Ever made any wasteful purchases that now make you cringe!

lola34

hollydays wrote: »

Last week OH bought one of those hats with the fur flaps that are fashionable at the moment.I said to him "are you going to wear that to take the dog for a walk?" he replied "no,I'm not wearing it outside".hm. That means hes bought it so he can look at himself in the mirror in it but won't actually wear it.sighs and rolls eyes..

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: thats a great one, sadly mine was probably my uggs, bought a pair a year ago and then in Nov went back to Florida and bought the grey cardi uggs, the girls in the shop said beacuse they were cardis somtimes if the are too small your toes can look like they are hanging over the end so I got a bigger size, hence I feel like I walk around shuffling my feet and end up with sore shins!!!!!!! big mistake - defo impulse buy:o

Hermia

It isn't just one purchase that makes me cringe, it's all the womens magazines I have bought over the years. I expect I have spent thousands if you go back to when I was a teen. They are such a waste of money as I read them so quickly. I also cringe when I realise how vacuous the articles are and what a stereotypical image of femininity they portray. I gave up womens/gossip mags this year. I did think about sitting down and trying to work out what I would spend on them in a year, but I decided it was just too scary!

MsRed1

Step exercise machine thing. Used it once:rotfl::rotfl: now giving to sister.:j:j

MarzipanFish

I bought an epilator for about £40 which i've used properly about 3 times in 5 years. I keep telling myself i'll use it before i go on holiday/when it's sunny but i'm too much of a wuss to put up with the pain. My boyfriend tried to use it on me last year and did about half a leg. Since then he's only used it to threaten me with if i'm on the internet when i'm meant to be doing uni work. The horrible grindy noise soon sends me back to my desk so at least it good for something

I also have some lovely leather boots but they're too high to wear for me unless it's a to a meal out that's not far away. And some more shoes that i bought the smaller size because the bigger size fell off too easily but they squash my toes (silly feet )

amy_lou_4

LilyAllen wrote: »

Shoes that look amazing but are strictly for sitting down in.

I have size 2 and a half feet and am always impulse buying shoes just because they fit, and then upon wearing them, I discover they are not as comfy to actually walk somewhere in as they were when I tried them on for 5 minutes!

Jacjacjac

I bought a £700 bike that I hardly ever ride because I am a bit chicken to go out on the road on it. I bought it to reduce my transport costs and subsequently have had to pay for both the bike and the bus...

I also have a Marc Jacobs skirt that I bought heavily reduced in Australia, it was a tiny bit tight on me and I was going to slim into it, but I have in fact gone the other way and it goes no where near me now, so that was about £150 or so down the drain... It is pretty though and I love to look at it...

jenniewb

Mainly for me it has to be clothes. I don't/can't shop at normal high street prices so only shop in the sale. I've gotten better (the rule is if I cannot wear it tomorrow it will not be bought, in past years I've bought for seasons ahead). But the volume of clothes I have to flog on ebay, some that have never been worn, most just worn once, its shocking!

Other things are....

An epilator, used a handful of times, too many red bumps, too much blood, I am lucky it has a combined electric razor or it'd be useless!

A battery operated mani/pedicure kit. (Now who has not got one of these?!) I just never find the time/the battery dies/its too slow/I just can't be bothered!!

Eye cream.

After sun. I once got burnt when I was 15, proper big blisters behind my knees! A bit of sun stroke too. I was too disabled by it to get to a shop for any aftersun (and it was a sunday- back when shops didn't actually open on a sunday). My dad was being a b***** and refused to help me, (though did sign a note to get me off school the following 3 days) my little sister on my advice, went out and got me plain yoghurt (the only shop that was open was a 7-11 newsagent type store, they had no sun screen/after sun. My sister (all of 11 years) bought me back some plain yogurt. But it was a muller corner.....For that reason I have bottles of unused after sun.

MANY bottles of posh shampoo and conditioner. Many were gifts, others were cheap ebay deals but OMG I have a scary amount. Probably enough for a few years!! (And yes I do notice the difference when I use it rather then high street stuff).

Pain killers, vitamins and other random OTC pills. I have so many as I keep getting problems when I am out and get a 16p box of pills....they all mount up and now I have a massive box full of them!

I probably have many more but have managed to trick myself into forgetting about them- otherwise I'd have never allowed myself to shop again!!