Show me your bag of fail.

[DBFIU]

Here is mine.

Plenty of fail in this bag (about 4 pounds worth). I keep all my fails so I can one day recycle. This is all PLA. Most of this is user error, some of it is a broken pinchwheel that screwed up the prints. Either way, it's legitimate fail.

Show me your fails.

[Mjolinor]

Fail is such a cruel word, I suspect you mean test / educational pieces.

[soofle616]

All my fails end up in the recycling bin in my office so I don't have an actual "bag" that I allow to build up.

[Feign]

I don't even have my printer yet, but I already have a grinder that I'll be using for supports, rafts, and learning experiences, so when I do have my bag of fail (well, bins of fail, gotta keep them organized) it'll be pretty boring.

I figure if I wait until I have full bins of ground up plastic, then I'll also have some money saved up for the extruder to turn it back into filament.

[DBFIU]

That first 3 weeks was pretty costly. I went through probably 3 spools of ruined prints before I figured out what works on my machine. Then again this thing isnt as user friendly, I have a beta machine from Type A, it prints nice but is very finnicky.

[curious aardvark]

pretty much stopped throwing stuff away when i stopped using abs :-)

I do have prototypes, not necessarily fails, but more things slightly too small or too big - some can still be used.
There's a bin full of warped abs and abs rafts and bits of filament that needs dumping in the recycle bin.

I don't currently see a grinder and extruder as being cost effective or capable of producing commercial grade filament. So given how little I throw away at the moment, I'll just let the council recycle it for me :-)
Plus there's 4-5 types of filament in there, so not possible to recycle back into filament anyway.

[Marm]

Most of my fails have already ended up in the recycle bin, so I don't have a bag right now, but heres one of my earliest failed prints, comedic results:

[DBFIU]

That is borderline successful marm. My fails are so bad that you wouldnt even know what the object was supposed to be.

[Marm]

Oh I've had fails like that, I just found this one to be humorous.

Unicorn with dysentery

[Mjolinor]

Oh I've had fails like that, I just found this one to be humorous.

Unicorn with dysentery

I thought it had the worst case of worms I have ever seen.