Things you have completely wasted money on

[cronullasharks]

Yeah, I know a few people who did this. Just think of it like this: at their peak around 2000 (ish), you'd be looking at £15 (ish) for just a standard DVD. If you had 100, which was very easy to achieve at the time, you'd be looking at £1500 just for those.

What a waste.

All my cd's ended up at the tip today as well.

 

[Tommy Chong]

Yeah, I know a few people who did this. Just think of it like this: at their peak around 2000 (ish), you'd be looking at £15 (ish) for just a standard DVD. If you had 100, which was very easy to achieve at the time, you'd be looking at £1500 just for those.

What a waste.

Exactly mate... No re-sale value, as you said.

Have you tried watching an old DVD on a 65 inch QLED 4K TV?
It's horrible... You'll go blind!

At least CD's you can still keep for sentimental value, if you're an avid music fan.

 

[COYBL25]

You can say the same about DVD's and BluRay's.

I had a mate who built a movie collection in the 00's like it was going out of fashion!
He spent a small fortune. Then streaming sites came along, and now he's stuck with a whole library of low-res rubbish.

Only my opinion, but I think this will become collectible in the future.

At some point everything becomes collectible.

Look at Swatch watches. They were designed as fun, throwaway watches, now some of them are worth tens of thousands.

 

[BainesontoastNEW]

All my cd's ended up at the tip today as well.

Did you throw them away one by one, savouring the moment? Just thinking about it makes me emotional

 

[cronullasharks]

Exactly mate... No re-sale value, as you said.

Have you tried watching an old DVD on a 65 inch QLED 4K TV?
It's horrible... You'll go blind!

At least CD's you still keep for sentimental value, if you're an avid music fan.

I don't even own a stereo anymore, portable speaker played via phone Bluetooth so had no use for the cd's

 

[Tommy Chong]

Only my opinion, but I think this will become collectible in the future.

At some point everything becomes collectible.

Look at Swatch watches. They were designed as fun, throwaway watches, now some of them are worth tens of thousands.

CD's and music DVD's I agree with you.

Movie DVD's... It's definitely an acquired taste.

Special edition DVD's though... Those are already collectables.

 

[blue to the bone]

My ex missus

 

[cronullasharks]

Did you throw them away one by one, savouring the moment? Just thinking about it makes me emotional

I do like throwing a cd like a Frisbee I must admit but the tip was busy so would have been frowned upon if I took my time. I also work there on a weekend for overtime a fair bit (I work in local government and its a council controlled tip, am mates with the boss there so he looks after me with shifts whenever I want them) so don't want to piss the lads off there

 

[COYBL25]

CD's and music DVD's I agree with you.

Movie DVD's... It's definitely an acquired taste.

I read something recently about how cassettes have become trendy again amongst certain groups of young people.

A mate of mine ( computer geek ) has a room full of old computers, which he buys as future investments, a bit like classic cars.

Even some of the freebies that McDonalds give away are collectible !

 

[summerisle]

I have bought far too many useless kitchen appliances and other kitchen 'aides '. Also have bought far too many knives, only use three or four of them.

 

[Shevin Keedy]

Adidas trainers, and more Adidas trainers I've bought a pair this morning already ffs.

 

[cronullasharks]

I read something recently about how cassettes have become trendy again amongst certain groups of young people.

A mate of mine ( computer geek ) has a room full of old computers, which he buys as future investments, a bit like classic cars.

Even some of the freebies that McDonalds give away are collectible !

Wish you'd have told me this before I threw about 300 cd's away today

 

[cronullasharks]

I have bought far too many useless kitchen appliances and other kitchen 'aides '. Also have bought far too many knives, only use three or four of them.

I bought some vegetable grater from one of those dodgy tv infomercial things once and was actually surprised it worked as good as the ad made it look, still got it. They even sent me 3 by mistake so gave 2 away as gifts

 

[Walken]

So I just took a heap of rubbish to the tip which included a treadmill we bought about 15 years ago for about 3 grand, probably got used about 10 times in total. Got me thinking about other stuff I've just flushed money down the toilet on (not including crap like cigarettes and junk food etc).

Also once signed up to do an online diploma in business and marketing years ago, cost about 3 grand as well. Didn't even start the course once it all turned up in the post.

Anyone got any other stories like that?

These kind of sound like personality issues to be honest CS

 

[cronullasharks]

These kind of sound like personality issues to be honest CS

I want to better myself but am ultimately too lazy too? Pretty much tbh