Top Ten Purchases You Wish You'd Never Made

Nov 10, 2001 | Vanity

[The Raven]

So----I'll start it off with my indoor antenna.

[LadyDoc]

donate them to charity and write the estimated cost off from your income tax. That way someone else gets something for little or nothing, and you get a tax write off.

Of course, keep good records, including how you estimated the current price (software and electronics prices go down quickly for used items).

Heck, if it worked for Clinton's underware, it will work for you.

Seriously, I did this with my piano when my kids grew up: Got an estimate from a used piano store, and gave it to a local church school that needed a piano.

[Norman Conquest]

Windows XP. Totally bletcherous.

[Maceman]

I knew someone who spent $10,000 for a 386 computer when they first came out.

[Maceman]

I just bought a new Dell with XP installed, and it's GREAT.

[Ima Lurker]

Mine are all kitchen gadgets. I love to cook and will buy every new thing that comes along. Yep, I even have the Rotato!! Usually, I'll use them once then in to the cabinet they go.

[calljack]

I spent $375 for a HP calculator in 1972.

[TomGuy]

In the early 1980's, I purchased a new Commodore Plus-4 computer one Saturday for about $1500. On Monday, while reading the morning paper, I noticed an article stating that Commodore was discontinuing and would no longer support--the Plus-4. (My luck!)

[praise]

Must be a slow day in Freepland. OK...The exercise bike my husband bought 5 years ago. Its still new. I like to walk outside. Or in a mall. Or dance. I love to dance.

[catonsville]

My 1974 Plymouth Volare. The worse car ever made. The Yugo is a Rolls-Royce compared to this motorized aberration.

[WOOHOO]

Hillary: "The UN"
Al Gore: "The Election"
Bill Clinton: "Monica. Oh wait. That was free."
Chelsea: "Avon"
Ted Kennedy: "Swimming lessons."

[Standing Wolf]

A Power Computing Macintosh clone that never worked right. My one consolation was that the company ended up going broke.

[spald]

In 1977 I bought a Betamax Stereo VCR for about $700. It was great until about the early eighties when the Betamax movies suddenly started to disappear. Still have it in the original box in the basement.

I will admit the Betamax format IS surperior to VHS (Har-de-har-har).

[BellStar]

Me too. I Love it (New Dell and XP). What's up with them?

[eeaaggllee11]

As a student I don't really have enough money to really regret anything I've ever purchased but I will say the george forman grill is one of the best.

[madrastex]

My swimming pool.I would not wish one even on a Democrat!

[capt. norm]

Im thinking of my Texas Instruments TI-99 4/A.
Wasn't all that bad though...I traded an 8-track player in for it.

[cayuga]

I spent $375 for a HP calculator in 1972.

I could only afford to spend $200 for a TI calculator back then. Now you can buy all it did for about $15.

[Mr. Buzzcut]

Hmmmm ... bought a '90 Pontiac Sunbird in 1993 ... nothing but HEARTACHES!

[yankeedame]

A few years back my husband and I scrapped up $200 to buy 4MB of RAM. Naturally it wasn't but a couple months later the price of these things went right through the floor, and they were just about giving these things away in boxes of ceral!