What's the absolute most needless thing you ever bought?

[Athena]

Once I bought a special scraper for scraping crumbs off cookie sheets. It was an impusle buy a place called The Container Store. The thing cost less than a dollar, but still, I could just use a spatula to scrape off cookie sheets.
What's the most needless thing you've ever bought?

[Starfish81]

Half the crap sitting untouched in my living room and my kitchen. I'd have to go through dusty boxes and plastic bags to name individual items.

[shimmer728]

I've desperately needed every single thing I ever bought! ;)

Well, that's not quite true, but I do use, wear, eat, whatever mostly everything I buy. Although two years ago, I bought this stupid-ass thing called The Magic Bun at CVS. You're supposed to loop your hair through it, twist your hair up and voila! Pretty updo. Except my hair kept falling out of the apparatus, even though it was much longer then. Every time I see this thing sitting in my drawer, it makes me mad. I should give it away or something.

[wordsmith]

Like shimmer, I've bought hair things that didn't work, and cosmetics that didn't live up to their advertised promise. That makes me mad (especially since even drugstore cosmetics are overpriced), but I can't say they're needless things...I had a purpose when I bought them, they just didn't work.

When I was in high school, I bought this brocade serving wench-type bustier vest thingy at a renaissance festival (yes, I was one of those girls for a couple of years as a teen...shut the eff up). It was beautiful, but hella expensive, because it was handcrafted period costumage. I say it was needless, because apart from going to the renaissance festival once a year, and being in my high school's madrigal dinner, and halloween, where in the hell was I gonna wear a medieval cleavage-boosting corset? I spent a lot of pointless money at the renaissance fetival, though...like the time I had a guy put my waist-length hair into this intricate coronet of braids...word to the white girls. Braids don't stay in your hair indefinitely. Not worth the money.

[ce607]

Many of the fresh vegetables I buy on a whim end up being pretty useless when they rot, untouched, in my refrigerator.

Also, the food processor, blender, and electric mixer I registered for and received for my wedding and that have never been used ... I didn't buy them, but I feel bad for ever asking for them.

[wordsmith]

Oh, yeah..food, hardcore. I have a lot of food wastage, with the odd hours I keep. I've pretty much given up on having fresh, nonpackaged or canned things around, consistently.

[tartytwenty]

My latest stupid purchase was this utensil, that you're supposed to put a tomato in. It's like tongs, only the ends wrapped the tomato and were like large combs. Why? So you could use a knife and have perfect slices.

Never used it. It was of cheap quality, I ended up tossing it to save room in the kitchen drawer.

[Sus122079]

I spent $20 last summer on a bunch of these Comodynes brand self-tanning towelettes I saw on an infomercial. Of course, they turned me into a zebra....and they all dried out after like a week!

[megrocks]

I've bought so much stupid crap. One of the highlights has to be the clip-on hair I bought from HSN a few years ago. I ended up getting the wrong shade and couldn't wear it when I first got it, and now that my hair is darker I can't find it anywhere. I think I wore it once.

Also pretty much every purse I buy is needless because I have so many of them. Same with bath and body products, nighgowns, tea, mugs, stationary, books, yarn, makeup and jewlery.

I will also buy pretty much any pink skirt I find that fits, so I have a lot that I almost never wear. One I have worn once, one I still haven't worn and I bought it 4 years ago. Also black shoes. I'm always searching for the perfect pair so I buy lots of pairs that almost work and end up never wearing them.

Also pretty much every infomercial product I have either ordered or found in the store. Proactive, an Ab worker, the Gazelle, Magic Whisk. They just make them seem so cool in the ads. I probably will get a Flip n Fold because my sister got one and it really works.

[coll214]

I've bought the self-tanners (that never work right, make-up, wax for hair removal (seems i've tried them all), jewelry, food i'll never eat...

And i keep buying black knee-high boots... one time 2 years ago i saw the perfect pair and didn't buy them and now have to compensate by buying inferior boots just hoping to find that same pair again.

And pretty much any purchase when i've been pissed off- clothes, shoes, cd's, ipod (that was a really bad day!)

[chrisp]

I buy a lot of stupid crap...and I buy in bulk or multiples...I dont like have a shortage of anything...even stuff I dont need. I love backups.

[hopeless]

I've gotten & bought a lot of things I didn't use. There are times I buy fruit & then few days later it rots with mold which I throw away. & other times I gotten clothes in which I never wore, so I put them away to give for charity. One point I bought a lot of hair stuff like headbands & barrettes I don't even wear anymore. Pretty much wasted money on stupid crap like that.

[Skyblade]

Oh yeah, the infomercial stuff. My mom got me that Popeil Pasta Maker one year for xmas. The pasta does not taste good, it tastes like play-dough

[k.monster]

A plastic hammer that you blow up and when you hit something it makes a noise. I have only blown it up once and it has got to be the most annoying thing I own.
I also will buy shoes that don't fit me. I have a problem with sales - if I'm saving money off the original price, then it must be meant to be, right?

[Deadend]

this summer I speant nearly $100 on sanding supplies and paint in an attempt to curtail the rust that was starting up on my car. This was also like two full weekends of work.

The rust is now showing through. Whatever.... that car has had its day.