Men Buy Such Useless Crap

I wonder if cavemen used to head off from the family cave of a morning and come back in the afternoon with a dead animal over one shoulder, and an armful of crap that they truly believed would improve their lives.

In my case, MOTH tends to buy things he clearly doesn't need, but truly believes he does. Whether it's because it gives him a small sense of control or what i don't know. But he went through a stage where he had to find THE lunchbox to take food to work with him. Not A lunchbox. THE lunchbox. Every time we went near Target or Big W he had to have a look at their range of lunchboxes and for the longest time, nothing was good enough. During a weekly shop, i found what i thought might be a good option, so bought it for him. He used it once. About a week later he comes home with ANOTHER lunchbox - some fandangled thing which came with promises of superior space, freshness and insulation. He used it maybe once. Now they sit... like toys a month after Christmas. Abandoned and alone.

I could tell a million stories like this one, but really who has the time. I will just tell you of the latest insane purchase and we will leave it at that. MOTH recently discovered a local website for second hand goods being sold privately. One afternoon i get a call saying
'by the way, going to be late getting home tonight - i'm going to pick up a video camera'...... 'you're what?'
'Yeh it was only 10 bucks' .....
3 HOURS LATER after getting lost more times than i can count, MOTH eventually arrives home with THE camera.
'You're joking'...
'What?'
'Does it even work?'
'Yeh of course it does....we just need to get tapes'......
'Tapes... you do realise this camera is from the mid 90's?'
'She'll be right'....

So now the camera sits... abandoned and alone.

But if it's not spending money on things that never get used, it's things that cost nothing. Just ask my mum. Since the early 90's my step-father has been collecting rocks of all shapes and sizes utterly convinced that each and every one of them served a purpose at one time or another
'See how this one has been ground to a point?'
'Ahuh...'
'That would have been used perhaps as an axehead'
'ahuh...'.

They aren't rocks.. they are ARTEFACTS. Buckets and buckets of invaluable artefacts sitting... abandoned and alone.

Men.