Pigbit Tote Bag
Closing date: 1st October 2007
To win this lovely Pigbit tote bag, perfect for vegetable shopping, simply let describe the worse, most silly, thing you’ve ever purchased and why.
The funniest / most regretful / silliest answer will win. As ever this competition is FREE to enter.
Please note Pigbit is a half rabbit half pig hybrid creature.
Thanks thanks thanks so much for everyones brilliants answers. The cross dressing ferret story won, mainly because of the super cute photo of the said ferret in a dress.
i brought a £1 box of david and goliath chewing gum becaus ei fought it was so cool because it sayed 1 tough cookie on it and it all that i could afford from the shop lol
i was playing a game in kings lynn in norfolk it was a beautiful day - and my friends and me decided to play found found found for a pound (a game where you try to out-doo each other with an item found for one pound) anyway i won that day - it was a great day for the game high compettition from all my friends 1 guy (jethro) bought some walkie talkies sadly the pound was spent on the talkies so no batterys = no fun - however i had bought loads of super glue (instant fix super glue) not so great untill you spread it around on cash points and sit back and watch people getting stuck to the machine - much fun and much more laughs - so i guess that is one of the best things i have bought and one of the silliest things i have bought - luck has it with this prank that even if the person turns round and see’s you laughing they cant run after you.................cos they are attatched to the wall.
peace out
-simon
When I first read the requirements of the contest I knew that this contest was made for me. I am the sort of person who loves to buy random objects. I had a hard time choosing what I would consider the funniest or silliest. Rather then pick my collection of gnomes or my giant smiley face lamp I decided to pick my snowman bowlingball pin christmas ornament.
Back in 8th grade I went to Hershey park on a end of the year trip. After a day of running around and having fun it was time to go. We were all given a chaperone and at the end of the day we had to check in with them before we could leave. We were all waiting around for one kid to show up when I had the sudden urge to buy somthing. I had spending money in my pocket and countless stores around me. I looked around and saw a very peculiar thing, a christmas store. At that moment I decided I would very quickly run in and buy an ornament just for the sake of buying one. I ran in and there, on a hook on the wall, was the best christmas ornament ever. It was a bowlingball pic with a showman head on top of it, that had a santaclaus hat on top of that. I immediately bought it and took it outside. I then revealed it to the amusement of all my friends.
here is a pictue of the ornament
http://i7.tinypic.com/6gkm734.jpg
I did once buy a pig. In itself, that’s not so odd but as I was living in a 3rd floor 2 bedroomed flat in West London at the time, maybe not so bright. Suffice it to say, the pig didn’t stay for long and went to a sane couple somewhere in Buckinghamshire. People said to me ‘You’re mad ... it’s not fair keeping a pig in a small flat like this.’ Apparently it was Ok for us humans though ...
Hello there,
When I first discovered ebay i bought all kinds of wrong stuff… my favourite is a corkscrew shaped (vaguely) like a monkey. Probably the worst were two small candles shaped like choir boys. I don’t know why i bought them and three/four years later I still have them…
I once was waiting in the cue of a small shop buying an ice-cream.
There was this guy behind me, really fussing, looked like he was in a rush, any way, i bought my ice-cream and walked outside enjoying the nice weather, and 2 seconds later he tore out of the door, rushing past me, he ran straight out into the road and got hit by a car…
... he survived
When my (now) husband and I were first dating, we bought an old slide-projector console that was used for marketing presentations in the ‘50s. It has a carousel wheel inside that holds 35 mm slides and projects them via a series of mirrors to a screen about the size of a 27” modern tv. It’s sort of cool but made of steel and about the size of a massive refrigerator, well over six feet tall. Of course, since it’s one of our first joint purchases, we are reluctant to part with it but the thing is absolutely enormous and very, very heavy. I can’t believe it was part of a traveling salesman’s #### way back when!
Mine is regretful yet amusing.
In berlin, germany I was looking a bit of shmoke to get that friday feeling so I went to the part of the city named after the zoo, I won’t try and spell it as if you’ve been there you know where I am on about and if not then you may do some day.
Jumped into a seller there who sold me something, he was a lebanese fella and instead of hash I spent 70 euro of a piece of wood bark!
And I smoked it to see what it would do! (i threw it out soon afterwards).
My english is not the best, so please uk people be gentle, i hope to make my story understandable!
I went once for food-shopping in a big store in Germany called Metro. Its a kind of special shop for largely buyers who themselfs have own shops to sell stuff, or restaurant owners and small people like me. This shop has also a big corner where they sell a lots of fresh fish.
Me and my ex-boy passed by and saw besides big and small fishes a huge aquarium filled with hunderts of river cancers, poor guys where still alive, i think you cook them just like that.
so i wished to at least get 2 out of that unpleasant situation, also my boy was in agreement with that. We got a plastic bag with two cancers putting on top of our shopping car, and went to cashier & payed for them something about 2 euros or even less. Because i lived at that time in hamburg, where there is a lot of water in the middle of the city, like little rivers, i suggested to free those 2 guy’s in a river right on our way back home. Because it was already late and dark, we decided to free them the next day on a good place.
At home we put them into our salad-pot filled with water and this construction we put in the middle of our shower, filled with water too, in case they made the impossible possible, to get out of the pot. And they made it possible!! This was the beginning of the torture for me and the cancers. Maybe because of their inner orientation skills, they started to run in that salad pot in circles, always trying to get somehow out of it (why!?). After 1 houre, the big guy made it , do not know how, so we put the other one also out and they continued to make circle walks in the shower. i tried all to bring them into sleep but i was not successful.
By that time my ex-b tried to find out what goodys we could give them for evening dinner, and found out by internet, that we can not free them into any German river, because they are coming from a breed (?) of usa and to free them in nature is forbidden, because they could kill our native cancers with a viruses they get in the breed. So for him it was clear that from this moment we had 2 new house pets! i imagined those two guys always running in circles in my shower and turned crazy over that. Compassion was far far away from me in that moment....
The next day i suggested that is maybe for our life better to bring them very fast into the animal home for lost animals, even if they would kick us out with this silly story and ugly animals. Who would adopt animals like that!?
So we put them back into the water - filled salad pot and drove them to that sad house, and for our surprise they took the whole story, us and the cancers very seriously!! We had to pay 20 euros to leave them there, and a nice man in the water animal department over there (i thought only cats and dogs would stay there!) said he has a nice lake outside where they can live (everly happy!?)!
We where so so happy, it was a wonder that they at least find such a great new home and did not end in a steaming pot nor our only shower! When we concerned some weeks after that day, how our river cancers friends are, , we called and ask for them, and imagine, some nice person liked them and adopted them both!! I just hope he was not a hungry man or woman 
). So i guess this was my silliest thing till now wich i purchased away. i should try bigger animals the next time !
Here some pics i made
http://animals-best-friends.blogspot.com/
ok, so.... my entire life I have wanted a ferret as a pet, yet they were illegal in my state of australia, due to excess heat…
last year however, I moved down to a much cooler state of australia, and my dream came true, and I got myself not one, not two but three ferrets.
One day, while on ebay, I was searching for ferrety things to treat them with (they’re uber spoilt), and, I found, a clearance priced silk dress advertised for ‘small dogs or a large ferret’, my mouth widened, as I hit the ‘buy it now’ button, at that point realising, my largest ferret, which would be the one it would most likely fit, was actual infact male.
A few days later, the package arrived, I ripped it open (almost violently) and what i pulled out was perhaps the most ridiculous thing i have ever seen. I immediately snatched up my big boy, and squeezed the dress onto him. I couldnt believe it.
My male ferret, instantly became a crossdresser.
see the photo, here:
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=20841718&albumID=0&imageID=7232310
when I was in Amsterdam a few years ago I decided to do all my Christmas shopping in the Red Light District. (You can make your own assumptions about my mental state during this trip) and I bought my Dad a pair of toothbrushes, one shaped like a naked woman and one like a naked man. Christmas day was quite embaressing, needless to say he has never used them. I will try and get a picture for you.
Note to self, do not buy christmas presents whilst under the influence of drugs or alcohol. x
While holidaying in LA I bought a mens Vanson biker jacket as they were all the rage. I wanted somethin different but in fashion. It was a professional crossracing jacket with shoulder pads like something outta dynasty. the arms buckle round so you have to stand like that Bluto outta Popey. And as Isa lady with boobs I cant actuallly zip it up
It looked stupid on me in the shop but I wanted a biker jacket so bad I forced my eyes to see style ( kinda like sober beer goggles??!) I felt stupid when I wore it out and at times had younger family memebers laughing at me saying it looks like something Michael Jackson would wear. I still wore it and I wore it once when I got back to London. The looks I received have mentally damaged me.
And the worset thing of all is the price that I paid for it.....(pause as 2 tears drop my eye) in 2000 £350 approx $500+ (which for a 22 year old in them days was big cash on holiday too!!!)
I still have it at my mums house cant bear to throw it out, tried to sell it to a second hand shop and was offered a tenner...how sad....:-(
THE THING I MOST REGRET BUYING - -
i purchased some old candy because it was only 20p for a HUGE bag, but after i had eaten it i felt pretty bad, i was sick all the colours of the candy (rainbow), in a way it was beautiful but also gross. safe burgerman
much love kidsquid
when i was 11 i was on a school trip in italy, and we were shopping on one of the last days for presents, i was in this normal enough shop and i saw a leather whip, my younger brother was big into horseriding, and i’d seen the ringmaster use them in the circus and that, so i thought he’d like it as a present...needless to say when everyone found out i’d bought a whip for my brother i received ceaseless abuse for the duration of the trip, and the rest of the school year...what’s funny is that is was totally innocent, but you don’t beleive me either do u?!
A red umbrella. Here’s a story…
A couple of years ago, for one week in the winter, I joined a trip to France with some of my french classmates. Walking around, touring some local areas, I noticed a newspaper stand on a corner. But this wasn’t an odd sight, paper media stands being everywhere, but a certain item caught my eye: an umbrella.
It wasn’t raning that day, but it wasn’t an ordinary umbrella (of course not). It was an umbrella with newspaper print on it - very fitting. Unfortunately, I had no money on me and all I could do was stare at it.
It became my resolve to find a unique umbrella, something more than a black and white newspaper. I noticed that everyone had black umbrellas. Why black? I wanted a passionately red umbrella. I was able to find one in the street markets of Taiwan for about $11 USD (now looking back, that was rather expensive for a street market price, and not so good quality; I suppose it was because I told the vendor I was American, raising prices on foreigners happen frequently...). Within months of my return to the US, the trend changed. Everyone wanted to be colorful. As I walked in the rain with my red umbrella, other vibrant colors surrounded me, some patterns passed by.
No longer was red so stunning (in comparison).
Now...I want a white umbrella. But what shall I do about the white and black ones?
I once bought...no it’s too bad!...A Cliff Richard record!! That’s not so bad by itself, but it was ‘Daddy’s Home’ - what was I thinking!! I was only a child at the time and remember walking into Woolies and looking at all the 45’s on display and in a moment of panic as I had to catch a bus, I quickly grabbed the Cliff track (never having heard it) and purchased it - do not tell ANYONE.
I quite like Devil Woman though 
I once bought a dying coffee plant from a university biology department “plant sale”. I miraculously saved the poor thing and in return it grew me some coffee beans. Don’t eat them though, home grown coffee beans taste bad.
I bought a horse blanket from Lidl, even though I have no horse, just because I could. I took it back though and exchanged it for some really fine eggy bread.
once i bought a gareth gates c.d.
i bought into society.
I bought a $10 note for RM1 [Ringgit Malaysia](long story). Later, I used that $10 and bought a broken Admiral Ackbar Action Figure on Ebay. I later sold that to my neighbour’s kid for $3 and bought a dragon fish that died the next day… it was sickly, apparently.
I also once bought a pink tee with David Hasselhoff posing with KIT, which incidentally goes very well with that Tote Bag.
I bought some magic beans (no my name is not jack!) from a crusty traveller at glastonbury a few years ago. Still waiting for the f***ers to grow. Maybe I should of ate them instead. 
Once I bought a ticket to a really exciting gig and I got there and it wasn’t exciting at all and I couldn’t drink it better because I had to drive but it appeared the lady in the car next to me didn’t feel the same because i witnessed her drunkingly trying to steer her car vaguely between the lines on her side of the road stopping only to wind down her window and rest her head on the door and power spew like crazy. Her boyfriend didn’t seem to mind.
when I was little, not long ago, I thought it might be good to buy an education. My mind said yes, my heart said no, of course I “decided” to go. Almost as soon as I got there I realized it was a silly purchase. I wasn’t bold enough to return it either; sillyness.
I bought an aubergine once that melted of it’s own accord into a purple goo. Never bought one since, evil things.
Fais chier, je suis nul en anglais…
Hmm...??? I think the most worse and silly thing I bought, was a date with myself… Why??? Cause nobody would ever date me! And I don’t blame them… 
A ferrets whom..... yeah it was only £29.99 from woolworths its ferret baby making time!!. thought it was a good idea at the time when i wanted an army or ferrets to try and take over the world with BUT THEY JUST SMELL OF PISS!!! dame you woolworths dame you to hell!! JON RUGERMAN BULES!! hahaha wait…
everyones been on an ebay shopping spree once in their life im sure.
If you havent thats a good thing.
Excited to finally join this virtual shopping world, i only had a few pounds on my card,
i bought,
a 99p disk with what claimed to be an animation about a cat.
i like cats, but the animation turned out to be a few hand drawn images on writing paper with the narative,
“Cat was hungry”
“Cat looked for something yummy”
“He found the yummy treats in santas sack”
“Santa is sad”
with a picture of santa with blood soaked pants.
I was sure from the ebay picture of the cat with a big smile on his face that it wouldnt be a tragic tale of morals about remembering to feed your cat properly near christmas times.
My next purchase was a safe bet,
kitties adventure 2
I own this bag. I love it. I take it to school.
The other day someone got paint on it.
Best bag ever.
Thought you should know.
I bought the Mr Blobby single (tape) when it was released. Ost embarrasing! My bro wanted it for his birthday. He was about 6. Alright, 16. Ish.
Bought the Cliff Richard single ‘Mistletoe and Wine’ too. 10p from Woolworths. That was for my Mam. I dropped her original copy down the side of the stone fireplace. She was gutted at the time. Probably more so when I replaced it.
Saved up my pocket money to buy the Vanilla Ice album on tape when it was newly released too. Bit of a diversion from my collection of 5-Star albums on vinyl.
Luckily I’m prouder of my more recent music purchases. Peter Andre, Bob the Builder, Scooter, etc.
I bought a Hello Kitty fake diamond shiny ring as an engagement ring when I proposed to my then Japanese girlfriend in Heathrow Airport.
She flew to England to settle here with me and I showed her the ring. She found it hilarious, but it was too big! She can’t wear it, but she keeps it safe.
We went to grad school in Notts and we lived in the Lace Market, so we were always around your work.
We’re moving into a new place in London, and we need some art. We’re dying for one of your canvas paintings. Please let us know if you have any.
We are now married and expecting a baby on 1 October 
Upon leaving the pub one night I was told to get lots of food as many people would be coming back to the house for a feed. So I bought 3 chicken currys, 2 satay chickens, 2 beef with blackbean sauce, 5 fried rice, 6 bags of chips and a 20 inch pizza. When I got home there was only 2 people there.
Enough said.
Ste in Dublin.
This one time me and my friends were goin to light a bag of ‘poop’ on fire and put it infront of Mr. Wright’s house. It was our first (but not last) time doing this so instead of getting dog poop which at the time we didn’t know was customary, I paid my brother $20 for a bag of his! 
I paid £2500 for a new car and had somebody drive into the side of me 6 hours later.
My insurance then sent my car to a breakers instead of to be repaired like they said they were doing. I only found out that they had wrote the car off when i recieved my tax disc from them, and i thought it was just being repaired :(. I was then offered a sum of £1650. :( The car lost £850 value in 6 hours according to my insurers.
I had to laff to stop myself from crying.
I once bought a bright red turban for my dad’s birthday.He saw it on a man on tv and exclaimed about how awesome it was and that he would love to own one.SO,i bought it for him for his birthday thinking i was going to make his day.Happily and glowing with pride,i presented him the turban and he burst out laughing,in my face.Not small hahas,but big loud guffaws.Needless to say,my face turned as red as the turban.Turns out he was actually making fu of the dude with the red turban and was being sarcastic when he said he was dying for to own one.
Well,the turban isn’t going absolutely to waste.It’s now lying somewhere at the back of my wardrobe,collecting dust.
I bought a hamster and it ate the box as i carried it home.
About 9 years ago, when i was at Glastonbury and was shall we say ‘mentally comprimised’ due to excess of everything, a certain friend who may be known to this site, and i, bought the most ugly, illfitting and frankly terrifying yellow trousers. They matched and even the hippies in the stone circle gave us a wide berth. I tried to give them away when i got home but no one would take them so my dog sleeps on them now.
Never go shopping when not ‘the full ticket’. x
When I was younger, on holiday in Devon, I used to go in all the ‘nikky nakky nu’ shops (thats what my uncle called them, all the silly souvenir shops) but anyway, i bought the most useless stupid picture frames when i didn’t even have any photographs to put in them. So, to make up for this, I used to cut out pictures of cute animals from little girlie magazines and put them in the frames. It seems pointless now, but i only just threw them out last week!
i think i deserve the bag for this funny tale! :D
Harriet xx
I wanted to buy a new shirt so i went to a clothing store in my neighborhood. I had a little time to choose because it was closing time… I was in the store about 40 minutes. I saw all the clothes over & over again. i couldn’t find anything for my taste. So because i didn’t want to leave with empty hands… i bought a scarf for 40 euros… God i felt so stupid after that. what was i thinking. the funny thing is that i never wear that scarf. it stayed in my closet since that day…
I bought 2000 tiny sealable plastic bags so I could make fake bags of cocaine for an art installation. I was quite surprised by how much 2000 bags would look like in reality. Needless to say, I didn’t manage to fill them all and I still have a large amount under my bed.
