Really, Really stupid purchase???

I won the bid on a big upright piano, cost a ton to have hauled, a ton to have "repaired" and 5 years later I felt lucky when I finally found someone to take it off my hands for free.

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misera est servitus ubi jus est aut incognitum aut vagum
(miserable is that state of slavery in which the law is unknown or uncertain)

For several years, my husband would get sucked into "get rich quick" schemes that he would see on TV. There was America's Note Network that ended up costing us several thousand dollars after he hired one of their coaches to help him get going and paid a lot of money in postage and phone bills. There was Carlton Sheets' real estate plan where you buy properties for a song. There was something called Delphin, that later changed it's name to something else where he paid $1200.00 for a poor quality tape pack that will change your life if you listen to it, then he spent about another $5000.00 in leads and printing and postage for post cards to try to get other people to buy the tape pack and change their lives. I wish we had all the money that was wasted on these types of things. If we had invested it, we might have a tidy sum by now.

Hubby did finally learn that there is no such thing as "get rich quick". Thank goodness!

I had a pet rock back in the 70"s

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If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, water your grass

I paid fifty bucks for a complete wedding package at one of those drive threw Nevada wedding chapels back in 76 .... that cost me not only thousands of dollars and a total waste of 9 years, but it took another 10 years to get out of debt from all the bills she ran up!

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"Nothing so needs reforming as other peoples habits." Mark Twain

Comedian Ron White said "The next time I feel like getting married I'm just going to find a woman who hates my guts and give her my house".

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Flaming Xtian
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Mahatma Gandhi


Libertarindependent

Yep, my ex was a total slob around the house, but she was an excellent house keeper... she not only kept it when I left, she kept the rest of the farm too!

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"Nothing so needs reforming as other peoples habits." Mark Twain

hmm..why buy the whole pig for a little bit of sausage?

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PROUD MOM TO A US MARINE

National Organization for Women

A engagement ring? Come on now, someone had to say it...... Also important to mention (in case my wife is stalking me) that we will celebrate 20yrs of wedded bliss this Sept.

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Do not Lead for I will Not Follow
Do not Follow for I shall Not Lead
I am but a Simple Drummer

Moon Sand. I was taken in by the "never dries out" and "simple clean up" hook. Got some for DD. HUGE mistake. Messiest, nastiest stuff ever, doesn't hold together, gets EVERYWHERE, worse than play dough to clean up. After a day of it, went right in the garbage.

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Becky

Moon Sand-LOL, I got stung by that one, too! It's now regulated to being "an outside" toy. My weakness seems to be kitchen gadgets. I've got apple slicers that slice too thickly to be used, whisks that are guarenteed not to break that are in pieces, a fancy veggie peeler that really doesn't work right, scoops that don't make the size of cookies that I really want, and the list goes on and on.