Ive got half a wardrobe full of impulsive mistakes, mostly purchased in the 1990s, when living in Cardiff.
There cannot be many of us, who have visited a Outdoor shop, during one of their bargain sales, and not come out with an impulse buy.
One occasion really springs to mind, when i was in Crickhowell adventure gear, sometime in the early 1990s, when they had an awful lot of surplus stock to shift.
A basket full of Buffalo gloves and head gear, for less than a £5 each.
Ive still got four unused Pertex hoods, still in their cellophane wrapping, and two pairs of their pile lined gloves.
Why the Brecon shop had so many in stock, was a mystery, but they were being sold so cheaply, that you simply could not resist buying them in bulk.
I even had the opportunity in Up and Under, in Cowbridge Rd in Cardiff, to buy shop stained clothing at make us an offer price.
I can still remember a top spec Berghaus GoreTex, with one heck of a deep stain, down its front, for very little money.
If your in an outdoor shop, when they have a bargain rail, its only a brave person who can walk away, without buying something you do not really need, if its being sold at a very low asking price.