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?

Same
Bizarre to say it gets tangled in things-do people think it will pick up stuff and put it away ?😂
Do people hoover over stuff?
The mind boggles!
It's a double win for me because I told DH it will eat his stuff so now he's tidy pahaha!!!

I'm on my second attempt at a slowcooker as love the idea of it but current one has also ended up as a dust gatherer. This thread has motivated me to give it a try tomorrow.

Juicer, Nutribullet and heavy duty blender were all wasted purchases. My 20 year old stick blender does everything I need and takes up very little space. My Le Crueset casserole dish/dutch oven also never gets used - but it looks fab on my kitchen shelf so I've mentally recategorised it as a decoration.

I'm wasted a lot of money on clothes and shoes (more volume cost than single item). Getting better at not buying for the person I want to be/to impress instead of buying for the person I am.

I'm surprised at all the hate for the humble slow cooker!

We use ours all the time, last week we had:

Bolognaise
Beef stew
Chicken (a whole chicken just fits in!)

A horse. Vets bills and more vets bills

Thanks. I’ll try this tomorrow.

So many slow cookers never used, gathering dust somewhere in the home.

I've done both beef and lamb joints in the slow cooker. Both on a bed of chopped carrot, onion, parsnip and a small potato, no water just a small glass of wine, whatever I have, and cooked for around six to seven hours. The juices and vegetables make the most gorgeous gravy base too.

Horses! Been keeping them for over 30 years. Shudder to think of how much they have cost me.

Heated airer/maiden.

My Pokémon card collection. I love looking at it, but yeah hardly money spent sensibly 😂

Ugh.

l hate anything from a slow cooker. It has a ‘taste’. Always soggy too

I can't believe how many people are saying slow cooker?! It must be a love or hate thing. Because I love mine, we use it every week - beef joint, chicken casserole, beef stew, bolognese, chilli, pulled pork. We've never had a bad meal, it's so easy and it's never watery because I don't add any water. Just the meat and some spices and veg. Sometimes thicken it up with gravy granules or corn flour at the very end.

Dyson hoover. Got so fed up having to constantly clean the filters to get it to work.

I am with you here, we have a V10 or 12 can't remember, and it does this pulsing sound when there are no blockages and the filter is clean.
I've even sent it back to Dyson for repair (it's quite a few years old) Fine for a while, but the other day it did it again

Will not be buying another Dyson. There are other very good ones out there

Le Creuset full pan set in wooden case. Wanted one for ages then didn't like the pan surface - gave them to son and he kind of uses them. Also gave him the steam cleaner, carpet cleaner which was forever getting jammed up with wool, well the 3 times I used it.
Neff oven I replaced and have only used at Christmas.
Wouldn't be without A Fryer, Instant Pot electric pressure cooker and slow cooker.
Bought a walking machine a couple of weeks ago, can see which way that is going. 😊

@FlatWhiteExtraHot

Actually it does affect my life. I work at JLP. John Lewis needs to make more money

A heated airer
it was utterly useless

Bread maker.

Takes 5 hours to make a small brown loaf. I can buy a bigger, nicer one from Lidl for £1.79.

My bread machine, it's unplugged in the conservatory now.

I've paid a lot of ADHD tax over the years for stuff I thought I needed asap and would be amazing, to completely lose interest when it's arrived. I now have a rule that something has to sit in the basket for several days to make sure it's not just me being a magpie.

Conversely, I find it difficult to buy myself stuff I do actually need. Silly, spicy brain of mine.

Flash duster thingy, it's crap.
Flash speed mop, the pads dry out too quick.
Vax carpet spot washer, it's not the miracle I thought it would be, I still dislike my carpets.
Flylash magnetic eyelashes, stupidest thing I've ever bought, bloody fiddly and look crap!
Sky Glass, it's awful, never works properly, constantly having to switch it off and on again because it gets stuck.
Some hair bobble thing that was meant to make hair look bouncy and full of life, nope, still lifeless and limp.
Electronic scrubby brush cleaning thing, only works if I hold it at a certain angle.
Any cleaning product, paste, liquid, spray that's meant to make my life instantly easier, it's all lies!!
Food processor, it's older than my son, used it once but I still have it for when I really get in to food prep.... Still waiting!
The acrylic letters with my wedding flowers in, they just don't look as lovely as the advert did, I like them but I'm not wowed by them.
Any home printer I've ever owed, just print you fuck wit!

What seriously pissed me off about our cordless Dyson (kept largely for upstairs) was that you can’t tell when the filter needs cleaning, but it stops working when it does need it. And the instructions say that the thing should be dried away from direct heat, for 24 hours.
So if the thing packs up while you’re in the middle of hoovering, you are supposed to wait over 24 hours!

We ended up buying a spare filter - £12. Why on earth they don’t provide a spare as standard I don’t understand. So stingy!

Though maybe they do now - we bought ours years ago.

Our cordless vac is just a spider catcher.

Nice clothes, when I don't have a specific occasion in mind to wear them.

I am a scruffy jeans and t-shirt type. I like to imagine looking smart occasionally. Once in a blue moon, when I'm going to a wedding or suchlike, I buy an outfit specially for it. That's fine. But usually at the same time I think, "Oh, I could buy a few additional outfits. I will find an opportunity to wear them."

Then I just don't. It isn't that I couldn't. I do go out sometimes where they wouldn't be out of place: the theatre or a fairly nice restaurant. But I still never bother dressing up. I just wear my jeans and a jumper!

Ten years ago my lovely SIL had a big elegant birthday bash. Besides the dress I bought for it, I got two more, imagining that if I had them, I would wear them. They are still hanging up with their tags on. These days I don't feel like wearing dresses at all, I don't know why. So last summer when my DC got married, I bought some more smart outfits, this time with trousers. I only needed two. The other two are still unworn. 😯

A jml back scrubber,the head rotated at snails pace.. bugger all like the speedy version on TV advert.
Bin.

Poor spiders! We just use a glass or cup and a piece of paper, and out of the window.