Last Useless Thing You've Bought?

[Lager]

What was the last useless thing you bought courtesy of Hot Deals Forum?

I bought a 120gb hard drive even though I have 160gb hard drive already in my computer and have plenty of storage left.

 

[Kevin]

Either my digital camera or iPod...

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Kevin
Either my digital camera or iPod...

I have both of those things and don't consider either one useless...

 

[JSClark]

Can't really think of anything useless at the moment...

 

[CPA]

I bought a new Cd RW from OffixeMax which was posted on Hot Deals when I thought my old one had broken. Ended up I was able to fix the old one, so now I have two CD RWs in my system.

 

[minendo]

Change rolls. No point in rolling change if they just run it through a machine at the bank.

 

[SoylentGreen]

A couple of my really cheap gamecube game purchases.
They're cheap because the games suck.

 

[dman]

I'd say the most useless was my Clie... and the 128MB stick.

I get some use out of the desktop software by using it as a PIM / Address book. I had tried some other free programs to do that, as well as act, etc, but none that I liked. On the plus side, I got it for dirt cheap at the time ($100) and the memory was <$40 at the time. I knew it was overkill, but, wasn't sure if I'd get a Sony Digicam. I ended up w/ a Minolta that uses C/F. That is probably one of the best purchases I made... at least of things I wasn't sure about.

Oh, and most useless of all time.... asked for N64 a long time ago, and got it for xmas from my wife, along with zelda and mario, and never really used it much. I didn't like the 3d versions of those games. Although I played mario pretty far and zelda a few hours. I haven't bothered to buy another console because I just don't have time to enjoy the games like I used to.

I still have it, and tell myself I'll eventually finish those games but I don't think I will.

 

[brunswickite]

120 gig harddrive for 77 bucks shipped, no rebates no pm's

 

[dman]

Originally posted by: minendo
Change rolls. No point in rolling change if they just run it through a machine at the bank.

It's good they do that, but, my wife had rolled a bunch of our change and had it sitting in a box. I brought some in after a bunch of nagging (I hate bringing change to the bank) and they tore open all the rolls and just dumped it in the counter-machine.

I was sortof afraid to tell my wife as she spent all that time doing that. On the plus side I can just bring a bag of change w/ me instead of rolls now.

 

[chin311]

some car stereo stuff...

hifonics amp and JL sub

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: dman

Originally posted by: minendo
Change rolls. No point in rolling change if they just run it through a machine at the bank.

It's good they do that, but, my wife had rolled a bunch of our change and had it sitting in a box. I brought some in after a bunch of nagging (I hate bringing change to the bank) and they tore open all the rolls and just dumped it in the counter-machine.

I was sortof afraid to tell my wife as she spent all that time doing that. On the plus side I can just bring a bag of change w/ me instead of rolls now.

Only downside was I had to wait for 35 minutes while the machine sorted all my change. I was only off by $0.26 too.

 

[TJN23]

cell phone belt clip

 

[Kevin]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Kevin
Either my digital camera or iPod...

I have both of those things and don't consider either one useless...

Well, they are useless to me. I'll probably use the camera when I get my new car though...

 

[samgau]

A $35 1.3 MP digital camera by Oregon Scientific..... total piece of crap.... at least it came with a usb cable that I can use with my A-70... so not a total loss after all....

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

256mb SD card.

 

[Koing]

Originally posted by: GtPrOjEcTX
256mb SD card.

Can I have it then ?

I haven't bought anything useless Not enough money too!

 

[Somecallmetim]

I bought 1000 Gold Plastic cards off of ebay with the thought that "Hey, I'll never know when I might need these, but I must have them"
They were only like 10 bux, and yes I think I do have a problem.

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: brunswickite
120 gig harddrive for 77 bucks shipped, no rebates no pm's

Picked up 5 of those. Sadly, I'm using them all in my server

 

Originally posted by: dabuddha

Originally posted by: brunswickite
120 gig harddrive for 77 bucks shipped, no rebates no pm's

Picked up 5 of those. Sadly, I'm using them all in my server

I picked up a WD 120 GB drive for $60 after rebates, and put it in my rig with my 80 GB Maxtor.

Altogether, I'm only using 8 GB out of the 200 that I have available.

 

[jfall]

Condom (

j/k

 

[CraigRT]

going to buy a 120GB drive perhaps tonight
dont need it at all... but i want it

LAST thing? my 3rd set of lowering springs for my car.

 

[Pocatello]

I just bought an athlon XP 2400+ from newegg.com. I already got an XP 1600+ system which I'm perfectly happy with. I'm not running any application or games that require anything faster than a 600MHz processor.

 

[Joker81]

Originally posted by: Somecallmetim
I bought 1000 Gold Plastic cards off of ebay with the thought that "Hey, I'll never know when I might need these, but I must have them"
They were only like 10 bux, and yes I think I do have a problem.

WTF? What type of cards were they and why would you ever need them.

Things I've bought and useless.

My Rio 500 32mb
Titus the Movie DVD
external cdrw even tho i have other laying at home.
that mod chip for the playstation 2and I tried to do it myself no PS2 for me .
Stuff I can't even remember.

Probably others.
Next possible useless purchase
Glowing Marbles

 

[Thegonagle]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: dman

Originally posted by: minendo
Change rolls. No point in rolling change if they just run it through a machine at the bank.

It's good they do that, but, my wife had rolled a bunch of our change and had it sitting in a box. I brought some in after a bunch of nagging (I hate bringing change to the bank) and they tore open all the rolls and just dumped it in the counter-machine.

I was sortof afraid to tell my wife as she spent all that time doing that. On the plus side I can just bring a bag of change w/ me instead of rolls now.

Only downside was I had to wait for 35 minutes while the machine sorted all my change. I was only off by $0.26 too.

Really? They told you that you were short, right? Those machines drop your change into thier innards all the time, losing it on their count. Tell them to open up the machine and find your 26 cents. They'll probably find a few bucks in there if they haven't looked in awhile.