What not to buy.

Flip phones, those things are son 90's.

• A Dazzle Capture card for your 360 that does not seem to work for Windows Vista 64 bit (GRRRRRR!!!)
• Dodgy €20 computer chairs from ikea.
  

Any RC Helicopter. They never work. Believe me.

On the Windows XP statement; 
Don't buy a computer with Windows Vista.
 

" @natetodamax said:

" I feel obligated to post this. "

oh my god. thank you so much. that gave me the laugh i needed "

" Any RC Helicopter. They never work. Believe me. "

Windows Vista.  

Don't buy Borderlands

Dont buy Tofurkey. 
 
Ever.

A 360.
 
NOGAMES

Off-brand Post-it Notes. They never stick to stuff the way the realest Post-it Notes should.

" Don't buy 5 dollar headphones from Khol's. That's bad. "

Gum that the guy next to you in the movie theater found under his seat.

Saved by the Bell the College Years on Blu-Ray

Sex, you can get it for free. Just takes a little extra effort to hide the body after your done with it...

" Don't buy Borderlands "

don't buy the collector's edition of anything, you will regret it

Discount donuts

HP laptops   
I had to pay for a known defect because I was a month late on the cutoff date, then the repair failed,. I could have bought 2 laptops by now. 
 
Also in about a week I'll know if 1and1 hosting sucks (waiting to see if they are going to fix my site going down 3X a day)

"I dunno, XP was quite decent, although if you're talking about today...then sure.  Walmart sells pet fish? I mean, alive pet fish?  Don't buy overdue milk...and then realise it's overdue when you've already drank half of it."