Too poor.
I'm too poor to make large impulse buys.

I did recently buy a bicycle for a few hundred quid, but my old one was broken and not worth repairing, so I needed one.

I also bought a scooter once, but I didn't have a bicycle at the time, so it was fair enough.

However, other than two wheeled transport I haven't bought many things bigger than, say, a small coffee table.

But I do have something of a tendency to buy computer parts without checking their suitability, or whether the thing I'm looking to replace is what's actually wrong with my computer in the first place.

I also hate shopping for clothes and have a dreadful habit of buying things I don't want, or that don't fit, or are just a bit shit. Things I don't return out of a terrible combination of laziness and shame at having bought it in the first place. Charity shops would do quite well out of me, if I wasn't too lazy or ashamed to take stuff there.

It's probably better than I'm too poor to buy stuff; I'm too much of a mong to have money!
( Moey, Thu 21 May 2009, 17:13, Reply)