Yesterday, for the very very first time in my entire life I bought two Powerball Lottery Tickets, one for me and one for Ms. Freud. (Not just Powerball … I’ve never bought ny kind of lottery ticket.) It was just four bucks total …. but, obviously, a total fuckin’ waste of money.
What have you wasted money on … or, still do?
For me, I would have to say books. I would say I’ve spent at least $20,000 on books in my lifetime, and that’s probably conservative. When I got divorced, I left 95% of them with The Witch. What a fuckin’ waste!!!
Your turn.
Internet access. Such a waste of time.
I feel like I have wasted money on electronics over the years. For example, we took the grandkids on a road trip many years ago at which time we purchased a portable DVD player for $400 to keep them entertained. Within a short time, DVD players were $199 and progressed downward . Same with flat panel TV’s, never run out to buy the latest technology as it is a waste of money in hind sight.
Stucky, your chances of winning the lottery are about the same as ME voting for Hitlery Clinton for president. Zip…..just sayin.
My biggest waste of money by far is junk food. You can eat healthy on the road but usually you have to sit in a restaurant.Takes time.I grab some junk food and keep rolling.At least once a week I make myself eat a healthy meal. I also take vitamins every day.
Although it was nice i would have to say having a large wedding, we would have been better off keeping the money from her pops, going to the justice of the peace and then renting a room for friends and family at a nice restaurant.
The other would be buying our house in late 2004, what a mess. Should have kept renting.
Stucky, from reading your musins about her over the years, the waste wasnt the books, it was marrying your ex-shrew.
I personally do not waste money. The Mr. announced he would be stopping
to buy lottery tickets. Did I need anything at the store? Sweet.
I keep quiet about it…he earned that $, he can spend it.
Stucky, we vowed not to to buy any more books!! Library use only.
That lasted a week. Adding another shelf today. lol We both read about
3/4 of all the books. The rest are more gender specific.
Paying for satellite TV for many years. Getting ready to make the call to DISH right now and send them down the road. What a waste of money considering our TV might get turned on a couple times a week.
I copied this (below) from the scam question from yesterday. It is just one example but I have, over the years, spent a small fortune on Herbalife products, Shaklee products, or some sort of food supplements that were supposed to increase my metabolism via nutritional means, giving me the extra boost of energy to exercise.
From the Jan 8 question about scams that I submitted then lost to cyberspace.
No I put a comment here and submitted it, walked away and it is gone into cyberspace. It was a well written story about how the year after I had my son, I was all ready to lose the baby weight with zero effort. I told how I’d found an advertisement in Parents magazine for these little aroma scent pens that you were to sniff before meals to increase metabolism and dampen appetite. Three colors… breakfast, lunch and dinner.
So, I shared how for $29.99 I would get three of them, but if I ordered by phone, I would get the bonus sniffer that would guarantee I wouldn’t wake up hungry if I sniffed it at night.
Well, I explained in the comment that I knew it was probably bunk, but I was post preggers and desperate to take off the 30 lbs that had somehow stayed behind when the 7 lb kid left my womb, taking less than 3 lbs of body weight with him. I admitted that I ordered them and when they arrived, felt like a complete idiot because they looked like mini magic markers without a marker and when uncapped, I couldn’t smell a thing. (The instructions, I explained, told the user that the hormones used to suppress appetite couldn’t be detected by humans, but I expected to smell something.)
I said that after a couple of days I realized I’d been had and was so embarrassed I just hid the things in a travel bag and forgot the ordeal. (I said that Nick wanted to know what I’d ordered on the credit card but I got all huffy and bitchy about a measly 35 dollar charge he was asking about, so he backed off and shut the hell up.)
But, a couple of years later, when I visited my cousins up here in the hills of Missouri, I explained that I had that travel bag with me. And when I opened it and started laughing, my cousin’s husband wanted to know why. I showed him the 4 little pens and explained what I’d done. He laughed and laughed, called me and idiot and showed them to his wife, my favorite cousin.
In the comment, I told how she just got up and walked into their bedroom and came back out with a little bag. She pulled out three pens just like my breakfast, lunch and dinner suppressant sniffers and said “I didn’t get the little bonus pen for night time snacking.”
I finished the comment with how we laughed and laughed. Now you see why I moved here… peas in a pod are we.
But, since I lost that comment in cyberworld, I’m not bothering to repeat it all again.
Stucky- Let’s say you win the lottery, what is the first thing you would buy?
If I won 500 million in the lottery, I would buy a small country for TBP members only to reside free from property and income taxes. No Mooslimes allowed.
Maggie…..that bit with your sis was absolutely precious.
Wasted money – I will only tell you that it was a lot and to never put you investable funds into something that cannot be redeemed quickly, like with a click of a mouse button.
@DC ok im an idiot , I cannot find previous thread , look at Marathon Petroleum and it’s subsidiaries , or you told me to f off lol .
I seem to have comp issues lol
@ stucky pissed away 40 bucks on the 900 + million powerball today , that is an enticing number lol
@ leaving my ancient book collection with anyone um it aint going to fucking happen !
Kinda why im jaded due to previous info from books in their time frame that show a history radically different from the here and now . Also ,why I am published , the thread was there , I just put the pieces toghther ,no big deal actually .Makes perfect sense when history is looked at as to why there isn’t as opposed to why there IS.
When history is determined by the victors , um look to just prior of their win , and that written record and compare notes )
Everything is there ,tho I get stumped at the library of alexander , .
In actuality , what is missing from the historical record , paints a picture .
My apologies for any possible thread hijack , altho if my lottery purchase has winnig numbers lol there will be an epic TBP party !!
Just a cook pondering the probability field !! whatever lol
I’ve wasted money and I’ve wasted time. The worst thing was wasting money and time on a skunk ass girlfriend. I could have bought Stuck’s library and a whole bunch of Powerball tickets for all that got me.
Why, why couldn’t she have met Jfish first?
“I’m over it.” — the beautiful blonde
gm says: A cook surveying the probability field !! Fixed it for you.
Nobody is ‘just a cook’, unless you food is ‘just a meal.’
Knowing the cooks here, there are no humble cooks.
@kokoda… it was hilarious, thanks.
EC…where you been hanging?
Cable but that’s my wife’s gig. I buy movies on DVD that I like but only from the discount bin at my local grocery store for $1.99ea. I’m not sure where they get them but they are clearly former rental copies that they run through a disc doctor type of machine. I feel like I’m cheating the Hollywood jews out of their nut that way. The state gets fewer of my tax dollars too! I almost never watch movies when they first come out.
Stucky, ever hear of a library? My local libraries can get just about any book I want through the inter-library loan program. Your taxes already paid for the books, you may as well use them and save your money.
Maggie says: EC…where you been hanging?
As some of you may know, I recently bought a Prius plug-in and all the electronic goodies including Sirius XM. I immediately went for their free trial, but when it expired I held out for their secondary subscriber attempt, which means instead of $17.70 a month I’m paying $30 for 5 months.
As an old DJ, I just think Satellite radio is too cool.
@Westie, I do something similar with Readers Digest. If I hold out for about the third or fourth attempt I can get it for $4.97/year. 😀
Cocaine is a hell of a drug
adopting an alley cat kitten, getting bitten, scratched, and yeowling to either go outside, or wanting back in, cleaning his litter box, cleaning his vomited mouse parts, and rushing him to the vet on occasion……for 20 fucking years…to the day! I still miss him
Oh,….and FEEDDDDDDDDING him!
gm
The lottery tickets were TWO bucks each, for a total of $4 ….. not, $40.
There was a little sub shop near the GM plant in OKC just south of Tinker AFB. It was owned by George Thorogood’s brother and they made really awesome sub sandwiches and you were not allowed to ask for mayonnaise… well, you could ask, but you would get a lecture about how a real sandwich did NOT have mayo on it, so if you wanted that crap on it, get it to go and put that shit on at home but not in his shop.
They closed when GM closed, of course, but they did a hell of a business there.
The house and wonderful acreage the Leftist whore court stole from me and gave to my sexy but otherwise worthless stupid ex-wife; that was 20 years down the toilet for me. Now the feminist bitch is in poverty but I’m rich, have a great Asian wife and can laugh it off.
A lot of boomers seem to have gone through this.
The only thing worse is that young folks experience this at an earlier age.
Some never make it to the altar before ending up saddled with child support payments.
“Adopting an alley cat kitten, getting bitten, scratched, and yeowling to either go outside, or wanting back in, cleaning his litter box, cleaning his vomited mouse parts, and rushing him to the vet on occasion……for 20 fucking years…to the day! I still miss him.”
—-polecat
That’s not a waste of money. That was a sound investment in your mental health, and you said as much with “I still miss him.” Your feline friend was worth his weight in gold.