I'm really glad Freepers don't buy those gadgets for $19.99 on the cable TV ads [ or at least they didn't come up ]

Got any other bad purchases in your past...??? Throw 'em in a thread...it may help someone [you can never tell].

First of all I had the coolest 76 Gremlin of them all. It wasn't the last one sold off the lot for a reason!! Flourescent green and silver with all the works...whip antenna, chrome wheels....it was hot and everyone saw me coming! ! HAhAhAh

Second of all....what's #10??

An emormous recrecational vehicle, rarely used, high in original cost plus upkeep & repair, then sold with few miles on it for a fraction of the investment!

I couldn't come up with a #10.....maybe the kitty litter scooper? What 'ya think?

A '61 Jag 3.8 Mk2. I later estimated I could have operated a DC-3 for less per passenger seat mile.

It was lovely to look at, though, through the oil smoke and erupting coolant.

Well since my reply was at the tail end of the last thread, I'll repost it here:

Bought a $1500 treadmill three years ago and I've only used it about five times. No matter how top of the line you go, they never run as good as they do at the health club.

Bought an air hockey table for $800 about five years ago. I currently have a blanket over it and my wife uses it as a folding table for laundry. The most expensive laundry folding table ever! And the cat sleeps on it too. Why don't I use it? Because it doesn't work like they do in the arcades. There are a bunch of dead spots and the table itself was a lot smaller than it looked in the store!

Another total waste of money for me was term life insurance. I've been paying $20 a month for 15 years now and I haven't collected a dime yet. [

1. An Engagement Ring,
2. Her Wedding Rings,
3. My wedding Ring
4. A Marriage licence
5. A Cosworth Vega

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Bose Wave Radio- $50.00 boom boxes have better sound!

This is going to sound a little mean, but I am really sorry I let my husband talk me into buying an Irish Red and White setter puppy.

She's 5 months old and a MANIAC. She is so hyper, still nipping and jumping all over. You can't even play with her. She won't retrieve. My yard looks like its been bombed with all the holes she's dug. We've been taking her to training classes. She's the worst behaved puppy there. The trainer has recommended a shock collar for her to try to get her under control.

She's a beautiful, over-friendly little thing, but I really, really wanted a nice calm Golden Retriever.

Mine works fine. Hook it up to the TV and it makes Gladiator and StarWars really come alive.

My sister had one just like the Gremlin that you described. It lost its life on April 10, 1979 in Wichita Falls, Texas, when a category F-5 tornado saw to it that the Gremlin looked much better with a telephone pole inserted through the block and chassis.

Not in any particular order:

Son of Rosemary by Ira Levin

A black 100% polyester shirt

Windows ME

I'm sure there are others but that's all I can think of at the moment.

Oh yeah, Dockers pants (Dockers is owned by Levi Strauss).

Here's something I thought I would regret, but didn't...OxiClean. the junk actually works!!!! I have an old judo gi that got yellow with age...it worked where bleach didn't. (lots of bleach...)

Also it worked great on some running shoes that would never come clean before. You can get it in regular stores now, even Costco. Although be sure you heed their warning about not using it on non-colorfast items...

This better get funny soon, or I'm going to complain.

wedding ring

When I went to the World Champion Diamondbacks Parade on Wednesday, some guy was selling Championship T-shirts for only $5.00...I got home and it said, "MADE IN PAKISTAN" on it! Next time I'll look at the label before I buy!

1. $45,000 in after market parts for quarter mile Mustang, that I wound up parting out for $8k.
2. First engagement ring-18 yrs old, dumb as all hell and thouht I was being a man...cost $1,350.
3. Twin Turbo 300 ZX Convertible- first car I financed...repoed after 16 months.Cost lost on car-$8,250
4. Nissan Pathfinder..bought outright 1 yr old. Went away on 2 month vacation. Insurance expired when I was away, car stolen...Total loss on car and stereo and items in car-$28,500
5. Brother's bachelor party- $4,000...WE DO NOT EVEN TALK NOW
6. 2nd Engagement ring when I was 25...$3,500
7. Pearl Jam tickets in Summer of 2000 with ex-girlfriend. Horrible company, horrible show.Loss: $200.00
8. Front row tickets to Rush in 1992 for myself and 3 other friends. I know none of them now, one passed out mid show, the other was caught taping it, and I had my shirts that I bought stolen from me. Got speeding ticket after show.Should have just gone with the people I knew better. Lost: $1,500.
9. Miami Dolphins season tickets 1989-3 of them Can not remember cost but were 7th row end zone. Losing season of crap, and I am not even a Dolphin fan.
10. Tickets again to an 80's concert tour in summer of 2000, was with now ex-girlfriend and 2 old roommates. Nobody showed up to the show. Food, hotel, tickets, loss on night 700.00.

Last one has to be actually one of the worst...Last year anything with my ex-girlfriend and any of the 7 trips we made. Hotel costs, credit card bills,concerts,rent paid for her..etc...THE WORST INVESTMENT EVER MADE!She is a purchase I wish I never made...

...For everything else there is Mastercard.