Hey Pandas, What Is Something You Bought And Regret Buying To This Day? (Closed)

All the food that went bad in the fridge and into the garbage over the years.

The book, Leave the World Behind.

I love to read, and while I've read so many things from really fantastic to, "ok, that was fine", this was definitely the worst book I've ever read. All the characters were unlikeable. There is no real plot. The characters do nonsensical things. The main driving force behind the conceit of the story is never explained. And the book just ends. Unresolved. I had ordered it upon a review from NPR(and I can never trust that reviewer again). It was painful to get through and when I was done, I angrily threw it in the recycling bin, something I've never done with a book. I usually pass finished books along to other people, donate them, or keep them if I want to reread them. Not this one! My feeling was that I didn't want too contribute to another unsuspecting person wasting their time reading it, and at least the paper could be recycled into something more useful.

Milk & Honey by Rupi Kaur. It is not poetry. It is a waste of paper. I bought it because it was a top poetry best seller and was in sale. I spent $7 on it I think nailing $7 to my wall and calling it art would have been a better use of my money. I legitimately got infuriated but it because the fact of the matter is 1. 5 words on a page that forms a sentence is not suddenly a poem because you didn't put a period at the end or capitalise the first word. 2. There are so many fantastic poets out there with amazing, subversive, provocative poems on similar topics that will never get noticed, that will never get widespread publishing because they don't cater their art to instagram yet hallmark card quality poetry like Milk and Honey-- poetry that easily fits on a mug, in a picture, gets published and is a bestseller amongst non-artists, non-poets who believe it is poetry because the writer said it is on social media. It literally only was published because of its popularity in social media. This is a literal poem in the *collection* "a daughter should/ not have to/ beg her father/ for a relationship" that's it, the rest of the page is fully blank... $7 for that. On sale, usually $12. $7 on a water bottle at Canada's Wonderland would have felt less like a rip off.

Tiger slugs to get rid of regular slugs in my garden. Didn't work, all escaped, can't recommend

You know those "too good to be true" websites....? Well, I bought what I thought was going to be a 9' Balsam Hill Christmas tree. 3 months later I received a childres reindeer hat from China. Worst than anything.... I KNEW better, but did it anyway.

Nice, expensive clothes I've bought purposefully a size too small so it'd be an "incentive" to get in shape (which looking back I had a great body, just not the "heroin skinny" fashion). Never worked and I got frustrated, depressed and poorer. Clothes were donated over the years, and I learned the lesson thankfully!

A wedding ring!

I "won" a photo shoot once and you got one very small free photo, and then if you wanted others you had to pay. The photographer was very persuasive and I ended up buying more photos than I really wanted too. I was a very shy teenager and couldn't say no. It would be different today.

A house with my ex. Never co buying property again.

Switching from a water bed (heated!) to a regular mattress. That thing is SO hard ( even though we got a soft one). Our necks are in a totally different position. It's hard to read in bed and watch TV and our hips are killing us in the morning (side sleepers). We thought getting a regular mattress would be good for our backs and be easier to get out (off) of it since we're older. This sucker was supposed to be "the best" but it's actually "the beast"! 😩

Company I work for (site development) has always used brand new Chevy and GMC pickups for their fleet vehicles, and not the cheaper ones either. In the last few years a majority of those vehicles have had to get major engine and transmission work done by the time they hit 50k miles and the supervisors new $75k Denali just blew out it's transmission.....at a whopping 40k. Mind you these vehicles are fully serviced and maintained so it's not from neglect, it's just from low-grade quality. The company recently ordered a couple of new Tundras (Toyota) to see how that pans out since they've had it with General Motors after using their products for a long time. Do yourselves a huge favor and stay the hell away from GM.

The house we live in. We were under pressure to get out of our apartment and needed more room for us and our three toddlers. I thought I'd done enough research and we looked at lots of houses, but we were very young and my husband was working so much he didn't help much with the house hunting. Our home inspection was a comedy, our mortgage was a tragedy, and we were buying at the height of a housing bubble in 2004. We've lived here now for almost 20 years, never having enough to fix it up or move on out. Lesson learned, but at such a cost.

I regret nothing. I save, I buy a lot from Habitat for Humanity, Salvation Army, Goodwill, the

Official Harry Potter merch. It's ridiculously overpriced, and directly benefits she-who-shall-not-be-named.

Amazon wealth building kit! Yeah BS!!!

There is no one thing for me. Probably a multitude of small purchases when young instead of saving. Buying comics, books, movies, tapes, booze, gambling, a guitar (that I never learned to play properly), computer games I've never played. Not saying I should have bought *none* of them, but as an example: I could've had just as good a time on 3 drinks not 6 and I'd have still had $15 left in my pocket. Too many years blowing through all my money instead of saving some of it.

The inflatable kayak I bought with my ex! It was painful to inflate, heavy to carry, hard to stir .. Once inflated, there were some really good moments. But did it keep us afloat? Not. (And yes, it is a metaphor of our relationship).

A subscription to boredpanda, only to find out it is free.

A Kickbike, for my cardio training. It was quite expensive. Fell off it twice and was injured badly enough to decide that I'm too old for this s**t. Sold it for a fraction of teh price, it had damage from the falls.

coton bed sheet. bought a couple of coton bed sheets, then discovered linen. it's much more expensive, but also much more comfortable. to a point that i even decided to buy only linen T-shirts now