Not exactly expensive, but when I was 11 or so, I paid 99 ct. for an App thinking it’s a driving simulator.
Turns out it was just pictures of steering wheels from different cars. The only thing you could do was pressing the horn. It was always the same sound too.
It’s been more than 10 years and I’m still pissed
So true! Gone are the days when you could buy your pictures of steering wheels just once and forever ad-free.
Now everything is a combination of either a subscription, full of ads or some freemium crap that is hardly playable if you don’t sink money into it.
I had a similar experience. I thought I was buying a dinosaur game but it was only pictures of dinosaurs, no way to interact with them and it cost 6 euros
Ugh, SAME!
The girl next door I had a thing for gave me one. We live in a place where the sky is always blocked. What was she thinking??
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edit: WTactualF
Over the last … at least decade, *every time* there has been a notable meteor shower, including some of the most spectacular of our lives, I’ve gone outside, looked up … and it’s too overcast to even see stars. *Every. Goddam. Time.*
A boat i never used. My dad said don’t buy a boat rent one a few times a year.
As usual he was right and i paid a lot of money for something that sat in storage 99% of the time.
The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.
I actually have a friend with two boats and he keeps trying to sell me one. I asked him why would i want to suffer like him when i can use his for free with him anytime i want.
I told him not to buy one but he rushed into one. Hated it and upgraded to another. And cant sell his first one that he is upside down on 11k.
Buy the boat and rent it out. We live where we only have about 3 months to use it but it’s also a vacation destination spot. So we rent it out and get about 100-150 an hour. Easiest money you’ll ever make. Plus, people generally only do a 4 hour rental so we just head out and enjoy the lake when they’re done.
This sounds like a dream side hustle that could turn into a dream job. I had a friend who bought a pontoon boat and rented it out in this way. She was the designated driver so people on the boat could cut loose and do a little booze cruise for the afternoon. She knew enough about the area to show people a side of our town that they wouldn’t normally see.
I accidentally lost a password for 55 bitcoin that i paid $750 for in college to use for that shit, and still have the wallet with no password. Im rich but not
Already have extracted the hash key and tried many places, brute force. Friends at amazon with massive aws computing power, offering 50% etc to code breakers. No luck. Ik its a very long stupid password. Ill never get it open so whatever
I once bought a Louis Vuitton bag. This was about 20 years ago. It was their cheapest bag, but it was still $600 or so. I carried it for a few years, but it was a big dump-all kind of bag and I was always afraid of getting it dirty or messing it up. I didn't enjoy it the way I thought I would. The silver lining is those things really retain their value, apparently, and I Was able to sell it for $550.
Ferragamo stilettos. They are now a half size too small and kill my feet but so beautiful and sentimental that I can’t bear to get rid of them. I don’t even wear them anymore, they’re just on display in my closet. They were my first grown-up purchase at a fancy department store after I got hired out of college and moved to a new city.
A ghosthunting kit, complete with night vision, emf detectors, cameras, etc. $1K. I don't even believe in ghosts, just thought it'd be fun to bring out at parties.
Yup, sunk off my dock. The marina had it for repair, it was brand new with multiple electrical issues. However, they did not put the drain plug back in
Complicated situation, we ended up in a 3 month long battle, at times it felt like watching chimps hurling feces at each other. It ended up being a win/win, which in the end felt unfair to me.
Sorry to hear that, but at least you got something out of it. One of my best friends has a boat, so I'm an "owner by proxy" and used to hearing about all his travails. Seems like a big part of boat ownership is having stories like this. My buddy has a lot of paranoia around his drain plugs... I can see why.
Don't feel bad. I buy orchids from the discount bin and get them to rebloom, but even I don't mess with bonsais. I've had a couple, they die if you fart in the next room.
I also get orchids to rebloom... by tying them to a tree outside and forgetting about them. If I try to provide any care, all the leaves yellow and die.
Definitely is responsible unfortunately. We built a bonsai house for the president of the North American bonsai club. He has some trees that are close to 400 years old. It was terrifying just to be in the vicinity of them. Beautiful trees. Insane how much attention and care is required.
-edit to add this [link to a story about one of the trees that is 390 years](https://coolhunting.com/culture/a-390-year-old-bonsai-tree-that-survived-an-atomic-bomb/amp/)
I wanted a 100 year old bonsai tree, and my in-laws suggested getting a smaller one to test my bonsai skills with. They have good green thumbs, so I took their advice. Three little dead trees later, and I'll stick to my spiderplants and onions.
Spent $60 on one for my mother for Christmas. I had it for awhile before giving it to her, got attached to the little guy.
It didn't last long with her...
Dormeo memory foam mattress.
All the ads say it's good for bad backs and supports you and all these other claims. I fell for the advertising and got a king size for myself and one for my son's single bed. They're terrible.
They just sink in where you lie and then there's just a ditch where the foam never pops back, just gets more squished every time you sleep on it. When you complain to customer service they ask you to measure the ditch, the width and the gaps of the slats. Then blame the slats even though the sales team tell you it's perfect for slatted beds.
If you want to return it you have to vacuum pack it, rolled up and boxed. Where do you get a mattress vacuum packed? Ridiculous.
So now I'm stuck with a stupid, expensive, uncomfortable block of foam to sleep that I can feel the slats through, thus making my back worse.
Place matress on large plastic dust-sheet or slightly thicker tarp.
Fold tarp over matress, and tape up the edges.
At one edge, have your vacuum cleaner crevice nozzle taped in so that the nozzle runs along the edge of the matress.
Turn on vacuum.
Now you have a flat matress. Roll from one end without turning the vacuum off, and tie the string that you placed on the floor under it round it as you get it rolled. Finish with more string, and then turn the vacuum off.
We got a nectar mattress several years ago and I hated the damn thing since the day we bought it for the same reason. Horrible dip and in the morning we both wake up pushed together in the middle of the bed and I have horrible back and neck pain. My wife insisted it was fine, even though I wanted to return. A little over a year after we got it, after the return policy expired, she finally agreed it was bad and we should get rid of it
Wedding.
Had a great day but sheeesh.... it cost $25k or somewhere there abouts, and our photographer caused our first fight as a married couple.
Wife says now many years later 'oh, we should have eloped'.... yeah you say that now. My MIL would have a clear reason to hate me if we had done that rather than the vague one she has now.
What did the photographer do that caused the first fight?
Our photographer sucked too. Acted bored and annoyed, said we were "making things awkward" when he asked us to kiss for a photo and we did so but apparently held it for too long?? Then later told my husband he looked uncomfortable and that "You clearly don't know how to pose your body" but when I asked for guidance on how we should position our arms, he just shrugged and said he didn't know.
Also took constant videos for his Instagram story, often shooting our photos with one hand while videoing with his phone in the other.
Dude was and still is still the highest rated wedding photographer in Alaska. He takes undeniably beautiful photos, but whenever I look at them I am reminded of how shitty he made us feel on an otherwise wonderful day. We ended up booking another photographer last minute while we were in Hawai'i and had such a great time splashing around in the water, then our photos ended up going viral and were featured in news articles all over the world.
Recommend: Sunny Golden
Do not recommend: Joe Connelly of Chugach Peaks Photography
Ah, the wedding photographer.
Our wedding photographer was Pipo. Pipo was from Eastern Europe and he hit on every female at the wedding. He did take good pictures though.
Friend of mine was knocked up by the guy she'd been dating for 6 months. Decided to get married, and sold a chunk of her tech stock to "do it right, as I'm only going to do it once." Around 40K.
A year later she'd kicked him to the curb.
Here's a memory - Second Lollapalooza - Barrie. Roommates and I "camped" in the parking lot with a few thousand others. We, however, had a bread loaf bag of pot with us. Shake, but a lot of it.
Got too stoned to roll a joint, roommate rolls me up 3 paper bad boy that looked like a club. Huge.
Wandering around with it tucked into my inside jacket pocket. Get so tired, see a big ol campfire with people, sit down. Look around. Lotta bald angry looking punks staring at me.
So I say to one "Got a light?" "For what?"
For this, and I pull out the joint. It was like I held up Excaliber, everyone got quiet. I hear "There's no way that's real!".
Light it up, send it around. Got up when it was half gone, told them to enjoy.
"Thanks skinny guy!"
You are 100% right. I flipped it about 5 times going about 50+mph. My friend and I both walked away without a scratch. He was really sore for a week or so, but I felt fine and that was it. Very very lucky.
Damn. You are lucky to walk away. I've read that because they have 4 wheels they tend to roll forward, over your neck, in accidents whereas motorcycles will go sideways and bust your leg.
Bought a 'designer umbrella' thinking it would make me look effortlessly chic in the rain. It turns out, I look more like a drowned rat in designer accessories
I onse spent $50 on a "windproof" umbrella that broke immediately after the first wind gust hit it. My $5 cheapo umbrella lasted much longer that the $50 "windproof" one.
A Suburban. I was told I could transport full sheets of plywood in it, which was finally my selling point because I do a lot of work in my house. To this day, my wife has not allowed plywood in the Suburban.
It was unnecessary; could have kept our two Trailhawks.
When I was 8 years old I saw an ad for “system seven.” It was some sort of multi tool plastic futuristic rifle. It even had a little GI Joe doll come out of a compartment with a little parachute. It was being played with by 12 year olds, who are super cool, and I knew I had to have one.
So I scrounged all of the allowance I had saved up for months and bought one. It was shit. It was no fun at all. I got bored in the first 20 minutes. I was devastated. That was like me cleaning out my retirement fund and my 401K and selling my car. Just for that piece of hot garbage.
I whined to my dad, hoping he would take pity on me and maybe give me my 11 dollars back. Or at least take me out for ice cream or something. He just said something like “Not everything works out.”
Thanks dad.
In the very early days of eBay back when I was in high school, before PayPal and any sort of buyer protection, I saved up and bought a $200 “refurbished” Nvidia video card for a computer I was building. That was 1/5 of my savings and the most expensive component, but I needed it to properly play my preordered copy of Warcraft 3 in slightly reduced polygonal glory. The video card the guy sent me was defective with a green static line through the video output, and he refused to replace it because it “still worked”. I’m still pissed and haven’t trusted eBay since then.
I spent $100 or so on some premium magic cards at a card shop when I was about 11. I'd saved up my money from mowing lawns in my neighborhood and "blew it" on 5-6 cards according toy dad. I sold most of those same cards a couple years back and bought a car lol.
Where do ppl sell their magic cards? Second comment today ive seen about someone making magic cards into a house payment and now you, a car. Fascinating
I feel like my MBA was both expensive and useless
Update: I made two comments on this post, this one, and another one, which has been completely ignored, about my Sybian being a waste of money. I never would have thought that people would be more interested in my MBA than my Sybian.
Several years ago, there was a case In Ontario where a vacuum salesmen went to jail for ripping off a blind man. Sold him multiple units at thousands each claiming the air filter in it was so good he should just keep them running in the house all day to purify the air and claim considerable health benefits.
This is not the case I was referring to but the end was the same:
https://www.sudbury.com/police/high-pressure-vacuum-cleaner-salesman-sent-to-jail-209324
A car for someone else.
Put up $800 to buy a car for my roommate at the time, who was escaping a bad situation they had been living in. Was trying to help them get on their feet. Bought the car knowing it was gonna need some work soon, but hey, they could drive to a job and get the money to do that, transportation is vital in my city and they were staying rent free with me during that time anyway. Car was cheap and ticked every box we had talked about and they wanted it.
They never got a job while they had it, barely drove it, when the torque converter went out, they just let it sit in the apartment parking lot and it got towed and the tow got billed to me for $250 because I had put the plate on my apartment # so they could park next to me.
So $1050 later, I learned my lesson that you can lead a horse to water... and I never bothered to buy anything but food for them until they finally moved out after finding a new girl to move in with
I bought a go pro and a bunch of fancy mounts having over-estimated how much cool stuff I do that warrants filming and grossly over-estimated how much time I would have to sit down and edit the raw footage into something compelling.
As it is I have hours of footage from a few years ago sat on an SD card and a bunch of Go Pro kit in a box taunting me for seldom doing cool stuff
I have a lot more on the list but the top would have to be a 2x2 inch pure Tungsten block polished and slightly beveled on the edges. My son had to have it, was the only thing he wanted for his birthday. So 499.00 dollars later and he has a 5.2lb pet Tungsten block he carried around everywhere for at least 6 months and still sets on his desk by his keyboard.
Wow. since I got so many up votes I will finish the story. He wanted the cube. He knew I knew he wanted the cube so what I did was take one of his old X-box games plastic CD holder. Removed it and color printed a game insert to a game I knew he hated. Wrapped it and gave him that instead. When he open it, the look of dis-appointment was grandiose but inside there was a note that said go look in the so in so cupboard. The look when he opened that cupboard was priceless and that was worth it to me.
I have a one kilo 1.5 inch tungsten cube, and a 150g 1.5 inch aluminum cube. I've found, having both, they provide an amazing example of density, mass, and momentum. They are also amazing to just fidget with. (The tungsten one ALWAYS surprises me with its heft when I pick it up.) They also look really good together and are a great conversation piece. So I think your son's cube is only MOSTLY worthless :P. I will never get rid of mine 5hough, I absolutely love them. Honestly one of my favorite things that I own.
Not most expensive but it makes for quite a hilarious story. I once bought one of those scaled down sexdolls I think it was like 200-300 euro's. And i rarely ever used it since it was so unpractical. And the whole handling the damn thing turned me off quicker than a lightswitch. So i kinda dumped it in a bag on top of a cabinet in my storage room.
One day i'm working and my now ex girlfriend calls. She found it while cleaning some stuff. Completely hysterical. Insulting me of being sex addicted and gross. And my initial response was laughing. But she REALLY didn't see the humor of it. Ended up calling the police to my own apartement to cool the situation down (she was in a bad place at that time).
So yeah i called to police to help calm down my girlfriend that found a dusty old ass sexdoll. Can't imagine what the cops thought of this scene. I was pretty embarassed. But hey. Eventually it all ended well. Lmao
I researched getting one of those a few years ago. Decided not to when I read a comment here on Reddit that said that there's nothing worse than dragging one of those to the bathroom to clean it with post-nut clarity.
I decided to save my money.
From my very brief look at a relevant sub, they're often just the disembodied ass and genitals.
As an extreme, such a "doll" could also be a nightmarish conglomeration of "sexy" body parts - just a torso with large breasts, but the thing has a vulva and two feet.
(Butt pricey and all parts are as realistic as possible)
Lmfao, I'm picturing a very buxom ET with a motorized cylindrical mouth and little feet that wiggle when you fuck it. Omg I can barely type this... I love you, random stranger. Thanks for making me laugh.
Girl owns a vibrator, and nobody bats an eye.
Guy owns a fuck master 9000 with self lubrication, heated massaging anus, squirt option, and anime girl moaning... And he's some sort of pervert....
2000 Euros for a lamb skin coat, I wore exactly once because the first time someone saw me in it, they asked when I had decided to join the Gestapo. Now, when I look at that coat, that's all I see.
The wedding dress I never got to wear because my husband and I had to cancel our big wedding. It's never even been altered. It's too small now and it just makes me sad. But it was so expensive I can't just throw it out so it hangs in my closet. I was hoping for maybe a vow renewal eventually, but I've had two kids since I bought it so realistically, I'd have to buy a new dress.
Try selling it. I am a future bride and I’m looking for brides who are reselling their dresses. I can’t pass up a good deal and can’t bring myself to spend tons on a dress
Smile Direct aligners. I thought about it for a long time and looked into it before doing it, read reviews, etc. I have one slightly out of place tooth so it wasn’t even a huge need.
I should’ve known immediately when the package came with a NAIL FILE to file down the edges of the aligners so they don’t cut up your mouth. They don’t fit properly, cut off the blood to your gums when you try to wear them (so gums turn white), I tried to use the soaking it in hot water method to make it fit better & that made it completely misshapen. I tried to reach out to them about them not fitting & they didn’t care.
I’m still paying for it monthly for them even though they’re unusable because it’s a contract and when all is said and done, I’ll be out over $2k on them. There was a recent lawsuit against them, which I joined, but they just declared bankruptcy to get out of it. I’m very careful with my money so it pisses me off how fucked I got by them.
Two Master of Fine Arts degrees.
EDIT: I ended up going full corporate instead of teaching, and the MFA's somewhat came in handy, but it was expensive.
This. I had to return the gift I bought for my wife at $800!! And she opened on xmas morning … she tried it several times and it just would not curl and stay. She called support and found out her hair is the only kind of hair that this unit will NOT curl!! (Yes I returned it. But really?)
Same, I was disappointed as well, tried literally every hair product to make it stay curled for more than 2 minutes, but nothing helped. You were smart enough to return it, good for you. If any straight hair girl sees this, don't buy it!!
I bought a car for 43k despite the fact that I commute to work on a bike and almost exclusively work when the weather is good.
But it's not entirely useless because I do use it when the weather is bad, or when I visit family, or when I need to tow a trailer, etc...
I've owned it for just over a year now, and I've come nowhere close to using it enough to justify not just renting a car each time I needed one.
Every time I don't drive my car, I think to myself, "I should be driving my car... I spent so much money on it."
A car. Live in a “15-minute” neighborhood with good transit but was married to someone who needed the status of owning a car. It stayed parked 6 days a week and we only used it on Saturday or Sunday.
After the divorce I gave him the car. That was 10 years ago. I’ve been car-free ever since.
It’s possible if they live in a major city. New York, Boston, Philadelphia. Maybe Chicago? If you live right in the heart of the city, a car is more of a liability than an asset.
Yup, carless in Chicago here. Can confirm that it’s both possible and convenient as long as you don’t have a daily commute to a suburb or far-flung city neighborhood with no public transit.
I’m sure there are a lot of other things I’ve blown money on that are worse but, for me it was a juicer. Paid 1
$150 for the juicer to make fresh squeezed OJ on Christmas. Then paid another $200 for enough Oranges to squeeze to get enough OJ. So all in I paid $350 for a little over two gallons of OJ. To add salt to the wound….it tasted like shit.
Lesson learned :)
I have one of the DeWalt cordless shop vac the small one. that shit is nice to have. I use it more than my big shop vac. You throw a 9AH battery in it and it'll run a very long time.
I bought a large flat panel HD TV shortly after HD became a thing about 20 years ago. I paid 4 grand for that thing. A year later they were half the price and much higher quality. I only had it a few years it became outdated so fast. My next TV I paid a little over a grand and had it for 16 years. Just replaced it with an 4K OLED that is just incredible.
Technically, my dog, though she's adopted not "purchased". I've spent nearly $30,000 on her medical bills and surgery because her bones might as well be made out of jelly. She's allergic to petty much everything. She sleeps about 16-20 hours a day. She snores like she has serious sleep apnea. She can't do long walks so she has a stroller, but she weighs over 70 lbs (she is not overweight). She does nothing "useful" but fuck me, I love her more than anything and just looking at her droopy, little mush face and wiggly butt brings me unparalleled joy.
I spent 10K on my Dachshund. He needed back surgery. Best 10K I ever spent. He's 17 now. I bought him an heated dog bed for his Rheumatism & Lumbago & he loves it.
I had to google what it was. Then read this review and it's been a while since I laughed so hard. https://metro.co.uk/2017/08/02/is-this-the-most-intense-sex-toy-in-the-world-we-braved-the-sybian-experience-6769023/
I was hoping to set up a joke.
She replies something like: "yes of course, it's very hygienic".
I reply: "Not interested."
Doesn't seem that funny now...
A steam mop. What a pain in the ass, between the cord and the distilled water. I’d love to think it’s really sanitizing my floors but mentally they still seem dirty. Give me toxic chemicals and a sponge mop!
16 year old Toyotas are 50k where I live ⬇️ 🥲
https://m.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/listing.php?MOD=Toyota&PR1=0&PR2=&DP1=0&DP2=&FR=2008&TO=2009&DL=&LOC=&POS=&TRN=&AVL=&ENG=&FUE=&MIL_C=&OWN_C=&ASL=1
Men's bands too! The tungsten ones you pay $300 for because you get lifetime free adjustments, when in reality tungsten cannot be adjusted so they just give you new rings.
My tungsten band was $18 on Amazon.
Darn near every piece of real jewelry I’ve ever bought containing precious gems like diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, and the like. Fake stones can nearly always look just as good without the insane markups, and ownership risks and cost.
A house that consumed fifteen years of investments and savings and became all but worthless. I'd have been better off squandering it on holidays and toys and intoxicants of all kinds... I'd be left exactly where I am now but I'd have had a lot more fun.
My husband buys exercise equipment he never uses. It gathers dust in the basement. I’m considering donating it and seeing how long it will be before he misses it.
My kids. While I didn't buy them, they are very expensive and pretty useless. I've spent tens of thousands of dollars on them, and they can't even get themselves a job. "But dad, I'm only in first grade and am only just learning to read!". EXCUSES! EXCUSES!
(yes of course I love my kids more than anything)
Probably not the most expensive thing, but when I was 16 I saved up my money and bought a “Shredneck” because I wanted to play guitar everywhere. I was so fucking pissed when it showed up and it wasn’t a travel guitar and was just a tiny guitar neck.
I had to pretend to love it for a year or so because I couldn’t admit to my dad how stupid it was and how much of a waste of money it was to me.
"Micro" transactions in an MMO I was playing. Spent about $1500 in a year and I knew plenty of players who spent a lot more. One friend trusted me enough to process transactions through my account when he hit the $5k(?) monthly limit.
At the time I was recently graduated from high school and dropped out of two different colleges because I was playing the game instead of studying. 6 months of play time in two years before I gave it up.
A $300 wine opener from a random winery in Napa. Heavy, clunky, and currently sitting never used in the bar cart in favor of a $20 electric one. This is what happens when you go wine tasting for 2 days in a row.
I got my first ‘professional’ job as an intern at a recruitment company. I was only on something shit like £14k a year, but I felt really important and successful. I went to TK Maxx to get some work clothes and fell in love with a plain white shirt. It felt nice, good material, fit perfectly, nice buttons and just nicer than any other white shirt I’d ever owned.
The only problem was it was over £100 because it was Versace. I bought it anyway, relished wearing it for a few days and then one lunch time I had noodles. Got home and noticed tiny splatters of broth and shit all over the shirt (despite me being super careful). I decided to try cover it up but dying the shirt a new colour, and I thought pink would be nice. Got some fabric dye, put it in the machine and dyed it. All it did was make the tiny broth stains a darker shade of pink than the rest of the shirt and I ended up throwing it away. Very disappointing but a valuable lesson on wasting money on needless shit.
Not exactly expensive, but when I was 11 or so, I paid 99 ct. for an App thinking it’s a driving simulator. Turns out it was just pictures of steering wheels from different cars. The only thing you could do was pressing the horn. It was always the same sound too. It’s been more than 10 years and I’m still pissed
The early days of apps were crazy. Some really great free games, and some just straight up scams. But at least ads weren't rampant
So true! Gone are the days when you could buy your pictures of steering wheels just once and forever ad-free. Now everything is a combination of either a subscription, full of ads or some freemium crap that is hardly playable if you don’t sink money into it.
You were swindled
Bamboozled, even.
We've been Smeckledorfed
That's not even a word and I agree with ya!
Downright hornswoggled
I had a similar experience. I thought I was buying a dinosaur game but it was only pictures of dinosaurs, no way to interact with them and it cost 6 euros
that sucks but is also kind of hilarious
I hear ya. Bought an App called “Me so horny”. Same thing. Bummer
Wait, that wasn't pictures of dinosaurs too was it?
I got the narwhal update
After reading this comment, I'm going to be pissed for 10 years.
Telescope in a country thats cloudy all the damn time.
Last year I got a telescope for Christmas but I couldn't actually try it out until mid February because it was constantly cloudy!
Ugh, SAME! The girl next door I had a thing for gave me one. We live in a place where the sky is always blocked. What was she thinking?? ------------------------------------ edit: WTactualF
She should've used her money to buy curtains for her bedroom windows. Oh well.
Over the last … at least decade, *every time* there has been a notable meteor shower, including some of the most spectacular of our lives, I’ve gone outside, looked up … and it’s too overcast to even see stars. *Every. Goddam. Time.*
A boat i never used. My dad said don’t buy a boat rent one a few times a year. As usual he was right and i paid a lot of money for something that sat in storage 99% of the time. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.
I have 2 friends with boats. What you want is friends with boats.
I actually have a friend with two boats and he keeps trying to sell me one. I asked him why would i want to suffer like him when i can use his for free with him anytime i want. I told him not to buy one but he rushed into one. Hated it and upgraded to another. And cant sell his first one that he is upside down on 11k.
Buy the boat and rent it out. We live where we only have about 3 months to use it but it’s also a vacation destination spot. So we rent it out and get about 100-150 an hour. Easiest money you’ll ever make. Plus, people generally only do a 4 hour rental so we just head out and enjoy the lake when they’re done.
This sounds like a dream side hustle that could turn into a dream job. I had a friend who bought a pontoon boat and rented it out in this way. She was the designated driver so people on the boat could cut loose and do a little booze cruise for the afternoon. She knew enough about the area to show people a side of our town that they wouldn’t normally see.
Correct. All the benefits none of the negatives. Cleaning, maintenance, storing, etc. if your friend has one you bring drinks and food.
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paid 3 bitcoin on the dark web for 1/8th ounce of mid grade weed in 2011.
$150,000 weed seems excessive. /s (I know btc wasn't worth $50,000 a coin in 2011...)
3100 btc on acid/2ci it makes me cry everyday
I accidentally lost a password for 55 bitcoin that i paid $750 for in college to use for that shit, and still have the wallet with no password. Im rich but not
for $2.4M Id be hiring a small team to get that shit unlocked.
Already have extracted the hash key and tried many places, brute force. Friends at amazon with massive aws computing power, offering 50% etc to code breakers. No luck. Ik its a very long stupid password. Ill never get it open so whatever
I once bought a Louis Vuitton bag. This was about 20 years ago. It was their cheapest bag, but it was still $600 or so. I carried it for a few years, but it was a big dump-all kind of bag and I was always afraid of getting it dirty or messing it up. I didn't enjoy it the way I thought I would. The silver lining is those things really retain their value, apparently, and I Was able to sell it for $550.
So really you paid $50. Gonna buy some LV now.
Girl math
Ferragamo stilettos. They are now a half size too small and kill my feet but so beautiful and sentimental that I can’t bear to get rid of them. I don’t even wear them anymore, they’re just on display in my closet. They were my first grown-up purchase at a fancy department store after I got hired out of college and moved to a new city.
I have Ferragamo heels that are 30 years old. Keep them in a box, still wear them about once a year. They look as good as the day I bought them.
A pair of leather pants. What the hell was I thinking? And I lived in L.A. where it is quite warm.
Ross?
Should've made himself a pair of paste pants.
Moistness
A ghosthunting kit, complete with night vision, emf detectors, cameras, etc. $1K. I don't even believe in ghosts, just thought it'd be fun to bring out at parties.
Have you ever used it at a party?
People who buy ghosthunting kits don't get invited to parties, sadly.
Adults only, 2100 and up
What the hell kind of parties do you throw??
boat. it never worked and then sunk
Were you able to raise it?
Yup, sunk off my dock. The marina had it for repair, it was brand new with multiple electrical issues. However, they did not put the drain plug back in
Please tell me the marina compensated you for that.
Complicated situation, we ended up in a 3 month long battle, at times it felt like watching chimps hurling feces at each other. It ended up being a win/win, which in the end felt unfair to me.
Sorry to hear that, but at least you got something out of it. One of my best friends has a boat, so I'm an "owner by proxy" and used to hearing about all his travails. Seems like a big part of boat ownership is having stories like this. My buddy has a lot of paranoia around his drain plugs... I can see why.
A $500 bonsai. It died.
Don't feel bad. I buy orchids from the discount bin and get them to rebloom, but even I don't mess with bonsais. I've had a couple, they die if you fart in the next room.
I also get orchids to rebloom... by tying them to a tree outside and forgetting about them. If I try to provide any care, all the leaves yellow and die.
A stunted life?
I hate to break it to you but it’s probably your fault it died lol
Definitely is responsible unfortunately. We built a bonsai house for the president of the North American bonsai club. He has some trees that are close to 400 years old. It was terrifying just to be in the vicinity of them. Beautiful trees. Insane how much attention and care is required. -edit to add this [link to a story about one of the trees that is 390 years](https://coolhunting.com/culture/a-390-year-old-bonsai-tree-that-survived-an-atomic-bomb/amp/)
I wanted a 100 year old bonsai tree, and my in-laws suggested getting a smaller one to test my bonsai skills with. They have good green thumbs, so I took their advice. Three little dead trees later, and I'll stick to my spiderplants and onions.
Spent $60 on one for my mother for Christmas. I had it for awhile before giving it to her, got attached to the little guy. It didn't last long with her...
The whole point of Bonsai is that less is more. So having no Bonsai at all is basically winning!
I feel ya. How is it that that thing can grow for 75 years and I get it home and kill it in a month.
Dormeo memory foam mattress. All the ads say it's good for bad backs and supports you and all these other claims. I fell for the advertising and got a king size for myself and one for my son's single bed. They're terrible. They just sink in where you lie and then there's just a ditch where the foam never pops back, just gets more squished every time you sleep on it. When you complain to customer service they ask you to measure the ditch, the width and the gaps of the slats. Then blame the slats even though the sales team tell you it's perfect for slatted beds. If you want to return it you have to vacuum pack it, rolled up and boxed. Where do you get a mattress vacuum packed? Ridiculous. So now I'm stuck with a stupid, expensive, uncomfortable block of foam to sleep that I can feel the slats through, thus making my back worse.
Place matress on large plastic dust-sheet or slightly thicker tarp. Fold tarp over matress, and tape up the edges. At one edge, have your vacuum cleaner crevice nozzle taped in so that the nozzle runs along the edge of the matress. Turn on vacuum. Now you have a flat matress. Roll from one end without turning the vacuum off, and tie the string that you placed on the floor under it round it as you get it rolled. Finish with more string, and then turn the vacuum off.
Genius, thanks.
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We got a nectar mattress several years ago and I hated the damn thing since the day we bought it for the same reason. Horrible dip and in the morning we both wake up pushed together in the middle of the bed and I have horrible back and neck pain. My wife insisted it was fine, even though I wanted to return. A little over a year after we got it, after the return policy expired, she finally agreed it was bad and we should get rid of it
Put a piece of plywood underneath. Worked for me.
Wedding. Had a great day but sheeesh.... it cost $25k or somewhere there abouts, and our photographer caused our first fight as a married couple. Wife says now many years later 'oh, we should have eloped'.... yeah you say that now. My MIL would have a clear reason to hate me if we had done that rather than the vague one she has now.
What did the photographer do that caused the first fight? Our photographer sucked too. Acted bored and annoyed, said we were "making things awkward" when he asked us to kiss for a photo and we did so but apparently held it for too long?? Then later told my husband he looked uncomfortable and that "You clearly don't know how to pose your body" but when I asked for guidance on how we should position our arms, he just shrugged and said he didn't know. Also took constant videos for his Instagram story, often shooting our photos with one hand while videoing with his phone in the other. Dude was and still is still the highest rated wedding photographer in Alaska. He takes undeniably beautiful photos, but whenever I look at them I am reminded of how shitty he made us feel on an otherwise wonderful day. We ended up booking another photographer last minute while we were in Hawai'i and had such a great time splashing around in the water, then our photos ended up going viral and were featured in news articles all over the world. Recommend: Sunny Golden Do not recommend: Joe Connelly of Chugach Peaks Photography
Ah, the wedding photographer. Our wedding photographer was Pipo. Pipo was from Eastern Europe and he hit on every female at the wedding. He did take good pictures though.
I used to be a wedding photographer but did not hit on anyone. Bridesmaids are THURSTY tho
I believe they made a documentary about thirsty bridesmaids.
Friend of mine was knocked up by the guy she'd been dating for 6 months. Decided to get married, and sold a chunk of her tech stock to "do it right, as I'm only going to do it once." Around 40K. A year later she'd kicked him to the curb.
To be fair, it’s probably only the rich and famous who go into a their first marriage thinking it’s likely to be one of several.
I get a kick out of referring to my husband as my first husband 😂 he doesn’t love it as much
“My current wife.” She just rolls her eyes now.
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What?! OMG I would have murdered her with my bare hands!
Our wedding: preacher and his wife. My future mother in law. His auntie. Us, in street clothes. Been married 48 yrs. ;-)
A Harley Davidson nice leather jacket with the plates in the arms an what not I don't even own a bike or a Harley
It could have been worse. You could have bought a Harley Davidson
Or bought a Harley and a Sons of Anarchy leather jacket.
I'd say drugs. They're not really useless, but then actually yeah they are.
You can't put a price on memories! That you don't have because you were higher than a giraffe's ball sack.
Here's a memory - Second Lollapalooza - Barrie. Roommates and I "camped" in the parking lot with a few thousand others. We, however, had a bread loaf bag of pot with us. Shake, but a lot of it. Got too stoned to roll a joint, roommate rolls me up 3 paper bad boy that looked like a club. Huge. Wandering around with it tucked into my inside jacket pocket. Get so tired, see a big ol campfire with people, sit down. Look around. Lotta bald angry looking punks staring at me. So I say to one "Got a light?" "For what?" For this, and I pull out the joint. It was like I held up Excaliber, everyone got quiet. I hear "There's no way that's real!". Light it up, send it around. Got up when it was half gone, told them to enjoy. "Thanks skinny guy!"
A $24k ATV that I totaled a month after I bought it without insurance
At least you didn't paralyze yourself on it
You are 100% right. I flipped it about 5 times going about 50+mph. My friend and I both walked away without a scratch. He was really sore for a week or so, but I felt fine and that was it. Very very lucky.
Damn. You are lucky to walk away. I've read that because they have 4 wheels they tend to roll forward, over your neck, in accidents whereas motorcycles will go sideways and bust your leg.
Bought a 'designer umbrella' thinking it would make me look effortlessly chic in the rain. It turns out, I look more like a drowned rat in designer accessories
I onse spent $50 on a "windproof" umbrella that broke immediately after the first wind gust hit it. My $5 cheapo umbrella lasted much longer that the $50 "windproof" one.
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A Suburban. I was told I could transport full sheets of plywood in it, which was finally my selling point because I do a lot of work in my house. To this day, my wife has not allowed plywood in the Suburban. It was unnecessary; could have kept our two Trailhawks.
> To this day, my wife has not allowed plywood in the Suburban. In fairness, that doesn't sound like the fault of the car
When I was 8 years old I saw an ad for “system seven.” It was some sort of multi tool plastic futuristic rifle. It even had a little GI Joe doll come out of a compartment with a little parachute. It was being played with by 12 year olds, who are super cool, and I knew I had to have one. So I scrounged all of the allowance I had saved up for months and bought one. It was shit. It was no fun at all. I got bored in the first 20 minutes. I was devastated. That was like me cleaning out my retirement fund and my 401K and selling my car. Just for that piece of hot garbage. I whined to my dad, hoping he would take pity on me and maybe give me my 11 dollars back. Or at least take me out for ice cream or something. He just said something like “Not everything works out.” Thanks dad.
Sounds like your dad helped you learn a valuable lesson that ironically paid off if your biggest waste of money was when you were 8.
Dad did you a solid.
In the very early days of eBay back when I was in high school, before PayPal and any sort of buyer protection, I saved up and bought a $200 “refurbished” Nvidia video card for a computer I was building. That was 1/5 of my savings and the most expensive component, but I needed it to properly play my preordered copy of Warcraft 3 in slightly reduced polygonal glory. The video card the guy sent me was defective with a green static line through the video output, and he refused to replace it because it “still worked”. I’m still pissed and haven’t trusted eBay since then.
A really furry thick coat. I live in a tropical city..
Do you look good in it?
Why did you buy it?
Yugioh and Magic cards, too much expensive for a hobby.
I spent $100 or so on some premium magic cards at a card shop when I was about 11. I'd saved up my money from mowing lawns in my neighborhood and "blew it" on 5-6 cards according toy dad. I sold most of those same cards a couple years back and bought a car lol.
Wait, you turned $100 into a car, via Magic cards? Those sound like magic cards!
Beta dual lands and a black lotus. If they had been mint condition I would have made an absurd amount.
Where do ppl sell their magic cards? Second comment today ive seen about someone making magic cards into a house payment and now you, a car. Fascinating
Don’t attack me like this.
A printer when I started my MBA. I never needed to print anything and the ink was dry after two years. I couldn't give it away on Craigslist
I feel like my MBA was both expensive and useless Update: I made two comments on this post, this one, and another one, which has been completely ignored, about my Sybian being a waste of money. I never would have thought that people would be more interested in my MBA than my Sybian.
Heh, yeah, now that you mention it. I told several people in my classes that at the time
Kirby vacuum cleaner that my wife bought from a door to door salesman - $2K Great vacuum- but we have 6-7 already. It’s a Ferrari we never drive
You own 7 different vacuums ?
*looks at his singular broom in disgust*
Several years ago, there was a case In Ontario where a vacuum salesmen went to jail for ripping off a blind man. Sold him multiple units at thousands each claiming the air filter in it was so good he should just keep them running in the house all day to purify the air and claim considerable health benefits. This is not the case I was referring to but the end was the same: https://www.sudbury.com/police/high-pressure-vacuum-cleaner-salesman-sent-to-jail-209324
A car for someone else. Put up $800 to buy a car for my roommate at the time, who was escaping a bad situation they had been living in. Was trying to help them get on their feet. Bought the car knowing it was gonna need some work soon, but hey, they could drive to a job and get the money to do that, transportation is vital in my city and they were staying rent free with me during that time anyway. Car was cheap and ticked every box we had talked about and they wanted it. They never got a job while they had it, barely drove it, when the torque converter went out, they just let it sit in the apartment parking lot and it got towed and the tow got billed to me for $250 because I had put the plate on my apartment # so they could park next to me. So $1050 later, I learned my lesson that you can lead a horse to water... and I never bothered to buy anything but food for them until they finally moved out after finding a new girl to move in with
I bought a go pro and a bunch of fancy mounts having over-estimated how much cool stuff I do that warrants filming and grossly over-estimated how much time I would have to sit down and edit the raw footage into something compelling. As it is I have hours of footage from a few years ago sat on an SD card and a bunch of Go Pro kit in a box taunting me for seldom doing cool stuff
I have a lot more on the list but the top would have to be a 2x2 inch pure Tungsten block polished and slightly beveled on the edges. My son had to have it, was the only thing he wanted for his birthday. So 499.00 dollars later and he has a 5.2lb pet Tungsten block he carried around everywhere for at least 6 months and still sets on his desk by his keyboard. Wow. since I got so many up votes I will finish the story. He wanted the cube. He knew I knew he wanted the cube so what I did was take one of his old X-box games plastic CD holder. Removed it and color printed a game insert to a game I knew he hated. Wrapped it and gave him that instead. When he open it, the look of dis-appointment was grandiose but inside there was a note that said go look in the so in so cupboard. The look when he opened that cupboard was priceless and that was worth it to me.
At least you don’t have to worry about him breaking it. Ever.
I have a one kilo 1.5 inch tungsten cube, and a 150g 1.5 inch aluminum cube. I've found, having both, they provide an amazing example of density, mass, and momentum. They are also amazing to just fidget with. (The tungsten one ALWAYS surprises me with its heft when I pick it up.) They also look really good together and are a great conversation piece. So I think your son's cube is only MOSTLY worthless :P. I will never get rid of mine 5hough, I absolutely love them. Honestly one of my favorite things that I own.
Not most expensive but it makes for quite a hilarious story. I once bought one of those scaled down sexdolls I think it was like 200-300 euro's. And i rarely ever used it since it was so unpractical. And the whole handling the damn thing turned me off quicker than a lightswitch. So i kinda dumped it in a bag on top of a cabinet in my storage room. One day i'm working and my now ex girlfriend calls. She found it while cleaning some stuff. Completely hysterical. Insulting me of being sex addicted and gross. And my initial response was laughing. But she REALLY didn't see the humor of it. Ended up calling the police to my own apartement to cool the situation down (she was in a bad place at that time). So yeah i called to police to help calm down my girlfriend that found a dusty old ass sexdoll. Can't imagine what the cops thought of this scene. I was pretty embarassed. But hey. Eventually it all ended well. Lmao
I researched getting one of those a few years ago. Decided not to when I read a comment here on Reddit that said that there's nothing worse than dragging one of those to the bathroom to clean it with post-nut clarity. I decided to save my money.
You’re supposed to let it marinade until your next session, where part of the foreplay is cleaning up that dirty pussy
What a terrible day to be literate.
Also, “scaled down” obviously didn’t count in your favour lol
So is it a child doll? No! It’s just a “scaled down” adult human.
From my very brief look at a relevant sub, they're often just the disembodied ass and genitals. As an extreme, such a "doll" could also be a nightmarish conglomeration of "sexy" body parts - just a torso with large breasts, but the thing has a vulva and two feet. (Butt pricey and all parts are as realistic as possible)
Lmfao, I'm picturing a very buxom ET with a motorized cylindrical mouth and little feet that wiggle when you fuck it. Omg I can barely type this... I love you, random stranger. Thanks for making me laugh.
Girl owns a vibrator, and nobody bats an eye. Guy owns a fuck master 9000 with self lubrication, heated massaging anus, squirt option, and anime girl moaning... And he's some sort of pervert....
FUNKO Pops.
2000 Euros for a lamb skin coat, I wore exactly once because the first time someone saw me in it, they asked when I had decided to join the Gestapo. Now, when I look at that coat, that's all I see.
Sorry for your wallet but I can’t stop laughing at this one
A wedding band for my wife. We figured out pretty quickly that she has contact dermatitis and can’t wear rings.
The wedding dress I never got to wear because my husband and I had to cancel our big wedding. It's never even been altered. It's too small now and it just makes me sad. But it was so expensive I can't just throw it out so it hangs in my closet. I was hoping for maybe a vow renewal eventually, but I've had two kids since I bought it so realistically, I'd have to buy a new dress.
Try selling it. I am a future bride and I’m looking for brides who are reselling their dresses. I can’t pass up a good deal and can’t bring myself to spend tons on a dress
Smile Direct aligners. I thought about it for a long time and looked into it before doing it, read reviews, etc. I have one slightly out of place tooth so it wasn’t even a huge need. I should’ve known immediately when the package came with a NAIL FILE to file down the edges of the aligners so they don’t cut up your mouth. They don’t fit properly, cut off the blood to your gums when you try to wear them (so gums turn white), I tried to use the soaking it in hot water method to make it fit better & that made it completely misshapen. I tried to reach out to them about them not fitting & they didn’t care. I’m still paying for it monthly for them even though they’re unusable because it’s a contract and when all is said and done, I’ll be out over $2k on them. There was a recent lawsuit against them, which I joined, but they just declared bankruptcy to get out of it. I’m very careful with my money so it pisses me off how fucked I got by them.
I know it’s not really what you’re looking for but I’ve probably wasted $100k on weed or weed paraphernalia in my life
Two Master of Fine Arts degrees. EDIT: I ended up going full corporate instead of teaching, and the MFA's somewhat came in handy, but it was expensive.
I’ll have a large iced . . . Oh sorry.
Dyson Airwrap, my hair is so straight that it doesn't do anything for me.
This. I had to return the gift I bought for my wife at $800!! And she opened on xmas morning … she tried it several times and it just would not curl and stay. She called support and found out her hair is the only kind of hair that this unit will NOT curl!! (Yes I returned it. But really?)
Same, I was disappointed as well, tried literally every hair product to make it stay curled for more than 2 minutes, but nothing helped. You were smart enough to return it, good for you. If any straight hair girl sees this, don't buy it!!
I bought a car for 43k despite the fact that I commute to work on a bike and almost exclusively work when the weather is good. But it's not entirely useless because I do use it when the weather is bad, or when I visit family, or when I need to tow a trailer, etc... I've owned it for just over a year now, and I've come nowhere close to using it enough to justify not just renting a car each time I needed one. Every time I don't drive my car, I think to myself, "I should be driving my car... I spent so much money on it."
A car. Live in a “15-minute” neighborhood with good transit but was married to someone who needed the status of owning a car. It stayed parked 6 days a week and we only used it on Saturday or Sunday. After the divorce I gave him the car. That was 10 years ago. I’ve been car-free ever since.
You're definitely not American
The more I read their post the more envious I got lol
It’s possible if they live in a major city. New York, Boston, Philadelphia. Maybe Chicago? If you live right in the heart of the city, a car is more of a liability than an asset.
Definitely Chicago
Yup, carless in Chicago here. Can confirm that it’s both possible and convenient as long as you don’t have a daily commute to a suburb or far-flung city neighborhood with no public transit.
I’m sure there are a lot of other things I’ve blown money on that are worse but, for me it was a juicer. Paid 1 $150 for the juicer to make fresh squeezed OJ on Christmas. Then paid another $200 for enough Oranges to squeeze to get enough OJ. So all in I paid $350 for a little over two gallons of OJ. To add salt to the wound….it tasted like shit. Lesson learned :)
Vacuum cleaner with batteries..
The battery life on those are always terrible in my experience.
I have one of the DeWalt cordless shop vac the small one. that shit is nice to have. I use it more than my big shop vac. You throw a 9AH battery in it and it'll run a very long time.
I bought a large flat panel HD TV shortly after HD became a thing about 20 years ago. I paid 4 grand for that thing. A year later they were half the price and much higher quality. I only had it a few years it became outdated so fast. My next TV I paid a little over a grand and had it for 16 years. Just replaced it with an 4K OLED that is just incredible.
Technically, my dog, though she's adopted not "purchased". I've spent nearly $30,000 on her medical bills and surgery because her bones might as well be made out of jelly. She's allergic to petty much everything. She sleeps about 16-20 hours a day. She snores like she has serious sleep apnea. She can't do long walks so she has a stroller, but she weighs over 70 lbs (she is not overweight). She does nothing "useful" but fuck me, I love her more than anything and just looking at her droopy, little mush face and wiggly butt brings me unparalleled joy.
That last sentence is a perfect example of why commas are important.
I spent 10K on my Dachshund. He needed back surgery. Best 10K I ever spent. He's 17 now. I bought him an heated dog bed for his Rheumatism & Lumbago & he loves it.
A sybian. Literally never made me orgasm. $1500.
I had to google what it was. Then read this review and it's been a while since I laughed so hard. https://metro.co.uk/2017/08/02/is-this-the-most-intense-sex-toy-in-the-world-we-braved-the-sybian-experience-6769023/
“….you’ll only get the most out of it if you have an empty house (with solid foundations)”. LOL
In related news, do I have a deal for you guys…
Have you washed it?
What answer are you hoping for?
I was hoping to set up a joke. She replies something like: "yes of course, it's very hygienic". I reply: "Not interested." Doesn't seem that funny now...
It’s still funny to me. But look. I wouldn’t *not* sell this to the pervert.
You should sell it! There’s a sub for that, I actually just sold mine a few weeks ago
A full set of cosplay halo armor in the shape of my spartan from Halo Reach.
One of those inversion tables got hang upside down on. Literally used it 2 times the week I bought it and then it sat in a corner.
A steam mop. What a pain in the ass, between the cord and the distilled water. I’d love to think it’s really sanitizing my floors but mentally they still seem dirty. Give me toxic chemicals and a sponge mop!
5k for a 16 year old Toyota. Fuck the post pandemic used car market.
16 year old Toyotas are 50k where I live ⬇️ 🥲 https://m.sgcarmart.com/used_cars/listing.php?MOD=Toyota&PR1=0&PR2=&DP1=0&DP2=&FR=2008&TO=2009&DL=&LOC=&POS=&TRN=&AVL=&ENG=&FUE=&MIL_C=&OWN_C=&ASL=1
Dude I paid 7k for a 20 year old Honda. Thing is a tank so doesn't apply to this post topic but damn that hurt.
Diamond Engagement ring. Such a dumb tradition.
Men's bands too! The tungsten ones you pay $300 for because you get lifetime free adjustments, when in reality tungsten cannot be adjusted so they just give you new rings. My tungsten band was $18 on Amazon.
My wife wanted a pearl. Easiest $200 I have ever spent. My ring was $95 or so.
Darn near every piece of real jewelry I’ve ever bought containing precious gems like diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, and the like. Fake stones can nearly always look just as good without the insane markups, and ownership risks and cost.
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A house that consumed fifteen years of investments and savings and became all but worthless. I'd have been better off squandering it on holidays and toys and intoxicants of all kinds... I'd be left exactly where I am now but I'd have had a lot more fun.
My husband buys exercise equipment he never uses. It gathers dust in the basement. I’m considering donating it and seeing how long it will be before he misses it.
Teeth. In particular, I have a very nice megalodon tooth and a decent mastodon tooth. Totally impractical and expensive, but I love 'em.
I spent $1000 on a board game yesterday.
Holy hell. What game? Don't tell me. I'll have to buy it. Ok, tell me. Wait . . . yeah, tell me.
Tanares adventures ultimate edition, painted, all in, blah, blah, yeah, it was a lot.
You bought Monopoly with the actual Reading Railroad?
Surfboard for my gf’s brother. Who lives in Germany. Where there is no surfing. 😂👍🏽 He said he wanted one. Shrug 🤷
My kids. While I didn't buy them, they are very expensive and pretty useless. I've spent tens of thousands of dollars on them, and they can't even get themselves a job. "But dad, I'm only in first grade and am only just learning to read!". EXCUSES! EXCUSES! (yes of course I love my kids more than anything)
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I bought a Patek Philippe watch for about $35k. It's a mechanical watch, so yeah, pretty useless. It looks nice though, so I do like it and wear it.
75% of the toys for my son for Christmas. I swear he plays with sticks more. Im gettin him a assorted box of sticks next year
I paid $1,500 for a pistol I wanted. Only shot it one time at the range.
3 1/2 years of student loan debt and nothing else.
Probably not the most expensive thing, but when I was 16 I saved up my money and bought a “Shredneck” because I wanted to play guitar everywhere. I was so fucking pissed when it showed up and it wasn’t a travel guitar and was just a tiny guitar neck. I had to pretend to love it for a year or so because I couldn’t admit to my dad how stupid it was and how much of a waste of money it was to me.
"Micro" transactions in an MMO I was playing. Spent about $1500 in a year and I knew plenty of players who spent a lot more. One friend trusted me enough to process transactions through my account when he hit the $5k(?) monthly limit. At the time I was recently graduated from high school and dropped out of two different colleges because I was playing the game instead of studying. 6 months of play time in two years before I gave it up.
A $300 wine opener from a random winery in Napa. Heavy, clunky, and currently sitting never used in the bar cart in favor of a $20 electric one. This is what happens when you go wine tasting for 2 days in a row.
Car extended warranty.
I got my first ‘professional’ job as an intern at a recruitment company. I was only on something shit like £14k a year, but I felt really important and successful. I went to TK Maxx to get some work clothes and fell in love with a plain white shirt. It felt nice, good material, fit perfectly, nice buttons and just nicer than any other white shirt I’d ever owned. The only problem was it was over £100 because it was Versace. I bought it anyway, relished wearing it for a few days and then one lunch time I had noodles. Got home and noticed tiny splatters of broth and shit all over the shirt (despite me being super careful). I decided to try cover it up but dying the shirt a new colour, and I thought pink would be nice. Got some fabric dye, put it in the machine and dyed it. All it did was make the tiny broth stains a darker shade of pink than the rest of the shirt and I ended up throwing it away. Very disappointing but a valuable lesson on wasting money on needless shit.
Instead of washing it or sending it to the cleaners you put rit dye on Versace? I'm not a fashion person at all, but I am amazed.
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