Worst purchases:

200 shares of Gemstar in mid-2000 at $80 a share. My dad really pressured me to put my college fund into this, insisting that their Rocket eBook would take off. Turns out the price was artificailly inflated because Murdoch was doing a hostile takeover, and my $16000 was worth $520 by the time I graduated High School in 2002 (a 97% loss). Fortunately my dad took responsibility for having me buy the stock and paid that part of my tuition out of his HELOC. The stock was up to $6 a share recently (only a 93% loss), but yesterday it fell 20% because they announce a buyout by Macrovision. I'm just waiting for my income taxes to be high enough to justify selling and writing off the loss.

$500 in new computer parts. After a series of power problems in my house, my power supply died. I replaced it, but afterwards found that one of my hard drives was no longer recognized. I bought a new $50 hard drive, and the motherboard still didn't recognize it, so I figured the IDE controller on the mobo was toast. Figuring it was time to upgrade, I bought a new $120 motherboard, a $100 C2D processor, a $30 heatsink (stock one was too loud), $100 of RAM (my old ram was DDR, mobo needed DDR2), and a $100 video card (old one was AGP, mobo needed PCI-e). When I finally assembled everything, the second hard drive still didn't work. It turned out that the IDE cable was bad because I had to unplug it when swapping power supplies and probably stressed the connector. I could've fixed the problem for $0.25 if I had thought to test the cable. Yes, I can now rip DVDs in 1/4 the time, but my old system worked perfectly fine for the stuff I do.

KR4056 said:I did read the direction but my little guy doesnt seem to be care about that

kittenmittens said:KR4056 said:Bought 100 pack condoms..next week girlfriend got pregnant... worst purchase ever!Next time read the directions.

Thats why you dont buy the Magnums, leave them for me.

$800 dollar gym membership, Never went and 2 years later I'm 20lbs heavier.
$700 "Fixer upper" Geo Tracker ended up not having the time to touch it due to changes in work and gave it to a friend.

$3,000 Avon, My wife demanded I let her try to make money while I was in college, A year later she was no longer intrested and I had a bill in my hands for $3,000 in stuff she had kept for herself.

$2,200 62" Toshiba HDTV, worth $900 now and I should have gotten a friggin flat panel.

All that is peanuts compared to What I have saved or even made since I have found FWF.

JTFH said:COMP NERD ALTER: The first time I went SCSI hard drives instead of SATA.I tried (and was moderately successful) with SCSI about 9-10 yrs ago, but it cost me a fortune, and it was never ever worth it (for me). So I can certainly relate to your story!

BanarasiBabu said:My next car will be a small used car for around $5,000 - $10,000.

And next wife will be a doctor?