Yep...

The ADHD cope to research a thing for tens of hours across weeks or even months, agonizing over the purchase of the thing (especially if multiple options are available) before ultimately deciding that it isn't worth the relatively minuscule cost.
- I’m so glad I’m not the only one. The stereotype of impulse buying is overshadowed by the compulsive need to absolutely make sure the dopamine high off the product is worth the money spent.
- Multiple options will one day be my demise.
- Why do we do this, and then sometimes buy crap on impulse and then regret such low quality products without any research? I hate that trait of mine. There's no in-between.
- I have a problem where everything that I want to buy has been discontinued years ago, so my days of research end up being all for naught by the time I'm ready to pull the trigger. I really need to start reading the publish dates on web pages...

He missed a step before and some after:
Do everything humanly possible with the thing, learn exactly how it works, become subject matter expert, then put it somewhere.
Have someone randomly ask about the thing, knowledge dump, excited to show the person the thing, forget where you put it.
Be at home a few weeks later, find the thing, be sad you couldn't find it earlier, put it in a new pile, for sure you'll remember where it is this time!

The ceiling fans in my garage call to me on occasion. Usually that occasion is "sitting in a warm room with no air flow."
It's been about 6 years now.

My entire foray into home automation.
There's a box full of AliExpress zigbee sensors of all sorts in my office.
Someday...
- Literally me. I should get to setting this stuff up, probably.

I mean, you can take it out of the shipping box but it stacks pretty good with the others if you don't.

I have no idea how I got past this phase in my ADHD. I think at some point my brain went “okay only buy thing you’re going to use like every day”
- for me it was when i bought a 6" grunt mech gunpla for 40 dollars.

Currently going through this watching videos of Walstad method aquariums lol
- You really should put an explicit comment like that behind a content warning.
- Well thats a terrible idea, I did that once and now I'm setting up a second one to "do it even better".
  Before you know it you will have a fish room and no money.

Honestly I really enjoy doing this. Have done it constantly for decades hah.
You end up having a graveyard of fascinating things that you can rediscover, and repeat the same cycle on. My small dwelling is full of surprises and discovery. Same shit I have been staring at for years. It's great.

I am pretty sure this is anyone, not really ADHD specific. More like a "makes me feel good to buy something" specific. Which is many many people.
- It's the other steps that make it ADHD.

Thank you for the reminder. Pretty sure I have two random gadgets sitting around on month 3 or 4 somewhere, so now I have a great activity for the weekend, or not, we will see.

Urge or compulsion?
Bcs the process is a drag, takes hours & a bunch of irrelevant decisions.

My Retroid Pocket Flip 2 arrives on Monday. Soon I'll have more consoles than ever before I can emulate but probably won't.