A thread to discuss regrettable purchases, lockdown or otherwise. Did anyone ever actually buy a Raptou?
I acquired 2 painted Spanish pots off Freegle. No purchase. Just a 15 minute car journey, and now I know why they weren't wanted. However, I will use them somewhere.
My old auntie had a Rap'tou. If she'd had access to such a thing, she'd probably have set up a direct debit from her pension direct to K-Tel/Ronco. Buttoneer, record cleaners, tape rewinders, "record selector" - she loved all that shite.
Oh, and Redicut rug kits. The house was full of the brightest coloured rugs in 70s Christendom.
I am delighted to discover that Readicut (it has an "A") rugs still exist. Not only that, one or two of the patterns look remarkably familiar.
The prices, though! They were the cheap option for a rug in front of the fire in the 70s. Not any more.
https://issuu.com/readicut/docs/2019_rug_catalogue
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Readicut were very expensive in the 1950s.
I regret buying what I thought, as was hoping, was a mini fridge. Except that it didn't go below zero, so was on the way to useless.
Fridges don't go below zero - that's freezers.
I once tried to buy a mini freezer and they were unobtainable. Retailers couldn't believe that I wasn't particularly shopping for a cheap freezer; just a small one.
6,100 cubic inches!
https://www.mgdonline.co.uk/categories/compressor-coolers.php
Tiny, but eye-watering £££.
Too late. I don't want a mini freezer any more. There are two of us now, and more space.
Fridges used to have ice boxes but not so much now, and never those mini fridges which entertainingly can also be used to warm-up your lunch, but obviously not at the same time as keeping things cold.
I'm seriously considering getting a chest freezer to replace our fridge.
They're way more efficient and you just need a temperature probe connected to a special plug to convert it. https://youtu.be/2hsSEwXa5sY
Panasonic Speakers that act wirelessly off bluetooth and their own wi fi system.
When they want to.
Occasionally.
And with the most baffling accompanying 'App' in the history of Apses.
I will never buy anything Panasonic again.
A book of Baysien analysis.
As if I was ever going to read or understand it.
An overpriced magazine about Quantum Mechanics from the Marks and Spencer food hall. Still haven’t opened it.
#16 I’d have thought you would, but now you’ve said that...
My fridge with ice box doesn't warm up food, but it takes over whatever the settings (other than minimal) and ice pours out uncontrollably.
Just an updated version of buying in 1951 a Pelican paperback about the Minoans. The attempt at self-education.