
#239 2025 PURCHASES THAT NEED TO BE ILLEGAL
From You Might Wanna Sit Down For This by The Takeaway Table
December 22, 2025 · 1h 12m
About this episode
The episode discusses the absurdity of impulse purchases and the potential consequences of retail therapy.
IT’S TIIIIIIIIME.For everyone who’s been keeping score, this is the grand finale of our impulse buys saga. Just saying, if retail therapy was a crime, lock us up. Find out whether that RM13K coffee machine is collecting dust, and how Mingyue’s RM600 goatskin cover trigger a journaling meltdown. Stay sat for the ultimate 2025 show-and-tell that’s about to go down. While our bank accounts suffered entirely by choice, don’t let yours take accidental damage. Activate WhatsApp’s 2-step verification so scammers don’t go shopping with your identity! CHAPTERS01:30 - Self Intros incase you forgot us already 04:15 - Follow Graeme for the Meta Glass bet14:00 - This changed the trajectory our lives17:00 - Family flights to Melbourne 24:00 - The first lick of McD after a blood spike25:10 - Graeme’s One Day Home Cafe27:00 - THE TOTE you need.28:45 - Big back big bag EDC Community watch out32:30 - Fixing brown water out your pipes 33:40 - LOTTERY POKEMON HOT OFF THE PRESS39:00 - To Rob List: Grade 10 Pokemon Card 41:00 - Misdiagnosing a whole PC to bankruptcy 45:30 - Shopaholicism is an office plague 46:00 - Yummy toasty burnt Daiso trays 48:40 - GOATSKIN 2.01:00:00 - Repairing Minghan’s…
Topics covered
- impulse buying
- retail therapy
- consumer behavior
- financial advice
- shopping trends
Keywords
- RM13K coffee machine
- journaling meltdown
- WhatsApp 2-step verification
- shopaholicism
- Pokemon cards
Mentioned in this episode
Products: McD, Daiso, Meta Glass, McDonald's, Daiso trays, goatskin cover
Places: Melbourne
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