Most useless/wastelful thing every bought

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whats the most useless thing you ever bought. thread may serve as a warning to avoid a particular product/service.

For me, i got a playstation classic recently. 5 minutes of playing and realised its a load of junk. feel guilty about the effort gone into producing it before i stuck it in the bin.

Surfboard, snapped in half after a week. A few hundred bob laid to waste.

Badly Drunk Boy

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Surfboard, snapped in half after a week. A few hundred bob laid to waste.

...The shark has the other half?

TCM

Hand held vacuum cleaner for €80. Absolutely useless.

Girl_harbour

my car, never once used it :rolleyes:

Blaizes

My little pony castle, a huge expensive piece of plastic junk that had to be built then kept falling apart. Never again.

Eggs For Dinner

Sky subscription

Badly Drunk Boy

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

...The shark has the other half?

He put it up for auction on eBay. Not one bite.

whiskeyman

TCM wrote: »

Hand held vacuum cleaner for €80. Absolutely useless.

It's just gathering dust...

endacl

Was part of a syndicate several years ago. We bought a load of e-voting machines. Next bright idea was the most expensive children’s hospital in the history of the universe...

mad muffin

€3 flip flops from Dunnes. It’s like walking on sponges. But at least they were only €3.

Mister Vain

Gopro. I used it on Holiday and now its just sitting on the shelf. I tried selling it in Cex but apparently the battery is bolloxed.

biko

An expensive watch that I didn't like once I put it on.
Couldn't return as I had broken the seal on the packaging.

Roadtoad

internet subscription.

The sheer waste of time, wait 'till I tell you what I saw last night..........................

freshpopcorn

We both a little mini oven a few years ago on sale and it's great. It's small and cooks things faster smd is more economical than our regular over.

I suppose I bought a PlayStation two and I never really played it.

Father Hernandez

Not me personally but I know a few guys who bought these e-voting machines for €54million

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/54m-voting-machines-scrapped-for-9-each-26870212.html

JohnnyFlash

A racehorse. Absolute black hole for money, and the I’d have jumped better myself.

Wheety

Blaizes wrote: »

My little pony castle, a huge expensive piece of plastic junk that had to be built then kept falling apart. Never again.

Are you a Brony? Or was it for a kid?

Blaizes

Wheety wrote: »

Are you a Brony? Or was it for a kid?

Had to google that lol! Adults who like my little pony for those who don’t know what a brony is! World gone mad.

No castle was for my daughter.

A hand held garment steamer, by the time you'd get a decent result from it you'd have driven to the cleaners and waited the four hours and driven home again. In the end I got a steamer that gets to a decent temperature and has a decent tank and a stand to hang the stuff on while it's being steamed and it makes things look like they're just out of the dry cleaners.

Hair gadgets like straighteners and wands were a waste of money. They make very little difference to how my hair looks other than making it like straw from the heat.

I bought a stand mixer, used it twice. It's still faster and easier to use elbow grease or the small handheld egg-beaters. Gave it to my cousins gf and she loves it, so it's probably just me on that one.

I bought my chap a bean-to-cup coffee maker and he can't be bothered with any of it when the option is there to just put a capsule in another machine and switch it on. I'm sure some people would love it but for most coffee drinkers a Keurig/Nespresso is probably the easier route. It was an absolute fortune too.

Wheety

Blaizes wrote: »

Had to google that lol! Adults who like my little pony for those who don’t know what a brony is! World gone mad.

No castle was for my daughter.

Bummer1234

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

A racehorse. Absolute black hole for money, and the I’d have jumped better myself.

Sounds like the lad who sold you that took you for a ride.....:pac:

BeerWolf

I got a huge backlog of games that I buy off sales but never play... useless purchases I suppose.

rgmmg

Condoms when I was a teenager

Canard

My sister talked me into buying a horrible pair of green trousers for £55 and I've never worn them, but I don't think I could've returned them since I got them in England.
I also bought two pairs of trousers for €30 each (I think?) which were a horrible fit. One was okay I thought, but they're a bit baggy and now I feel stupid wearing them, and the other pair (exact same size, different colour) is even worse despite both being my size and had I gone a size smaller I doubt they'd have fit.

I have an odd habit of buying similar clothes to what I have with small variations, and I stop myself when I notice, but at least I'll bleedin' wear those :rolleyes:

Bigbagofcans

A juicer.

G Shock

Golf clubs.
I've never played Golf.

FFred

TCM wrote: »

Hand held vacuum cleaner for €80. Absolutely useless.

What an awful sucker ...

(Not you, the machine)
Titter...

topper75

rgmmg wrote: »

Condoms when I was a teenager

You might still get to use them?

rgmmg

topper75 wrote: »

You might still get to use them?

They went past the use by date

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

One of those contraptions for chopping vegetables. Something like this




Useless damned thing.

Hobosan

Ryan Tubridy's Christmas dinner.

Samuel T. Cogley

A one bedroom apartment in 2006.

Thelonious Monk

When you see the amount of ridiculous useless items on sale in Lidl and Aldi etc during certain promotions you realise the world must be full of complete idiots if there's a market for that kind of rubbish

Leg End Reject

Thelonious Monk wrote: »

When you see the amount of ridiculous useless items on sale in Lidl and Aldi etc during certain promotions you realise the world must be full of complete idiots if there's a market for that kind of rubbish

And destined for landfill soon after purchase too.

mikemac2

€1000 on a racing bike. Spent most of its life in a garage

Then when I heard about the bike to work scheme I spent €1000 on a mountain bike

Both bikes live in a garage

I really should stop being a lazy fecker and actually use them!

the beer revolu

Candie wrote: »

I bought my chap a bean-to-cup coffee maker and he can't be bothered with any of it when the option is there to just put a capsule in another machine and switch it on. I'm sure some people would love it but for most coffee drinkers a Keurig/Nespresso is probably the easier route. It was an absolute fortune too.

But a bean to cup machine would be more convenient than a nespresso.

the beer revolu

the beer revolu wrote: »

But a bean to cup machine would be more convenient than a nespresso.

I don't drink coffee so I've never used it, I only know what I see - a waste of cash with handles and impressive noises.

Maybe he just prefers the keurig, but it's probably more about it being easier to clean or something like that.

BrenMar

A water rower like the one Frank has in House of Cards. It takes up half the living room. Been on it twice in 3 years.

babi-hrse

PlayStation plus
Or a safe spud gun. Literally did not have the power to expel potato out of nozzle entirely self defeating.

Thelonious Monk

Candie wrote: »

I don't drink coffee so I've never used it, I only know what I see - a waste of cash with handles and impressive noises.

Maybe he just prefers the keurig, but it's probably more about it being easier to clean or something like that.

can I have it?

Ragnar Lothbrok

One of those stupid paint roller brushes that you actually pour the paint into, with a plastic edge for doing the cutting in out of the Kleeneze catalogue many years ago. Did not work, and I've got a great eye and steady hand for cutting in anyway.

A few times I'd have got stung by buying things from the same or similar catalogues that used to come through the door. They looked so impressive and easy to use, but were completely rubbish when you got them.

Capt'n Midnight

Blaizes wrote: »

My little pony castle, a huge expensive piece of plastic junk that had to be built then kept falling apart. Never again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpKnQji7g8s

peasant

Stupid bread baking machine..useless piece of kit

corner of hells

A fishing rod.

I used to fish quite a bit when in my teens and into my early twenties. All stopped when I got married.

Bought a fishing rod , reel , all the gear when in my early thirties, bought four more rods and a couple a hundred euros worth of equipment till I realised I'd no interest in fishing.
Also she told me , she'd divorce me if I bought another rod.

ToddyDoody

Prize bonds. Never won anything, amount got eaten away by inflation.

Lady Spangles

peasant wrote: »

Stupid bread baking machine..useless piece of kit

I bought one too. Hopeless. It produced this lumpen, misshapen block of god knows what that was burned on the outside and raw mush in the middle. Now it's resting beneath the kitchen sink, never to be used again.

kikilarue2

I lived in Doha for a year. It's a pretty miserable city with damn all to do but lots of nice 5* hotels, so I decided to become a member of the gym, leisure centre and spa for about €1,500 for 12 months to make it bearable. Didn't work and I left two months later, having gone like 4 times.

Capt'n Midnight

The Space Shuttle program cost $196bn in direct costs.


Even before its first flight it was responsible for the loss of the Skylab space station and all that habitable volume.

The huge size and wings* were needed to sell it to the military.
They didn't use it much.

And commercial launches to GEO dried up when the penny dropped about how dangerous it was having a liquid fuelled booster inside your spacecraft.


And Galileo could have a ring side seat for Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 hitting Jupiter if it wasn't for Shuttle delays. So it's quite possible that this white elephant has doomed humanity as the planetary defence system wasn't built in time to stop the asteroid that will kill us all.


And the much touted "Satellite retrieval" ability was only used on 4 flights. And only one of those was for commercial satellites, and it would have been cheaper to replace the satellites.


Huge size meant huge cost. It meant a trip to the ISS cost a billion dollars at a time the Russians were selling seats on Soyuz for $35m a pop.


Even after it's retirement it is still costing NASA billions a year. They are paying Boeing and Lockheed to re-use the engines and side boosters** from the Shuttle in the SLS. They'd already spent billions developing Ares from the same bits.


* Wings - Would Columbia have survived if it had smaller wings ?
** SRB - Challenger was lost so they could recycle steel tubes used in the boosters

:mad:

ILoveYourVibes

Tinted moisturizer in the wrong shade for my skin. Shoes I ordered online that turned out to be the wrong size.

Baron Kurtz

This could be the new bargain alerts thread.