Au contraire! My mother gave me one of those ‘As seen on TV’ knives that supposedly cuts through knives and shoes (and all those other things you routinely use in dinner preparations) and it’s actually turned out to be the best knife I’ve owned.
I know ‘sharpen-them-yourself’ knives are far superior, but I have no interest in sharpening knives. This little flexible, super-serrated kill machine of a knife works for me just fine, and has done for about five years or more now. I’d never have bought it (‘As seen on TV!’ gets an automatic ‘No way’ from me) but it’s actually a really good knife.
And if the economy continues to decline and we’re down to eating shoes, who’s going to be laughing then, huh? Me, with my shoe-cutting knife, that’s who!
Any and every thing ever design to remove leg hair. I’ll try anything, and they all either don’t work, or cause in-grown hairs.
My cat was like this. She ate herself sick a lot; I fed her small amounts three or four times a day, and if I ever missed a feeding, she ate herself sick.
Then, I stumbled on the perfect solution. I fed her a can of soft food, and she loved it (and promptly threw it up), and showed no interest in the dry food. So, I fed her half a can of soft each night, and left a full bowl of dry. She never ate enough to get sick again.
That’s a pretty awesomely bad purchase. If that’s just ONE of the stupidest things you’ve ever done, I implore you to start a thread called “Other Stuipd Things olives Has Done” - it’ll be fantastic
Generally I find this is true (curse you, Magic Pancake Maker and, seperately, UrineGone!) but my brother and I got the Magic Bullet for my mom for mother’s day one year and she freaking loves it. I personally own the silicone bakeware and it is awesome but I don’t use it too often anymore because it is difficult to clean without a dishwasher.
This thread is full of hilarious goodness (like gigi’s Roomba/Rumba catch), but the fact that you carefully parsed UrineGone separately from the Magic Pancake Maker made me giggle. Magic Pancake Urine Gone!
I will have to think carefully about my stupidest purchase. I’m sure I have a few…
Haven’t used it, still in the package. Apparently, I was too stupid to figure out that to use it, you need to have something sturdy enough to hang 50 lbs of soil and plant from. You can’t just hang it from your normal deck hangers.
I like to play “spot the scam” with those infomercials; look for the trickery they use to make their product seem like the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Which is why my favorite is the knife commerical where they’re showing how awful other knives are for, you guessed it, slicing bread. The guy smooshes the bread down with his hand to an inch think before he even starts trying to cut it.
You have to be careful with that word. Just one careless line break and it looks like Bob Dylan was singing about Mr. Tambo and Urine Man.
The worst purchase ever made, by any person is when I bought a pair of size 0 Dolce & Gabbana leopard print skinny jeans.
Lets count the ways this is a bad, bad purchase.
They were leopard Print skinny jeans. I could probably stop there and have fully made my point, but I won’t.
They were a size 0. I saw 0 in the rearview mirror about 20 years ago. No amount of exercise, fasting and liposuction is going to get my badonkadonk into a pair of size 0 jeans.
They were Dolce & Gabbana which would be ok, except on someone totally different than me. I tend to like Karl Lagerfield, Calvin Klein, Jill Sander. Dolce & Gabbana is…different. And not for me.
The only reason I bought them is because they were on sale for $4. That was a huge waste of $4 - I couldn’t even cut them up and make cleaning rags to replace my ShamWow out of them because the fabric was too heavy.
Keeping on the kitty theme - my worst purchase was a “cat fountain” which was supposed to provide clean running water for the kitty, with a pump and filter … but which only worked for around one day before it became indescribably foul with bits of cat food, saliva and hair.
Then, it turns out that it is very difficult to clean. In order to work, you have to disassemble it each and every day, clean every part of it, and put it back together … and when given a choice, the cat prefers a bowl of non- running water fresh from the tap. Fact is, cats don’t really like the whirring sound of a pump where they drink, and only serious thirst can make them tolerate it. But I’d paid some absurd amount of money for the “fountain” and she was going to drink out of it, dagnabit!!!
I think I did the disassemble-clean-reassemble routine for about a week out of pure stubbornness before conceding that I’d been had, and thowing the thing into the garbage (much to the relief of the cat).
Next worst was the “cat bed”. Turns out our cat prefers the box the “bed” came in to sleep in. :smack:
For the love of all that’s holy, please let this be the sort of Magic Bullet I’m thinking of. If it’s a misunderstanding and you just gave your mother some mundane kitchen appliance I’m going to be very upset.
I did, in fact, get her a mundane kitchen appliance. I would not buy a sex toy for my mom and if I changed my mind about that I certianly wouldn’t make it a joint present from myself and my brother!
Thank you for that idea! I like my WetJet, because I have 3 little boys, and it makes for quick cleanup of the kitchen floor after dinner. You just saved me some money, because now I can use whatever, instead of the Swiffer cleaning solution.
olives, my ex-husband fell for that same sort of magazine thing. He wasn’t normally a gullible person, but they can make those sound pretty appealing. He’s probably still paying for it, for all I know.
I bought a microfiber living room set about 3 or 4 years ago, because everyone told me it was so easy to keep clean, and it wouldn’t show dirt, etc. I hate it. It’s looked like crap after the first 2 weeks, because it shows every little stain or even water spot, and again, I have 3 little boys. It was good quality furniture, and the construction is solid; we just picked the wrong fabric. Totally our fault, but it still bothers me.
Yeeesss! My worst purchase ever would be the medieval torture device otherwise known as the Epilady. DO NOT use it on your tender bits! In case you are not familiar with the device, it grabs several hairs at once and viciously rips them whole out of the follicles while you scream the foulest obscenities and scare the daylights out of your beloved pets. The neighbors will call the cops on you, so be sure to have your bathrobe handy. Oh, and don’t ask. The police will not shoot your epilady. Apparently, it’s against the rules or something.
Then there was the Epil Stop. Can you say chemical burns? Yeah, bad. Stay as far away as possible from this stuff. I have since learned my lesson. It’s okay to not be hair-free.
As long as we’re discussing As Seen on TV products, I present the Miracle Thaw, a defrosting tray made of space-age alloy! Watch it defrost your meats faster than setting it on the counter! Pay no attention to the potential for bacterial contamination or the fact that the frying pan you’re going to place the meat in after it’s thawed would thaw it just as quickly. It’s a miracle! No. Not really. :smack:
