Over optimistic things you have purchased

[kimfox]

I will start.

Just went rifling through the kitchen drawers looking for chopsticks and came across a tub of baking beans. I have had them for a few years and used them once. Definitely an over optimistic buying decision about both my baking abilities and inclination when I bought those!

Anyone else bought something full of optimism and good intentions only for it to languish, forgotten, in a dusty corner?!

Juicer. The apples we grow make juice that is too sour for drinking. Can't be arsed with juicing carrots and similar as we all much prefer to just munch on raw ones.
Tagine. Takes up so much room and is never used. I make lovely stews etc. in a large cast iron pot.

Dish washer, just dont see the point. Handwashing is quicker and easier.

A tarot card reading set-no idea why
air fryer-used twice-I cannot get the hang of it
George foreman machine
my pushbike

As a pp said, a KitchenAid food processor.
Extremely difficult to open, all the gratings, shreddings, juliennes and slices get fought up in the rim of the lid .
Still sitting there , three years later, just staring at me . Daring me. Bastard.

Deep fat fryer , still in its box, unopened, from my wedding over 30 years ago.

Spiraliser. Just why ?

Travel insurance early 2020.

A madeleine pan.

A pony.

Was bought as I felt sorry for him and he loved me (was a mates pony) and hated everyone else. He was supposed to be broken in, ridden by dd and they would have lovely adventures and when she outgrew him he would be sold on to another family to love and enjoy.

Dd had a growth spurt and outgrew him within months of him being broken in. And I realised that he actually hates all kids apart from dd and then later ds. Who he basically sees as extensions of me. And he hates all adults as well except for me.

He's a very expensive pet basically. And has been for the last 12 years and will probably live forever as he hasn't exactly had a difficult life. Apart from the odd ride around the school he does fuck all except eat and pull faces at other people before trying to climb on my knee for cuddles.

I got one of those (in Lockdown) too! 🤣

Sourdough starter anyone?

This thread is cheering me up. I thought it was only me!

A madeleine tray.
I will make them sometime soon...

Shoes.

Just far, far, far too many pairs of shoes.

Also a baking beans victim. I used them once but it didn't occur to me to put paper between the beans and the pastry before baking so I ended up with a mess of ceramic spheres and pastry crumbs.

Soup and vegetable tureens from eBay and charity shops, because I was going to present home cooked meals nicely at the table. With a full time job and a house full of teenagers who foraged for themselves. From time to time I take the tureens down from the top of the kitchen wall units, wash the dust off, and put them back. I keep them because otherwise DH would use the space to store more skis, rucksacks and car snow chains (also never used).

A German language learning set including CD-ROMs.

Skirts and dresses of various lengths from charity shops.

Aspirational lettuce, cucumber and salad dressing whenever I shop after a meal like they say you should. At least when I shop hungry I fill the trolley with stuff I can freeze or store and will eventually eat.

@HighlandCowbag wow, that’s got to be the most expensive on the list. I can see how it happens though. We almost bought a house with a paddock and stables, as soon as the offer was in I was googling donkeys and alpaca feeling proud of myself for knowing I didn’t have time to ride a horse.

So many.

had a Vax steamer without realising you couldn’t use it on a the original wood floors in 90% off our house. Sold it after much pestering from DH who now wants to buy another one as we have moved somewhere with zero wood flooring which was left quite grim by previous owners.

many hair gadgets, drum roll to babyliss big hair and any number of curling implements and rollers. My hair is straight, does not hold a curl and I am a wash and go kind of girl.

Mini chopper and lots of other kitchen gadgets.

I do use my exercise bike and weights tho, but still a chunky monkey!

Karcher window vac. I used it once, marvelled at the sparkling clean windows, heard my DH say, 'Ha! That's the first and only time you'll use that thing!', denied it strenuously, put it away in a cupboard, and now I can't find it, despite searching the entire house. I strongly suspect my DH of secretly binning it, so he can be right, in a completely cutting-off-his-smeary-windows-to-spite-his-face manner.

If anyone who mis-bought a sewing machine lives in Essex - please PM me!

@fishingpaintings , and we have a winner !
I laughed so much at your list, the dog came in to see what was up ! 🤣
@kimfox , great thread.

When I was a teenager I had a very flat chest. I sent off for a bust enhancing cream that you had to rub in every day. I still have small bust, my friends like to joke that they cant always tell if Im coming or going.

@fishingpaintings What is the hair bobble trick, Im desperate to know in case it might benefit me in some obscure way

Howling at aspirational lettuce.

DP has just told me that a tortilla press is on the way, so I might as well just add that to the list now.

@Ratonastick I'd completely forgotten about my skipping rope debacle! It seemed like such a good idea at the time.

My pelvic floor did not agree.

Hair bobble through the buttonhole and pull one end through the other so it stays. Hook one end onto button. Might buy and inch or four, depending on elasticity of bobble.

*an inch, not and inch.

Ooh, now I use mine weekly as DS likes egg mayo sandwiches.

A carpet cleaner from Aldi. I have 2 rugs on wooden floors. No carpet.

A "How to lose your Accent" book and cassette tape. It didn't work, my twang is as strong as ever. I no longer have a cassette player but the tape is still in drawer somewhere.

A IPL hair remover thingy. End up just shaving in the shower., whilst thinking, "I must find that IPL thingy".

A basic robot vacuum cleaner from the middle isle. Set it going and realised straight away that it moves only where it wants to and not where you want it to and it gets stuck under the furniture

Patchwork and quilting magazine are giving away a free sewing machine if you sign up for a year's subscription. It's a Janome too which is good. I had to stop myself getting it as I already own many (many!) sewing machines!