You know, I was looking through the attic through my old toys, now that my niece is six years old, and I found some stuff that, in retrospect, I can't believe I spent money on.
There was a Rubix Cube (unsolved, naturally).
A bunch of Garbage Pail Kids stickers. (Yeah, they were stickers, not cards, and I have no idea why they were so appealing way back when.
Anyone remember the show Dinosaurs? I found this Baby Sinclair doll, and boy is it ugly!
A Chinese checkers set, something I never even learned to play. (I once read somewhere that the game isn't Chinese and has nothing even remotely common with checkers.)
And a bunch of old action figures which I actually liked, but now most are broken. Still, that other stuff was pretty much a rip-off. Thank goodness I was never suckered into buying Pogs.