Just yesterday I bought an electronic keyboard. I don’t know why I bought it. I don’t know how to play it and nobody else in the family does either. I don’t have any plans to take music lessons, but for some reason I just bought it.
What useless things do you own ?
Thinks are free. But I once paid over $1000 for an electric guitar because my $300 guitar sucked. Come to find out, it was just me. 
Both things paid in full, in advance:
Sailing lessons I never went to, not once. Too busy with other stuff.
Also: a pair of tap shoes and a full summer of tap lessons. I think I took three lessons and quit. Man, I stunk at tap.
When I was younger I spent a good portion of my money on baseball cards. I don’t even know what happened to most of them, and they never were the great investment I thought they would be. Somewhere I have a few somewhat valuable cards, but as a whole my collection is probably worth less now than what I paid for it. Plus, even if I wanted to sell it, I don’t think I could get a fair price for the collecton anyway.
More recently I have bought a $100+ police scanner that was kind of neat for a week and I very rarely use now. I may find it and use for an hour or two every few months.
I also spent about $100 on a megaphone that I use about once a year and don’t really need at all.
I also spent over $100 on a pair of in-line skates that I never used. I actually only bought them because I was getting a great deal, and I ended up selling them to someone else for what I paid.
I’m sure if I think hard enough there are a few more dumb purchases I have made as well.
I think clothing that I only wore once for some social occasion.
Between 1999-2000 I bought FIVE internet URLs for about $35 apiece, thinking I would turn a profit.
Still own them.
Top that.
In 1989 bought an air compressor for $600, one of the big ones you see auto repair shops. I sold it in 1995 for $300, still in the crate, never used.
Titanium Zippo lighter (I don’t smoke, never have).
Titanium combat knife (are we seeing a theme developing yet?)
You know, I almost bought that titanium crowbar too–military surplus catalog, $39 IIRC. Is it really useless?
Tell you what, I’ll trade you www.robotsexslaves.com for it.
No, I’m not making it up–I actually own it.:smack: :smack:
If you’re not using that titanium spork, BlackKnight might want it.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=132612
The most useless thing I own is my wedding ring. 
ME
A vacuum thingy … one of those devices that pumps the air out of a freezer bag so you get vacuum packaged food. It was made by a respectable German company (like AEG or Siemens, can’t remember), but the vacuum pump was too weak for it to be of any use. Bought it for 40 euro, sold it on ebay for 25.
A shower gel dispenser that you can hang in your shower stall. It was quite expensive for such a shitty plastic thing (29.95 EUR) but I wanted it because they claimed it could be glued to the wall with Tesa Power Strips - me being hesitant to drill holes into the bathroom tiles. Of course it fell off the wall the first day. So I took my BullDyke-PowerDrill From Hell ™ and timidly drilled 1 hole for the shower gel dispenser. When I attached it to the wall again I found out that it was broken from the fall. Grrr!
Hey, Inky-, I got a few titanium staples in a glass jar somewhere… they used to be inside my knee, look a bit icky now, but I’m sure you could polish 'em up and they’d be good as new. 20 bucks, how 'bout it?
I have a great pair of ladies size 10 platform kneehigh, laceup, Frankenhooker boots. I wore them once. Want them?
I also have 3 pairs of tap shoes, and one pair of dance sneakers that I bought for dance classes that I signed up for before this damn sarcoidosis took up residence in my left leg. It seems to be getting better, though. I may dance again someday soon!!
I have an actual rocket (like a foot or so tall), painted and everything. I spent like $40 on it, altogether, back in the early 90s. Closest I ever came to setting it off was when I thought “Hmm, I wonder if it’ll go off indoors.” Maybe a whole two inches away from my left foot.
How I managed not to burn said left foot off I leave to you, gentle reader, to figure out.
I’ve got a friggin’ airplane instrument panel (with instruments, lights, i/c - pitot-static gauges, etc) sitting on a build-up rack in the middle of my kitchen.
it will never fly.
near by is a scuba compressor which will never get used.
then we can go into the toys I bought/built and ended up putting on the curb for whoever thought he/she could use them.
yes, I do have the attention span of a 5-yr old 
I had this thought back in the sixties. I thought,“Wow, that chick is really pretty and sexy!”
So I asked her for a date. She said she was hungry and there was a movie she really wanted to see and that she was horny, so maybe after…
We had dinner and saw the movie and then she said thanks, but she wasn’t horny anymore and she went home alone.
And that’s just one of the useless thinks I’ve paid for.
I bought this because I love peanut butter-but don’t make my mistake! The machine I bought (Salton) is very slow (takes hours to make a pint jar), noisey, and just about impossible to clean. Plus, you have to shell and de-hull the peanuts. A huge waste of time, and the peanut butter isn’t very smooth.
Its still gathering dust in the basement.
I bought one of those vacuum sealers when I was feverish and weak-minded while watching cable back in 1992. I used it exactly twice and it now takes up room in my cabinets because I’m too tight to throw it out.
A $40 CAD room service breakfast*. The eggs were too runny to eat, it was otherwise unremarkable.
I’m sure I’ve owned something more useless, but this happened just 2 days ago, so I’m still bitter.
*For two. My boyfriend insisted that we had to get room service once. I should’ve let him get it by himself and gone to the breakfast buffet on my own, if he didn’t want to.
I paid $5 for a milk can. My grandparents and 2 uncles were dairy farmers. It’s just to remind me of a happy part of my childhood. Best of all, it was never painted.