Doug: Quite some time ago, Karen ran an Open Forum on
things she wished she still had, and I followed it up with a post on
things I never had but wished I did. Today we're going to set that premise on its ear, and ask you to commiserate with us on things you've purchased, but wish you never had. The door is wide open to all sorts of possibilities -- comics, books, toys, DVDs, music, etc. We're looking for those wastes of money that have littered your collections over the years.
Doug: My wife heard a morning crew discussing organization on the radio a few weeks ago, and one of the suggestions they were making was to throw away (or donate, etc.) 10 things a day for 10 days. By doing that, paring down your junk would become manageable, and once it was done, you could see that it perhaps wasn't so painful to have done it. Maybe you're a hoarder, maybe you'd call yourself a "completist" -- we all have a story to tell.
Doug: Right off the top of my head, I'm going to say the first 25 issues or so of Bendis'
New Avengers took money out of my pocket that I could have spent on Doritos or some other such pleasurable experience. Egad, was that horrible. I ended up giving them away to the Resident Director in my son's dorm last year. That was the best loss of personal money I think I've ever endured! As far as something I own and really do love, but will never get any satisfaction from, is the door-sized poster of the wraparound cover to the
Crisis On Infinite Earths tpb. You can see it below. Now what the heck am I ever going to do with that thing?? But it sure is cool...