Crypto is banned in my country. So, I never had a chance to buy anything physical using Bitcoin. But I have bought multiple things online and paid in Bitcoin. I bought a domain hosting a couple of times and paid with Bitcoin. Now it becomes easier to use Bitcoin to buy something. I even buy game balance with Bitcoin. If I can buy digital items like subscriptions, I am fine.

I don't have to use Bitcoin physically. I can sell my Bitcoin in a exchange and then buy whatever I want with cash. Even though I am not using Bitcoin directly, I am still buying things by selling my Bitcoin. It works for me 

Let me first say that Bitcoin is not legal in my country. I am using Bitcoin completely outside the legality of my country and earning Bitcoin. Even though Bitcoin is not legal in my country, I am able to use it as per my convenience without any hassle from my country. However, even though I cannot buy anything directly with Bitcoin in my country, I am able to buy everything (my needs) by converting Bitcoin into my local currency using p2p. I am now completely dependent on Bitcoin to make my living, so I can say that I can buy all sorts of strange things with Bitcoin.

But one of my favorite and strangest things is that I bought gold jewelry for my mother and my wife using Bitcoin.

In my country there are a lot of things you can buy using Bitcoin though it is not very common to use Bitcoin for payment of things as the country is yet to accept Bitcoin but some clubs and gadget shops do accept payments in Bitcoin if you make mention of it. Personally I usually convert Bitcoin to Fiat to get most of the things when I am in a place that doesn't accept Bitcoin but holding the Fiat is a no no for me.

For example, Bitcoin is still completely banned in my country, but no one can ever stop people from using Bitcoin, even though Bitcoin is banned in my country, most people use Bitcoin, especially freelancers. In my country, I have never been able to buy products from a store directly using Bitcoin, but yes, I have a funny experience, which I still do, when I buy a product from my friend's store, I pay my friend in Bitcoin, not always, but when I don't have cash, that sometimes i pay my friend through Bitcoin. And my friend accepted it without any hesitation, because my friend also holds Bitcoin. 

Well you are right. Bitcoin is definitely not yet at that stage where mass adoption is completely happening. But my point is that despite a lot of investors wanting to keep holding there are still others who actually use it and have made purchases using bitcoin. I am still thinking that at some point bitcoin will be a common payment method and not some niche currency (it’s actually already really popular).

well to me those things bought with bitcoin from those link you sheared are not ridiculous to the owner. because each of us have the right to buy what pleased us with bitcoin. the only thing that made it ridiculous is because it was used to buy liability instead of asset and with time it depreciated in value. it is good to sell liability to buy asset like bitcoin than selling bitcoin for liability, because certainly with time anything you buy with bitcoin will depreciate in value especially when bought with liability. while bitcoin will keep rising and this is the reason why most people are afraid of releasing or loosing their bitcoin.

what i think i can buy with bitcoin is asset like land, real estate, stock or investment into agriculture which will yield a high return that can be used to acquire more bitcoin. aside that anything i buy with bitcoin that doesn't add any value or profit is not worthy of spending my bitcoin.

Buying pizza with Bitcoin in 2010 made sense. Doing it today? That’s like trading a Tesla for a sandwich. I’ll hold, thanks.

Bitcoin can serve both purposes and for some people, it's even serving both purposes, some people accept Bitcoin for payment and some people also love to spend Bitcoin in purchasing their needs, regardless of how everyone treats their Bitcoin, it doesn't means that they don't have a specific cold wallet for holding, while their other wallet could serve as hot wallet where they can spend from all the time. In my place, you can pay with Bitcoin for some things, although not very rampant but you can purchase some stuffs with Bitcoin.

(1) VPN subscriptions
(2) Cloud storage providers
(3) Through services like Bitrefill, you can buy Gift Cards for:
    (a) IKEA
    (b) Media Markt
    (c) Leroy Merlin
    (d) Hotels.com
    (e) PlayStation subscription
    (f) Netflix subscription
    (g) Amazon
    (h) Steam
    (i) Netflix
    (j) Jacks & Jones
    (k) Mango
    (l) Adidas
    (m) About You
    (n) Uber
    (o) Disney+
    (p) Tinder
    (q) Apple
    (r) H&M
    (s) Roblox
    (t) XBOX
    (u) Lego
    (v) Kinguin
    (w) Nintendo
    (x) Minecraft
    (y) Riot Games
    (z) Sixt
(4) You can buy anything P2P (for example here in the forum)
(5) You can buy FIAT money, but I don't suggest it