay it was a little pricey but after hundreds of ebay purchases i didn't think anything could go wrong amp showed up broken advertised as working condition took it to a shop turns out the seller had gutted it and poorly replaced a bunch of the parts with a guitar amp it was a base amp so once i spent money to fix it it was still unusable i got into it with the ebay seller and they threatened to come to my house and fight me all because i wanted to treat myself on a new amp on my birthday should gone straight to ebay since they have buyer protection i took my two best friends to vegas for my 21st birthday i paid for almost everything we stayed for two nights the first night they got into a fight so bad that i left the hotel room crying essentially shaming them into pulling their crap back together things were still tense but we got through the night the next day we went to brunch and everything was going fine until we got back to the hotel i started feeling really sick and ended up spending the rest of the day in the room sleeping and taking tumps while they went out for dinner i think i need a reader lol that sucks vegas has the potential to be an amazing time especially with friends sounds like your friends really fricked it up for you usually the freaking up comes from over gambling and over drinking every time i've eaten an entire bag of dried mangoes in a day they are fairly small bags but still more fiber than one day's worth so it all comes out at once the next morning bought a ticket to a concert as a birthday present to myself got way too drunk and got a dui and totaled my car after getting another dui i realized i had a problem got help and i'm over three years sober now that sucks but congrats on three years idk of this would be called a treat yourself matter but here you go i was feeling depressed for years now and it was pretty overwhelming i was very tired and i just wanted everything to stop with that thought i literally ran away from my responsibilities that i felt were weighing on me i did leisure activities such as going to parks and walking while taking photographs with my camera going on cafes alone etc well those did not happen without me skipping school sure it was good and all but now i had to repeat a new year and had to pay for the compensation fee in our uni sad to say i felt like what i did wasn't worth it at all i guess it's true when they say you reap what you sow and what i reaped ain't good i bought my first new truck i use the bed a lot and can easily afford it but if it taught me anything i do not want to afford it feels wasteful now and i could have bought used been just as happy and stuck that money into investments lesson learned and i tell myself all the time to just shut up and enjoy it but never again been limiting carbs for a few months had some miss vicki's new york shedder chips last night and dang if i wasn't sweating on the toilet for an hour had not eaten burger king in 10 years and last week a buddy at work said he was going figured man i miss double whoppers i want one i got it loved it then an hour later i'm eating pepto and running back and forth to the bathroom yeah there was a reason i didn't eat it for 10 years a friend of mine hadn't eaten mcds in about 10 years and ended up eating a bunch the night before a charity bike ride he ended up stuck in a sweltering porta potty blasting out of his rear end and hasn't touched it since the amount of time i spent just chilling when i should have been working funny thing is when i look back i realized i never regretted chilling when i was in those moments it was always justified what i do regret is that it was all just a form of procrastination it became a cornerstone habit which really defined how my life turned out now i am here at age 40 wondering where all the time went with very little to show for it oh i win this hands down every halloween my friends and i go out to celebrate at an old brewery in our town they go all out for halloween with an attached hotel it's the best place to party for the holiday the day of the party in 2019 was my last day working before a much needed vacation i had just started a new position with my company and i was totally burned out i had to work late that night so i couldn't meet up with my friends until about three hours after everyone else was together by the time i arrived everyone was pretty buzzed and i felt like i needed to catch up so i shotgunned three 11 beers and was feeling good this happened at 10 p.m i wanted to treat myself to a good night after such a long few weeks plus i was off the next day so i could recover from the hangover without much trouble we left the bar at 1 30 am and took an uber back to one of my friend's apartment by that point i had consumed the three beers from earlier plus another two 11 beers two long islands one trash can two tequila shots and a green tea shot all in roughly three hours keep in mind i was 29 at the time and still though i could drink like i was 21 i got to their place and crashed on a sofa still fully coherent at about 4am i woke up with my heart racing i didn't think much of it and went back to sleep i woke up at eight and it was still pounding i figured i just needed some water and food and it'd be fine fast forward to the afternoon and my heart still didn't slow down i went to the year and had an ekg done my resting heart rate was up to 182 bpm i was admitted and diagnosed with holiday heart for those unfamiliar it's essentially an alcohol-induced atrial fibrillation i had to have my heart shocked back into rhythm and spend my vacation at home wearing a heart monitor a tldr i drank too much to celebrate a vacation and had to get my heart restarted ah yes well i used to go palpitations often as a teen one day it went on for two hours went to my gp she told me go to andy got seen straight away mine was on 205 bpm mine was also shocked two failed procedures and i'm on medication for potentially a lifetime not fun stuff 200.10 sonic screwdriver replica prop it's wonderfully made but it helped me realize that replica doesn't mean that it works like i thought it would but that it only looks like the actual show prop or 150 tarot cards very nice slick and thick cards that have great art they look and feel amazing and they have a cool box but i don't use or read tarot cards i just thought they looked cool but haven't really done anything with them most apple products bought an ipad so now when i'm bored of scrolling on my phone i can go be bored scrolling on a bigger version of my phone thankfully none of my tablets cost me anything but we only really use them to watch tv in the dining room other than that i used to read magazines on them but haven't for quite some time i have come to the conclusion that tablets are only really good for businesses and i guess entertaining children i can't think of much more of a practical use i spent 1 500 pounds on a body transformation program it worked by the end of it i was super fit but right after i had a number of significant personal events happen and got into a depression hole putting all the weight back on effectively wasted 1 500 pounds i won't see it like that you now know how weightless works for you which foods you can eat and what kind of sports you like next time you attempt it you won't need a transformation program and your results will probably be even better took a girl i was seeing for a few weeks to an all-inclusive resort in cancun mexico i had just got my passport and was desperate to use it we had a great time but when we got back home she pretty much ended it i still had a great time and made some great memories i justified to myself that i only paid for her plane ticket because i would have paid for the resort no matter what i went back a few months later with another girl and we had a blast still together too como i went back a few months later with another girl and we had a blast still together too just never ever tell her about the previous time you were there last night i decided to treat myself to a relaxing bubble bath bubbles were great water level and temp were super relaxing and i was watching princess bride i was about 10 minutes into my bath when i asked my husband to bring up one of my lavender scented candles yes i know how basic i sound lo and behold he comes rushing into the rr candle in hand and tells me to cut the bath short because the bath was causing a water leak to occur downstairs he then lights a candle and rushes back downstairs y'all i had been thinking of this bath for weeks and finally decided to give myself break and this happens i'm sure the leak was inevitable and probably would have occurred at some point but dang i love how he took the time to light the candle before rushing off to deal with the crisis i was manic and went shopping four dollars k lasik surgery new furniture new macbook bunch of shoes and clothes trip to mexico drugs and alcohol i kept telling myself you deserve it treat yourself few months later and working on paying it off i'm trying to fight off the urge to get lasik eye surgery but i don't think i'd regret it as wearing glasses can get annoying but i am worried that it will be very expensive colon i've been clean for two weeks i'm just going to do one bag of h to celebrate four years later i finally got clean again bought a 1 200 pounds watch felt sick for two days as it was a lot of money for me then and wife pushed me to do it two things never wear it and two the mechanism is a standard swatch mechanism which i found out to get the battery changed and they don't change the battery they change the mechanism if you are going to buy a quality watch buy at auction half the price for peace of craftsmanship not a mass-produced miniature clock i went to a popular restaurant for takeout after a long week of work on a friday i paid and waited maybe 30 minutes just sitting there very strange because it's really just chicken wings and fries i asked the person for an update and she went back to the kitchen to check and said it's coming up which is code 4 we completely forgot and now the kitchen is pee that they need to squeeze this into the rest of their tickets i got the order and opened it up once i got home it literally looked like someone grabbed a handful of fries and chicken wings by the same hand and tossed it in there also missed the dips i wanted to try forty dollars and kill tip for two plates of something i could have made at home effort the place is buffalo wild wings never going there again forty dollars taught me to always check my take out before leaving the store and encourage me to cook more at home i make her some great wings now which are not very hard to make to begin with i recommend everyone to try it yourselves was feeling terrible because of a recent breakup and a few other things one day i got one cake of it bucks straight to my bank account so i decided to go out and get some h as i had been clean for several months and felt like i could treat myself and temporarily feel a little better just this once well it's been months now and i am again trapped in this stupid addiction though i am slowly digging myself out at least i learned that for me when it comes to opioids it's all or nothing as when i wasn't using it was super easy to stay clean and i never had any cravings but once i decide to use just once i always go back to daily use eventually this time it took many months as i but eventually it always gets to that point 100 of the time with no exception good luck man i've lost so many friends to that crap you've quit before and can do it again the longer you put it off the worse the withdrawals will be you got this if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video bye for now

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Id: QzKqw2SgcBM

Length: 24min 56sec (1496 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 06 2021