What is/are the worst thing/things you ever bought. Mine was an air conditioner that you added ice cubes to.

[debm55]

How about you.

[LoisB]

1. It's a tossup between Home Depot book cases (nothing but particle board) and Jennifer

sofa beds.

[debm55]

2. HAHAHHAHHAHAHAH. Thanks, LoisB.

[justaprogressive]

3. a Ford Tempo

for $1.

[Clouds Passing]

4. My 2yo maytag washer is a major POS. Lots of cursing and I f...ing hate yous at that thing.

[mountain grammy]

5. haha.. I bought one of those once..

definitely the worst thing.

[Grim Chieftain]

6. That stupid Zevo bug trap

We thought it would zap gnats that swarm in spring. Um, NO! Absolute waste of money.

[Xavier Breath]

10. I am a Zevo devotee.

I have a few of them employed throughout my domicile at present to handle the spring awakening of gnats, and they are working their magic. Many victims are stuck in them instead of flying about my house. But, YMMV, of course.

[Grim Chieftain]

11. So glad it's working for you!

We got two and put one in the pantry and one in the kitchen. In three, days we caught four gnats. I searched around the Internet and found that an inch or so of red wine in a plastic cup with a couple drops of dish washing detergent works great. Just cover it with plastic, poke several small holes in the plastic and bingo! It works like a charm.

[Xavier Breath]

12. My ex and I had tried the same homemade traps and didn't get anywhere with them.

We also tried some contraption that you plugged in and used a fan to spread the scent of the liquid they supplied to draw in gnats and they would supposedly stick to an adhesive disk inside. After a month of the fans running I checked the traps and they each had one or two gnats. We turned to Zevo after a coworker of hers has suggested it.

You have to do what works for you and your gnats

[catbyte]

7. A ponytail palm. It was gorgeous with 4' fronds

It looked like this:



When I got up the next morning, it looked like it had joined the Marines overnight. It had a buzzcut and there was cat spit up with little pieces of leaves in it all over the living room rug.

They must've had a blast all night.

[Wicked Blue]

8. Dodge Caravan

it went through FIVE transmissions

[NNadir]

9. My parents had one of those ice addition air conditioners and used it in my bedroom, which was over the kitchen.

My small 2nd floor bedroom growing up was the hottest room in the house.

Nobody in my house understood the laws of thermodynamics when I was in high school. When I learned the laws of thermodynamics, in particular how refrigerators worked, I was embarrassed and understood why I was covered in sweat every summer as an adolescent and teenager. (A refrigerator puts out heat; it's a heat pump that rejects the heat of cooling and freezing . Besides the heat of crystallization/fusion, the electric motor also generates heat.)

The worst purchase I ever made as an adult was a new 1994 Mercury Sable. It was, without question, the worst car I ever owned, and I owned a large number of cars.