What's the most ridiculous purchase you have ever made?

[kitegirl]

I was just trying to sort some junk in our basement and saw... a 5ft x 5ft bamboo xylophone that I just had to buy in Vietnam and that cost a fortune to FedEx to the UK. Never used it, obviously (who would??). What's in your loft??!

an adult sized pumpkin outfit!
oh you MUST post a picture...

I bought a laundry basket in the Philippines and brought it home on the plane (luckily it was v light and incurred no excess baggage charge)

What a weirdo I must have been!

ah yes laundry baskets can be very hard to find can't they
??

pmsl @ laundry basket

Mine would have to be a Nurses outfit from Ann Summers

Of course it is now at the very bottom of the ironing pile to never be seen

After getting my first ever wage packet at the age of 14 I ran to the nearest shop to spend the money.
The shop happened to be a chemist and it had a Soda Stream for about the same amount of money I had so I bought it.
I was really proud of it. The drinks tasted like cat wee though.

A Polti Vac Cleaner that sucked the dirt in and passed it through water. The dirty sludgy water was a nightmare to get rid of.

An expensive velvet Karen Millen jacket with a lambswool fluffy collar.
The next day, Bev from Brookside was wearing an IDENTICAL one.
I thought I had Good Taste.
300,000,000 souvenir t-shirts from travels around the world

I once bought a very expensive suede fringed jacket. I honestly don't know what possessed me. I have never worn it, ever. It cost so much I can't bring myself to throw it out so I've still got it. In fact, would anyone like it?

far too much of everything for ds2, so much so that now 4 years later witht the arrival of no3 due in march i do not need to buy a single sleepsuit, vest or coat as i have 12 sleepsuits, 8 vests, a snowsuit, white dungaree set, coat, and three cardigans all brand new iether still with wrappers on or tags attached!

i seriously do not remeber buying any of it and must have had amnesia and forgot i had brought it and went out and brought it all again

A bowl of wooden fruit from Ghana, an enormous laundry basket from Nigeria, a hideous glass bell from Prague, an enormous vase that falls over if you put more than 2 flowers in it (it's made form very light glass, apparently), a kartoflany czort (thing for baking potatoes in) from Poland...dare I go on?

Tanzie, I'm so glad someone else is as weird as I am

It was a very useful laundry basket (she said defensively) and has only just been thrown out 15 years later! (Habitat's is more aesthetically pleasing.)

I also bought, in 1987, 500 air mail envelopes in Parague, because you couldn't get good quality envelopes in Poland then (if you could get them at all). I've still got several left...

Pair of 3/4 length red leather trousers. In my defense I was 16 and it was 1984, but still. Never wore them and they cost a bomb...

rofl at these,the xylophone especially.

My dh once bought a 28 foot boat that was never used-despite us living on the edge of a harbour-we could see the bloody thing from our bedroom window!

It is my ace to use in any discussions re frivolity and excess spending on my behalf. Ten years later,it still works.

worse one was a truly hideous loud stripes silk blouse from some mall in the US
I must have looked like a mad jockey
hopefully only wore it once or twice
was only 18 or 19 in my defence

next thread: your hideous fashion mistakes of the 1980's....

in Finland we used to wear cycling shorts, t-shirt with a belt and high heels for a night out. Oh yes.

pmsl at the boat!!!

caught up in the excitement of the partial Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 1994 I bought a load of the first Palestinian stamps. Not so bad given that I was young, there, had a bit of a Palestinian thing going on (as you do)...but....I carefully put them onto pieces of cardboard, dated them in fancy hand-writing and wrote some shite or other about them and GAVE THEM OUT AS CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. I still cringe to this day when I think about it. I wonder where they are now...

pmsl at hativity!

it's worse - I just went to find the set I saved for myself - not only did I write out what they were in fancy English writing I did it in Arabic too. I must have very nice friends for no-one to have laughed in my face!

Oh blimey thats the best so far!!!

pestered parents for an Afghan coat for 18th birthday. This was pre internet and they drove round 1/2 the country to find it, only it was unwearable as I smelled strongly of goat with it on.Couldn't even hide it at the back of my wardrobe...yuck. So...loaned it to covetous {very pretty} friend for concert where it rained. Wet goat is RANCID , dries like cardboard and is useless.Shame!

psml at Finnish clubbing gear!!