£45.43

I love eBay. I've loved eBay since the beginning, back when it first started and you could actually buy things cheaply. This is back in the days of UrbanFetch, for you New Yorkers who remember the sheer luxury of ordering in a Kit Kat - just a Kit Kat. Oh, UrbanFetch, how I mourned when you went bust. Anyway, eBay. I love it. I love finding the random crap you'd never be able to find were you actually forced to, y'know, go to stores.

Anyway, I have bought some amazing things on eBay... but I've also bought some clunkers. Things that immediately seemed less essential once the PayPal funds had been transferred. Allow me to share a few of these flops with you.

£6.74 - Sexy PVC Trousers. Now, don't run away with the idea that I would ever, EVER, in real life, wear PVC trousers. More power to you if you've got that kind of ass, but I prefer something a bit less... sweat-inducing. Anyway, they were for a costume party I ended up not attending. And they were crap. Stained (yeah - I don't want to know, either), stinky and generally horrid. I'd like to think I burned them in the backyard, but I'm pretty sure I just threw them away.

£4.45 - Cowboy Guns. The cowboy guns, a kids' plastic gun-and-holster toy set, were meant to accompany the PVC trousers for my costume. I think they sat in a desk in our living room for two years until My Attractive Husband finally threw them away.

£19.99 - Worcestershire Sauce Flavoured Pretzels (200 bags). Now, I really expected to love these. I'd eaten Worcestershire sauce flavoured pretzels on a British Airways flight, and I found I could order a case of 200 of those teeny bags extremely cheaply. Well, after 5 or 6 bags, they get REALLY old. I pawned off a handful of bags on my lovely co-worker, and finally had to throw them out because they were taking up so much space in my office. I still find random bags in my office and kitchen.

£4.25 - Star Wars Episode 3 for Gameboy Advance. Yeah, I wasn't smart enough to figure out how to play this. It didn't come with an instruction manual, so I didn't know how to even get my lightsaber lit. And that's just a sad, sad situation.

£10 - Wizard Rock. Yeah, I spent ten quid on two CDs by Draco and the Malfoys. And you know what? They're hilarious. I defy anyone who's read Harry Potter not to giggle whilst listening. But they are probably one of the dorkier things I own... which, for me, is saying an awful lot.

This is a list I am sure I could add dozens of entries to, but as I should probably save some of the jucier purchases for other entries, I'll end this one here. And yes, I am still an eBay lover. And yes, it's probably a matter of time until I end up purchasing a portable bouncy castle that looks like Helms Deep. [OH MY GOD. THAT IS MAYBE THE BEST IDEA I'VE EVER HAD.]

Where My House Went: £2068.18