What was your...?

Most outrageous purchase, that you never use? I could probably start an entire list and no one else would ever have to post LOL!
In 1980 I paid a small fortune for a sheepskin coat, it looked just like JR (Dallas). The coat wasn't bad, but one week later I went out and bought a matching sheepskin hat for $100 and I don't think I wore it again after leaving the store!
How 'bout you?

I purchased a kit to make a quilting stand. Not a quilt rack to display quilts, but a stand with rollers ... made to stretch a quilt on and hand quilt it. The kit wasn't too expensive because you had to buy the lumber. My Dad decided to go all out in assembling it, bought expensive lumber and my mom lovingly stained and stenciled it. They made it extra large to accomodate the largest of quilts - I think it's about 9 or 10 feet long and 3 feet wide and 4 feet tall. The problem is that the only place my DH will let me keep it is right in a bay window. The window faces south and gets sun all day. Any quilt I put in the stand would quickly fade, so I have never used it (they presented it to me in 1998). It has sat there empty for years.

Is there anything you could put on it? Wouldn't want to ruin a quilt but perhaps a throw of some kind? I tell ya I have so much stuff that I have almost never used.
That icecream make the kids got me last year was used once and will probably never see the light of day again.

Hmmm maybe use the quilt stand as a hanging plant rack? Put a shelf on top and have sitting plants on top too.

Hmmm,My junior year in High school I bought a 10 ft. tall taxidermied bear. He was in bad shape with no fur left on his backside but looked pretty fierce from the front. I bought him at a Yard sale while out for a walk. They wanted a whole 20 bucks for him but took 10 after some haggling. Then I had to get it home. We finally strapped him to the roof of my girlfriends VW Beetle and drove home. Once at home we soon discovered that a 10 ft. bear will not fit into a house with 8 ft ceilings and put him in the Garage.

Now, imagine the reaction of my parants when they came home, opened the garage door to put the car away and came face to face with a snarling looking bear! I still don't know how they knew it was mine (there were 5 kids in my family) but I heard both of them yelling for me rather loudly. Dad was laughing so hard I thought he would hurt himself and Mom was white as a sheet when she finally said "If I won't let you have a dog, what on earth makes you think I'll let you keep a bear?"

Bravo, that is what I named him, stayed with us for about a year. For some reason, I don't understand why, no one we knew wanted to adopt him. He was finally used as a prop in a high school play and was left in the prop department.

A stuffed grizzly, hilarious. You should'a kept him Zany what a prop he'd make in your cactus garden in CA LOL!

LOL Candie, and I cold have used that Sheepskin coat and hat to patch up his poor bald backside!

Well, I bought a package of dance lessons for an outrageous amount of money. Then, I fell in love with a guy that doesn't dance - - won't dance - - can't dance. Instead of going ahead and taking the lessons solo, I waited for a couple of years - - then the dance studio went out of business. It makes me sad every time I see couples dancing on TV or the movies - - both that I wasted so much money and that I am stuck dancing with my dog in the living room. LOL Nat

LOL Nat, at least the dog has an excuse for dancing like he has two left feet!

HA - - you're are tooooo quick on your feet for me. Laughing out loud in Tennessee!!!

LOL, Zany would yo like the sheepskin vest also, didn't tell that story.
Didn't want to make you girls cry LOl!

All my purchases are outrageous. If I am in the store more than 10 minutes, it's a miracle. I always buy the first thing that looks OK. And then on the way out, I throw the sales slip in the trash. So when I get home and the item doesn't fit, I have to keep it. Or so I am told.

We are so alike in that regard gold, I never return anything. I abhore shopping and do most of mine online. I can't stand browsing around in a store.

gads, spare me from shopping. Nearly everything I buy I order online, or send someone out for. I would rather take a beating than go shopping....

That hasn't stopped me from making bad purchases, tho. I once paid way too much for a satin blouse that matched nothing - nothing I owned, nothing I could buy. NOTHING! It hung in my closet for a couple of years before I decided to use it for a halloween costume.

I won the costume contest, and the prize money was almost as much as the blouse had cost. lol

Cheri'

LOL Cheri'- my kids always laugh that I would just give them the card and let them get whatever they wanted just as long as I didn't have to go in the store. I would always stand by having a glass of wine or something while they shopped.

I was afraid to give DD the credit card when she was a teenager, but she knew she could 'keep the change', and thus learned to bargain shop (for me, anyway. She's just now applying those lessons to her own shopping. LOL)

She now has a credit card with her name on it, attached to my account. She's only abused it once, and it was soooo hard to be mad at her because everything she bought was on clearance. LOL!

Cheri'

Here's mine:
I once bought a signed poster of the Brady Bunch cast!!! Really! It was for real!

LOL, why were you there for the signing or something?