Expensive mistakes - purchases

[SouthWestmom]

So mine is an Apple Watch. Costs an extra £20 for 4G a month and I never use it. I'm not interested in fitness and I can't find any purpose for it my phone doesn't serve.

OTOH, my collection of scarves is such good value on cost per wear basis - Missoni, Westwood etc and I wear them all the time.

Oh, so many things...

Lots of really expensive and uncomfortable shoes (but I have learned my lesson now). Jewellery that I don’t wear. Also, over the years, lots of toys, clothes, etc for dd that she never used.

Lots of really expensive and uncomfortable shoes (but I have learned my lesson now). Jewellery that I don’t wear.

OMG this is me too. I've spent a fortune on shoes that I've never worn or they've ripped my feet to pieces on their first wear.

I try really hard to cycle through all my jewellery so it gets worn but I'm not working right now so opportunities are few and far between unless I want to look over-dressed in the gym/park.

And let's not even get started on the handbags that I don't use.

I’ve got one of those karcher window vac things. Fine but a total waste of time given that you have to actually spray and wipe the windows first!!?! I didn’t research these at all (I don’t ever research anything to be fair), just saw an ad on tv and decided I needed one that same day. Went and bought one then realised you still had to do the hard work. Used it once, has sat in the cupboard for the last 2 years. Now pay my window cleaner to to inside and out!!

A treadmill.

Im much happier running in surrounding woods and fields.

A Karcher hard floor cleaner. It does leave the floor clean and dry enough to walk on but by the time you've washed out the waste water bin because it will pong if you leave it, swept the floor first because despite the claims that it does pick up small bits - it merely moves them around the floor - and you've done all the floor corners properly etc you may as well have got the mop out and done it by hand. It then lurks in the utility room like a sulky teenager wanting to stay out past 11 pm.

Our very expensive mattress - was made to order and seemed right when we spent ages trying it.... once it arrived it turned out although it's comfortable for about an hour its really too hard when you sleep on it for any period of time. We forked out even more for a topper which makes it bearable & dh finds it ok (I think because he's heavier) but I still don't really like it. I do however like the spare bed mattress so sometimes decamp to there - it's only a double though whereas ours is a king so can't swap them over.

Thought of another one.

The shark lift away. Love it don't get me wrong however three months later decided I'd try the cordless stick which has now rendered the lift away absolutely useless.
It just sits looking sad in the outhouse (and I'm £350 lighter )

@ooohhhhcrap I LOVE IC shoes ❤️❤️

Bread maker here too!!!

What is a shark lift away?

I feel like this thread is just becoming a shopping list of stuff I didn't know I needed

Yes I'm now interested in the shark cordless stick. (having bought a liftaway a couple of months ago) - is it good for stairs?!

I wasn't a huge fan of my cordless dyson but I stripped it back and cleaned it (thanks you tube) and it works so much better now.

Just wondering whether other crappy seeming products might need a good clean themselves?

A shark lift away is the corded shark hoover.
It's the second corded one we've had.
They have been amazing to say the least. Google it.

The shark cordless stick is absolutely brilliant and the auction and power is the same as the corded.
We bought the one with two batteries which have their own charging point and it's so light and easy to manoeuvre yet brilliant for reaching whatever cobwebs may be lurking

It makes my stair carpet look like new as it has a super duper attachment for stairs.

It's just such a shame it's rendered the corded lift away useless

I was weary about getting a cordless as a main hoover which is why we went for the lift away again to start with but then I had a funny five and bought the stick.

A £650 memory foam mattress that was so hard 🤦‍♀️ I knew almost instantly it was wrong. Ended up replacing it with our fab sprung mattress.

@ooohhhhcrap which model is it? I need a new one

CurtainsAndCords mine has been shit from new. I think it might be the model I have as I sent the first one back thinking it was faulty.

I wear my uggs as slippers in winter!

That is all they should be worn for. As an Australian i found it weird that people wore them outside as fashion, they should definitely not leave the house.

Our previous car cost a bomb. Had a crappy little £900 Nissan that went like the clappers but sold it for a newish Astra as DS1 was coming. The car was a disaster, spent a bomb on repairs and sold it 18 months later, total loss would be £6k.

Also my lawn, moved into house 3 years previous, back lawn was pretty much non existent. Spent a lot of time and effort on soil and turf just spring getting it flat and even, looks great. Then in winter the lawn dies off, when i comes back in the spring this year it's back to bumpy as hell and tufts of grass. Turns out the ground underneath is crap and needs a massive massive amount of work to sort, which i don't have the time and money to do

I spent about £2000, maybe more on fixing my knee. I buggered it up running. I have degenerative meniscus damage and have had no improvement at all from lots of treatment and money. Such a huge waste of money. Still can't kneel down and my knee is still permanently swollen and painful.

Not something I bought, but I won a posh vacuum cleaner that also washes the floor on MN. The floor washer broke, and customer service don’t want to know. They are impossible to get hold of on the phone - it never get answered. I emailed them and they told me I just had to keep trying with the phone - that someone would answer it eventually. They don’t. I’ve been trying on and off for two years now.

Any at home fitness equipment ever. I am not a self starter when it comes to working out. I need someone yelling at me to keep me going.

Anyone a barely used top of the range rebounder or a sit up bench? Going cheap to a good home

Lovely expensive pure white floor tiles for my bathroom complete with pure white grout.

Looked amazing when they were first laid 8 months ago. Gorgeous. Made the bathroom look bigger too.

Then we walked on them.

Despite my continuous obsessive cleaning of the floor, including the grout with a toothbrush using various cleaning products, they show up every little bit of dirt, water mark and fleck of dust. And the grout didn't stay white for long. Now its various shades of greys and yellows.

Thing is I kinda knew at the time, even DH tried to put me off, but all I could think about was a beautiful white floor. And I'm normally the sensible purchaser in our relationship.

Lesson learned.

Diesel Nissan qashqai... Spent more time in the garage than on the road. Sold it for half the price I paid for it.

Juicer, been sat in a cupboard for months.

Dyson animal... Hated it, went back to Henry.

YadiYadiYada you can get grout protector type stuff (not sure if the name) which is painted on after grouting so the grout doesn’t get stained.
Maybe chisel our the grout, re grout then paint the grout protector on

Only just heard of it myself, don’t know if it is any good

@Oliversmumsarmy thank you, but we already did that as soon as it was finished. Its made no difference sadly

@CurtainsAndCords I watched that YouTube video and stripped back my old Dyson V6, went like the clappers again after that. I'll do the same to my V10 if I can find a video.

Yadi I won't buy ANYTHING white on the grounds that white only looks good if it's pristine and that's impossible in my house.

Could you regrout with black? It still wouldn't be as you wanted but at least it's deliberate and might not piss you off so much?