What crap do you buy that you know is probably useless?
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Ouch! I remember my first 2 DVDs back in 2004. They cost me £20 and £19 respectively, even though 2004 wasn't considered that 'new' for a DVD. 2001-yes but 2004-no. They both sold for a quid on eBay a few years later
Thankfully I didn't go down the HD-DVD route. My first high definition purchase wasn't until 2010, so that format war was over and all high definition films were on blu-ray by then. Now in 2018, blu-rays are still around.
Ouch! I remember my first 2 DVDs back in 2004. They cost me £20 and £19 respectively, even though 2004 wasn't considered that 'new' for a DVD. 2001-yes but 2004-no. They both sold for a quid on eBay a few years later
Thankfully I didn't go down the HD-DVD route. My first high definition purchase wasn't until 2010, so that format war was over and all high definition films were on blu-ray by then. Now in 2018, blu-rays are still around.
I sometimes look at the space under our lift-up bed, it's depressing. Well over a thousand DVDs, often up to £17 a pop, worth maybe 50p now
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Ouch! I remember my first 2 DVDs back in 2004. They cost me £20 and £19 respectively, even though 2004 wasn't considered that 'new' for a DVD. 2001-yes but 2004-no. They both sold for a quid on eBay a few years later
Thankfully I didn't go down the HD-DVD route. My first high definition purchase wasn't until 2010, so that format war was over and all high definition films were on blu-ray by then. Now in 2018, blu-rays are still around.
I used to buy DVDs like once a week, I thought nothing of it at £15-£20 a pop when I first started working, in terms of percentage of an earning wage I justified it being my only vice, of course I was lying to myself because I just move on to other stuff but of all the physical things that I've bought, they are up there with the most useless and now worth the least. The guitars and pedals I would be in profit if I sell it tomorrow, the cameras and stuff started off as a hobby but now earns me money. I don't game much anymore, 2 to 3 AAA video games a year is hardly extravagant and never been one of a drinker or smoker or do drugs. So it could be worse.
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I schlep about the Cash Convertor shops and end up buying stuff because the staff look so
fed up. However it's not useless stuff, I will use it, but stuff I could have easily lived without.
I bought a Fender Stratocaster copy and a cheap resonator guitar and they are of a fair
quality.
A previous poster mentions spending 24 grand on a new car when sense would dictate spending 2 grand on an old car
would have sufficed, this madness indicates a poor grasp of the raison d'etre of car buying, one buys a swanky
shiny new car because of the myriad pleasures of driving a new car.
fed up. However it's not useless stuff, I will use it, but stuff I could have easily lived without.
I bought a Fender Stratocaster copy and a cheap resonator guitar and they are of a fair
quality.
A previous poster mentions spending 24 grand on a new car when sense would dictate spending 2 grand on an old car
would have sufficed, this madness indicates a poor grasp of the raison d'etre of car buying, one buys a swanky
shiny new car because of the myriad pleasures of driving a new car.