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I kind of regretted buying a cheap digital camera while I was on a trip because I had forgotten the camera that belongs to my work. The image quality is pretty poor. But now that I've figured out how to batch-edit the images and sharpen them, I feel better about it.
A shower caddy from IKEA that has to be screwed into the wall, purchased last week in spite of warnings from my mother that it wouldn't be a good investment. I got home and realized the entire shower wall is tiled.
However, the plumber/handyman who is coming on Monday assured me he could attach the caddy to the wall without damaging the tiles.
Also, I bought these stupid glass plates -- which my mother convinced me to purchase -- and I'm not too pleased with myself for that. Oh, and I spent a hundred bucks on booze yesterday. And I bought shoes on Monday, a pair of black heels that the oily shoe salesman convinced me I had to have. (They are cute, but how many pairs of black heels does a girl need???)
And I bought three different kinds of trash bags yesterday. THREE. Why? Why???
It's like I have a money-spending trigger in my brain that I can't shut down.
(But I did resist a pair of yoga pants that were almost perfect, except for some weird stitching on the back that emphasized the over-large size of my ass.) There! I saved $22!
A different (slightly cheaper) kind of cat food. Our Persian with the always-nervous stomach has thrown up a couple of times since I got it, so I'm worried it's not agreeing with her. (Will replace it with her usual brand this weekend.)
That super cool vintage silver aluminum Christmas tree that I bid on on eBay...it was all dry rotted and pretty much fell apart as I was putting it together.
A shirt I bought online. I thought it would have cute pink stripes, but instead it has weird candy-striper-pink stripes. I guess I can wear it under a jacket? But that's pretty rare.
The last thing I regretted buying was a pair of dansko clogs I let the sales dude talk me into. I took them back the next day. I am a clog retard -they slip off my feet, and make me much more prone to turning already turned many times ankles.
The one time I remember sincerely regretting a purchase was a bike my parents got for me when I was, like, seven or eight years old. I had bought into the advertising hype, thought it looked cool and tuff in the commercials, etc. In real life, it just sucked.
That was about three decades ago. And it wasn't even *my* purchase, really.
As an adult, I do not experience this kind of regret because, like Miko, I almost never buy stuff. And when I do actually break open the wallet, I've usually had my eye on something for weeks or months, spent time researching it in online fora, gone to the store to kick the tires. I don't buy impulsively.
I bought some chicken wings at the Whole Foods the other day. I knew they'd be edible, but I also knew they wouldn't be all that great. And they weren't. And I knew better, but I did it anyway. But I learned my lesson. Next time I want wings, I'll go to Wing Stop, or perhaps Chicken Wang's [sic] Cafe.
A very cute swing coat from Torrid. I've tried them on in stores and they looked like ass then, but I saw it on the model and it looked so adorable and potentially cute on me and then I got it and FUGGALORE.
Fucking clothes. I hate clothes. Clothes make me quite cranky. Most of my purchasing regrets are for clothes.
Some "all natural" diet pills... I felt dumb enough buying diet pills, but I got them home and they were these gigantic capsules that I am scared to try to swallow. And i had already thrown out the receipt. So there went $13 down the tubes.
Can I make a suggestion, amro? From now on, you should only buy REALLY BIG food. That way, you'll be too scared to swallow it. No more need for diet pills :)
My video iPod from a couple of years ago. Not only because Apple upgraded the disk storage space while keeping the price the same the day after my purchase, but also because iTunes and video management was a nightmare (and video is the reason I bought the thing). So, that Christmas, I gave the thing away as a Christmas gift, because I realized my PSP did everything video-wise much better than my iPod at the time.
This doesn't mean that I don't want an iTouch, however
I bought one of those gift certificates on the street for a special "beauty package" at some salon (there are people around Union Square and other high traffic areas selling them all the time). It was a lot of money spent at a time I had little, and I never used it.
I've been thinking and thinking and I can't think of anything. I don't really do impulse buys (except for food, which I never regret!) and I don't buy much outside of that.
Oh, I know! I have like, 3 white or cream shirts that I have bought in my quest for the perfect white blouse/shirt, and I like none of them.
A pair of pants from Land's End. You're supposed to be able to wear them to work, but they are barely acceptable. The knees get baggy as soon as I bend my legs. Then I have to put the pants in the wash to flatten them. They really annoy me!
gaspode, I feel you on the white shirt thing. I should just give up. Men's style women's white blouses never look good for some reason, and I keep buying them anyway. wtf?
A couple of weeks ago we were in Target. I bought a shirt that looked like it fit. Yes, I was stupid enough not to try it on first. I'm also lazy enough not to have returned it yet.
At the checkout stand, I saw a display of Elvis Presley trading cards. I'm not a collector, nor am I an Elvis fanatic. What I am sometimes is overly curious. Did the cards come home with me? Yes. Do they look like ass? Would I be writing about them if they didn't?
I'm not losing any sleep over either of those purchases, but I guess I should try to take that shirt back soon.
Burger King dinner. The wee one had been saying "burger king!" in the cutest way all day, and it was a Friday and I suddenly got really lazy about cooking my planned oh so healthy orange lentil soup (with orange and red lentils) so I went and got us fast food dinner. That night I was sick eight times. Seriously.
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