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A 3DO for £399 when it was new. To be honest it did give years of entertainment for me and my mates but still that was a lot of money back then!
Wasting ones money
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Usual sort of stuff:
Beer and nights out. After a few jars, one's conception of the value of money goes right out of the window.
Guitars. It's purely about the aesthetics + posing as my favourite guitar in terms of functionality is Japanese and cheap.
Women. I know it's 2009 but I always feel like I'm expected to pay a disproportionate share of 'stuff'. My last girlfriend earned more than me as well.
Convenience food and coffee. Honestly, why do we bother?
Computer bits. Thank you, OcUK.
Money's there to be spent however, so shouldn't dwell on it.
Beer and nights out. After a few jars, one's conception of the value of money goes right out of the window.
Guitars. It's purely about the aesthetics + posing as my favourite guitar in terms of functionality is Japanese and cheap.
Women. I know it's 2009 but I always feel like I'm expected to pay a disproportionate share of 'stuff'. My last girlfriend earned more than me as well.
Convenience food and coffee. Honestly, why do we bother?
Computer bits. Thank you, OcUK.
Money's there to be spent however, so shouldn't dwell on it.
10th anniversary Sony MD £350
4 years of my life and £600+ including subs and ingame items on World of warcraft
Age of conan (complete crap)
Warhammer (more crap)
Takeaways almost every day for a year
Marijuana every week (which i still do)
Gaming mags (when they were still usefull)
pioneer single din bluetooth radio (£300) you can get similar now for about £80
Im a very spirited driver so i burn through fuel in my mr2...
Anything else i spent silly money on i still use.. so
Im young i have my mid life crisis to live through yet so im sure ill be buying some more silly things in the future!
4 years of my life and £600+ including subs and ingame items on World of warcraft
Age of conan (complete crap)
Warhammer (more crap)
Takeaways almost every day for a year
Marijuana every week (which i still do)
Gaming mags (when they were still usefull)
pioneer single din bluetooth radio (£300) you can get similar now for about £80
Im a very spirited driver so i burn through fuel in my mr2...
Anything else i spent silly money on i still use.. so
Im young i have my mid life crisis to live through yet so im sure ill be buying some more silly things in the future!
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Most of the time I'm pretty controlled (not regret too many purchases...)
But the one I was a little annoyed about in retrospect was buying a £450 Sony widescreen TV CRT in 2002. Gorgeous picture but it was a CRT so it was a bit dead in the water technologically.
Other things - spent £100 on pairs of shoes only to wear them a couple of times and decide I didn't like them.
But the one I was a little annoyed about in retrospect was buying a £450 Sony widescreen TV CRT in 2002. Gorgeous picture but it was a CRT so it was a bit dead in the water technologically.
Other things - spent £100 on pairs of shoes only to wear them a couple of times and decide I didn't like them.
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An Anderson Shelter (WWII Back garden air raid shelter)
A Glaive (The polearm not the stupid Dungeon Siege II interpretation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaive)
Why I bought these I don't know, The Anderson is still in pieces behind my shed and I thought the Glaive would look good in the hall way (It might be useful if we were burgled but there isn't enough room in the hall way to swing a cat let alone an 8 foot polearm)
A Glaive (The polearm not the stupid Dungeon Siege II interpretation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaive)
Why I bought these I don't know, The Anderson is still in pieces behind my shed and I thought the Glaive would look good in the hall way (It might be useful if we were burgled but there isn't enough room in the hall way to swing a cat let alone an 8 foot polearm)
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I generally eat out too much instead of at home because I hate shopping/cooking/washing up.
I need to sort that out.
Also buying console games for 50 quid. I should simply wait a few months.
God Yes, Sony MP3 players and Sonicstange software. Beutiful hardware at the time, nicer than an ipod but the software was horrible, atleast mine played mp3s, older ones only played that crappy Sony format.
I need to sort that out.
Also buying console games for 50 quid. I should simply wait a few months.
God Yes, Sony MP3 players and Sonicstange software. Beutiful hardware at the time, nicer than an ipod but the software was horrible, atleast mine played mp3s, older ones only played that crappy Sony format.
Just paid £5k in a lump sum to pay a £10k loan off that I got to pay off credit cards...
...I could not tell you 1 thing I have that I bought on them cards!
I am now debt free and feel great, however just thinking about the lump sum I had and what it could have bought me makes me
!!
...I could not tell you 1 thing I have that I bought on them cards!
I am now debt free and feel great, however just thinking about the lump sum I had and what it could have bought me makes me
!!
I imported one of them for about £600...... I can still remember trying to justify it to myself, though Road Rash was pretty good...
Not too sure really, over the last few years I've not really bought anything worth regretting (nothing expensive) and before then I was a kid, so looking back everything looks like a waste of money but my kid self at the time would have absolutely loved the newest toy etc. so hardly a waste (and I didn't buy them)
If anything it's probably beer, but then again I hardly spend any money on it and enjoy it when I do. Maybe I'm too careful with my cash!
If anything it's probably beer, but then again I hardly spend any money on it and enjoy it when I do. Maybe I'm too careful with my cash!
I just paid £90 for limited edition Twilight saga books
They have a special red edge to the pages. They are quite expensive but they are A) paperback and B) about some girl falling in love with a wrong'un.
Another pure waste of money is my OO gauge railway. Its cost me a couple of grand so far and is no where near complete.
They have a special red edge to the pages. They are quite expensive but they are A) paperback and B) about some girl falling in love with a wrong'un.
Another pure waste of money is my OO gauge railway. Its cost me a couple of grand so far and is no where near complete.
i saved up for two and a half years, and then took most of this year off to "relax". i went travelling for four months, which most people can do on a budget.
considering how much i have to show from my total career earnings (a couple of suits, a watch and some furniture) i'd say i've wasted a great deal of money.
DVDs, beer, cabs, food, etc.
i regret all of it
considering how much i have to show from my total career earnings (a couple of suits, a watch and some furniture) i'd say i've wasted a great deal of money.
DVDs, beer, cabs, food, etc.
i regret all of it
I just paid £90 for limited edition Twilight saga books
Get out.
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It was unconstructed, mint condition, never been used. I thought 'Wow! just what I always wanted it's ace', how wrong I was
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I bought one of those green lasers, it doesn't really have any real use apart from bein an expensive toy!