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What purchase of yours was a waste of money?

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2025isavibe · 06/06/2025 23:06

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?

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CanelliniBeans · 06/06/2025 23:39

A stream dog brush. It does virtually nothing stream wise and is not even a good brush.

SmugglersHaunt · 06/06/2025 23:40

A pair of Prada trousers I can barely do up and don’t even particularly like even if I manage to injure myself enough to get them on. I wore them out dancing and they nearly disembowelled me. Thanks Prada

bananafishbones1 · 06/06/2025 23:44

Ha I read the first few messsges and related - I have a mulberry bag I never use. A pizza oven, that's too much hassle to use and I have been considering buying a ninja creami 😂🙈

blueshoes · 06/06/2025 23:44

Dh uses the slow cooker a lot. It is actually one of our best purchases ever.

For us, it is the cot and moses basket. Dcs never went in them as babies as they only wanted to sleep with me.

Lindajonesjustcantlivemylife · 07/06/2025 00:02

WillimNot · 06/06/2025 23:15

Probably my pub
£30k so far
Ouch

A useless or underused appliance pales into insignificance compared to your situation.
Genuinely hope you can recoup.

Supersimkin7 · 07/06/2025 00:05

Poncy clogs.

Hasbeens (apt), Chilvers, Sanita - the whole lot fit for 5 minutes then get heavy, skid and clatter like the Seven Nation Army’s taking over Tesco.

If you want yer proper, quiet, comfy clog shoot downmarket to lovely Mango for better quality and no noise nuisance.

HopeSpringsInfernal · 07/06/2025 00:10

Mulberry bag here too - weighs a ton even before you put stuff in it and everything gets lost inside it!

Gowlett · 07/06/2025 00:16

Cot here too. Useful only as a play pen when I needed to go to the loo, or have shower. Rarely slept in… Wasn’t expensive though.

Make-up, face creams & toiletries. I just like buying them.
Then end up slapping on coconut oil & using poundshop shampoo.

jollygreenpea · 07/06/2025 00:18

InWithPeaceOutWithStress · 06/06/2025 23:20

The Dyson Airwrap and the Lumea IPL hair remover. Both great products but I just cba using them, they’ve been used once each and sat in a cupboard since.

You need to make sure that the Lumea will charge up.

I remember reading about someone that had one, they let the battery go flat and apparently it's in the small print that this ruins the battery.
They eventually got Philips to replace the battery after a lot of struggling.

I got one (Lumea), couldn't decide which setting I needed before the battery went flat.
I never used it, it's just in the bottom of the cupboard where it's been for years.

slipperypenguin · 07/06/2025 00:19

Second the eufy - came highly recommended on here but its utter shite. Had to send the first one back after it stopped charging after a week and the second one is shit - misses half the stuff it should be hoovering and spits the other half back out - that is if it manages not to get stuck

Calmontheoutsider · 07/06/2025 00:20

A ‘tummy tub’ baby bath about 15 years ago. Just couldn’t quite face putting my son in a bucket of water when we had a perfectly good bath..

Kinkyroots · 07/06/2025 00:20

The fucking Temu stick on nails and Asda nail glue I used today. All nailsoff an hour ago. Now I have wrecked nails and fuck all pretty nails. FFS.

ThisIsMyYearToFindMyself · 07/06/2025 00:24

Juicer

Slow cooker

So, so many clothes

Shoes, shoes, shoes

allgrownupnow · 07/06/2025 01:02

glasses from the optician. I prefer using the £10 readers I got in the pharmacy 🙄

familyissues12345 · 07/06/2025 01:21

Switch!

Ruthietuthie · 07/06/2025 02:11

Juicer (too fiddly to wash up afterwards), rice cooker (now never use it), slow cooker (same), ice-cream maker (takes up too much room in the freezer, first time we made it ice-cream was grainy and not nearly as good as one you could buy), various le creuset (lovely color, but we don't if I am roasting something, I do it in a roasting tin, plus incredibly heavy), icing piping nozzles (never used them), bundt cake-tin (can't remember the last time I made a cake, let alone a bundt), various muffin and cupcake tins (not a good baker), tushy bidet (never installed it, what was I thinking?), steam-cleaner (too unwieldy, cable too short, so difficult to get lots of places), Philip Stein natural frequency watch (supposed to balance your bodies rhythms or some such nonsense. Oprah has one, apparently, again what was I thinking. Stopped wearing it as it looked like handcuffs), various head-to-toe linen outfits (too heavy for really hot weather, always looks wrinkly and unappealing on me, rather than summer chic), multiple places for the baby to sleep (he slept in none of them), multiple baby-carriers and baby-wearing wraps and things (he screamed and hated them all).
In my imaginary life, I am Delia Smith or Martha Stewart combined with an elegant French woman with perfectly behaved children. In reality, not so much.

MermaidMummy06 · 07/06/2025 02:29

I love my slow cooker!

Air fryer. It gets used for fish & chips & nothing else.

Hair straightener brush. Never used it as I cba taking the time to use it.

A lot of stylish looking shoes bought online for travel earlier this year. None were any good. Eventually I went to a hiking store & bought a pair of standard walking shoes & put my own orthodic inserts in & thankfully were perfect, since we walked at least 15km a day.

I try to always very careful about buying only when I'll use, because I have a DM that, as long as I can remember, impulse buys every new fad she sees. Doesn't use it & then tries to palm it off on me!!

NoBiscuitsLeftInMyTin · 07/06/2025 03:02

WillimNot · 06/06/2025 23:15

Probably my pub
£30k so far
Ouch

Been there and done that - £30k was a drop - cost us a house in the end. Good luck with it

Lindajonesjustcantlivemylife · 07/06/2025 03:11

NoBiscuitsLeftInMyTin · 07/06/2025 03:02

Been there and done that - £30k was a drop - cost us a house in the end. Good luck with it

That must've been a bitter pill to swallow when I take It you've worked every hour god sent to make it work.

Cyclebabble · 07/06/2025 03:12

Electric pressure cooker used once. Nice set of Joseph Joseph spoons. Survived one piece of cooking with turmeric then completely spoilt. I returned them to John Lewis who reluctantly refunded.

Velmy · 07/06/2025 03:12

Bought a jacket from a European store. Had stuff from them before, all the same size. Jacket buried me so I paid to send it back. Seemed to vanish in transit. Eventually tracked it down - Rejected at customs for 'incorrect paperwork'. No explanation as to what this meant.

By the time I got it back it was outside their return window for a refund and I didn't fancy paying another £20+ to risk posting it again for store credit.

Including two lots of postage, £550 down the drain. Gave the jacket away for free as seeing it in my wardrobe was winding me up 😭

NoBiscuitsLeftInMyTin · 07/06/2025 03:16

Lindajonesjustcantlivemylife · 07/06/2025 03:11

That must've been a bitter pill to swallow when I take It you've worked every hour god sent to make it work.

It was an absolute bastard....... but that was life then. House went and we got out as much cash as possible from the sale and paid off all our local debts - butchers, local suppliers etc etc as its a small area and it was the moral thing to do - but we'd never do it again lol as much as we love the pub life.

19hours a day x2 and lost 60/70k+ (?). I could work it out but it would depress us!

We watch Clarksons Farm - £1m to buy it - £40k for umbrellas, £100k+ for the extra kitchen equipment, etc etc etc etc - and people moan when a local home made pie and chips and a pint is about £30 - what do people expect......

NoBiscuitsLeftInMyTin · 07/06/2025 03:34

WillimNot · 06/06/2025 23:15

Probably my pub
£30k so far
Ouch

I doubt we can offer any advice but please just ask as we've been there. All the very best x

Paperweight7 · 07/06/2025 03:36

A mattress that doesn't fit the bed or a bed that doesn't fit the mattress- not sure which yet. Both are advertised as a standard double 🤔

BurntBroccoli · 07/06/2025 03:39

almostbloody50 · 06/06/2025 23:21

Slow cooker, everything it watery I can’t work out what on earth I’m doing wrong but I need to find the box in the loft and donate or sell it. Do food backs take slow cookers?

Definitely this! Awful things. Everything is so bland.