What's the dumbest purchase you've ever made?

[DVad3r]

Originally posted by: dNor
Age of Conan :|

Collectors edition which I resold on craigslist for $ 40

 

[StageLeft]

$200 paint gun when I was a poor kid, used it probably twice. I then did the same thing years later, but wasn't quite as poor.

 

[xSauronx]

external (parallel port) iomega zip drive.

i could have written the binary on paper faster than that thing wrote data to the drive.

 

[DVad3r]

I can vouch for my dad twice:

1. He bought a Camry thinking it was V6 and instead it was a V4.

2. He bought a Juice machine for over 1 k, pro stuff, made in the USA, make juice out of seeds.

 

[Deeko]

iPod Nano - that thing was garbage, I should have learned after my Shuffle was garbage.

Oh well, I smarted up, had a Sansa for 3 years, then just upgraded to a Zune.

 

[Jeff7]

Don't know. Food dehydrator maybe? I was hoping to make tasty fruit chips to take along to class as a little snack. The only ones that are any good are apple chips. Banana chips would be great if I had teeth made of diamond, and the thing's just a pain to use. The fruit needs to be sliced quite thin to get a good dry in a reasonable amount of time, and it sucks to clean.
Oh well, it was cheap. Still, I paid money for it.

Looking around the room....hm, well, there's a steel wire shelf set in the corner. It is being used, but I've got so damn much other crap strewn all over the place, a shelf set is kind of pointless. Kind of like putting doilies on a trash truck.

Other than that, nothing really comes to mind.

Originally posted by: rudeguy
condoms

Hah! I know better!



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Originally posted by: rudeguy

Originally posted by: AreaCode707
The 2 or 3 times I've bought fabric and materials with the intent of learning how to sew.

man card, now!

I have made a small quilt, mended pants, and I own my own sewing machine. (It belonged to my mom, and it's older than me.)

Good thing my man card spontaneously shredded itself several years ago.

 

[I4AT]

I bought a Nestle Crunch bar that was like 1.5 feet long and 9.25lbs thinking it was a box of regular crunch bars. Even after beating the shit out of it with a hammer I still couldn't eat the chunks, so it pretty much all went to waste.

 

[foghorn67]

Originally posted by: DVad3r
I can vouch for my dad twice:

1. He bought a Camry thinking it was V6 and instead it was a V4.

2. He bought a Juice machine for over 1 k, pro stuff, made in the USA, make juice out of seeds.

I am going to get finicky. It's an I-4. Meaning the cylinders are in inline. V's have the cylinders opposed to each other on a slight bank, usually at 60 or 90 degrees.

 

[Random Variable]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
$60 lapdance

Did you jizz in your pants?

 

[Mean MrMustard]

1. Foam rubber
2. Can of Lays Stacks...

 

[adairusmc]

Freddy Got Fingered DVD.

 

[rh71]

In college I responded to an ad that lets you work from home - you just had to purchase their software. :| Internet scams weren't prominent then so I didn't figure paper ads not to be trustworthy. $150 and numerous phone calls that went nowhere... lesson learned.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: foghorn67

Originally posted by: DVad3r
I can vouch for my dad twice:

1. He bought a Camry thinking it was V6 and instead it was a V4.

2. He bought a Juice machine for over 1 k, pro stuff, made in the USA, make juice out of seeds.

I am going to get finicky. It's an I-4. Meaning the cylinders are in inline. V's have the cylinders opposed to each other on a slight bank, usually at 60 or 90 degrees.

... not to mention V4 isn't something someone should say by accident since it's really rare:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-4

 

[ribbon13]

Any Camry purchase is a bad one... Fscking Camrys... Thank god I never made that mistake.


For me it was a 3DLabs Wildcat Realizm 200... It was insufficient for my needs before I even got it.

 

[DVad3r]

Originally posted by: foghorn67

Originally posted by: DVad3r
I can vouch for my dad twice:

1. He bought a Camry thinking it was V6 and instead it was a V4.

2. He bought a Juice machine for over 1 k, pro stuff, made in the USA, make juice out of seeds.

I am going to get finicky. It's an I-4. Meaning the cylinders are in inline. V's have the cylinders opposed to each other on a slight bank, usually at 60 or 90 degrees.

You are right, I actually knew that I just did not know how to word it right.

 

[DVad3r]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
Any Camry purchase is a bad one... Fscking Camrys... Thank god I never made that mistake.


For me it was a 3DLabs Wildcat Realizm 200... It was insufficient for my needs before I even got it.

Wrong, my dads 92 station wagon camry has 449,000 km's on it and still going strong. Pretty tough for an I-4 wouldn't you agree? Those things are unkillable.

 

[IronWing]

1976 Suburban in 1991.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Random Variable

Originally posted by: ElFenix
$60 lapdance

Did you jizz in your pants?

No, but I bet the stripper did.

Originally posted by: Donny Baker
1. Foam rubber
2. Can of Lays Stacks...

Stop being so cheap and buy the real thing.
:laugh:

 

[ribbon13]

I'm not talking about the car itself, I'm talking of the population segment of owners, no offense to your father.

It's like a private joke between me and my sister. Someone does something remarkably stupid on the freeway... as we drive by, wouldn't you know it, simultaneously we go "Fscking camry!"

 

[mxyzptlk]

Originally posted by: Random Variable

Originally posted by: ElFenix
$60 lapdance

Did you jizz in your pants?

then it would've at least been worth the 60 bucks.

I spent over 300 bucks cuz I was curious about the VIP room at a strip club.

I didn't get to cum either :|



in my "defense" I had more money than sense at the time. I really was curious and didn't really expect to get anymore more out of the VIP than an expensive case of blue balls.. (I've seen the chris rock video) Still, I wanted to check it out just to have had the experience.. And looking back, if I hadn't wasted than money there, I would've wasted it on something equally as stupid so.. no loss really.

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: rudeguy

Originally posted by: AreaCode707
The 2 or 3 times I've bought fabric and materials with the intent of learning how to sew.

man card, now!

what's wrong with knowing how to sew?

there have been countless times when i wished i knew how to use a sewing machine. makes one more independant when he doesnt have to rely on others for minor fixes.

 

[mxyzptlk]

Originally posted by: Fayd

Originally posted by: rudeguy

Originally posted by: AreaCode707
The 2 or 3 times I've bought fabric and materials with the intent of learning how to sew.

man card, now!

what's wrong with knowing how to sew?

there have been countless times when i wished i knew how to use a sewing machine. makes one more independant when he doesnt have to rely on others for minor fixes.

this is true, but then again I always have my girlfriend fix my stuff..


and then she gives me blowjobs afterwards so..

win/win.

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: DVad3r

Originally posted by: ribbon13
Any Camry purchase is a bad one... Fscking Camrys... Thank god I never made that mistake.


For me it was a 3DLabs Wildcat Realizm 200... It was insufficient for my needs before I even got it.

Wrong, my dads 92 station wagon camry has 449,000 km's on it and still going strong. Pretty tough for an I-4 wouldn't you agree? Those things are unkillable.

my parents 84 camry had 240k miles on it before we finally decided to call it totaled. (the side was bashed in in an accident... my fault imo, but insurance decided it was other person's fault...) drove around for another year with it like that

 

[DomS]

I get drunk and bid on dog tags on ebay. Bought a blank silver one for 70. Got outbid at the last minute on an obsidian one with a gold medusa coming out of it. I had bid 500 bucks

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

full suspension Schwinn mountain bike for about $2K. Probably $2100 after taxes.

My regret is that I should have gotten a hard tail instead for $1500. Simply because it is lighter and easier to handle granted that $2K bike was sick.

Actually, I would also have to comment on my custom 125 gallon fish tank. I would never do it again. Maintenance nightmare and it got boring after a while.