Most pointless purchase ever?

A couple of weekends ago H went off to buy a wedding present for some very dear friends and came back with a salt and pepper mill. In the shape of a rabbit.

We had a roomba (although got it for about £10 from Lakeland as opposed to the hundreds it normally costs) and it got stuck under our bed and the cat attacked it. It didn't last very long. I wasn't actually that impressed with it cleaning, it's timer got messed up and came round the house at 2am. Frightened the crap out of us!

I'm very careful about buying things so don't really have anything pointless. H bought air soft BB guns and he's stopped going. He has loads of kit just sitting there and he's not been all year but he won't sell them!

I have a habit of buying useless toot for example, a brush to clean in between the keys of a keyboard or a mount Henry Hoover to do the same thing.

Have either of them been used?! Have they ****.

I'm also a sucker for paying extra when I buy a car to have the warranty (which I have never in my life used), same goes of the cleaning kit and special paint protector they put on. I've never used the cleaning kit.

I don't have anything to add, other than: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tLt5rBfNucc

Sorry, I lied. This also: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph_o6qvRZak

I tried to convince my H to get one of these so I could just put my feet up while the hoovering gets done but he pointedvout that as he always does the hoovering, that happens anyway!

If you happen to be my SS, I've always wanted a mini henry hoover keyboard cleaner!

I love useless stuff. I'm forever buying things that I insist I MUST have - a little dish for my used teabags which is never used because they go straight into the food waste, a mini chicken coop for my eggs, a tin for my washing powder which would be better off in the cupboard, a wire tailors mannequin... the list is endless!

Hahahaha!!
Hopefully he hasn't spent too much on poor robot ?

My OH has bought loads of stupid things, recently he bought some cheap second hand bike which I said he'd never use, he then went out and bought a repair kit and it wasn't even the right one and wouldn't do any good to the wreck anyway ?

This made me laugh out loud!

Again, too funny!

My H just walked in as I was reading this thread & I was laughing so hard, he couldn't get two words out of me!!

Me and H tend to just buy stuff we never use - think it's a great idea at the time and then never use it. I'm particularly bad with groupon and living social deals where I thinks it's an essential so I have to keep myself in check and not buy anything I don't *absolutely* need!

Tizzie the 2am thing is quite disturbing...

Mr Erin likes pointless gadgets. I should have accidentally "lost" the toothpaste tube squeezer when we moved house. I bought what l thought was a basket for washing, l didn't read the dimensions and when it arrived then it was tiny. Think l should give it to Mr Erin's nieces to play with

My OH loves pointless stuff. He's had a USB lava lamp and a USB cup warmer (which was good actually!) and just random stuff like that.

Never heard of a robotic Hoover though! Must do some research!

I remember my Mum buying a black, plastic remote control "hub" to keep the millions of remotes we had tidy. The only place to keep it was next to the telly which was a bit silly and the remotes never stood up in it properly so it was always empty and the remotes remained scattered around the living room. The hub then got referred to as "The stupid black thing" until it got pput in the bin!!

Awww, I thought the Roomba looked really good and quite wanted one, I'm sad that they're rubbish and/or evil. ☹️

We have been given a battery-powered hand-held vacuum in the shape of a cat, to hoover up crumbs from the table cloth. I usually just shake it out of the window. ?

I bought my cousin an mp3 playing hoodie for his bday. He could connect his mp3 player into the hoodies pocket and use it's toggles as earphones, he tried it once and complained that it gave him a static shock. 30 quid down the drain.

Our new car - paid faaaaar too much for it (because we are gullible idiots who know nothing about cars) and my OH who is the primary driver has now decided it's too big and now no one wants to buy it! ?