I bought this because it combined two of my favourite things, so it should be yummy.

It isn't. It tastes like vomit.

But I'm cruising eBay looking at second hand motorbikes...

I bought a pair of Australian cockatoos for the FPO/GLW, thinking they would be a pleasant addition to the household. They turned out to be vicious, vindictive little bastards who would sooner take your finger off than look at you.
They even terrify the dogs.

Black. John Lennon type. Bought on a whim whilst passing a music shop (well it would hardly be a butchers!). Once I did the deed, I walked home getting less and less confident about telling the Mrs Axekeith. I stumbled through the front door and announced with a silly grin in a silly voice, 'I've just bought a guitar'. Not the best couple of days of my life particularly as I was scared to get the guitar out as it was now the devil's instrument.

A couple of weeks ago I attended an auction with a mate to look at tools . On the preview his missus had spotted a piano and had researched it ( she is a libarian ) . After an early flurry it stopped at £100 . Suffering with tinnitus , I was possibly louder than required when bidding £110 . My mate said bods looked around and given my size no one bid again . I dont play either but I have plenty of mates who do .

It's a hideously overpriced tube of material that looks great around Ewen McGregor's neck when he's piddling around on his motorbike. You can wear it as a balaclava to keep out the snow, or a bandana to ward off the sun.

I bought mine in Betys-y-Coed whilst giddy with excitement and oxygen starvation after having tamed Snowdon by the easy route. I might as well have put an 'L' plate round my neck - the next day all the locals were trying to dissuade me from leaving the car park. What's Welsh for "only tossers buy buffs?"

I look fucking stupid wearing it in any of its applications. Around my neck, it looks like a cravat. It's never been out of the house again.

the other night. I was enthusing to my Mate about an acoustic guitar I was thinking of buying and how great it was for the money.
My impulsive Buddy picked up his iPhone and promptly ordered one.
He then spent the rest of the evening worrying about how he was going to explain this purchase to his GLW when it arrives on Friday.
He can't play guitar.

Get it tuned. It'll cost you about £50 and it can make even the crankiest old grid sound great.

A couple of years back I picked up an old upright (complete with candle holders) for £25 in a local barn sale - Ill admit I only bought it as a piece of furniture - but after a tune-up it sounded great in a battered 'n' funky barrelhouse kind of way.

The tuner explained to me that, depending on where it's been sitting in the past, it may take a few months (up to a year) to 'settle in' to the climate of your house. Remember, pianos are susceptible to damp/dry/changes of temperature & humidity and can drift out of tune quickly.

I had mine re-tuned six months later, then six months after that and it's rock solid now.

EDIT: He also said that if it's been moved into a centrally heated room near a radiator, put a bowl of water inside the back to stop the wood drying out and cracking.

Online. Gave it to the lovely lady for her birthday thereby avoiding recriminations.

Eeeeek! Having stalked the gloomy ginnels of eBay for years in search of ever-more obscure geetars of Japanese origin (emerging with more under my arm than is possibly healthy or wise), I've now taken the jump and stuck a bid on a vintage twanger at auction in Japan. And it's all in Japanese. It probably only plays Japanese tunes. I have no idea whatsoever what I'm doing but it looks *sooooooo* nice. The FPO is none the wiser at present. This situation cannot last. I said I wouldn't buy any more. But I can't help it.

I'm currently checking the auction every 30 seconds and inserting multiple back issues of The Word down my pants in preparation for the inevitable...

A Martin D15 acoustic guitar, bought over the web on the credit card, without ever having played one or heard it played, purely on the basis that it looked beautiful and had 'Martin' on the headstock. Neil Young plays Martins, that's good enough for me (though he doesn't play this kind).

Thankfully it sounded beautiful at first. Within a year it sounded awful. Was later told that the mahogany wood (the reason it looked so good) ages terribly, unlike other woods which sound better with age...

...I'm the king of impulse purchases. Or the knaviest knave of impulse purchases, actually. I had a terrible run of buying guitar stuff for a few years which I really couldn't afford. What a knob. I've sold the vast majority of it now.

Suffice it to say that, at one point, I had to build a 4' custom pedalboard to hold all my effects pedals. I had four amps and 9 guitars. No longer. It's a mug's game, and I still curl up in shame when I think about how totally I allowed myself to be suckered into thinking I needed all that crap.

the very low mileage acoustic guitar that has been gathering dust for over 10 years, and the bass/practice amp that started gathering dust about a month after purchase....I want to play them, just can't find the time. Or talent.