What have you bought that has been a total waste of money?

[LeetleGreyCells]

I briefly owned a Skoda Estelle that did the same thing.

I had a Nissan Micro (E reg) that also burned more oil than petrol. Terrible car. I swore I'd never have one again.

 

[Dave7]

The wire/cable of my phone charger died on me. Yesterday I went to Currys and bought another one @£6.00ish. Got back home and went to get something from a drawer...... and what did I find but a spare charger .

Happy (in a strange way) to say.......the charger I found in the drawer isnt working properly, it may be a break in the wire.
So my £6.00 wasnt actually wasted

 

[Smokin Joe]

cheap drill bits

To right.

I bought a set from Aldi, one of the flat bits for drilling wood burnt out on a piece of marine ply and the metal bits would put a nice dimple in the work before blueing. Back to decent branded makes after that.

I wonder how many people have junked a perfectly good drill they thought was useless when they were trying to bore holes with a bit from the £5.99 bargain box of 68 they got from that nice fellow on ebay?

 

[slowmotion]

To right.

I bought a set from Aldi, one of the flat bits for drilling wood burnt out on a piece of marine ply and the metal bits would put a nice dimple in the work before blueing. Back to decent branded makes after that.

I wonder how many people have junked a perfectly good drill they thought was useless when they were trying to bore holes with a bit from the £5.99 bargain box of 68 they got from that nice fellow on ebay?

I bought a set of Ebay countersinks that must have come from the same manufacturer as the Aldi drill bits. They were so bad it was funny.

 

[Beebo]

To right.

I bought a set from Aldi, one of the flat bits for drilling wood burnt out on a piece of marine ply and the metal bits would put a nice dimple in the work before blueing. Back to decent branded makes after that.

I wonder how many people have junked a perfectly good drill they thought was useless when they were trying to bore holes with a bit from the £5.99 bargain box of 68 they got from that nice fellow on ebay?

A cheap drill with expensive bits is much better than an expensive drill with the bits made of cheese.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

A six iron, bought it for getting creases out of clothes, thought a 6 would be mid range. Bloody useless, still can't work out how it's meant to work.

 

[fossyant]

A cheap drill with expensive bits is much better than an expensive drill with the bits made of cheese.

Or drill a pilot hole, then a larger one, then a larger one. Don't try to drill a big hole in solid concrete with a big drill bit, without doing pilots. I may have burnt out my dad's drill 25 years ago..... for my ground anchor in my garage....

 

[Profpointy]

Re cheap drill bits - at least you can straighten them out again when they bend

 

[tyred]

That nuclear fall-out shelter I bought during the Cold War was a bit of a waste of money.

 

[Grant Fondo]

I randomly bought the wife a reflecting telescope for xmas about 15 years ago. Quite a good one as well. Never been used even once. All that astronomical potential sat in a dusty old box.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

That nuclear fall-out shelter I bought during the Cold War was a bit of a waste of money.

And all that SPAM best before 7890AD

 

[slowmotion]

And all that SPAM best before 7890AD

It's better to stockpile pilchards.

 

[Blue Hills]

MagicBullett machine for liquidising fruit n veg. At first I thought it was the best thing ever, but after a while it just sat in a cupboard getting in the way. Eventually I bay’d it. It’s much less hassle just eating the fruit n veg as is.

Yes. And natural fruit and veg has such clever packaging - much of which you can eat.

 

[Blue Hills]

Did he also chunk away his copy of 'Fifty Shades of Grey'?

Had the idea most of those were bought by women?
Charity shops are full of it/them.
How times change/advance - sort if stuff that would have been shock horror in NOTW in my childhood now sold alongside floral cups.

 

[Blue Hills]

Hmmmm...nice!

Same vintage - I had some in dark blue velour with silver buttons down the sides.

Christ, I wore some crap back then.

Photos please.