Last night I bought 120 doses of vaccines for people in developing countries because I was drunk and angry about people not vaccinating their kids.
Recently, I got a text from an acquaintance saying that my perogies were in. Whaaaat? Apparently, she contacted me on Facebook one drunken night, asking if I wanted to order some gourmet perogies. Well, hell yes! Who doesn't like perogies?! I bought a large CASE of perogies. There has to be 150 of the damn things. I barely eat at home and I really try to stay away from carbs. Bloody hell, at least I got the right kind (bacon and cheese). Perogie party anyone? And what kind of wine goes with perogies?
How many of y'all can say you own a real Russian sailor hat? There's actually a reason I bought it though. Somewhere along the line in the 80's I picked one of these up and wore it on stage, until someone decided they needed a commie hat more then me. It looked cool as hell on me back then, now it just makes me look stupid.
I've bought a lot of DLC drunk, but I was already leaning towards getting it anyway. I haven't had any blackout wake-up mystery Amazon packages. I did walk soberly into Target shopping for normal groceries. I went in there for peanut butter (crunchy you heathens!), bread and other small things. I then entered a trance state and ended up buying a Nerf Gun sniper rifle (that turned into a single round AR), additional darts and dart bandolier. I am kind of jealous that I haven't drunk bought anything, it seems exciting.
I know there have been others, but the only drunk purchase I can remember off the top of my head is the DVD of Blackbeard's Ghost. I loved that movie when I was a kid and wanted my daughter to see it. She refused and so it sits collecting dust, along with my childhood memories. The funny part is that Blackbeard was a total boozehound in that movie. Maybe some day I will get drunk and watch it and Blackbeard and I will be booze buddies.
My old neighborhood bar was conveniently located next to both a CVS and a Target. One Christmas season, I wandered over to Target and bought one of those light up, waving Santa lawn ornaments,- it was on sale! I came home, plugged the dude in and went to bed. It wasn't until the next morning that I remembered I lived in a very, very Jewish Orthodox neighborhood and menorahs were "the thing", not giant Santa's. I wish I could say I respectfully took him down, but I usually just left him unplugged (when sober).
I was once kicked out of Target for (incorrectly) assuming the giant display of balls were there for monkey-in-the-middle practice. You knock over one end cap, and all of a sudden you're a "menace" and a "drunk college kid", being escorted out by someone in the electronics department...
I'm the same way with DLC material. The other thing I used to purchase while intoxicated were coins for my collection off of ebay. But like Parker, the purchases were things I had already decided I wanted at some point, but I tend to be very thrifty. And some of the coins I'm talking about were like $1. So it wasn't like I was spending $250 on a coin I wanted, I'd spend like $5 total. The booze removed the inhibitions to purchase enough so that I would buy what I was looking to buy anyway.
Worst: dating websites memberships (mentioned). Best: a bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label in a bar for a friends 25th (there is a bit of story for this). Spoiler A few friends were back in town from working overseas, and it just so happened this friends 25th was on over a weekend all of them were back. As these guys were in oil and gas or tankers, they bought a bottle of Verve or Moet each. I figured: fuck it, I'll get something I like (with a brand name that people will recognize). Cost me $900. Got the entire VIP area, a bouncer, a drink server and the bar manager coaxing hotties over to us for the rest of the night (6+ hours). Worth it.