Stuff You Blew Money On That You Regret

[Mr. DS]

Yeah, I'll have to join in with the "ex" category which I didn't even think of but I'd rather not go on a rant about it.  Theres not enough space on the board for it.  Lets just say for every buck I've spent, I've had 10 cents spent on me.

[Kate]

Okay, so it was only $15, but I bought this Lost poster once (because... I LOVE LOST), and then found the same poster elsewhere in much better quality and for about half the price. I dunno why, but I'm still bitter about that. 

[Torgo]

Mine was  a 7 string Conklin bass that I bought for 800 bucks a few years back. I was more enamored from finally getting my hands on a 7 straing bass rather than actually making sure that I wasn't buying a lemon.

Unfortunately, the thing started to fall apart on my as I played the heck out of it. First the pickups completely failed and you can't just walk into a music/guitar shop and find 7 string pickups. They're about the size of a bar of soap on this bass. Also, even though I was able to buy strings for my 6 string Ibanez bass in a store, I had to special order the strings for my 7 string. The strings cost me about 50 dollars each pack!  There was also a problem with the tension rods in the neck. Since the neck was so huge someone who owned it prior had adjusted the tension rods wrong which caused the neck to start warping.

[Mr. DS]

Sega 32x.  Enough said. 

[Sister Grace]

I once spent $45 on a tube of Chanel Lip Gloss...actually, i don't regret it. However, I did regret having to justify spending the money to my then boyfriend....
I will go without makeup before I put cheap bottom rack products on my skin...

[CheezeFlixz]

There is not enough room on the internet for that list ... tons of stupid stuff, tons and tons and tons of stupid stuff.

[Joe the Destroyer]

Sega 32x.  Enough said. 

Yeouch! 

[Mr. DS]

Sega 32x.  Enough said. 

Yeouch! 

Dude let me tell ya.  The first day I brought it home, the curse from the underworld clips that came with the system busted on me.  I had to send them in for new ones.  I should have ran back to the store at that point.

[Fausto]

College. I'll graduate, spend the rest of my life paying for it, and still never get a decent job. Also, I only ever take three classes at a time, and the last few times I ended up getting back the whole financial aid refund and blowing it, instead of cancelling it like I should have.

Also, just before christmas, I won a portable dvd player with screen at a charity auction. Bring it home, works fine...a few weeks later, it stops reading dvds. It wont even read the lens cleaner I bought. I spent 60 bucks on it ,which makes it really not even worth spending the money to get it fixed. At least it was for charity.

Something else, and I may end up depressing a lot of people here, but someone recently told me that the average lifespan of a dvd - and this is assuming they have been kept in pristine condition - is only 10 to 15 years. After that, the magnetism wears off and they become useless. That means my collection of horror and anime will be doomed, and all the money I spent on boxed sets down the drain.

[CheezeFlixz]

Something else, and I may end up depressing a lot of people here, but someone recently told me that the average lifespan of a dvd - and this is assuming they have been kept in pristine condition - is only 10 to 15 years. After that, the magnetism wears off and they become useless. That means my collection of horror and anime will be doomed, and all the money I spent on boxed sets down the drain.

You've been mislead. The expected longevity of dye-based DVD-R and DVD+R is anywhere from 20 to 250 years, the same as CD-R discs depending on the quality of the dye, (i.e. Gold is better than Silver) this is for burned DVD/r's ... pressed DVD's should not go bad within your lifetime, or your kids, or their kids.

[ghouck]

Yep, no magnetism involved if I understand the technology correctly.

[Trevor]

utter kak!!!!

 

doggett, are you perhaps South African or familiar with the Afrikaans language? I'm asking because that word is a very recognizable SA slang word for when something is really, really terrible. 

Much like that pic of me on the "horrible picture" thread I started...

[CheezeFlixz]

The other day a friend of mine and I were talking about all the money we've wasted on stupid stuff ad how our life would be now if we had all that money back. Money wasted on booze and women when younger to boats and motorcycles when older ... it was really a depressing thought.

[Sister Grace]

College. I'll graduate, spend the rest of my life paying for it, and still never get a decent job. Also, I only ever take three classes at a time, and the last few times I ended up getting back the whole financial aid refund and blowing it, instead of cancelling it like I should have.

College is never a waste of money (or perhaps time); if you learned something from your classes then you evolved into a better human being. It is however, horrible to have mass amounts of student loans and then not be able to get a decent job to help pay them off. A friend of mine has a bachelors in Philosophy and about thirty grand in student loans; he works at a truck-stop serving coffee. But then again, i havent met alot of people with degrees in philosophy that were actually able to use it(the degree) to help them get a job  . I also have two friends that have degrees in Graphic Arts, one works at Hibbitts; the other at Cracker Barrel (sadly he has a Masters).
Just out of curiosity what kind of degree are you getting?

[asimpson2006]

I wouldn't say that I regret buying some of the stuff that I did get, but it's stuff that I will admit wasn't my best choices.  Buying a lot of the DVD's that I ended up being over the last few years.  Most of them were movies that I never seen before and wanted to see them.  I ended up selling most of them online and getting some money back but not enough to cover everything I spend on for DVD's.  I will also admit that some of the games that I have purchased in the past were not always my best choice.