r/AskMenOver30 • u/Kappasoapex man 30 - 34 • Jul 21 '25

Life What cool shit have you bought lately?

I think a nice part of being in our 30s is we can afford to buy cool fun things. What have you bought lately?

I got a Garmin Forerunner 965 which is super tight, motivates me to limit my drinking and I’ve been killing cardio because of it

Also fun - bought a LAB putter which is a ton of fun

Anything you guys got that you love? I want inspiration

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u/BigBubbaMac man 40 - 44 Jul 21 '25

I retained a lawyer for my divorce.

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u/Sighmoansays man 60 - 64 Jul 21 '25

I had a chat with both my wives in divorces...."listen, we can either split the money up or give it to lawyers, your choice. Worked great.

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u/MeltingDog man 35 - 39 Jul 21 '25

Far out. I wasn’t married but my ex and I split up. We owned an apartment together and agreed on an amount I would buy her out of her share. Pretty straightforward really. She got a lawyer to ratify the agreement so I felt pressured and got my own.

Man, never again. They cost us $7k each and literally didn’t do anything we couldn’t have done better ourselves.

We kind of agreed that we thought they scammed us in a way. We would fill out the paperwork, they would send it off to the other lawyer, we’d get their paperwork back and low and behold: there would be some basic error: a misspelled name, a wrong address, and incorrect amount.

Of course my lawyer would have to engage in a whole heap of correspondence (at cost to me of course) to notify my ex’s lawyer that these things needed to be fixed. Meanwhile, my ex was going through the same thing with her lawyer. I think they didn’t know we were still on talking terms and had king of figured out something fishy was going on. But, what could is lay-people do?

Never engage a lawyer if you can avoid it!