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MIButterfly

(3,063 posts)
Thu Apr 23, 2026, 03:06 PM Apr 23

I have posted about this before but have an update

Late at night, when I can't sleep, I flip through the channels on the TV and end up on one of the shopping channels. I see something that makes me say "I need that" and I get on my laptop and order it. A week or so later, a package comes to the door and I open it and say to myself, what the hell is this?

But I really love that butter dish I couldn't live without at 2:00 a.m.

P.S. I recently read online that QVC is going to file for bankruptcy.

Edited to add: QVC has filed for chapter 11.

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I have posted about this before but have an update (Original Post) MIButterfly Apr 23 OP
LOL, I can relate! Laffy Kat Apr 23 #1
LOL! MIButterfly Apr 23 #2
If I'm not real sure, I wait 3 days. multigraincracker Apr 23 #3
I did that with one thing. I put it on "Hold" MIButterfly Apr 23 #5
In a 2 a.m. TV shopping frenzy, a buddy of mine ordered FIVE...count 'em 1,2,3,4,5... Totally Tunsie Apr 23 #4
Oh my goodness! MIButterfly Apr 23 #6
We all do, but especially those of us who DIDN'T receive one! Totally Tunsie Apr 24 #7
Well, at least there is an upside to being so completely broke. OldBaldy1701E Apr 24 #8

Laffy Kat

(16,975 posts)
1. LOL, I can relate!
Thu Apr 23, 2026, 03:19 PM
Apr 23

When I was taking Ambien I would order items I saw on late-night infomercials and then have no memory of having ordered them. One day, I received not one, but two, electric hair straighteners.

MIButterfly

(3,063 posts)
2. LOL!
Thu Apr 23, 2026, 03:23 PM
Apr 23

That is funny. As I said in another thread, DUers are cracking me up today and I love it.

MIButterfly

(3,063 posts)
5. I did that with one thing. I put it on "Hold"
Thu Apr 23, 2026, 11:36 PM
Apr 23

I don’t remember what it was, but I do remember taking it off Hold and putting it onto my credit card a few days later.

Totally Tunsie

(11,976 posts)
4. In a 2 a.m. TV shopping frenzy, a buddy of mine ordered FIVE...count 'em 1,2,3,4,5...
Thu Apr 23, 2026, 10:51 PM
Apr 23

portable camping grills that utilized rolled newspapers for fuel. He generously thought his kids and a couple of friends wouldn't be able to live without them either and would thank him profusely. In the time it took for them to arrive, he rolled his daily newspapers in anticipation, only to find that his thick, expensive steak tasted exactly like newsprint...GAH!

Full disclosure: He had rolled "other" papers before settling down in front of the TV on the night he ordered.

OldBaldy1701E

(11,453 posts)
8. Well, at least there is an upside to being so completely broke.
Fri Apr 24, 2026, 08:27 AM
Apr 24

I cannot even consider doing something like that.

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