Things you wish you'd never bought

[goose1964]

I'll start with skinny co pornstar martini mix. Tasted incredibly sweet and synthetic. It stated use 1 part vodka to 3 parts mix. I tried that too sweet added more vodka so 50/50 just about drinkable. I drank another one with the reverse ratios, almost OK but I was so drunk I fell over and knocked the TV over.

The other downside was that it stank so much so that my empty glass had made the whole room stink.

@Apeirogon

Philips Lumea. Just too much of a faff.

I loved mine. It's a faff for a few months and then the hair is gone. What's not to love. I wish I'd never bought a Henry Hoover, Twist and Shape exercise thing and the 500th thing to curl my hair in the hope it'll stay curled.

@Imicola

An epilator. I now have chronic ingrown hair issues which are a pain.

Get a Philips Lumea. If you have dark hair and olive or lighter skin. Amazing 🤩

A year subscription to an expensive magazine.
I realized by month 2 it was a bad idea but they kept arriving like a monthly reminder of how stupid I was.
By the end I didn't even bother opening them from the envelope and they just piled up in the corner in a pile of shame. Every time my husband walked past he'd make a comment like "are you ever going to open those?"
I put them out on the street with a free to good home sticker and they were gone within the hour so hope someone got a good read out of them.
Otherwise they are sat on someone else's desk torturing them now.

Really surprised at all the Dualit hate! My colleagues clubbed together to buy me one as a leaving present (I was going to university). This was in 2004 and it lasted through 3 years of 7 housemates using it daily, and it's still working merrily away for my family of 4.
Dualit kettle has lasted for 10 years and counting and we're big tea and coffee drinkers.

I wish I had never bought about 50% of my childrens' toys!! They're spoilt for choice and I can see now (too late) that less is definitely more!

Slow Cooker never had a decent meal from it.

Juicer, used it for about a month and it's now in our storage unit.
Shark liftaway...could hardly pick anything up.

Lakeland heated airer
Too bulky that it’s hard to find somewhere to put it when up and hard to find a space to hide it away when folded

Gtech handheld vacuum, it just spreads the dirt around more than picks any up

A Shark Liftaway vacuum.

Ooh yes, I second the Gtech! I have fatigue and I bought it for upstairs as an alternative to my awkward, heavy Hetty, but it just doesn't have the suction power.

Also a cheap record player from HMV. It looks lovely, but the sound quality isn't worth it. Very much a whim.

I disagree about breadmakers, as I liked mine, for bread, dough and jam. But as we don't eat lots of bread here, the loaves didn't last long enough, as they need to be eaten on the day or the day after.

I bought a sander from Aldi for £12.99 on impulse. Wish me luck with that!

I’m surprised that breadmaker is on here. My Panasonic breadmaker never disappoints. I use it at least twice a week to make bread, dough, and so on.

A bottle of Christian Dior Milly la Foret perfume that I smelt on someone else and lasted a week before I realised it didn’t smell the same on me. At £200 a bottle it’s the most expensive air freshener I’ve ever had.

I absolutely love my Noom diffuser.
It was expensive but I use it everyday.

Spiralizer - so pointless. I love my breadmaker and instantpot though - I use both at least weekly.

Peugeot estate with a sun roof years ago. Bloody thing leaked.

Yes to the slow cooker too! Only useful for keeping hot dogs warm at a pta car boot sale! Otherwise everything tastes of slow cooker!

I will fight you over the Gtech though. I bloody love my Air Ram!

I bake a lot and paid £25 for a fancy sieve that had a handle that you pull back and forth to sieve flour and icing sugar. It's spectacularly shit and I immediately went back to my 99p sieve.

A Lakeland Dry:Soon pod. I cannot fathom it's 5 star reviews. It was so slow, took about three t shirts, and took up more room than a tumble dryer. Thankfully it had dodgy legs and kept collapsing, so I got my money back.

@Jubilate

A Lakeland Dry:Soon pod. I cannot fathom it's 5 star reviews. It was so slow, took about three t shirts, and took up more room than a tumble dryer. Thankfully it had dodgy legs and kept collapsing, so I got my money back.

Nooooooo! I love mine! Dries a load in one run. Fab for expensive tops that won't tumble. School shirts without creases in 20 mins! I would fight for mine

I bought the Dyson hairdryer and didn’t really get on with it.

I spent £130 on a swingy chair for baby ds. He hates it!

Biggest regret: spending £25k on a horse that was dishonestly advertised as being ‘safe for a nervous rider and bombproof in traffic’, which in the first week reared up and threw me into oncoming traffic, requiring a trip to hospital with a broken arm and punctured lip. Needless to say the horse was returned to his previous owner and £25k refunded!

Love my Panasonic Breadmaker - the only time I've had brick like bread was using Allinson flour
With Sainsbury own brand flour and yeast its perfect .
I put "No Substitute" on my online shop in case they try to fob me off with something else .

Juicer - utter waste of money and effort
Coffe Maker that uses those pods , it smelled and tasted stale even after cleaning and flushing through

*Cats. False advertising. They are supposed to be easy(

Ohh no , much much easier than the guinea-pigs but demanding unreasonable judgey little swine I'd agree ..

The Sleepyhead. Only thing that has slept well in it is the cat

@SweatyBetty20

A bottle of Christian Dior Milly la Foret perfume that I smelt on someone else and lasted a week before I realised it didn’t smell the same on me. At £200 a bottle it’s the most expensive air freshener I’ve ever had.

£200!!! I like spending money, but bloody hell I'd be gutted

For those of you hating your bread maker; try using the dough setting and bake in the oven - it's a much better loaf.