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?

Nothing seriously expensive. I'm a very careful shopper and hate accumulating stuff I don't like. I do, however, buy things and then store them for ages before using them. I recently got out a picture of DD I commissioned when she was two. I didn't particularly want it around me when she was little (though I had it framed) but I now absolutely adore it and am thinking of commissioning a sculpture of her by the same artist, which will n doubt suffer the same decade-in-the-wilderness fate!

IonaNE an epilator in the pubic area

Jesus IonaNE, are you not scared it will catch hold of a lip? I once saw a king Charles spaniel get its ear caught in a shredder, I'm imagining a similar scenario.

A Doggie Doo game. Doggie was permanently constipated!

My dad gave doggie an enema

Not sure if it counts as it never came home.
Back in the early 90s, we went to a house building expo and saw hot tubs.
Can't remember the deposit we paid, maybe 2or 3K?

We left, looked at one another and said, "No way, it's so tacky." The hot tub company sent Christmas cards wishing us many happy splashes for years after, even though we'd never taken delivery.

It was worth a few grand never to have one though.