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Most useless/wastelful thing every bought

sdraobs · 2019-07-22 12:15:34

Similar to thethread "do we have too much stuff", https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057998168 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.…

22-07-2019 1:15pm

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Similar to thethread

"do we have too much stuff", https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057998168

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.

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#2 22-07-2019 1:19pm

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

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#3 22-07-2019 1:23pm

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

...The shark has the other half?

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#4 22-07-2019 1:28pm

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Hand held vacuum cleaner for â‚¬80. Absolutely useless.

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#5 22-07-2019 1:32pm

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my car, never once used it :rolleyes:

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#6 22-07-2019 1:36pm

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

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#7 22-07-2019 1:36pm

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Sky subscription

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#8 22-07-2019 1:37pm

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Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

...The shark has the other half?

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

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#9 22-07-2019 1:37pm

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TCM wrote: »

Hand held vacuum cleaner for €80. Absolutely useless.

It's just gathering dust...

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#10 22-07-2019 1:39pm

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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...

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#11 22-07-2019 1:42pm

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

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#12 22-07-2019 1:47pm

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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.

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#13 22-07-2019 1:53pm

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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.

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#14 22-07-2019 1:56pm

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internet subscription.

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

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#15 22-07-2019 2:02pm

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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.

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#16 22-07-2019 2:17pm

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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

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#17 22-07-2019 2:18pm

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

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#18 22-07-2019 2:24pm

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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?

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#19 22-07-2019 2:38pm

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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.

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#20 22-07-2019 2:39pm

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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.

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#21 22-07-2019 2:40pm

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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.

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#22 22-07-2019 2:41pm

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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:

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#23 22-07-2019 2:48pm

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

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#24 22-07-2019 2:52pm

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Condoms when I was a teenager

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#25 22-07-2019 3:28pm

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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:

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#26 22-07-2019 3:46pm

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A juicer.

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#27 22-07-2019 3:53pm

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Golf clubs.
I've never played Golf.

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#28 22-07-2019 4:01pm

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TCM wrote: »

Hand held vacuum cleaner for €80. Absolutely useless.

What an awful sucker ...

(Not you, the machine)
Titter...

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#29 22-07-2019 4:16pm

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rgmmg wrote: »

Condoms when I was a teenager

You might still get to use them?

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#30 22-07-2019 4:27pm

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topper75 wrote: »

You might still get to use them?

They went past the use by date

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#31 22-07-2019 4:31pm

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One of those contraptions for chopping vegetables. Something like this

Useless damned thing.

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