Mine was yesterday, I bought a papa john’s pizza of medium size and some garlic knots. I was feeling like shit because my job and store is very good at that, so I stress ate. I contemplated in the car which would’ve been more valuable for my buck to dine with. I picked pizza.

$20 (more like $27 but I took away the price of the knots) was what it cost for a meats-based medium sized pizza from there. The problem I had with the pizza was that it didn’t look like a medium, it looked like the smaller-end of a medium. Secondly, the person cutting the slices did a shit job, because I had two smaller slices than the rest. And I felt there wasn’t enough meats spread evenly.

I honestly should’ve picked a chinese buffet because at least I would have variety and I could eat as much as I wanted. Plus saving a few dollars.

This is the first and last time I’m ordering something out of my comfort budget.

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    An Intel Atom notebook with 2GB RAM and 32GB storage acquired for $200 on Black Friday. Despite many attempts to optimize it, it was practically unusable 4 years in. If I had the foresight to buy a used ThinkPad for the same price instead, it could have been my daily driver to this day.

    Also a faux leather wallet. The “leather” started turning to goo and powder about a year in. Some of my cards and my wallet photo still have some of those decayed fake leather bits stuck on the edges or rubbed in.

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    iPhone 3G. Awful performance, even worse battery life, no multitasking, next to no storage space, couldn’t do shit without iTunes, and even with iTunes the options were severely limited. Overpriced locked down piece of shit. Streamlined UI was pretty much the only good thing about it. Got an android phone not long after and it was like night and day.

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        I take my first experience at a motorcycle dealership as a baseline. To work on my bike they charged £55/h labour for the two of them. So I just think, minimum wage x 3 per person is a good price for mechanics. Now it’d be about £75.

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    Hm, no, I can’t imagine that I’ve ever experienced a worse purchasing regret than the one you described there with the pizza.

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    Rent every month. The scam eventually ends so at least it won’t be forever. It just lasts the rest of my life.

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    Samsung A03.

    After years of buying the cheapest phones possible, i got really tired of it and spent more money to get a better one, hoping to finally be free of all the bullshit.

    It’s the worst phone i’ve ever owned.

    Cost me 100€ second hand instead of the ususal 50€. I am so disgusted

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      If you still are using it, try this:

      • Disable RAM Plus under Battery and device care > Memory
      • Reduce transparency and blur under Accessibility > visibility enhancements
      • Disable the home screen media page, if it’s there
      • Use 3-button navigation instead of gestures

      Got just a bit more performance out of a friend’s A03s that way.

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    My brain is too scattered to think of biggest, but most recently was ordering anything from the cheap Chinese food place! Cheap! Mostly tasty!

    Also gave me something that made me so sick for 2 weeks and unable to keep other food down I had to get an xray to make sure everything was okay! Ultimately it was but man! Bad two weeks!

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    Those Samsung earbuds which had a proprietary connector from back when every phone manufacturer refused to use 3.5mm plugs to push their own breakable standard.