We have, somewhere, a Water-Pik shower massage thingy - the sort that comes with a flexible cable so you can remove it from the holder and direct it to all sorts of angles. Our plan was to use this when bathing the kids when they were younger.
Never installed it. I think we moved it to this house, and it may even be still around somewhere.
Does it count if you use it just once to test it, you don’t like it and you never use it again?
I know! And it’s so dumb; I could’ve bought every movie I’ve watched since we got netflix for less I’ve spent on the subscription. Thank goodness my husband uses it.
My worst offense is dress clothes. I’ll buy something nice for a formal-ish event, then find something else even better, and rather than being prudent, I buy the second one as well. Of course, I keep the first thing, because I like it, thinking, “I’ll just pull it out for the next event I attend, and I won’t even have to shop,” except “the next thing” is the wrong season, or I’ve gained or lost weight, or the outfit isn’t right for the event… so I wear something else. Then I forget about the original thing until I see it in my closet a year or two later with the tags still on it. Bah.
Craft stuff. I have three boxes of the stuff I put up a few months ago. I just hated staring at it everyday while it sat there are reproached me for ignoring it. It does make me feel better to remember quite a bit of it was freebies.
I have sock yarn that will never be knit by me. I traded/sold a bunch I never got to.
I love sock yarn, but I don’t love making socks. I can make them, I just never do.
I have a really nice fire extinguisher, and I hope I never use it.
Me too. Still it’s cheaper than late fees from Blockbuster.
A brand new Mopar 360 cubic inch crate engine. Bought it for my old 69 Dodge pickup. It sat on the garage floor for about 4 years. I sold the truck about 2 years after I bought the engine. I finally sold it while I out on strike to raise some money. Paid $3200, sold for $1800.
I bought a beard trimmer once, and the next day bought a new pair of scissors. Then I spent the next five years reminding myself to return the beard trimmer to the store. Then I threw it away.
Also, I still have a five year old answering machine that I bought to replace the 10 year old (at the time) answering machine that I thought was about to die. It hasn’t yet died.
OK MZ(BTW Cool name) you need to pay someone to put that in, 'cause those things ar too nice NOT to use.
My cats prefer silk. The black cat likes white silk. The gray cat likes black silk.
I think I finally got rid of those hot pants when I moved last year. After 20 years, I don’t even care if they come back (sic) into style, I’m not wearing 'em.
Speaking of small appliances, we also have a Fry Daddy and a pasta maker that have never been used sitting in our garage. I’ve finally convinced my husband to get rid of the Fry Daddy. I’m pretty sure it’s 6 1/2 years old.
It probably doesn’t count, because it’s not an everyday-use item, but we bought an emergency evacuation rope ladder for the second-story window in back, farthest from the front door. I guess I ought to try setting it up once before we actually HAVE a fire.
I bought my daughter a car stereo last Christmas to install in my old car which I was giving her. She never passed her driving test until just two days ago, and now she’d like to get a different car. I’m thinking of installing the damn thing anyway just so I won’t feel like it was all a big mistake.
Salad and bananas. I buy them, then I throw them away, then I buy them…
I have four or five items of clothing that have been worn once.
That reminds me we had a similar thing in a place I worked, we had “fire training” from our local fire department, and I went, solely 'cause I thought it’d be cool to shoot the fire extinguisher. Well like a year later we had a very small fire, and no one knew how to use the fire extinguisher except me. (Yeah I probably could’ve stomped it out with my foot, but its so cool to shoot the fire extinguisher.)
So yeah I would say, thy that ladder out 
How could anyone have a Fry Daddy and NOT use it…That’s just SO wrong 
Tip for the banana people. Bananas freeze well. Buy the bananas put them in a blender, mush them up and put them in the freezer. Then when you feel like ice cream, put the bananas in the blender (you can leave them frozen) add milk and a teaspoon or two of vanilla and it’s so good. Bananas last at least a year frozen in the freezer
The winner of the Blu-ray/HD-DVD battle was me. I ended up with about 60 HD-DVD’s, most of them for dirt cheap. Several of them are still wrapped in plastic.
I’ve also got Rainbow 6: Vegas 2 for X-Box 360. My 360 pulled the RRoD about 3 months ago and I never got to play it.
I have a jacket I asked for for Christmas a few years ago and have never worn in public.
Online it looked lovely and fluffy and soft and like a dark raspberry color.
In person, it’s SUPER puffy and a BRIGHT HOT raspberry color. It’s very ostentatious and makes me look super fat.
Also, when my little sister started high school I went to Hobby Lobby and bought some stuff to make her a decorated locker mirror and never ended up making it. And then there’s a pen and bookmark that I bought as a gift for someone and never gave to her… they have cheesy fairies all over them and I’m not a big fairy person, so I never decided to use them myself.
I just bought some yarn two days ago that looked like a muted teal in the store and now that it’s home, it just kind of looks light blue. I may or may not still use it. but I’m definitely less enthusiastic about it than I was before and really wishing I had picked a different color.
eta: oh, and bright green paint for walls that never ended up being used because the walls ended up being too weird for it.
These are SO funny! I am laughing!
Odd food items - I have a box of wild rice from Minnesota that is 12 years old. A can of chipotle peppers that is 8 years old, can of chili with a 69 cents price sticker, and box of powdered milk that might very well have been put in the pantry when we bought the house. Every week I buy a green pepper, which shrivels up and gets tossed out to make room for the New Green Pepper.
My neighbor bought blank videotapes years ago and painstakingly recorded several TV shows and movies. Never watched a single one. She gave me a few, I put on a movie and was utterly shocked at the sight of antiquated cars in a commercial - the thing was 10 years old!
Candles of all sorts. I never burn candles, and there’s a whole cupboard shelf full.
Cut glass salad bowl and 8 cut glass serving bowls, taking up another whole cupboard shelf. And those oversized wine glasses from the outlet that I just HAD to have.
Shoes. Raincoats. Clothes, clothes, clothes - a Victorian silk blouse, souvenier T-shirts, a pair of lined wool designer trousers - RED wool - with price tag ($89) still attached. Whatever possessed me??? Bulky wool sweaters too hot to wear even in the winter, stuffed into a bag, taking up precious storage space.
Tiny decants of perfume purchased off eBay, when they sold that kind of thing - all jumbled in a box, sniffed once, never actually worn.
Lengths of fabric, yes, so old the fold lines will never come out. A length of pretty sheer printed cotton that I take out every spring, look at for a long time, set aside, and pack up and put away in the fall in an annual rite…pretty hankies I’ve bought at flea markets, planning to “do something” with them someday…I look at them every so often and then put them back with the rest of the unused fabric and trimmings.
There’s more. There’s much, much more.
Almost.
I bought a telescope for the kids for Christmas one year. We took it outside, looked through it, went ooh-ahh, put it in the corner and forgot about it. I gave it away last week.