Worthless Objects that Cost You a Lot of Money

[Julianking93]

My university degree.

You sir, win teh interwebz.

OT, the only thing I can think of is the Wii.

That's not a joke, I hate that piece of shit. It does nothing but attract dust.

 

[Digital_Utopia]

My university degree.

Also my PC is currently bricked so that's £400 currently going to waste. Luckily it's under warrantee, but the place I bought it from virtually refuse to fix it. The quickest way to get a nerd angry is to get between him and his PC. Good thing it happened over Summer.

Wait, I don't understand. You call yourself a nerd, yet you bought your PC, require someone else to fix it, and declare it bricked? Sorry, I don't think you meet membership requirements lol

 

[JustStewart]

Have to say my Wii. I bought a black special edition version, with an extra controller and retro controllers too, so that I could play the old SNES games. I downloaded a load, played it for about 4 hours and have't touched it since. Cost me over £300! ($465)


Anyone want to buy a a black edition Wii with retro controllers and games??

 

[Plinglebob]

My Ex-Girlfriend

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Hmmm... Some uninsured twat in a Vauxhall Nova hit my dad's car once. Luckily it wasn't too badly damaged. But he went to jail because he had a crapload of heroin on him at the time when he was found unconcious in the driver's seat (the twat, not my dad).

I guess that's not me personally, but it was pretty funny.

EDIT:

My Batman belt, that I wear on my jeans (as in an actual belt)
£18
For a belt.

I'm confused. A) A Batman belt is awesome B) £18 isn't that much for a belt at all! I've spent about that much on a belt buckle alone!

 

[NoseDigger]

My Batman belt, that I wear on my jeans (as in an actual belt)
£18
For a belt. -_-

I've paid up to ?40 for my belts. Then again, one has a buckle the size of a hockey puck, and it weighs a good 200 grams. I wear it with pride.

 

[Extraintrovert]

I don't understand the actual question posed by the original poster, so I am going to ignore it, concentrate on the thread title and mention LEGO. Any LEGO. Ever. I finally managed to stop purchasing that garbage after a spending spree costing five hundred dollars of someone else's money, but I regret it deeply. And I still can't force myself to even get rid of it.

 

[Varrdy]

So my question to you, fellow Escapistos: have you ever had something essentially worthless cost you a large amount of money?

The first girl I had a "relationship" with.

Wardy

 

[Fraught]

The ground!

Well, I consider it worthless. To me, it is worthless.

And I've...broken some...things...due to...it. *cries*

 

[Life_Is_A_Mess]

Jewelry... oooooooooooh, shiny... ºoº

 

[Kif]

My sunglasses, about 5/6 years ago when Britain still had nice summers I was drunk, it was very sunny I spent £250 on a pair of Oakley sunglasses.

Needless to say I take very good care of them and still have them in perfect condition today.

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Well, it's a lot when you total it up, at least.

Half the games I bought off of Steam. Just because it's on sale...doesn't mean I need to buy it.

 

[hyperhammy]

My entire yu-gi-oh deck for a prototype cyber dragon. =) / =(
Basicly the estimated 1750 bucks I spent on trading cards.

 

[hyperhammy]

Well, it's a lot when you total it up, at least.

Half the games I bought off of Steam. Just because it's on sale...doesn't mean I need to buy it.

I have so much crap I'm never going to play...
*Cough* Torchlight *Cough*
But maybe I'll give it a try later.

 

[Mcupobob]

Kind of a different spin on this, when I was a young and Jurassic park was out I wanted to watch it at home so I stuffed one of my toy dinos into the vcr as hard as I could.

It did not end well.

Ah kid logic.

OT:I was into airsoft guns a few years back and bought three of them off ebay for $100 they sent me one clip.

 

[XJ-0461]

Well, if you want to get existential, everything you buy is worthless.

On topic: All of my Marvel superhero statues. I have well over 100 and all they do is sit there. But I don't care, I love 'em all.

 

[Tekkawarrior]

My university degree.

Very untrue

 

[Mindex]

Usually I am immune to impulse buys that cause these problems but there are a few game I have purchased that make me wish Cerberus would rise from a Hades and consume the lead designer's soul because the games were so bad. I once spent around $80 or so sending roses to a girlfriend on valentines day, there was a major snow storm and the roses were delievered a week late. I'm pretty sure they were dead.

 

[Kaymish]

well about 1/3 of the games i have on steam bought them on impulse some of them at full price and never played them

and an antec 900 PC chassis spend a few hundred dollars on it for the big fan on the top to splinter and break apart lucky for me the shrapnel went up and got stuck in the grate rather than going down and cracking apart my expensive internal parts

it gets better both antec AND the shop i bought it from refused to honour the warranty so i have this broken case sitting around in my storage room
it wasn't a total loss though i managed to salvage some of the parts for the mod of my new case now i have lots of pretty blue lights as opposed to just a few pretty blue lights