Most Infuriating Purchases

As any good skincare addict, I've spent my fair share of money on products that were less than impressive. Some get demoted to use on the body. Others find homes with friends and family. If truly awful, they go to trash panda Heaven. Then there are the conundrums. The ones I keep around, determined to find use for but failing time and time again. Maybe they cost too much. Maybe I'm just in a hoarder kind of mood. Maybe I'm just crazy. One such product for me is the DHC Astaxanthin Collagen All-In-One Gel. I read the reviews, which were glowing. It went on sale for 50% off at Ulta and I snagged it. Not long after, I found out the company's CEO used racist slurs against a competing company. I have zero tolerance for a company that stands for racism. If they were a company that exclusively hired Japanese employees, used only ingredients sourced in Japan, etc I could understand. Wanting to empower a specific set of individuals is to be celebrated. But there is no reason to speak ill of another company for being less exclusive and most certainly not acceptable to use racial slurs. It honestly sickens me to see major retailers like Ulta still selling their products. I feel like they continue to sell the products because most of their customers are unaware of DHC's apparent ethos because it is a foreign company, therefore not on their radar. Now, besides that rant, the product itself remains. After much deliberation, I decided to go ahead and use the product so as to avoid wasting it. And I found that it does NOT work well with other products. Like at all. Bizarre coincidence or grand design? So I've been slowly using it here and there. Can't allow myself to toss it. Can't see myself passing it along as it has been open a few months now.... Which brings me to my point....Anybody else care to share their most annoying purchases? They can annoy you for any reason. Perhaps you bought an expensive product only to find out you are allergic to something in it. Or you have this one serum that you don't love but also don't hate so it just sticks around forever.