For me it would have been buying the steam frame (but I am still in the waitlist).
Also, I recently gotten into the 40k lore, but there is no way I can find the time and physical place to get into wargames.

I wanna go to Japan and do the Saigoku Kannon pilgrimage. D:

Hope you get your steam frame and get to play 40k soon. :)

I want to spend $120 on glass Christmas ornaments.

I wanted to upgrade the RAM and maybe the storage in my laptop, but I kept putting it off because I was being cheap.

Yeah, I wanted to swap out a bunch of stuff, basically build a new pc.

A new bike to replace my 8 year old one. I can afford it, but I can't justify it. I will probably cave once winter boredom sets in or there is a black friday discount. I've been sitting on it for about a year.

Also a new car. Also sitting on that, waiting for the price to drop to 25K or less, probably next year. my current car needs tons of work, so I have been stretching it out because I didn't want to drop 5K on a 10 year old car that I was going to replace soon anyway. It's great, but I just want something that's quieter and more comfortable for long highway driving, which my current car isn't. after about 2 hours the seats in my current car start hurting my back and the noise from the roadway hurts my ears.

Buddy, I think the fact that you forgot the ‘t in your question means you’re asking the exact opposite of what you intend.

I intended to buy a server for my game dev stuff like my locally hosted ForgeJo, file server, etc. I currently have a scrappy little box made from spare parts.

But they're so expensive now and I don't want to blow my entire budget on a new one when the current one "works".

I want a pair of Asics 727s but for whatever reason this particular pair of shoes is annoying and expensive to get outside of Japan.

A FUCKING HOUSE

That’s not being cheap lol. RAM prices are one of the most expensive for their value things on the planet right now.

Healthcare

There's a chinese version thats half the price and produces 50% more power by revving to 16K and costs like half as much, but for some reason nobody imports them. If I buy the Honda I just know the chinese bike will show up.

There's hope for the frame, but with two children (including one newborn), I highly doubt I will soon have enough time to get into painting minis :D
I will definitely jump into Total War Warhammer 40k when it arrives tho

The list is long and varied.

Can't afford: New floors and AC in my house (~$20K)

Can't justify: a XGIMI Aura 3 Max 4K 120Hz UST Projector ($2K)

Can't afford: A camper van (~$60K)

Can't justify: A new PC (~$3500)

One thing I did justify recently was $2K on a new bed. My old bed was over 20 years old.

Good catch, I corrected it

Damn, I know nothing about these but they are fine looking !

I’m in the same place with my bike. I’ve been wanting to upgrade to electric for years now and they’re cheaper than ever. I’ll probably go through with it in the spring.

Two years ago I bought 64gb of RAM that I didn't really need, felt guilty about it for a while, now I need it and I don't feel guilty!

I want a new gaming computer and a gigantic monitor/tv to plug into. I'm broke to the point of skipping meals currently.

This summer I setup a homeserver for immich / jellyfin / arr with this this Bad boy. I found it close to 300 euros, however this is barebone, and with the cost of ram this hikes the cost quite a bit. ( Hard drives were scrapped from old pc and laptops)

Oof. Same.

I figured "memory is cheap, I have time"

checks memory prices, weeps

Get into HAM radio. I have wayyyyyy to much hobbies as is.

Brothels are available for low prices

My own rocket ship and a yacht that's so big it has another smaller yacht that can fit inside it in case I need to sail into any tight spots.

Nah, just kidding. Could you imagine?

Two 8TB HDDs to finnish my NAS....

The chinese one's engine is basically a copy of a zx4r, the 400cc version of the bike below, with imported parts any place that in-house manufacturing wasn't on par or superior, and most parts being interchangeable.

But I don't want a fully-fared bike, the plastics are gonna get scuffed so fast if I'm riding it on streets, sidewalks, gravel, etc every day.

It was being cheap because I've been wanting to do this since before the RAMpocalypse started.

I really want to do an electric conversion of a Geo Tracker.

One with a blown engine showed up on Craigslist for $1k two weeks before my daughter's due date.

Next time.

Oof, get ready to get a loan for these :D

First world problems entirely, but I can't justify any of the below:

A UV printer
a metal lathe
a 20yr old 2nd hand kit car.

Last year at about this time one 8TB drive cost 2500SEK, a fair price I guess, now they cost 4000SEK minimum, I don't have the money for that.

I have four 8TB drives that I got before the crazy mess started. I want a NAS of 32TB in a ZRAID2

These last two drives are the last component I am missing ):

In 1995: a virtual boy

In 2015: an Oculus Rift

In 2026: a Steam Frame

A new roof. Our shingle roof is 18 years old and leaking. Which in New Mexico is not the end of the world. But as we have been having rain every other day for 2 weeks, it has become an issue.

There is no way I can afford it right now, so I will have to continuing I patch it.

I feel you.

I heard the banks where I live are thinking about providing multi-generational loans so people would be able to pay for them.

I keep a whole list and get one item after another, when money allows and priority demands it.
Currently looking for new shoes and a specific Laptop

A piece of land to have a garden. If it's big enough, I could even live there

An EV. I have a relatively new gas car that is fuel efficient and fully paid off. I work from home so really only use it maximum 3x a week for errands and extra curricular activities. Ironically an EV would be perfect for my use-case.

One of Fuji's medium format cameras.

I'd also need to upgrade my storage if I got one. Just way too expensive.

So many fountain pens.

A new NAS.

A new keyboard (my wife took my mechanical board so maybe I'll actually get this. The keyboard maxes at three simultaneous keys and it's killing me).

Everything to make my basement game room a reality.

A desk (currently using a borrowed old folding table from the in-laws).

Several books (like the annotated Lord of the Rings).

Resin 3D printer.

Instead of any of those I'm saving for an anniversary gift for my wife and to replace our cutting board which is about to split.

Very little. I've obtained most of my material desires and what ever I still want I could techically afford but can't justify it - like a quad bike.

I didn't ask for much to begin with and I'm satisfied with what I got. Not wanting a thing is as good as having it.

I have big plans to do a performance build on my fun car, a 1977 Cadillac Fleetwood. The old Cadillac big blocks are well known for shitting out good power and torque without much effort and I just want to see this 19 foot land yacht do stupid speeds.
But I do not have the space or equipment yet to be able to do a full engine-out job, and I'm about to move, and I have 14 other projects lined up in front of it (half of which are projects to keep my daily drivers running). So it sits, still a running car but so leaky that I try not to drive it.

I want to upgrade my DSLR into a mirrorless (that weighs less) but lo and behold I’m on an extended sick leave after I dislocated my shoulder and my employer doesn’t pay a cent after the first month.

Load-bearing walls!

I have no disposable income. the list is long. name brand soda. little plastic doodad so it keeps a toilet puck from dissolving in the full tank between flushes. on the high side an electric bike. honestly even when I had income coming in the steam frame is to rich for my blood. I got a steam deck after a year or so when the price decreased and that was when tech part prices went down over time.

I’ve got a Ford Ranger I wanna do the same to. Eventually…

Nothing like having your kids pay for the house you buy…

Plenty of things, but the first that came to mind was the same as OP. The Steam Frame looks really cool, but at the price it's a whole thing.

Same for other electronics - a Framework laptop, building a new desktop (good luck to me there), a Steam Deck.

Lots of newer video games. It's easy to turn down some of them, because I know I haven't made time to play a lot of what I already have. Likewise for books in general, where money isn't a bottleneck but time and space are.

Pokemon cards - just recently had a mini-convention day here in town with a bunch of collectors/vendors selling. Made me really want to go back and fill out my weak collection of WotC classics, but the price (vs how much I care) is a bit prohibitive.

A modern PC build. Can’t afford a new GPU or RAM. Mainly so I could actually get some use out of a monitor that isn’t fifteen years old.

Shit, this is an amazingly depressive development

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