Furryanimal
Y gath o Gymru
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- Wales
What is the most useless thing you have ever owned?
It was really useless...
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A clock I have just given up on and thrown away. It was bought as a bedside clock, but....the hands didn't glow in the dark...the tick was so loud, it kept me awake....and to top it all, it didn't actually tell the time. I kept adjusting it but it still kept losing.
fuzzybuddy
SF VIP
- Location
- The Sticks, Northeast PA.
I bought a Yugo. In case you don't remember what a Yugo is. It was a compact hatchback, built by that giant of automobile technology and craftsmanship, Yugoslavia. It spent more time in the shop than it did in my driveway. That's not an exaggeration. 4 days out of 7, it was in the shop. They spent more money fixing the damn thing than I did buying it. There is an intersection near me where 3 streets cross. I'd pull up at the light, and my Yugo would die. It did this multiple times. I can't tell you how nice folks are when your blocking every lane of traffic. One of the features of the Yugo was the rear window defroster. It served as a nice handwarmer, when you were pushing it to the curb.
Too bad it was so unreliable, because it was such a cute little car.
jujube
SF VIP
An American Motors Matador station wagon. We had it for 33 months and had (I'm NOT exaggerating) over a hundred service orders on it. If there had been a Lemon Law in effect back then, we probably would have had it for about three months.
We had to go into arbitration over it and won.
We had to go into arbitration over it and won.
Aunt Bea
SF VIP
- Location
- Near Mount Pilot
A life insurance policy.
mlh
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A contraption I bought from one of those "As Seen On TV" ads that was supposed to easily peel hard boiled eggs. It involved pressing down on the thing, and even my neighbor who's very strong couldn't make it work. Also, I bought these "Egg Pods", you broke an egg into the pod, closed it and boiled for a "perfect" hard boiled egg. Except the egg was flat on one end and had an odd sort of rubbery taste. Now when those ads come on TV, I change the channel.
Gaer
"Angel whisperer"
- Location
- New Mexico U.S.A.
hahahaa! a Pacer!
i was just about to comment on the same gadget. i'm a bit of a yard sale and thrift store junky, but also very frugal (cheap). also have a healthy sense of skepticism. i can't say i've seen an infomercial for any of those things that convinced me i had to buy it. i saw a set, still sealed in original plastic, at yard sale for a quarter. i first knew they couldn't possibly work when even a L egg only fill the device about 3/4 full. they did not work "asotv" and were a bear to clean up. once clean... back into container and off as donation to good will.
CinnamonSugar
A Quiet American
One of those little widgets to do tatting... I learned knitting, crocheting, embroidery, counted cross stitch and how to sew but I could never get the hang of tatting.... Always ended up snarled...
I'm just an eternal optimist lol. Peeling hard boiled eggs is my least favorite task in the world...my husband thought it was hilarious, he was quoting
PT Barnum, "There's a sucker born every minute."
I got the great idea that I wanted a push lawnmower many years back... thought it would be just the thing for greater exercise! We already had our regular gas powered mower, but no! .. I wanted to do things my way ...lol...
Hubby bought it for me, and I think I got about 10 laps across the front yard before I realized that it really was a stupid idea. I may have gotten it out of the shed a few times after that, but for the most part, it lived in silence in that shed.
Hubby bought it for me, and I think I got about 10 laps across the front yard before I realized that it really was a stupid idea. I may have gotten it out of the shed a few times after that, but for the most part, it lived in silence in that shed.
CarolfromTX
Senior Member
- Location
- Central Texas
I can't think of anything I bought in particular, but Dave never saw a piece of glassware he didn't love. He bought a bunch on a business trip to Czechoslovakia, and when I was decluttering a year ago, I got rid of about half of it. It still had the stickers on it. Pretty, but useless.
Lewkat
Senior Member
- Location
- New Jersey, USA
I saw a gadget on tv hyped to make recycling newspapers a snap. What a joke and waste of money. But, then again I am a master at wasting money. I also agree with mlh, a tv. My mother had tvs in every room in our house, 12 rooms, and it drove me nuts. She even had one on the landing of our stairway and one in the hallway upstairs. Very seldom used, but she could not pass a sale up on lots of appliances. Normally, she was very frugal, but this was crazy. My son has 3 tvs and we only watch a movie once in awhile.
i bet kids think a "push mower" is something other than a riding mower/tractor. now if you had a totally flat, TINY yard, the temp wasn't about 70 and humidity was low, and grass wasn't high. oh, and the blades are sharpened every time and oiled well. wanted to call it a rotary mower but it's a "reel" mower.
officerripley
Well-known Member
- Location
- Porlock, Calif
The worst: a '64 corvair I owned, went through a quart of oil a week.
Now: a sleep number bed.
Now: a sleep number bed.
Grandfather had one and it was made out of cast iron (all the parts).
Must have weighed 150 lbs. I could never get it going for more than a foot or two.
Talk about a calorie burner!
my college room-mate had one just like that! it had been her brothers. it was a 3 speed stick. i remember that you had to be at a TOTAL stop in order to get it into gear or... that terrible GRINDING! was this Ralph Nader's "unsafe at any speed" car or was that the Pinto?
officerripley
Well-known Member
- Location
- Porlock, Calif
I think the Corvair was Nader's unsafe car. And I just noticed I made a mistake; mine was actually a '61.
HazyDavey
Western Exposure
- Location
- Northern California
I bought some used weights from a friend of mine at work. The only exercise I ever got from them was when I first brought them home, and when I got rid of them .. 
