What is something you really wanted, but once you got, wasn't all that great?

1. Pretty much any impulse purchase from Groupon. They have to doctor their reviews, every 4-5 Star rated item I've bought has been complete garbage. I have plenty of examples of anyone is interested
   — Juno012


2. A relationship
   — Mike_August


3. It's 1995. Girl scouts. Brownie troop, to be exact. I was in girl scouts for about 2 years now and each year, during the cookie sales, one of the prizes in our magazine was this beautiful bronze statue of a horse. I didn't even like horses, but I liked this statue. I loved it. So, one year I finally made enough sales to get this statue. I sold my little heart out. Family, my parent's friends, their coworkers, neighbors, church members, the mailman. I made enough and the statue came. We were all sitting down in a circle and the troop leaders passed out bags/boxes of the prizes. I got mine. It was the smallest fucking statue I have ever seen. Smaller than a tube of lipstick. My mom even went back to the magazine to see if it said "this isn't the actual size" or whatever. Nope. They're just assholes.
   — autumnx






4. The NES classic. I longed for the days of a genuine classic Nintendo controller and Mario Bros. to play all day like when I was five years old. I think I've played it twice since Christmas for about 30 minutes tops. At least I didn't buy one on eBay. Now, the SUPER-NINTENDO CLASSIC ...
   — herrpuck


5. The BB-8 that is controlled by a smart phone
   — SeriousBlak


6. Adulthood.
   — GoodnightElizabeth






7. [Scannerz](http://cdn.nostalgiafreaks.com/feed_images/1372996060_5939ede266cc0d671e49fd7405fad177_384.jpg) the barcode scanning monster game. Looked so cool from the commercials, and it felt like it could be the next Pokemon. The scanner never worked, and I just had a broken heart.
   — Doofendoofer


8. Promoted, feels good for a few days then you realize the job is less fun and more bullshit.
   — thrownsomeplaceelse


9. A wine enema. Sounded like a great idea, but it was very messy and I got very fucked up very quickly.
   — Just1morefix






10. An office job. Throughout my teen years and early 20s I worked retail and absolutely HATED it. I hated the hours, the weird uniforms, and the worst was the rude, entitled customers who treated me like I wasn't a human being with feelings. All I wanted was to work in an office and dress in 'cute' business casual clothes and have set hours that never change (9-5). Well, I'm 27 now and I have been working in an office for almost 3 years and it's just...dull. Same thing day in and day out.
    — sleepytuesday


11. A talking bird. My uncle gave me his Monk Parakeet when he moved away. It had an extensive vocabulary - mostly of *cuss words and phrases*, plus some eye-opening expletives (the kind that could either be funny or embarrassing in front of company, depending on who was there).
    — Back2Bach


12. $100,000 in the bank. My health started failing and no amount of money can fix it.
    — cherokee__fade






13. Skinny. I thought all my problems would go away, but when I hit my goal weight and realized I actually just hated myself as a person, not just a fat person, I went into a deep, 7 month depression and gained weight back that took me years to get off. I fucking hate myself, guys. And I didn't even do that much wrong in my life.
    — kid_crad


14. My last dinner I ate out at Red Lobster.
    — Perfect5Outta7