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That’s pretty stupid, but I’m guessing the crackhead is out more money. 😂
Are you sure they didn’t have someone bid you up?
It's always possible, who knows? This was back in the late 90's.
This wasn't stupid my friend. You didn't buy a guitar. You donated 8k to charity. Good on you. Best you made a difference and you'll probably never even know the impact you had.
Thanks for the kind words :) It did go to The Biletnikoff Foundation which is a worthy cause. That being said, I made my peace with this a long time ago. It happened in the late 90's and the world was a different place back then.
That's not really how taxes work, unless you were in the 75% tax bracket...
Your biggest mistake was not storing it in its perfect condition. In enough time you could've gotten your money back but you ruined half the value.
There is no scenario where a guitar like he is describing will be worth $8k or better.
Hang on, let me amend that, perhaps when we enter a phase of the planet where inflation has taken over and we no longer have trees to make things like guitars out of.
The only time a signature boosts the value of a guitar is if there's an actual connection to them other than the signature. We're talking about something that was owned and associated with the artist. Even things like it not being the right brand, make and model of instrument can make it worth less than typical resale value.
And the fact that there's no COA means it is, in effect, worth only what the instrument is valued at in used condition.
The only bump conceivably that will come from the signatures will be when the members of Metallica pass way. And even then it will be minor at best.
lol especially since it wasn’t a signature model or one from a live show played by Kirk or James..
My Go-Pro camera 10 years ago. Turns out, I don't live the exciting life I thought I did.
I bought a Hero 11 Black and maybe used it 4 times. It's currently in the closet and has been for over a year.
Same and also a drone. Drones were such a fad. I bet 90% of people found themselves in a single situtation where they thought "Damn, I wish I had a drone here" bought one and never did again.
It is great for recording your travels. You don't always need it for extreme sports.
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Pro tip you can return games within 2 weeks/less than 2 hours played if you change your mind. Have done this a couple times
I keep them. Multiversus just came out and is so terrible, I keep mentally threatening them “I don’t need this b.s, I have a stream library FULL of GOOD games I already paid for and haven’t played. I can walk any time”
I’ve been playing the same 4 steam games for 10 years, but they don’t need to know that.
I did this when Rocksmith went on sale but I couldn’t get it started on my computer. I got refunded but then later I found the solution on Reddit and had to buy it at full price. Totally worth the money tho.
I currently have 130 untouched games on Steam. 120 beaten games. I am buying less games but I know the summer sale starts next week.
13 year old me would me incredibly jealous of the mass collection of games I've accumulated. Mid 30s me is jealous of 13 year old me that had all the time to play the heck out of the same 4-5 games on my N64.
Same. Recently I decided I'm going to spend any free time I have on Saturdays working through games in my library. Starting with The Witcher 3, and it has been a blast.
Starting with a 100+ hour game is maybe not the best way to work through the list. But I can practically guarantee it’s the best one on the list.
I have the same issue. lol
I buy (kinda) expensive ingredients sometimes, and I forget I have them, and they go bad. Multiple times a month probably.
Moment of silence for the vegetables we've lost this week.
Lost but not forgotten.
EDIT: A tip I've learned--put your veg on the door of your fridge, and the condiments/jars in the drawer. The theory is that if you want condiments/dressings, you're going in the fridge looking for them, and they last longer. Veg is a rotating cast of characters in your fridge, and you forget who's in there--if you put them in the door, you're gonna see them more often and remember "hey, I gotta use that asparagus," or "oh, I bought that broccoli for that meal, let's make that!"
I also prep veg when I bring it home so when it comes time to use it I don't have the extra hurdle of "uuugggghhh I have to do SO MUCH to cook; I'm just gonna eat this easy to grab thing and leave this veg to die."
An engagement ring.
Oof. Hopefully you're doing well now
Twist: OP was dating them for 3 days before they popped the question.
Twist: She didn't know who OP was and why he was in her house at 4am
Pro tip: When someone is nice enough to make you breakfast in bed, the correct response is "Thank you" not "Who are you?" or "How did you get in my house?"
The De Beers diamond engagement ring was one of the most successful marketing campaigns ever! Even though diamond engagement rings had been done before with royalty it didn't really take off until De Beers made it the norm for everyone. I remember my ex saying the worth should equal 3-4months of your salary.. lol no fucking way.
100%, for the high school sweetheart who then cheated on me.
Even if you marry her and have a wonderful life, this is a good answer.
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Was gonna say drugs but at least those were fun lol. Nicotine addiction is such a waste
it do be like that..
My answer too
Same. The best decision I ever made was quitting.
It wasn't easy for a long time. But for a few years now, it's been easy.
I love being an ex smoker every single day.
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I go in people houses a lot and among the Asian community is this 6-8k massage chair.
I swear everytime I go in one of these houses it’s used to rack and store clothes
A friend of mine used to have a business selling and installing fitness equipment primarily home gyms. Whenever we assemble the home gym as a joke we would explain to them where they could hang their laundry on it.
We delivered an elliptical to a guy's house one day and before we left the office he printed up a form. When we got there the man's wife threw a fit and wouldn't allow us to put it in the house we had to put it out side on the porch. So we unboxed it and assembled it on the porch and plugged it in. When he had her sign for the receipt he pulled out that other piece of paper which was stating that the machine was not warranted to be used outside and using it outside would void the warranty both manufacturers and sellers. The purchaser called 2 weeks later saying it shorted out. It was a $2,700 elliptical. He bought another one and had it delivered and installed on the porch. When he called 6 months later to have a home gym installed in his garage he paid us to haul the elliptical away.
An auto body shop near me had a $6k massage chair in the waiting area. The same people had an auto glass business next door. I was getting my windshield replaced; the glass-shop lady said it would be about an hour and I was welcome to have a seat in the glass-shop waiting area. I politely declined and said I would be in the massage chair next door, could she just call me when it's done? 😎
Like the little punchy kind?
Maybe it was a hitachi vibrating massager and their SO "lost" it.
League of Legends RP to buy champions and skins.
I saw that they just released a $500 skin...
Does the skin win the game for me instantly? Jfc
I paid upfront for a 4 year gym contract. Price was mind blowing. I went once in 4 years, my own fault.
That's how they getcha with gym memberships lol. I was once entertaining the idea of going to the gym to my Dad. I think the price was around $40 a month, and my Dad did quick napkin math and told me it was roughly $1.3 a day which really shocked me at the time, because I never thought he'd be the type of person to do math over things like that. My Dad then proceeded to tell me that if I signed up for the gym membership he'd force me to go everyday to get his money's worth as he was going to be the one that paid for my membership. I ultimately decided to not get a gym membership and spend my money on video games instead, which is something I still do to this day! This conversation happened in 2022 while in a drive through at Starbucks where my Dad bought me my favorite drink, a Venti Mocha Cookie Crumble Frappuccino! It was delicious! LOL
I would say counter strike skins back in the day but I actually did the math and came out ahead. I unboxed a sapphire Doppler m9 bayonet and sold it for like $2300. I have since sold all my skins and haven’t played in a while though.
The obvious answer for me is nicotine pouches now. I am 30 and have played baseball all my life, even play now. When I was 12 my coach introduced me to dip and I dipped from 12 to around 28 years old. Then I switched to nicotine pouches because it’s healthier. The problem is that I spend a ton of money because I use 4 nicotine pouches at once on my bottom lip to mimic the feeling of dip. Loved that coach but hate him for introducing me to dip at such a young age. Such a waste of money!
That coach needed his arse kicked. What a nightmare.
Dear lord, 4 at once? One puts me on my ass, but I never did try dip. Hopefully you can wean down over time.
I got given a voucher for a iwantoneofthose.com about 15 years ago, and could find nothing I wanted, so I now “own” a square kilometre of the moon.
I think this is my favourite.
A pair of Christian Louboutin stilletos that I absolutely could not afford and paid for with my whole credit card limit. I wore them twice. They are INDESCRIBABLY uncomfortable, the soles are paper thin, and the red scrapes off pretty much immediately if you wear them outside. I was young and clearly very stupid.
I bought a pair of nude stilettos for my wedding and tried breaking them in for 2 weeks. I almost cried during the ceremony. Took them off for dinner and never put them on again. In fact, I physically couldn’t put them on again because my feet were rejecting them.
Then I bought a second pair because they were yellow and had a lower heel, which I thought would be more comfortable. I was wrong. I walked half a block in them and took them off before I even reached wherever I was going.
So I bought a third pair with a wide heel. I’m dumb. But these are great! I’ve worn them 3 times and they are in desperate need of getting the red sole reapplied.
So… fool me once, shame on you, but fool me a second and third time and I have no words to defend myself.
I was 11 and my dad gave me 50 bucks to spend at the mall. So, I wandered into a gift shop and spent it all on an electronic vibrating oinking pink pig. I never played with it after I brought it home.
Tried to return it, only to be offered store credit.
You taught your father a valuable lesson in financial responsibility.
Haha Thats a great way to put it.
Did it alternate between walking a few steps and then vibrating and oinking? I had something like that when i was little lol
That’s hilarious, mine is similar! a stuffed duck that quacked out “Peter cottontail” when you pressed on its stomach. I think it was only $25-$30 and I got a solid couple days of enjoyment out of it but yeah, I feel your pain. Kids are so bad with money.
I'm flabberghasted this cost $50
Crack cocaine
Finally, someone telling the truth.
Crack ain't that expensive. It only costs everything!
True dat.
The amount in dollars of heroin and coke I shot into my arm is ridiculous.
Door dashed from next door
Next level laziness lol
In my defense inwas traveling correctly work and didn't realize it until the next morning. How embarrassing lol
When I was in the USAF, living in the dorms, there were many people who would order pizza/sub delivery from the shop across the street. This was well before door dash, Uber, etc…
I always just walked over and ate there because I didn’t want that shit all over my room.
I got my degree in audio engineering right before everyone stopped buying CDs and the music industry completely changed... So that.
My friend holds a legitimate degree in… vlogging.
I question the use of "legitimate" in that description.
Well that sucks. I got my audio engineering degree, and most of the recording studios in bollywood(mumbai), even some of the big ones got shut down. Then I started my own home studio...I got a fair amount of projects, but then tech got better...laptops became cheaper...people stopped going to recording studios, at least the small time artists, the kind I got my business from...and they started recording on their own computers and laptops at home.
A life-size Danny Devito cardboard cutout. I use him as a seasonal decoration so right now he's wearing a flower crown. In the winter he become a Christmas tree.
I don’t think you read the question right
That’s money well spent if you ask me
They said dumbest thing.. Not best investment
Oh, I think you're confused. This thread is for dumb things people have spent money on, not the *greatest* things people have spent money on.
My old boss had cardboard cutouts of Barack and Michelle Obama that he set out for parties. Got a funny reaction from the Brazilian customers that were in town.
So a dwarf tree?
A factory sealed copy of the Bibleman PC game
Money well spend.
Honestly, fast food. I always crave a specific thing and buy it and then it’s just ok. Why did I spend $20 on a shitty burger and fries? I could have just taken my lazy ass home and made better for cheaper.
Fast food (in the UK at least) isn't fast, or cheap, or even tasty anymore.
The appeal of McDonalds was that i could get a big mac, fries and a drink handed to me in seconds and costing me £3.99.
Now it costs about 10 quid, and I have to sit and wait for 25 minutes.
My wedding. We are now divorced so I feel I could have used that money for something more worthwhile. Lesson learned.
Not sure if you had an expensive wedding, but I’ve always recommended against expensive weddings (I suppose unless you’re truly wealthy) beside why spend all that money for a one time event. That money could be better used for investment, building a life together, etc.
I did everything at that time to not make it expensive. I used to joke that my wife had champagne taste on a beer budget. She was always spending money we really didn't have. So I had to be the reasonable one and "cut" certain things my fairy tale princess of a future wife wanted. That should have been a red flag right there. I did have to petition to not cut the meal. She wanted a 5pm wedding but only wanted to serve appetizers. I wasn't going to have friends/family come and have to eat before hand, especially based on the time of day she wanted the wedding in the first place.
Korean weddings are pretty good since everyone gives cash gifts. I basically broke even on my wedding and paid for the honeymoon out of pocket.
Panera
One time my coworker goes "I just spent $17 on lunch and I'm still hungry."
i so felt that!! i remember a few friends and i went to a super fancy restaurant in nyc but we were all so hungry after paying the bill we went to mcdonalds
Fancy food is for rich people.
Rich people are old.
Old people eat very little.
In Michigan we have Zingermans. Great sandwiches that cost $26.
Hell no it's not worth that much.
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When I just turned 21, I went to a casino in Vegas where I played War, the card game, for $25 a hand. It was like being in the casino from National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation.
What constitutes "a hand" of War? Like... one flip?
Yup! You get a face up card, dealer gets a face up card, high card wins. If it's a tie, you put out another bet and the dealer flips 2 more cards, high card wins. It requires no skill and is so fast, it's a great way to lose money quickly and without enjoyment.
A soup tureen. I thought a married lady who throws dinner parties and fancy brunches (which I was at the time — widowed recluse now) just HAD to have one. I searched for two years to find one that blended with my taste and looked good with my China but not so good that it was all matchy-matchy. Finally found the perfect one, bought it (expensive!) and put it in a cabinet. And NEVER used it, not even once. Turns out I’m too control freaky to serve from a tureen — have to plate the soup so I can get the swirl of sour cream or truffle oil or scattering of minced chives just right.
Kept tureen for a few years then took it to my cousin’s annual yard sale. It didn’t sell.
Actually my first cat.
I saw her and fell in love. Knew she had never seen a vet, was way too small and ill.
Regret came after I brought her to the vet.
I was dumb a f ... that was expensive. (Cat is healthy now - and I am broke)
I do not at all regret adopting our dogs, but after dropping $1k at the vet last week for blood work, urine analysis, vaccines and six months worth of meds, I feel this.
I lost a kitty to stage 4 kidney disease, didn't even know she was sick until she started having seizures. After that, our new kitties were immediately enrolled in an all inclusive vet program, where we pay monthly and pretty much everything is covered (we pay for some meds but they're much cheaper than elsewhere.) I just feel so much relief knowing that we never have to worry about being able to afford care, and they do all the preventative work.
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A hungry dude paying to have a burger and fries waved around in front of his face and then he goes home.
To an empty kitchen. For the single folks that indulge in strippers.
Yep. Dropped 800 bucks on strippers and blow one night. Montreal strippers did NOT live up to the hype. Sundowner in Niagara falls is the best so far.
When QVC was new I came home a bit tipsy & ordered a bunch of caboodles.
Once, just ONCE, I purchased in-game cash with real cash in a videogame.
I felt dirty afterwards. Never again.
I once spent £60 on a mobile phone game. It wasn't all in one go but it did happen over a very short period of time. I was going through a lot of grief, the game was very addictive and I was using it as a distraction from my grief. Once I realised what I was doing, I deleted the game and never played it again.
I bought in-game cash too with my teenage payments (I worked back then at a cyber cafe). It was for a dating game. I don't regret it, tho.
Never loan money to friends.... you'll never see it again
You are thinking about it wrong, you didn't loan them money you gave them money to leave you alone forever.
They didn't leave me alone but the constant "I'll pay u back" and 3 years have gone by is a bit annoying. Like if I had money to just freely give away I wouldn't care but at the time I gave em my last penny cuz I thought they'd need it more and they seemed so serious on paying me back. But its oh well.
Kind of went thru that with my step brother. He's a bit of a fuck up, always short few here or there. He needed to borrow $500 to pay a fine or spend 30 days in county lockup. This was while his wife was pregnant with their third. Had him sign a promissory note with a notary seal.
After he signed it paid his fine, I told him, "Christmas, birthdays, graduations, whatever. Show me receipts totaling $500 for things you buy for my neice/nephews and we're good."
My neice, the one his wife was pregnant with, just finished her first year of college. He's only got $200 to go and we're even.
That's why the life pro tip is: There is no "lending money" to friends and family. There is only gifting money to them, and if you get it back eventually, that's just a bonus.
Know that replica frostmourne blizzard and epic weapons made? yeah one of those.
Doesnt even steal souls, what a rip off.
I hear ya. Pre-ordered FO76 power armor edition. Questionable bonus points for the crappy nylon bag and Bethesda doxxing.
When I was around 10 I traded some Pokémon cards for a nude picture from a Hustler magazine
My ex girlfriend
DLC and pay-to-play on phone games.
I will never understand paying to win video games.
Like Candy Crush - once you get to a certain level, you pretty much can't beat the level naturally, you must buy "boosts" in order to beat it, so what is even the enjoyment in beating it, when you know you just paid for the win and didn't actually win on your own? It makes no sense. I don't see the satisfaction in it.
A t shirt from Philip Plein with bedazzled skull on it. Never wore it once. I was THAT embarrassed.
As a then 27 year old, a bunch of Beyblades and some Beyblade arenas. Shockingly expensive. But whip those bad boys out at a Halloween, Christmas, or any other boozy kind of party, and watch an actual pit form around the arenas as grown men and women jostle for their turn to let it rip. Oftentimes money will begin changing hands as actual betting rings coalesce around the arenas. It's like the ethical man's gladiatorial combat entertainment
Where can I sign to get into one of those parties?
A Porsche
Because midlife crisis
Nice, I did the same, but with a BMW.
My mood jumps between "this is a waste of money" and "this is a cool car" on a daily basis.
Me too but sold it for more than I paid (bought used - sold for more)
Gym membership for a year and a Switch with ring fit. They weren't dumb in the beginning but when I stopped going/using it.
I bought a ring fit and after three weeks stopped using it. Maybe use it once every 6 months
A Furby. I actually still got it somewhere, more than 25 years later.
A little tiny speaker that danced side to side
I spent $3k buying LuLaRoe leggings. I only wear about 10 of them. Total waste of money.
How many pairs did you buy?!!?
I went for one of these stuffed animals vending machine with a claw. It was a big machine with a lot of empty space but a few animals on the right side. Actually it was so big that it had two payment terminals, two claws, etc. I paid for it using my CC on the left side and went for the controls. Well, guess what, it was not one big vending machine, but two separate machines with a god damn glass window between them, and the one on the left that I was using was completely empty.
The laugh my fiancee and I had was well worth the $1 I wasted. Actually after that I went for the other machine and... Also didn't manage to get the stuffed animal. But my fiancee tried and got one in her first try!
FYI those machines have a magnetic servo above the claw that is randomly activated. If the magnet is not on then the claw doesn't have enough strength to pick anything up no matter how perfectly you place it. When the magnet is powered then the claw has the power to pick it up. It's a carnival ripoff. Also you can buy a box of 100 of the plush toys for $39. Every toy costs the machine owner 39 cents.
I am aware of all that, but once in a while it is fun to waste a little money in these silly kind of things :)
You know that box on your tax form that asks for $1 or $5 for the presidential re-election fund?
I checked it.
Once.
Similarly I made a small political donation online and used a non-throwaway email address.
Once.
Ouch, you win.
$40 on a pair of jeans and belt just to get into a club with my friends never wore them again
Good thing they were only $40
Wait. You don't wear jeans? What do you usually wear that jeans is "dressing up" for the club you went to? So many questions.
Cigarettes. I didn't mind at the time, but having been off them for a decade, it is such a stupid way to spend money in retrospect.
I bought one of those dumb fkn space helmets to wear in the height of the pandemic. 😭😭😭
It was like $700. 😭😭😭
Long story short, turns out I have ADHD.
Anyways, I made some dorky videos with it. Here’s one:
Dumdum buys a $700 BioVYZR pandemic helmet and wears it to a comedy mic.
I keep buying fast food...
The things I buy when I'm hungry and going grocery shopping
Thankfully I have a little brother with a garbage disposal of a stomach. So if I remember, I call him up and tell him I'm bringing over a care package of snacks and shit that he's ready to devour
Extra lives on candy crush
a drone i dont use
a go pro that i used max 5 times
a canoe that i used it once
an electric guitar that i dont use it anymore
RP on League of Legends
Fn skins
computer games
steam keys
csgo skins
crack
cigs
alcohol
a degree
A diet program that cost a fortune. Ended up binging on pizza instead.
the entire sex with Hitler franchise on steam and themed my entire profile on it
wait...what?
i can dm you a link to my steam profile if you want (you don't)
But I do.
I am totally clean now… but years ago A meth addiction….. that sure emptied my pockets….never again!!! 🤢🤮
Got $50 in cash back from a self checkout register...
Grabbed my receipt and the pack of gum I bought so I could get cash back, forgot to take my money and just walked off. I didn't even realize it til several hours later
My ex’s Rent while she was in prison.
I once spent $500 on a “miracle” plant that was supposed to sing when it needed water. The ad showed this happy little plant belting out tunes whenever it got thirsty. I thought it would be a cool, quirky addition to my apartment.
When it arrived, it was just a regular plant with a cheap speaker hidden in the soil. The “singing” was just a pre-recorded jingle that played every hour, regardless of the plant’s condition. I tried to return it, but the company disappeared overnight. Now I have a very expensive, very silent plant sitting on my windowsill, mocking me with its leafy indifference.
My viper, which at the same time is the best money I’ve ever spent on something
A pic with a fake famous sign
A boat
old coin which turned out to be fake(I am a collector)
My 1 month old baby is dumb as rocks, can't even do algebra.
Bottle service at the Wynn club in LV. Blew roughly 5k and only had a few drinks as most of the big bottles were sucked up by females who migrated from table to table.
Upside was that Joe Rogan, Pink and her husband Carey Hart were sitting next to us and were very nice.
I’ve always thought Pink would be cool af to hang out with.
Wait....Pink hangs with Joe Rogan? If so, that's one helluva bizarre pairing.
My first wedding. Divorce was the smartest.
Mercedes on the main stage.
Genshin, well over 1k and now I never play it anymore. 😭
My friend is the same way he spent around $800 and stopped playing after like 6 months. I've spent probably $100 on it in total, I have over 1000 hours in the game so I think it's a fair amount. The same friend spent like $400 on Tower of Fantasy and stopped after a month and had already spent like $100 on Wuthering Waves, I think he also spent like $2k on some Final Fantasy gacha too.
A convertible as I thought I couldnt get pregnant. 5 mknths later... hello pregnancy. I sold it. Got 6.5k less than I bought it for.
A new car
weed, fireworks and cigarettes
I bought a gram that had fent@nil in it, and overdosed, not on drugs any more, yay
Probably about $2000 on porn when I was a teen and then about $5000 on prostitutes when I went to the Netherlands and Germany and had sex with about 20-30 prostitutes. Granted, the latter was from over a decade ago so it's probably much more expensive after the recent inflation while the former I've spent a little every year for over 20 years.
My ex-wife, of course.
I bid on a guitar signed by Metallica through a radio station auction, where the proceeds would go to a charity. This was over the phone (before cell phones were big and everyone still had home phones) and live on the air. Me and one other dumb ass got into a bidding war for this guitar signed by Metallica. I "won" by making a crazy ending bid of $8000, $1500 more than the last bid. The goal was to be the crazy one, and it worked. The other dude bowed out and I "won" it.
I went down to the radio station to pick it up. No party hats, no "great job!", no greeters, just me and my shame of paying waaaay too much for a shitty, Chinese made Fender with 4 sigs on it. They gave it to me in an open cardboard box with no COA.
It's worth about $300 now, probably. Even worse, I played it a few times and wore down one of the sigs. I mean, it's still there, but you can tell it's been rubbed off a little.
The only saving grace was that I got to write it off on my taxes and got back like 6K that year or something like that.
So yeah, used a credit card with 12% interest. Luckily I had a good job, so it only took 6 months to pay it off.
Do I win?