Impulse Purchase

What's the biggest impulse purchase you've ever made? Not something you were shopping for, or had always wanted, or even thought about, but just said "I want that" and bought it. I'm usually pretty good about researching things, and I always sleep on it before I make a big purchase. But I was reading the Tour de France Blog this weekend and read this post, and checked out the link to Softride. I saw the ad for the indoor cycling bike, and the demo unit special, and I went click click click and bought it in about ten seconds. If you have your credit card number (it's 1234 5678 9012 3456) and expiration date (1/2007) memorized, and using the Google Toolbar autofill feature, you can buy something that big that quickly. I guess it's because I've been thinking about getting in shape, and I've been watching the three hours a day of Tour coverage. Also, it seems to be a pretty cool bike, it was linked (not this model, but the site) to a cool cycling blog, and it looked like a great deal (25% off demo models). All of those factors converged to a perfect storm of impulse buying. Oh, yeah, I almost forgot, no tax and free shipping, too. Which is what is great about buying online.



Do I have buyer's remorse? Not really, I did some comparison shopping and it looks like a good deal. It comes with two seats and the pedals accomodate both cycling shoes and regular shoes. It has a cycling computer with heart rate. It seems to have all the adjustments that I think I need. So we'll see when I get it and set it up.