The 'no duh' logic that it's a stupid idea to stroll along the high street and into shops when you're pissed can't be applied to online shopping. Twenty years after its first ever sale, buying stuff, good or bad, is now ridiculously easy. After just four or five mis-guided swipes and a few entries of a password (you get it right while closing one eye for focus) you've got that never-coveted crochet crop top or whatever else you had never desired to purchase until four drinks down.
But, at the very least, if you're sitting on an inflatable chair you don't want, watching your bank account dwindle with every dubious eBay purchase, you're not alone.
At least one in five of us has drunk-bought and the average spend is £142 a session, a new survey says.
And of that 20 per cent of us, a quarter of them (overall, that's 5 per cent of us) have spent between £100 and £200 on drunk sprees. One in 20 of that lot (so, one per cent of us) have spend more than £500 on cards while drunk.
Amazon is said to be the flame to drunken purchasers' moths, with 53 per cent of booze-clicky shoppers buying - mostly clothes - from there after a drink or two.
Confused.com's survey of 2,000 people also found that 18 per cent had also booked a holiday after getting tipsy, with six per cent buying a new TV or phone. One man bought ten lobster pots while a bit mashed. (Which, tbh, leaves us a bit confused.com).
But this survey comes with a warning that as funny as it seems, drunk buying isn't good buying, and could leave you suffering if you're spending much more than you want to on particular items, or just buying items you never wanted in the first place.
'Consumers need to be careful that purchases made when drunk don’t cause them financial problems in the future,' Nerys Lewis, head of credit cards at Confused.com told The Telegraph. 'With the last bank holiday of the summer coming up, Brits might be even more tempted to go out and have a few drinks. While people may wake up the next day and have a good laugh about the purchase they’ve made when drunk, these purchases could cause problems further down the line.'
Yikes! You know that app which stops you from texting your ex when you're drunk? Sounds like we need one of those, except for online shopping!
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.