I have a friend who has spent most of his adult life battling drug addiction. He must have said to me (a hundred plus times)
"Cocaine is god's way of telling you that you have too much money."
I have often said a similar thing to myself - perhaps when I buy both a Sig P320 Compact AND a P320 Sub Compact (after all, they do have inter-chanageable parts and can act as a parts backup for one another.)
But my single biggest dumb purchase was having a GP 100 and deciding that the GP 100 Match Champion was my next gun. When it arrived, I was horrified by the HUGE words cut into the side (one does not call such deep lettering 'engraving'). In the end, I sold them both and bought the S&W 686 and paid $$ for a trigger job on it. I realize priests have been banned from this forum, but that is my confession.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/mgm-content/si ... on_640.jpg
I have been told by several folks that Ruger did the massive lettering just for the IDPA market - they wanted branding to overcome the huge S&W bias in this [sport] shooting class.
And this is the movie scene I was reminded of when I saw the engraving on the side of the GP 100 Match Champion:
https://youtu.be/LgBA1jA2-mo?t=105
(Sorry - added to post - it took a while to find it.)