Your biggest waste of money

Nothing i'm very prudent.

partyguinness wrote: »

2. €250 on a....penis extender that ended up in a skip 4 weeks later...:o(Look, I was living alone, bored and with internet access and I thought I would put my spare time to good use)

Did it work?

My CD, and to a lesser extent, DVD collection.

I have hundreds of CD albums, maybe 400. And nearly the same number of CD singles. A collection going back to the late 80s. I know its not as many as other people might have bought, but I probably paid £10 on average for each CD, and maybe £4 on average for each single, so probably looking at over £5k worth that is now mostly gathering dust.

Having said that, at least most of them got a listening to at some stage. Some still get listened to. I think DVD collections are the biggest waste of money, many of mine are still in the cellophane wrapping. People buy a lot of DVDs but never watch them. Or watch them once despite paying up to £15 for them. IF you are going to watch something once then renting it for £3 would be a better idea.

partyguinness wrote: »

Never tried it for long enough. Too much effort and I felt like a right prat.

Where abouts did you throw it out... not that I plan on using it or anything.

Mostly on ridiculous cars around 2004-2007,

Oldish M3, traded it in 6 months later for a Lotus Elise, and that never lasted more than 2 weeks without being on the back of a recovery truck :rolleyes:
Bought a house around 2004 with a soon after ex, not too bad for negative equity at the moment, but have it rented out and its a pain in the arse!!
And from then until now pretty much everything i have bought, I'm an impulse buyer.................but I have learned my lessons now that i am a bit older and have far less money

partyguinness wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/0807/1224321629609.html

Just reading that article and especially at the end and the money wasted on items never used.

When you look back, what would you class as the most pointless waste of money you have spent on goods. I'll kick off:

1. €27k on a celtic tiger BMW that I sold 2 years later for €12k
2. €250 on a....penis extender that ended up in a skip 4 weeks later...(Look, I was living alone, bored and with internet access and I thought I would put my spare time to good use)
3. €2k on Anglo shares in 2005
4. €300 on an exercise bike that I never used and I just abandoned it in a house when I left.

Many more will come to mind

Yeah you might have been rich but you're not so big in your pants now, are ya? :pac:

£50 million pounds on fillipo inzaghi in champiosnhip manager 04

mikemac1 wrote: »

700 euro on a top of the range weights bench, 140kg Olympic weights set, a squat cage and an Olympic bar

This was no Argos jobbie, bought from a professional supplier, proper gym quality stuff

Currently a clothes horse

You selling it?!

partyguinness wrote: »

1. €27k on a celtic tiger BMW that I sold 2 years later for €12k
2. €250 on a....penis extender that ended up in a skip 4 weeks later...:o

You bought 2 penis extenders :eek:

mikemac1 wrote: »

700 euro on a top of the range weights bench, 140kg Olympic weights set, a squat cage and an Olympic bar

This was no Argos jobbie, bought from a professional supplier, proper gym quality stuff

Currently a clothes horse

Give ya 300 for the lot and you can even feel how tight my ass is after a few weeks squating.

giant_midget wrote: »

wow..real high roller we have here, such extravagance..

Add that up over a decade and it's a hell of a lot of cash.

If we're talking single one-off purchases, an Audi A4 that I got about 6 months out of before flogging it for scrap.