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diva77

(7,643 posts) Thu Apr 30, 2020, 08:01 PM Apr 2020

Have you purchased an item for 1 purpose, found it useless until you figured out another use for it?

During the TP rush at the beginning of quarantine, a hand bidet was acquired in the event of an emergency TP shortage. Now that TP seems to be in greater abundance these days, it seems that the lonely, unused hand bidet makes a very nice watering can for a container garden. The hope is that the neighbors won't recognize what it is!

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Have you purchased an item for 1 purpose, found it useless until you figured out another use for it? (Original Post) diva77 Apr 2020 OP

I once purchased 172,000 miles of string mr_lebowski Apr 2020 #1

LoL🤣 dewsgirl Apr 2020 #3

I use my hand/travel bidet all the time and have for almost three years. It works great. brewens Apr 2020 #2

I bought a widget to fix a whatsIt... it did not work as planed so...... mitch96 Apr 2020 #4

Then what did the whosit do with the whatsit? diva77 Apr 2020 #5

Who knows..... it's a wobbly so it's worrisome...... or is it "whom knows?" mitch96 May 2020 #8

... eppur_se_muova May 2020 #6

I like it! diva77 May 2020 #10

... Major Nikon May 2020 #7

Oh my! diva77 May 2020 #11

I've seen this guy's vid's a few times....... he's a HOOT!!! mitch96 May 2020 #9

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)

1. I once purchased 172,000 miles of string

Reply to diva77 (Original post)

Thu Apr 30, 2020, 08:08 PM

Apr 2020

But when it arrived I found that it was in 3" lengths.

It wasn't very useful, or so I thought.

I subsequently found out that it's great for destroying household pests.

If they're smaller than a mouse, I can hang them with it.

If they're larger than a mouse, I can flog them to death with it.

dewsgirl

(14,961 posts)

3. LoL🤣

Reply to mr_lebowski (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 30, 2020, 08:17 PM

Apr 2020

brewens

(13,592 posts)

2. I use my hand/travel bidet all the time and have for almost three years. It works great.

Reply to diva77 (Original post)

Thu Apr 30, 2020, 08:08 PM

Apr 2020

I hardly even need toilet paper.

One thing that was about useless was the battery charger I got when I bought a digital camera about 12 years ago. The camera ate those recharged battery's too fast to even bother with. So it sat there until I had a remote that uses AA's run out. I still had a couple of the recharged battery's ready to go and put those in. When I realized those would run a remote for a long time, I went and got a few more AA and AAA to have backups for all my remotes. I haven't bought new battery's since I got a smart phone. That made that old digital camera obsolete for most purposes.