The most useless thing you've bought on offer?

sw33t_r3v3ng3

You know those times when your shopping and you see that thing you don't need but think you might possibly use in the future and you decide to buy it, we all do it !! Leave your most ridiculous purchases below.

Id say mine would be Call of Duty 4 in french... I am not french nor do i speak it. It was cheap so i bought it. Although it is a brilliant game, i cannot understand one bit of it.

What's yours ?

jimmii

A DJ decks shaped cat scratcher. It seemed funny at the time.

Sir Arthur Daley

A coffee maker.

hfallada

The Christmas alcohol specials last christmas. I dont really drink that much. But the cans were so cheap that I brought 2 slabs of miller, 2 slabs of bud and 2 slabs of bulmers. I have drank 6 cans so far.

I do use it but I bought a fcuking 10 metre HDMi cable that is clearly about 9.5 metres too long.

Edit: Im a Lidl impulse buyer too. The latest being a welder thats still in the box. I've never welded in my life and don't really plan too

Stavros Murphy

B&Q had WD40 clearing at €2 a can for the big ones, so I bought it, all of if they had. WD40 is useful, right? And usually, what, around €8 a can ish.. I am now wondering what I wanted 46 cans of wd40 for. Seemed a good idea at the time.

Stained Class

sw33t_r3v3ng3 wrote: »

You know those times when your shopping and you see that thing you don't need but think you might possibly use in the future and you decide to buy it, we all do it !! Leave your most ridiculous purchases below.

Id say mine would be Call of Duty 4 in french... I am not french nor do i speak it. It was cheap so i bought it. Although it is a brilliant game, i cannot understand one bit of it.

What's yours ?

This was always going to be a waste of money.

You'll never win this game where the French are involved.

Stavros Murphy

Stained Class wrote: »

This was always going to be a waste of money.

You'll never win this game where the French are involved.

There's extra functionality on the french version though - express weapons drop and very rapid retreating. Pressing Y twice also gives a very Gallic shrug - for when you lose.

Stained Class

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

There's extra functionality on the french version though - express weapons drop and very rapid retreating. Pressing Y twice also gives a very Gallic shrug - for when you lose.

And there's the Vichy mode for those inclined that way.

RichFTW

One of those ab shock belts. Did nothing bar stimulate being electrocuted.

shopaholic01

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

B&Q had WD40 clearing at €2 a can for the big ones, so I bought it, all of if they had. WD40 is useful, right? And usually, what, around €8 a can ish.. I am now wondering what I wanted 46 cans of wd40 for. Seemed a good idea at the time.

Lube obviously.

Stavros Murphy

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

B&Q had WD40 clearing at €2 a can for the big ones, so I bought it, all of if they had. WD40 is useful, right? And usually, what, around €8 a can ish.. I am now wondering what I wanted 46 cans of wd40 for. Seemed a good idea at the time.

Flog them on adverts for a fiver a pop

Stavros Murphy

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

Flog them on adverts for a fiver a pop

But, but, It's feckin useful stuff!! Right??

The_Valeyard

Windows Vista


I also include my budget mini disk player.


& not sure if anyone remembers (IT crowd might) the 'Zip Drive'. It was light a giant floppy that went into an external unit that connected to the PC. Wasnt bad, could hold about 250MB of space. For the late 90s, not too bad at all.

Stavros Murphy

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

But, but, It's feckin useful stuff!! Right??

As useful as my welder

wazky

A sandwich maker.

I have a wife.

The_Valeyard

wazky wrote: »

A sandwich maker.

I have a wife.

*gets popcorn & comfortable seat*

TerrorFirmer

Bought a Candy Floss maker in 2008, used it for the first time a few months ago.

ringadingding

My groupon emails always seem to come early hours of the morning.

Just landing home from the pub, scrolling through the offers.

Fall asleep, forget all about it

4 days later, postman arrives with 12 fruit of the loom polo shirts. And a tooth whitening kit.

sw33t_r3v3ng3

ringadingding wrote: »

My groupon emails always seem to come early hours of the morning.

Just landing home from the pub, scrolling through the offers.

Fall asleep, forget all about it

4 days later, postman arrives with 12 fruit of the loom polo shirts. And a tooth whitening kit.

Thats clearly why they send them early in the morning

Wotsername

wazky wrote: »

A sandwich maker.

I have a wife.

Both on-line, impulse buys?:D

The Backwards Man

A rowing machine.

It sunk first time on the river.

e_e

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

There's extra functionality on the french version though - express weapons drop and very rapid retreating. Pressing Y twice also gives a very Gallic shrug - for when you lose.

...and if you press down on the right thumbstick you melee the enemy with a frozen baguette. :pac:

CarMe

Notepads, notepads, notepads coming out my ears. Hardback, ringbind, colourful, plain, artistic, serious.

All with the first page or two filled in then forgotten about!

EyeSight

My mother once bought 4 "can coolers" on offer.
Basically they were these can holders which you plug in and 4 hours later you've got a cool can. Don't see why she didn't wanna use the fridge

Something like this
http://www.savontv.com/can-cooler.html

Pumpkinseeds

Mostly Lidl stuff. There was the useless food processor that seemed like a good idea, it stayed in the box for a year before I used it once then got rid of it.

The Lidl handheld vacuum cleaner, I thought it'd be great for the stairs, it wasn't.

Not from Lidl was the 3 tier steamer, which has never been out of the box, I can't even remember if it's in the back of a cupboard or if I got rid of it.

Sir Arthur Daley

A solar powered battery charger that takes about a year to charge one battery. :mad:

Mr. CooL ICE

Bought a dash cam after the meteor videos from Russia emerged. No meteors have been seen since.


Also bought a cheese grater shaped like an electric guitar.

Sir Osis of Liver.

Just spent a tenner on a pack of gold plated playing cards I saw over on Bargain Alerts.
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/24K-GOLD-PLATED-PLAYING-CARDS-PLASTIC-52-POKER-DECK-99-9-PURE-W-CoA-BOX-BE0D-/131106678178?/

Sir Osis of Liver.

Sir Osis of Liver. wrote: »

Just spent a tenner on a pack of gold plated playing cards I saw over on Bargain Alerts.
http://www.ebay.ie/itm/24K-GOLD-PLATED-PLAYING-CARDS-PLASTIC-52-POKER-DECK-99-9-PURE-W-CoA-BOX-BE0D-/131106678178?/

Just did the same. Although one of the lads is a keen poker player and his birthday is coming up.

Snotaul Goodman

Snotaul Goodman wrote: »

I do use it but I bought a fcuking 10 metre HDMi cable that is clearly about 9.5 metres too long.

Edit: Im a Lidl impulse buyer too. The latest being a welder thats still in the box. I've never welded in my life and don't really plan too

Aw man this made me proper laugh :pac:

I don't generally buy crap. I'm awful sensible (boring) when it comes to *stuff* if I don't know exactly where it's going to go in my house then I don't buy it.

My mother though, jesus feckin christ, she's a heart of gold but seeeeriously.

"I bought you this dress, it was only 50cent in Penneys"
"I bought you this teapot, it was only a euro in Penneys"
"I bought you this lawnmower, it was a fiver in Penneys"

>.<

GenieOz

Just bought teeth whitening session for 100 euro..I don't know why, it seemed like a good deal though!?

Menas

An ireland worldcup 1998 replica football jersey. Got it from a stall in a dodgy market near the border (jonesborogh?)

Ireland did not get to the world cup in 1998.

Gillo

LordChessington wrote: »

Bought a dash cam after the meteor videos from Russia emerged. No meteors have been seen since.

You have to point the it up at the sky and stop taking selfies while driving.

fr336

A wife.

Sir Arthur Daley

Deleted User wrote: »

"I bought you this dress, it was only 50cent in Penneys"
"I bought you this teapot, it was only a euro in Penneys"
"I bought you this lawnmower, it was a fiver in Penneys"

People are stone red mad for buying cheap stufff out of Penneys, it never seizes to amaze me.

GenieOz

WikiHow wrote: »

People are stone red mad for buying cheap stufff out of Penneys, it never seizes to amaze me.

It's actually pretty decent quality, especially for the money!

stateofflux

has to be the famous lidl Angle grinder. the predicted amount of angle grinding was vastly over estimated

maryishere

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

Mostly Lidl stuff. There was the useless food processor that seemed like a good idea, it stayed in the box for a year before I used it once then got rid of it.

The Lidl handheld vacuum cleaner, I thought it'd be great for the stairs, it wasn't.

Not from Lidl was the 3 tier steamer, which has never been out of the box, I can't even remember if it's in the back of a cupboard or if I got rid of it.

bought a jacket in lidl once, the zip broke on it the second time it was used.
pure lidl ****.

Bought a hand held video camera. The brand was tobishika. I got it at one of those 'auctions' held in a hotel conference room that sold all kinds of shíte electronics.

Comer1

Aftershave, flowers and condoms :mad:

wazky

Comer1 wrote: »

Aftershave, flowers and condoms :mad:

Happy Valentines!

The J Stands for Jay

A 7 inch Chinese Android tablet is saw on Bargain Alerts. Used it once, watchwd the Chinese pop video that was already on it. no idea what people even do with tablets.