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Originally Posted by Willravel
"I invested in a treadmill." Non-monetary, still completely correct.
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Informally, yes. Formally, it would be more correct to say "I purchased a treadmill."
If you invested in a treadmill, you'd better be operating a gym, or you might not get your capital back.
Even in a business sense, if I obtained equipment of any kind for operation purposes, it would be considered a capital expenditure. Though some accountants would call it a capital investment. It would be an "investment" if it were land and you were expecting it to appreciate. But if it were equipment, it would depreciate and would be more of an expenditure (even though you use it to benefit the company...using it to make money).
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Originally Posted by Martian
I tend to think of grammar rules as context specific, and therefore don't get worked up about things like that within informal settings.
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This is the key, and there are many levels within "formal" and "informal."