“Total Waste Of Money”: 30 Of The Worst Purchases Folks Online Ever Made

Printers are awful and stupid. I'm sorry, we can't print this BLACK AND WHITE DOCUMENT because we're out of cyan! 🙄

HP is the worst. My first printer was HP. It used the black/tri-color cartridge. To buy both cartridges cost more than the printer did. My current printer is an EPSON Ink Tank. I've had it for 4 years and it took 2 years before I had to refill the black ink. I STILL haven't had to refill any of the colors.

I love my HP printer and computers. You can get a printer that you don't have to use the subscription ink. You just have to pay attention when you buy them I was helping my cousin look for a new printer and saw that sone of them have that stupid subscription BS.

I bought a canon with refillable ink tanks. After using all the ink that came with the new printer bought new bottles to fill the tanks. But after filling the tanks the printer would not print because the waste ink container was full and you can't really empty it without complete disassembly. Luckily i managed to reset the printer and it prints now but someday the waste ink will overflow and it completely removes the benefit of being able to have refillable tanks. So make sure you can empty the waste ink if you buy one...

I bought a printer from HP and used instant ink. Then the I had to request a new cartridge because mine ran out and a new one didn't automatically come. I did the math and found out that I actually spent more money on instant ink than if I just bought it at the store. I called to cancel. They told me the ink I had, that I had paid for, wouldn't work if I cancelled. It's not your ink anymore, HP. You don't get to decide what to do with it. I've bought many HP printers in the past. Never again. I'm going to go to that Epson system where you buy a bottle of ink instead.

Not too late to still keep using them as an inspiration for your weight loss journey!

I've donated all of my pre-pandemic pants cuz who am i kidding

Just as bad are garments that don't fit you anymore because you gained weight.

You can always upcycle.

There are several t-shirts stored away in my closet that I "will wear when I lose enough weight".

that's why I stopped buying cat toys. Who needs them when the plastic ring on the milk carton will do?

So it *was* a good purchase. How else could the cat get a perfectly-sized box to sleep in?

just throw out the box!

The more expensive the cat toy, the less likely cats are to actually use it.

It's always the way. My house is full of boxes. They rejected my memory foam mattress, the plushy cushions and pillows. They don't care.

So he was really into bowling but never went bowling to know the alley was closing? Stupid.

Build your own mini bowling alley in the garden. Like crazy golf but with bowling balls ☺️

That's actually great. If the place was packed and the nearest one is three hours away, seems like an opportunity to open/invest in a new bowling alley.

I glued a bunch of marbles to a bowling ball and made a really cool garden ball.

That's just sad

last three years of my study I waited till after the two first lessons of each subject with buying (used) books. Saved me truckloads of money

I took a class where the professor made it mandatory to buy four of his books, even though only two were really related to the topic of the class.

My husband is a part-time professor at the university and his book is electronic with videos and other cool stuff, with chapters that are unlocked as the course process (each week). He gets royalties out of it but he put the price at $30 CAD and he uses everything in there. Each year, he changes the current events and stories the students need to work on.

I've never understood this b******t - sure, in Saffa we had to buy our notebooks, but never a text book.

I only buy the books I know I'll use later, otherwise I'm renting my textbooks

It looks adorable! Isn't there an orphanage or something you can donate them to?

heheh, I bought a knitted cthulu style balaclava, with tentacles and everything. Wore it once and never again. Wind went right through it. It was as bad as wearing nothing at all.

Have a party! Promise each guest gets a present! Give them a hat and tell them they have to wear it if they want to stay. If you have deeper pockets and are brave, go to a bar with a couple friends and tell people they get a free beer if they don a dino cap. FWIW, I did this with a collection of neckties.

I would throw a party and make everyone wear one

This one's not so bad. Kind of cute.

Perfect accompaniment to Hershey's Chocolate

Well um... first of all wtf approved that flavour name?! Is Ruffles now offering a new potato chip experience?! "Try our new Action Packed Chips, flavour that really packs a 'punch' (or 2)." Not an expert, but I think 'bacon cheeseburger' might be artificially flavoured. 🤷‍♀️

That's the nasty kind of stuff I'd buy, try, and regret. I'm first in line with Coke's weird quarterly flavors. Weird chips? on board. Sometimes it is a mistake.