to ask what's the worst thing you've ever bought?

[y0rkier0se]

I'm moving house next week, and i'm in the process of -procrastinating- packing. I found some ceramic zebras that I bought at an auction a couple of years back. They're two cream zebras, with grey and blue paint covering them, with crystals around the base. It's truly horrendous, the only possible justification for buying them was that from where I was sat in the large room you couldn't see quite how bad they were. And I really really wanted to use the paddle [grin and they're so bad that no-one else bidded. DP constantly jokes that they're going to get damaged in transit but as terrible as they are, I don't want to get rid as I laugh every time I see them. Anyone else got any 'seemed a good idea at the time' buys?

Hahahaha pictures of the Venetian octopus please!

Yellow mascara. It does nothing for your lashes, in case anyone else is as daft as me and can't see the outcome...

My list of bought but never took out of the box is more impressive!
Bread maker
Ice cream maker
Chocolate fountain
Sewing machine
Actifry
Another sewing machine
Steam cleaner
Stove top espresso maker
I've a funny feeling something got tucked away recently, "till I make room for it", but I forget exactly what.

A second home in Devon.

The fucking thing must have cost .5m after the roof fell in, no one rented it and the garden slid into the kitchen!

Towels that a tv shopping channel swore to me were ultra absorbent and comfy and we're just miraculous - they weren't they jut moved water around your body somehow
A 'pasta pan' with some kind of inbuilt draining thing. A complete pain and a saucepan and colander worked perfectly
Damm you tv shopping channel !

Trying to lose weight and bought this stupid little gadget that is supposed to 'suppress cravings' by working in a similar way to vaping but without the vapours/steam. It was advertised in my Facebook Feed. Total and utter waste of money - FORTY POUNDS - and all of the reviews were clearly fake or negative. I'm still annoyed with myself for buying it 3 months on as I feel like such a mug

Our first house

Another handheld cleaner regretter here. No suction capacity whatsoever. Oh and I hate my slow cooker. Nothing that comes out of that thing tastes good.

A Toshiba Notebook laptop. Utterly utterly woeful, slow and unuseable

I once tried to write a review on Amazon (though hadn't bought it there) to warn others and it, inevitably, crashed.

Remember those tiny little laptops for
Kids? £99 of awesomeness
Bought one for dd. Was utter shit
Sold it a year later for ... £101
Go figure

Juicer costs an arm and a leg for a teaspoon of juice

Oh god yes a juicer here also. Seems a great idea...

Small bagless vacuum cleaner. Absolute rubbish- poor suction and a nightmare to clean (boyfriend at the time refused to have anything to do with cleaning it). Had to take it out the back garden armed with a bag, kitchen roll, wipes and a bucket of warm, soapy water. When I split with him and moved out, I left that behind.

A marriage license. Utterly shit.

One of those clothes steamers that you see the shop assistants using. I thought it would save so much time for items that just needed skimming over. Not!
Takes up so much space, doesn't seem to get warm enough to do anything productive and you go over and over the item - as well just bloody ironing it.
I wanted one for ages and my DH even thought it would be great. Wrong.

Erm, groceries from ASDA. Never doing my shop there again.

Oh and I love frozen cocktails so bought this 'thing' which is supposed to make slushed ice. Useless. It's noisy, water drips everywhere and if the original ice is too big then it can't cope and jams. Why didn't I just get a decent blender?

Mentally going through my cupboards now for other crap that I've bought and not used.

Read a post further down though about someone not using their ActiFry - love mine!

A Roomba - very temperamental and useless.
A jar of black truffles - tasted of nothing.

A sewing machine. I want to throw it across the room everytime I try to use it. It's gathering dust. Memory foam mattress for our bed, makes us super sweaty. Thick beach towels never dry and end up stinky on two week holiday. Brown rice seems like a good idea but takes an age to cook!

A TENS machine. It made my pain worse, I hated the sensation and felt jittery for hours after using it.

This halloumi wrap I got once. What it said it contained: humous, halloumi, lettuce, pesto and olives.
What it actually contained: grated cheddar, two olives, some iceberg and this foul concoction of creamy stuff with bulgar mixed into it.
I actually threw most of it away. I never throw food away. I almost sent it back to the maker with a request for a refund!

Asmoto I got my poor DP to apply the TENS machine to my lower back when I was in early labour.

He got his fingers stuck to the pads, while the thing was on full blast, zapping his hands while I shouted at him.

An uncomfortable sofa

Deadgood my dp did that too, I was laughing hysterically at him despite the pain!

One of those whizz mops that spins in the bucket to use less water.
First try, stuck it in the bucket, spun it and the bloody handle snapped off.
Gave it a good bash out of frustration before chucking it. I had high hopes for that mop
Never believe TV advertising. Especially bloody JML