Underwhelming purchases

[Pigeonho]

I've just taken delivery of a drier I was told to order by Mrs P. One of those condensing fuckers which cost just shy of £220. To say i'm underwhelmed is a fucking understatement. Usually if something big like that is delivered it's something exciting like a new tele, something to play with, something to marvel at - something good.

Just phoned her to say it's here and she said 'does it look nice?'

I despair at times, I really do.

 

[SWP's back]

Good idea to wait until the start of the summer to buy a drier mate.

 

[Pigeonho]

Good idea to wait until the start of the summer to buy a drier mate.

Exactly! This is exactly what I said to her! She said, 'but with the heating being off from now on, if we need things drying and it's raining outside....'
I just clicked the 'buy' button and left it at that.

'Does it look nice?'

Really?!

 

[The Pink Panther]

I spent £23k on a car and instead of being excited, all I could think about was how much it had cost

 

[Pigeonho]

I spent £23k on a car and instead of being excited, all I could think about was how much it had cost

£23k on a car eh? Nice! Now this is the sort of thing that would go on the yet to be created 'purchases which make your dick go hard' thread.
I would be like an excitable child in the days leading up to that purchase.

 

[gazinho]

I bought a 'real' watch for £30 off a lad called banana once it stopped working after a day....................

Anyway a new roof on my house is possibly the most underwhelming £2500 I have ever spent, I knew it needed doing but just couldnt get my head round it costing that much!

 

[Lancet Fluke]

I spent £23k on a car and instead of being excited, all I could think about was how much it had cost

£23k on a car eh? Nice! Now this is the sort of thing that would go on the yet to be created 'purchases which make your dick go hard' thread.
I would be like an excitable child in the days leading up to that purchase.

The anticipation of getting an expensive car is great. In fact actually getting the car is great but then, in my experience, that feeling is soon replaced by a kind of OCD obsessive thing where longer has to be spent washing and vacuuming the fucking thing than is spent actually driving it.

 

[Pigeonho]

I bought a 'real' watch for £30 off a lad called banana once it stopped working after a day....................

Anyway a new roof on my house is possibly the most underwhelming £2500 I have ever spent, I knew it needed doing but just couldnt get my head round it costing that much!

That is exactly the kind of thing I mean. Next door but one have just had the house re-guttered. I'm sure it will have cost a pretty penny as they've gone for this decorative stuff rather than your bog standard shite. Even so though, I would be fucking mortified to have to spend a load of hard-earned on fucking guttering. Those words though, 'it needs doing', ring true but it doesn't make it any easier!

Just think Gaz, £2.5k could have had you a nice holiday or a big fuck off 50" tele...

 

[wayne71]

Last year, 2k on soffits fascias and gutters. The only good thing is I don't have to paint them any more.

 

[daveduke67]

Laptops.
I spend a while checking out the web for deals, go to PC World 'just to have a look' and end up buying one. The prices are pretty good as they hope that muppets will buy the PC Doctor packages and grossly overpriced peripherals. Plus I can try the keyboard - some are awful.

I can't wait to get it home and set it up.

Out of the box, read the back up instructions and spend an hour doing that.

Then spend an hour updating Windows.

Then spend another hour uploading all the things I had on my old one.



Then look at it and think 'it's just the same as the last one without Hello Kitty stickers, cracked hinges and missing keys'. My heart sinks as the feeling of underwhelment kicks in. From such a high to the realisation that it only does what the last one did - a bit quicker and in a prettier case but that's it.<br /><br />-- Wed Mar 28, 2012 9:41 am --<br /><br />

I bought a 'real' watch for £30 off a lad called banana once it stopped working after a day....................

You bought a watch off a lad called Banana and was surprised it was a duff?

I remember back in the 70's ,my Dad buying a Rolex for a tenner. When News At Ten came on (pre Sky+/V+) my Mum asked him what time it was. He looked and the watch said 8.20. He slapped me round the head and shouted ' You've been fucking about with that tele haven't you'