Regretted Purchases.

I love making beaded jewellery, nothing professional or anything, just beads with elastic or cord.

I bought a box for £10.00 so I knew it wasn't going to be anything really special but while the image on the box showed the beads to be quite a reasonable size, in reality they're so tiny I can hardly hold them! Very pretty they are but I'd need fingers the size of a 1 year old to hold them!

So I used the elastic/cord for other projects and glued the beads to other stuff I was doing like needle felting!

Boots I bought recently, found a much more comfortable/suitable pair a few weeks later. First pair will be going to the charity shop.

CanadianGran

Miss Adventure and Dottydots, I feel so bad that you regret your property purchases; is there nothing you can do to get out and into somewhere better?

I have a few small regrets, but nothing so serious.
One washing machine I bought wasn't the greatest; I was rather happy when it finally quit and I could get another one. I did a bit more research on the next one and am much happier. I put up with the front-loader for about 8 years; now I am back to a top-load and much happier.

I could possibly do a sort of sideways move into another home that needs modernising, but where I am now is near to a shop, the bus route, and a doctor's surgery, with biggest plus being that the neighbours are not troublesome.

Almost every little block of flats here has drink/drug users housed in at least one of the flats.

Greyisnotmycolour

A mandolin for slicing veg. I used it once and I was terrified I'd slice my fingers off. Then I realised I could use the food processor that I already owned but had never used f

I did slice my finger with a mandolin and the finger became infected. OUCH! 🥴

I have passed on some less than lovely but not horrible towels to the SPCA but have never thought about duvets. I am not sure how many I have but certainly more than I need. I'll start sorting them out this week.

I bought a juicer. It does an excellent job of making juice but there are so many parts that it's a pain to clean. It now sits in a cupboard and I use the little hand squeezer.

Skydancer and Naughtyneine
🤣😂😅 brilliant!
I'm off to look for similar....

I once bought a washing machine with built-in dryer. Don't!

I have given away nearly all my electric kitchen gadgets as I no longer use them and they take up space. I haven't missed them ever.
A juicer, a big cake mixer, (I use twin beaters) a breadmaker, toastie maker.
Also a Knitting machine.

I actually bought a second hand orthopeodic mattress for the spare bed. It is top quality and was in vgc so probably much better than my own and very comfortable.
The spare king size bed was acquired from a df who was clearing her flat after she'd split up with her DP

I'd love to see you in your leather jacket and silver shoes.

I stopped buying clothing during sales which seem to be several times a year now. I had so many items I purchased because they were half price or less only to find I had nothing to match them with and they ended up in the charity bag.

Miss Adventure and Dottydots, I feel so bad that you regret your property purchases; is there nothing you can do to get out and into somewhere better?

I have a few small regrets, but nothing so serious.
One washing machine I bought wasn't the greatest; I was rather happy when it finally quit and I could get another one. I did a bit more research on the next one and am much happier. I put up with the front-loader for about 8 years; now I am back to a top-load and much happier.

I've heard of a good few mandolin slips, and fingers getting sliced.
I wouldn't use one.
Too nervous.

Having discovered how little the CEO of the Salvation Army earns and how wonderful their charity work is - they are now getting everything that I throw out .
The other charity , which I consider worthy is run by my local United Reform Church .

A mandolin for slicing veg. I used it once and I was terrified I'd slice my fingers off. Then I realised I could use the food processor that I already owned but had never used f

GrannyGravy13

Witzend

JamesandJon33

Potato ricer. Huge thing which sits in a draw.

Mine went to the charity shop. Just took far too long to make anything like enough.

I would be lost without my potato ricer, use it whenever we have mash.

I don't use mine often and sometimes wonder if it should go out but when I do use it, it always seems to make the perfect topping for fish pie, shepherd's pie etc. Lighter than just mashed potato.

Have just remembered, mine was a rug, which I really, really loved..

Really colourful, with swirls and tassels, and just fabulous.

It took me a long time to admit it was just too much for my living room.

Too big, and my hair had just started to fall out, so the tassels got all hairy, and it was too bright, because the rest of the room is bright already.

I sold it on ebay for £10.

The consolation is that the buyer was absolutely over the moon with it.

Usedtobeblonde

I now have two airfryer, the original single ninja which I loved so much I bought a double drawer one.
I probably use one or the other every day.
No regrets at all there.

Me neither. I have a fourteeen function Ninja and it gets used on a daily basis.
If it ever breaks, I will be buying a new one. I even dried chillies from the garden in it.

My dear husband kindly bought me a spiraliser. It came with a recipe book, which I thought might be interesting, but it turned out to be sauce recipes for courgette spaghetti. I didn't need the sauce recipes (I've got lots) and the thing was such a faff to clean. After DH died the spiraliser was one of the first things out of the door.

A black carpet for the living room.I thought it would be a nice look but it showed every bit of fluff.It didn't stay down long A bird feeder that attracted rats.

Astitchintime

I bought a Mia Tui rucksack/cross-body bag - it is awful! It is very heavy, even with nothing in it and slips off my shoulders. Total waste of money.

Oh I love my Mia Tui bags! I'm now onto my second crossbody one - but it's just a small one and not heavy. I had one of the backpacks for work too and loved it.

I’ve only recently realised that I’m an impulse buyer, and internet shopping makes it even worse. And I’m always buying things that will make my life better and more organised only to find that nothing is ever going to make me organised. Also I’m surrounded by things I’ve bought at car boot sales and charity shops, especially furniture from when I was obsessed with Annie Sloane paint. But my biggest mistake was buying a two seater sofa with a footstool instead of the three seater which I actually needed. It’s Parker Knowle leather, incredibly well made and very good value as it was ex display. But it isn’t long enough to stretch out on and the foot stool is too big for my small living room. It’s too good to give away and no one seems to want sofas these days anyway. If I have. TKR I’ll need a comfortable sofa. I just don’t know what to do.

A Harris tweed coat. I was persuaded to buy it by DD. It cost a fortune and I have worn it twice. I do not like the colour and it goes with nothing.

I am about to put it on ebay.

I don’t buy kitchen gadgets but other people buy them for me because they know I spend a lot of time in the kitchen.I haven,t actuall turned down the soup maker,food processor etc but I do pass them on at the first chance .I enjoy the prep as much as cooking it and worse still I LIKE to wash up by hand.
Now I just tell folk no presents at all because I have everything I need ( a set of good knives and a hand mixer) I,ve made 4 tier wedding cakes with that wee mixer and my granddaughters and their friends have learned to bake using it

My list would be endless. Trouble is DH insists that everything "might be useful" so won't get rid of anything.

Middlemarch by George Eliot, was a book I never read but was on a list of books in the Guardian as 'must reads' several years ago.
Is still on the shelf mocking me, along with War and Peace.
They would probs make good door stops though.

I now have two airfryer, the original single ninja which I loved so much I bought a double drawer one.
I probably use one or the other every day.
No regrets at all there.