Je ne regrette rien

[Tilly2]

..............except buying my first pair of stretch jeans. The beginning of the end.............of my waistline.

What do you regret buying?

[sherrardk]

The lease on a pub five years ago - it didn't end well!

[Kiki-frog]

Tilly, no, stretch jeans are great. Oh, OK, I see what you mean.......

[Eve]

Not regret as such but sensible arthritis friendly shoes. No more pretty high heels for me :(

[emmie]

the sofa and chair, waste of money, lots of it as well.

[douglas9401]

Marlboro!

[Hopkirk]

The Jaffa cakes that I have just pigged out on.

[janzman]

Not taking job offer of trainee camera operator with fledgling London Weekend Television in 1968at the age of 19.

[Eve]

Oh, actually, a pair of iceskates. I really enjoy iceskating and wanted to take some lessons and learn some ice dancing.

I really struggled on them with the arthritis and as I got proper dancing skates rather than the usual hockey skates they rent out I discovered that my natural fast skating technique (down and along) is really incompatible with dancing blades with a toepick on - I discovered this in a very painful way when my blades would suddenly hit the toepick mid skate and throw me smack flat on my face onto the ice!

They are now resigned to the spare room waiting for me to get round to selling them.

[boxtops]

My Nordic poles. They have sat behind the front door, full of good intentions, for at least five years.

[tiggerblue10]

Trying Lindt Lindor and Ben & Jerry's Choc Fudge Brownie for the first time!!!

[Answerprancer]

Can I regret *selling* something instead ?
Yes? - ah good :-)
It was a Roland SH09 synthesizer, I sold it to a 'friend' who had absolutely no idea how to look after stuff properly, he left it switched on all the time and it got so dusty after a while that only half of the keys worked. He refused to sell it back to me and the price sky rocketed because it became a 'classic' synth.

[sherrardk]

Boxtops - were you actually intending using them outside of the house in daylight ? (I have just googled Nordic poles).

[Eve]

In fact, add to that mountain bike hire which resulted in me letting my friends go ahead and doing a trek in the snow (wheeling said bike) round Delamere as my knees couldn't hack it. Was lovely wandering round the forest in the snow though.

Ski boot and clothing hire before not even being able to get up a slight slope to the lift (feet and legs in agony) and the shame of a cute skier come past me, turn round, give me a rather pitiful look and hold his pole out to pull me up. Couldn't face turning round and admitting defeat so ended up going up the lift and hiding behind a ski jump half way until I could face the pain (and fit snowboarders!) enough to come down.

Adjusting to arthritic-ness after being pretty adventurous got rather expensive for a while!

[Tilly2]

Somebody must regret buying a breadmaker!

[janzman]

Having been complemented at school by my drama teacher for parts in various plays and advised to pursue the posssibilities of career on the stage, I did nothing about it. Only realising a hidden ambition some 45 years later in AmDram and now in my early 60's it's too late to do anything about it.

[mazie]

Me ...I so regret that breadmaker...It went to the tip...So many things I regret buying Tilly I wont bore you with a list

[janzman]

>somebody must regret not buying a breadmaker<
...I regret not marrying a breadwinner..lol.

[Tilly2]

So Nordic poles are not a good buy then, boxtops?
I was thinking of buying some to try to reduce my waistline.

[Kiki-frog]

I regret giving away my first ever LP (David Cassidy). I seemed like a good idea at the time because by my late teens I'd decided it was so uncool.

[237SJ]

I think swearing has it`s place but when I`m walking down the street and I hear the F or C word I think it sounds absolutely dreadful. Great when you go overseas - you don`t hear any of that on the street.