What purchase of yours was a waste of money?

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I'm ill in bed and bored. Mines a slow cooker. I don't like stew or casserole, I know you can cook lots of things in it but I never use it. What's yours?

Mine is too big too, that's without the two extra bits you can use to make it larger. We moved to a house with a separate dining room but it's still too big.

The opposite. The Ninja has made our TWO Bosch ovens redundant. 😢

I always help a spider. But Dd is terrified of them and it’s the only way she can cope.

You put a very small, if any, amount of liquid in a slow cooker...but cornflour is your friend if you over do on the liquids.

I agree with slow cooker and what people say about watery food. Stews, curries, chilli etc just turn out way runnier than I would like. I end up further reducing them on the stove which kind of defeats the purpose

Yes I think everyone has ADHD now.

Mine (named Yuf) is the best purchase of the last year. It's an X10 pro omni and have had no issues with performance or navigation. It has helped us all so much, I only vacuum corners and stairs by hand.

In a crowded and competitive field: cantilever garden parasol, which cost the best part of £200 from one of the DIY chains. It seemed to need about 100kg of weights on its base to have any chance of remaining upright. And given that our house might as well be named Windy Corner it would blow over anyway. Broke after 18 months. Never again. Replaced with cheap "bung it in the hole in the middle of the table" job which has been absolutely fine.

Erm.... use less liquid.

Evaporation is minimal compared to hob or oven.

Kitty Jet dental water pick
Rover 416i (the head gasket blew on the first engine and then on the replacement engine). Luckily Rover fitted a third engine but it was a slog to get them to agree.

@5amisthenew7am

Mine is a gorgeous dining table and chairs bought from Debenhams not long after I moved into current house.

I bought it as I had my dad up for dinner weekly and also other guests occasionally. It's lovely but it's now too big and I just don't use it any more, dad died two years ago and I rarely, have a dinner guest.

I would love to get rid of it and get something much smaller (and cheaper) but I paid a lot for it, would never get back the money anywhere near what I spent on it so it sits there in front of me, unwanted and unloved. Such a shame.

Beautiful pink John Lewis sewing machine. Still in its box. Two years and counting. But can't bear to part with it!

A gecko my son was desperate for. The most boring pet ever and such a faff. I’d have been as well getting another houseplant.

A whole home gel nail kit with the uv light, tools, loads of colours and all the multiple under and over coats. I was absolutely useless at it and so it’s all just sat in a drawer.

almostbloody50
Yes, food banks will take slow cookers (well - ours does!).
I had a small one which had only been used a couple of times, and l donated it to our local food bank. I know they have bigger ones which some of the volunteers use for cooking the 'drop in' weekly lunches, but they also take kitchen/cooking items for families/people who need them.
No harm in asking, if they don't, a charity shop probably will.

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😂 I did laugh at this.

We get them in our house and they can stay in the same spot on the ceiling for days.

I think they could be classed up there as most boring pet.

New L'Oréal colour protect conditioner. They have changed the product and it leaves my hair looking unwashed. I have gone back after drying my hair and rinsed it again and again to no avail it still looked greasy. I have emailed L'Oréal also to no avail... I have read on here posts from people who have found the exact same problem as I have. I have used the old product for countless years and loved it and I always bought in bulk so because I didn't know about the changes made to the product I continued to buy in bulk and I am now left with several unopened bottles of their colour protect conditioner together with the opened bottle which will be discarded.

I love my Hasbeens have 5 pairs, 4 bought off eBay from people like you that find them uncomfortable. So came on to say thank you.

Those Crimpit wrap sealers. Went mad and got the whole range. Never use them. In the drawer

Also, too many things to mention from musthavebuys website 😂

Oh I’d forgotten about those. DH had been mithering about them for months and I got a really good offer so bought all of them 🤦‍♀️. I think two of them have been used once each.

an ipad, it's brilliant and there's nothing wrong with it but I have an iphone and a pc so find I never use it for anything.

airfryer, Used once and has been sitting in the cupboard since.

Endless toys for my cat, He prefers a cardboard box.

This! £250 worth of proper optician's glasses somehow seem to not be as good as the £10 reading ones I bought in the chemist round the corner.