# Worst purchase I ever made. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 2, 2009, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-purchase-i-ever-made/505025 "2009-08-02T02:57:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-purchase-i-ever-made/505025/21 "2009-08-03T07:44:46Z")
I assume that is directed at me but I am not biting. One thing you may like to check is the use by dates if you are refilling the smaller bottles. I understand that it is not the water that has the use by date applied- it is the bottle itself. ---
**Author:** ![atomicbadgerrace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@atomicbadgerrace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/atomicbadgerrace)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-purchase-i-ever-made/505025/22 "2009-08-03T07:52:01Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Isn’t it amazing how judgmental and sanctimonious some people get, abut the silliest things? Were you referring to the people who refuse to buy bottled water, or the people who only buy bottled water? Because in my experience, it’s the latter who are generally more judgmental and sanctimonious. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-purchase-i-ever-made/505025/23 "2009-08-03T10:28:56Z")
My worst purchase was a Jeep. Damn Chrysler piece of shit. I bought it new and I had mechanical problems from the day I bought it to the day I sold it. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-purchase-i-ever-made/505025/24 "2009-08-03T14:32:06Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > One thing you may like to check is the use by dates if you are refilling the smaller bottles. I understand that it is not the water that has the use by date applied- it is the bottle itself. I don’t understand. Why would a piece of plastic have an expiration date? ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-purchase-i-ever-made/505025/25 "2009-08-03T14:37:33Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Where are your classes held? The Gobi Desert? Mongolian law is very lucrative. And you know how much lawyers love to yak. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-purchase-i-ever-made/505025/26 "2009-08-03T14:44:11Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#): > > $1.50 is an outrage? I’m pretty sure you would be charged $4 or more for the same bottle of water in any number of places: sports stadiums, amusement parks, movie theaters, New York City, etc. > > In any case, 1995 paged me. I called them and they said they want their bottled water rants back. In NYC the most I have ever paid for a bottle of water is $1.79 and that is for the big 1.5L size. But yeah, at amusement parks and stuff it would probably be a $4 bottle instead of $1.50. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-purchase-i-ever-made/505025/27 "2009-08-03T14:50:50Z")
> [@friedo](#): > > For buying any quantity of bottled water, you deserve what you get. > > Don’t like tap water? Cost of a small Brita pitcher: $20. Aren’t you paying attention? There was a lot of whining in the other thread about how expensive and hard to operate Brita filters are. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-purchase-i-ever-made/505025/28 "2009-08-03T14:59:44Z")
> [@InvisibleWombat](#): > > I don’t understand. Why would a piece of plastic have an expiration date? Because it degrades with time, releasing monomer into its contents. Whether the times applied are actually appropriate or not is another question. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-purchase-i-ever-made/505025/29 "2009-08-03T15:07:35Z")
If the worst purchase you ever made only cost you $36.00, you’re doing okay. Besides, from now on, when you do any foolish spending, you can say, “I’ve spent $36 on dumber shit than that!” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-purchase-i-ever-made/505025/30 "2009-08-03T15:50:35Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Isn’t it amazing how judgmental and sanctimonious some people get, abut the silliest things? I hope you’re being sarcastic. This is the Dope, man. Judgmental and sanctimonious are what many of its members live to be. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-purchase-i-ever-made/505025/31 "2009-08-03T17:40:26Z")
I once spent $600 to some little independent auto repair shop to let them take my car away and do just about nothing to it. They even had some wonderful scare tactics set up to get me to spend MORE money on nothing. (I have a worn pittman arm? really? Nobody I know has ever known pittman arms even got worn!) What chapps my hide is: My father in law continues to use 'em. I just can’t convince him otherwise. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-purchase-i-ever-made/505025/32 "2009-08-04T01:43:45Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > Because it degrades with time, releasing monomer into its contents. > Whether the times applied are actually appropriate or not is another question. What **Nava** said. I hadn’t heard of it until two weeks ago when a story ran in one of the free local papers. (Very local, so it probably is not online). There have been a few local communities ridding themselves of bottles water for environmental purposes and there was some guy headlining this edition who had invented (?) a long lasting refillable bottle. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-purchase-i-ever-made/505025/33 "2009-08-04T02:49:37Z")
There is a [link](http://eastern.inmycommunity.com.au/news-and-views/local-news/Support-for-towns-bottled-water-ban/7530814/). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worst-purchase-i-ever-made/505025.md?page=1)