To ask what the most ridiculous thing you have ever spent money on is?

Been there done that!!

A £300 vibration exercise plate .. used 2x and then collected dust under the bed for 2 more years. I couldn’t even give it away … it went in the bin.. why to this day I cannot tell you?!

This is the best thing I’ve seen all day 🐊

I bought, an admittedly adorable, crochet bear from a craft fair. I'm 51, know no small children, and I'm currently trying to clear clutter out from my house.

I was desperately trying to get pregnant, my last chance and so I ‘bought’ a pregnancy spell from a witch on EBay!

You're supposed to release them into a covered area like a polytunnel or under nets.

A colander … 😂 I have a plastic one from ikea that is more than adequate at home but I fell in love with this one. It’s in my caravan 🤣
https://www.mackenzie-childs.com/white-flower-market-large-colander/89239-95.html
Oh and an Aran sweater tea cozy the other day … I live in Ireland and just couldn’t resist it!

I think this is really cute.

I had to remove the Amazon app from my phone after I woke to realise I’d id bought 50 packets of moshi monsters in my sleep?!

Just come back from a hen party in Ibiza and I paid 10 euro for a lager, I was fuming when the waiter brought a half a pint to the table, really thought for the price it would of been a pint 🙄🤣

My dog had an old hub cap that he happily played with like a frisbee, lasted him years!

Washi tape is perfect for sticking notes on your front door without leaving a sticky residue like sellotape did as we have full sun all afternoon and it went all melty

Oh I forgot, or the caravan that I bought, realised I wasn’t allowed to tow, did a driving course to learn how to tow it including a weekend in a hotel in Essex £1k, then 3 months later the car died and realised I hate caravanning. So yeah!

Dog toys.
My dog was a cruelty case. Terrible start in life. Makes me boil thinking about it sohhe is treated like a king now...... with far too many toys

Snap.

A wooden rabbit to keep the other wooden rabbit company. Because rabbits are unhappy if they live alone.

No regrets.

It’s a toss up between spending £3k and 2 weeks of my life to going to Spain to rescue a dog I saw on line (he’s the love of my life to be fair), crashing the car into a bus and that costing another £2k to fix…

or the kayak that I can’t use as the car I used to take it to the river died…

or the VR headset that I used constantly during lockdown and then got Ménière’s disease so I can’t use it without getting really dizzy and sick!

A man I gave vast amounts of cash to without knowing he was a gambling addict

I got scammed by a fake online job....lost thousands. In hindsight it was so blooming obvious but I fell for it, everything looked real and genuine.

Maybe (she said, darkly) they already have....

£2,500 on huge canvas photos of my boys at 15 and 17, just before my eldest was leaving home for Uni and changing our little family unit forever. The kids hated them so I never hung them and they live in my wardrobe to this day.. 17 years later.

A 3rd hand Basset Hound, wouldn't be without her though.
A mobile home, converted out of an old minibus, major repairs needed, of course!

I bought a pair of massive silver angel wings, made of plaster or something similar, a bargain at £199(was £249)…I thought my teenage daughter would love them(to display on her bedroom wall? - they were huge 😂) I put them in the loft to save for her (16/18th? Birthday)…nearer the time, I thought WTF was I thinking?! I sold them online for probably £50 or something. SO ridiculous 🤦‍♀️

Me too - only the one reading, but he put me off so badly. I'd lost my wonderful dad and our dearly beloved family dog within three weeks of each other, over the Christmas period, and then my dad's much younger sister dropped dead very unexpectedly the day after our dog, so I was reeling. I paid for a telephone consultation with someone who had very good reviews, but it was pure cold reading - he kept going on and on about how I'd lost someone young (my dad was 94), about the terrible state I was in trying to deal with the finances (which had all been so straightforward that they were sorted in a single afternoon), just all sorts of rubbish/guesswork. Not one thing he said resonated with me at all, and he just got vaguer and vaguer as I kept saying 'No, sorry, that's not right.' It was awful. I was so much more upset by the end of the call - I do believe some people have a gift, but I would never have another reading. So sorry you've been hurt by it as well.

Love your OP. I bought many bonkers things when DD was younger. Never as sweet as that though, mine were more panicked.

As a grown adult who should know better

A racehorse - well a leg (slow, so bought some more, also slow)
A designer's guild covered armchair (still have it 14 years later, still love it)
Recently some furniture wax for painted furniture. I'm never going to paint it.

A new, independent, ethical, organic, woman-owned plant shop opened in my neighbourhood.
I spent hundreds and hundreds on plants for every room in my house.
It looked amazing.
But because they were all organic and had been looked after incredibly well, all bar one of them croaked it under my care.

I quickly went back to Morrisons and B&M as my go-to plant suppliers which means spending much less and things actually living.