Saturday, 29 October 2022

Expensive failure to pay attention

I was looking at some nerd stuff online.  The shop was UK based but had a pop up tell me it recognised that I was in NZ and put prices into dollars.

I didn't not read the pop-up properly.

It was in US dollars.  So they things I bought that were an excessive overspend for what they were turned out to be almost twice the level of mistake I had expected.   Almost $200 more than I had accepted I was stupidly spending.


It might not have made a difference.  I have been having a bad run with my very minor reduction in pain meds (slightly worried how further steps will play out) and it seems to be draining my mental resources enough that my impulse control is going awfully.  I have been buying a lot of dumb stuff I don't need and can't really afford online.

It will end badly.

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