Top 5 Items You'll See At My Next Garage Sale

If you were to look around your house, how many items would you find that you wish you could return to get your money back? In my house, I could probably send my first born to college. Dick Cavett once said "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." This blog is dedicated to “buyer’s remorse”…top 5 most worthless items I have purchased or inherited.

1. Snow Cone Maker
This neat little product that now sits in my cupboard of useless crap seemed like such a good idea to keep the kids happy in the summer. All it does is crush ice, but you have to turn this handle around and around and it’s not exactly easy. Umm…doesn’t a blender crush ice with the touch of a button?
2. Treadmill
I inherited this product and used it quite religiously for about 6 months. That was 3 years ago.
3. Water Flosser
This is a machine that shoots water out of a hand held utensil and cleans in between your teeth. How is it that I thought this device would be handy? I can’t even muster up the time needed to pull a piece of string out of a box much less haul out an appliance, fill it with water, use it, dry it and put it away.
4. Chevrolet Venture Van
I bought this van thinking of the great many trips we’d take around the country. Trip number one went pretty smoothly, but trip number two to Denver, Colorado…not so much. We broke down on the way to a wedding in some godforsaken Wyoming town. We limped this piece of crap to a mechanic and to expedite the process of getting us in, I told them we were on the way to a funeral and needed to be back on the road on the double. This will also appear on a future list “top 10 things I am going to hell for”.
On the way to a dealership to trade in this vile creation, I decided to clean ‘er up a little and wouldn’t you know as a last moment of spite the window cracked in 3 places…I mean, the irony was palpable. You could SEE the dealership from the carwash.
5. Wii Fit
I had the best intentions when purchasing Wii Fit. It’s a video game…has to be fun…right? The first time you “log on” you take this fitness test and it gives you your Wii Fit age. Mine was 47. I’m 31. Then the next time you log on, it makes you explain a. why you were too lazy to work out for 3 days and b. why you’re fatter now than you were the first time you logged on. And if you make the mistake of letting your child stand on the Fit Board under your profile it alerts the authorities that there has been a “massive weight change”. Thanks, Nintendo, but I already feel bad about myself.

There really should be an application and approval process for me to make a purchase. And it would also be helpful if companies stopped making home fragrance devices. Those damn scents in charming warmers!!