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Ask HN: What did you buy or considering buying this Black Friday?

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Re: Ask HN: What did you buy or considering buying this Black Friday?

#91
Black Friday is a stupid "holiday" that only drives people to buy more shit that they don't need. So nothing.

Apologies for the harsh response. It's not directed towards you. I went on walks around a suburb I live in for two years, and the number of garages PACKED FULL of absolute crap was astounding (usually while having two cars parked right in front of it, usually partially or entirely blocking the sidewalk). When I think of Black Friday, I think of that.

Re: Ask HN: What did you buy or considering buying this Black Friday?

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Don't you need to have the plumbing in a loop? Not something you just buy. You have to put in a return line back to the water heater.

I think they use the cold water line to return water.

I see. Good luck.

Re: Ask HN: What did you buy or considering buying this Black Friday?

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> I'm personally considering pulling the trigger on the 15' Macbook Air M2 to replace my current 15' Macbook Pro Intel I made this jump when the M2 MBA came out. It’s amazing. The only thing you’ll miss about the Intel MBP is the built-in white noise generator. This year, I bought some GaN bricks and USB-C cables. Prices were somewhat better than normal but not amazing. One trick for getting more out of Black Friday…

Throw in Rakuten to triple stack some stores

Re: Ask HN: What did you buy or considering buying this Black Friday?

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> If you need something you would have got it already Not necessarily, it’s common for people to wait for Black Friday for big purchases.

> Not necessarily, it’s common for people to wait for Black Friday for big purchases. That's my point though - if you can and do wait you don't actually need it. Like unless you're in some financial hardship or other edge case... E.g. would you wait 6 months without a TV so you can buy it on Black Friday? If you can do that you don't need it. It's a nice to have.

Depends. It can be something I need, but it makes sense to wait a few months to save a few hundred bucks. 20% on a nice TV can be 200-300€.

I see your point, but with your definition you never « need » anything except for food, water and healthcare, which is true to some extent but not a very useful definition for everyday use.

Re: Ask HN: What did you buy or considering buying this Black Friday?

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Some more Renogy solar panels, because I live off-grid in an RV. And then some Lectric e-bikes, to use up all that extra electricity.

Do you roof mount them? How do things go this time of the year, assuming you're in a winter hemisphere, regarding portable-tier solar? I did this maybe 12 years ago in a very small RV for 18 months. I found during winter I needed to be sure I drove around a bit more to charge up my batteries.

I have 800W of roof-mounted solar panels, and I just got two 200W Renogy "suitcase" panels. All of these feed a 400aH 12V battery bank. Summer energy generation was pretty solid, and I went a max of about 8 days using just the 800W roof panels without having to top off with the generator. Now, in the fall, I'm in Quartzsite, AZ, and the 800W flat-mounted panels were are getting me a few days before needing to run the generator for at least a few hours. Adding the extra 400W of portable, direct-able solar panels did the trick, and I'm staying fully charged on sunny days (which is most days here).

Re: Ask HN: What did you buy or considering buying this Black Friday?

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> If you need something you would have got it already Not necessarily, it’s common for people to wait for Black Friday for big purchases.

> Not necessarily, it’s common for people to wait for Black Friday for big purchases. That's my point though - if you can and do wait you don't actually need it. Like unless you're in some financial hardship or other edge case... E.g. would you wait 6 months without a TV so you can buy it on Black Friday? If you can do that you don't need it. It's a nice to have.

I’d guess that most big purchases are replacements for things people already have. E.g. the washing machine I bought earlier this month replaced my 20 year old washer that was starting to fail.

I probably could have kept the old machine working for a few more months so technically didn’t need a new washer, but if I’d waited until the old one actually died and then bought a replacement I’d likely have paid a lot more.

It seemed much more rational to just keep the old one until the next big sale and then replace it.

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