What’s something you bought, knowing it was a total waste of money?

I usually don’t buy things that are a waste in the sense of “I’m never, ever going to use this thing…” but I do have a tendency to buy replacements for things which still work perfectly well. I’m most guilty of this in the computer mice department. I have a drawer that has a bunch of perfectly good mice that I just stopped using because Logitech released a new mouse. I’m trying to curb my spending habits here, but, for some reason I just can’t resist a cool new mouse.

More expensively, It’s been with laptop computers. My last laptop before the MacBook was still working all right before I made the switch. It was acting a little strangely, but nothing too terribly bad. But the MacBook Pro was new and all shiny and I just had to have one.

Just a few examples of my “replacing things that are still working fine” problem.