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"Like I said on Day 1, I&amp;amp;#8217;m not a big-ticket spender. (Although I somehow wound up lusting after a $725 bag* last night. Don&amp;amp;#8217;t worry! I clicked the hell outta there!) But I often make small-ticket impulse purchases that, in hindsight, maybe weren&amp;amp;#8217;t so smart. Here&amp;amp;#8217;s a recent one.This is the second &amp;amp;#8220;dead&amp;amp;#8221; piggy bank this week. Maybe it&amp;amp;#8217;s time for a vacation. I went to an engagement party (OK, it was Petra&amp;amp;#8217;s) where the centerpieces were real-live fish, which guests got to take home. Leaving with a new pet wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t mandatory, but I&amp;amp;#8217;m not one to turn down a free animal. So I named my fish Baze (after, um Baze) Monroe (after the town we were in), and packed her up for the somewhat tumultuous ride home. (There was a fair amount of booze on the party bus. Let&amp;amp;#8217;s leave it at that.) I noticed the next morning that Baze Monroe seemed depressed. She would sit very still at the bottom of her glass bowl, kind of like she was dead. If I tapped on the side or shook it a little, she&amp;amp;#8217;d swim around for a minute, but the next time I looked up, she&amp;amp;#8217;d be back on the bottom of the bowl, staring at me with her sad fishy eyes. I took a video to e-mail to Rory (at work, since this couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t wait &amp;amp;#8217;til he got home) and explained that I was worried about her mental health. Exhibit A: I&amp;amp;#8217;m no Freud, but I think my diagnosis of fish depression was pretty accurate. I thought her mood would improve after a few days, but if anything, she kept getting sadder. So I bought her a new home. A $100 new home. (Well, the home itself was $70. But since I was already spending $70 I added on $20 worth of decor. Plus tax, and well, you know how it goes.) The good news is, Baze Monroe does seem much happier. Look at her go! The bad news is, I really didn&amp;amp;#8217;t have $100 to throw around on luxury accommodations for a $2 fish. Especially when there was a similar setup (a way-less-cute similar setup, but still) available for less than half of what I paid. Do you guys make impulse purchases (of any size) that you later regret? Anyone make one lately? And do you think I&amp;amp;#8217;m stupid for pimping my pet? Some more fun with animals: What&amp;#x27;s Your Pet&amp;#x27;s Primping Routine? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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