Stupid Purchases

We all make stupid purchases. Some things look great in the shop, but on the way home turn into the most dreadful item you've ever seen. Or you see something that seems a bargain, but you later realise it wasn't.

I have many stupid purchases in my flat. From the £200 shoes that don't fit, the "Frankie Says Relax" t-shirt, and the crappy foot spa that doesn't even massage my feet.

But my worst purchase was a small bit of land behind where my folks live. It was right on the canal and I had dreams of getting mooring rights and charging people to park their boats there for the night. I was so desperate to secure the deal I didn't do my research and it turned out I couldn't moor boats there. Stupid.

Bought a run down house with my girlfriend thinking we were the next Sarah Beeney and George Clarke. Went for a cheap survey which didn't tell us half the problems. Ended up taking a year to complete and by the time we'd finished and sold the house we made a loss of £500. Doesn't sound a lot but we'd both given up our jobs.

I booked this munter off the internet. £100 for 2 hours. Never again.

2011/12 Bolton Wanderers season ticket. Waste of money.

Something similar to LH but it was a semi-detached in Little Lever. Had all the surveys down properly etc etc etc. Sold it 2 years later but the profit was nowhere near as much as I hoped for - only made 800 - didn't realise all the hidden charges and taxes.

My BWFC shares.

Passi wrote:My BWFC shares.

I was doing well in both forgettting about them and not mentioning them.....



DAVIES - OUT!

GARTSIDE - OUT!

COYLE - OUT!

(ps I know Gartside and Coyle were not part of the set up when Eddie Davies bought them!)

Iirc Gartside introduced Davies to the club.

I used to have a pair of Timberland shoes that I really liked and wore all the time till they eventually got worn out. I decided to replace them straight away and paid £120 for a brand new identical pair but it just wasn't the same wearing new ones so I put them back in the box and shoved them under the bed, where they've been for years now.

How about squirrel underpants from stupid.com?

Sluffy wrote:Iirc Gartside introduced Davies to the club.

I seem to remember that he did, as well, but at the time Gartside wasn't Chairman and only a mid-member of the board!

bwfc71 wrote:

Sluffy wrote:Iirc Gartside introduced Davies to the club.

I seem to remember that he did, as well, but at the time Gartside... (was) only a mid-member of the board!

bwfc71 wrote:
(ps I know Gartside... (was) not part of the set up when Eddie Davies bought them!)

Well was he a part of the "set up" at the time or not?

I think he was myself!

He didn't have any real say in how the club was run - he took an opportunity to introduce someone but thats it! The final say basically came down to the top-level board members (mainly the Warburtons).

Directors usually put their money into a club - least that what they used to do back in the say.

Gartside wasn't on the board to make it look any prettier and as an accountant I'm sure he knew a bit about investing his own money.

You said above he wasn't any part of the set up at the time Davies came aboard - the fact that he was an existing director says otherwise.

Anyway it's all history now.

BWFC shares is a great call by Passi. I think I bought 800 quid's worth when they were first issued, and ended up selling them for 350.

I was in Bolton after school one day and witnessed a lot of adults handing over money at a 'mock auction' in the retail unit where Game is now on the edge of Victoria Square. Seeing all those people opening their bottles of garbage perfume and snide one pound watches, that they'd agreed to buy 'blind' for a fiver or a tenner, and how they'd been so skilfully done over, was a far more useful life lesson than anything I'd learned in the previous 8 hours at school.

Went to Appleby Horse Fair a few years ago, about the time we were interested in Rivaldo.

Anyway bought this Bell, for 20quid thought it would make a good addition to my Garden, got it home, didn't look right anywhere, so it's still in its box upstairs... might weigh it in.if times get bad.

Some years back the wife wanted some baby ducks for our garden pond so I went to this bloke who sold me two baby ducks. They grew into two fucking big geese that wrecked the garden. They mated and we had geese everywhere I had to get rid of them.

Ha, ha, he must have saw you coming AD. Perhaps if you had a serious hair cut you would be afforded more gravitas.

largehat wrote:Ha, ha, he must have saw you coming AD. Perhaps if you had a serious hair cut you would be afforded more gravitas.

At that time I had buzz cuts LH