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

£60 on an inflatable furry 6ft giraffe called Mrs Melman. She dresses as Santa at Christmas time. I may have put her in my bosses office for a laugh. She's just a good egg all round.

£200 for a new tv aerial for the house. Useful you say, not a waste at all. Until my oh pointed out that we had just signed up for a 2 year contract with cable and don’t use the aerial.

I bought a custom made suit of armour for over three grand to display in my living room once I bought my house. I've worn it to Warwick Castle.

3 grand for a bit of display metal...

Hi-vis vest for a chicken (I don't have chickens) but it seeemed like a good idea (wine was involved).

I love that you did all that. Has the crocodile settled in okay?

Im with you on the dog toys..
The ladybirds and ebay one are hilarious 😂

Stupid toys for my dog, knowing full well he will dance around the garden with them for 2 minutes then settle down to destroy them in even less time. Some have cost £15 and have been called 'indestructible'.

I've done exactly that too. Plus the little bugger bite me hard as I held him steady for his injection.

Someone could set up a good scam with this. Train them as homing ladybirds, sell them, wait for them to come home and sell them again and again and again.
😂🐞

Yep! I did this! Honeysuckle covered in aphids. 15 quid on ladybirds just to watch them fly away!

DS cuddly cat Fluff disappeared. He remembered this for years, mourned the loss of his beloved companion, insisted we search for him regularly.

Out of desperation we looked for one online to replace him, after a lot of searching we thought we'd found the right one - Ty Classic Maggie. Wrong cat, it was A Ty Classic Carly.

Fluff was eventually found in the attic. Maggie was never accepted as a replacement, but once we found Fluff, Maggie became Fluffy who is Fluff's older brother. £30 wasted.

Totally get you on the crocodile though. I'd have to have replaced it, get me at the wrong time of the month and I'd have been crying my eyes out on the parent crocodiles behalf. I cried when my in laws were going to throw away DH's childhood lion and he mentioned the lion had just been on a shelf in a cupboard for years anyway. All I heard was that Lion had been abandoned and alone for years in the dark. Lion came home with us.

Baby Havana's, sunglasses, beach towel and toiletry bag for my 3 month old baby to go to Cyprus - I have since given my head a wobble ...

Done that too

Literally the week my child suddenly decided he loved a different teddy, hasn't given a look at the old one since.

Still worth it 😂

I think I speak for a lot of us when I say I would like to see a picture of the crocodile family, please

My allotment, £1000s over the years, to produce a glut of plums, some potatoes and some flowers....

I'm going to bite the bullet this year and give most of it up as I went up today to find the pigeons had stripped the sprouts. Little fuckers.

This is amazing.
I squirt mine off with a Calpol syringe!

Me too! I'm having to give away plants that have outgrown their space....but I take cuttings first and so the cycle continues. I have approximately 60% more plants than I have space.

£50 on a hot wheels car 🥲

I love the baby crocodile @AveAtqueVale brilliant! I would feel than same tbh.

Here’s (one of) mine:
Went to a museum abroad with DD who loved the blue hippo from 2,000 years ago. The museum shop sold a plushie (she loves these) but I said no as it was too much ££.

About four years later, with her continuing to mention it sadly, I ordered it online. The postage cost more than the hippo!

Dd (who is 22 btw) loves it tho.

My tents, or as dd calls them my midlife crisis tents. Became slightly obsessed with collecting camping stuff, to make it comfy you know.

Anyway, have ended up with no less than four six tents of various sizes, good quality polycotton 😉. Literally a large shed full of camping accessories including three kitchen setups. Table top fridge & freezer, said it was excessive. Carpets for each tent. Electric cables. Camping stove(s)🙈 Table top electric oven/grill. Chairs (so many chairs), dining table. Camp bed.

In my defence we did camp in France several years but not enough to recoup the cost of the gear. The trailer is still very much used for house projects but France when we are able to go is just too hot for our dog and very prone to fires which freaks me out too much 😔 so we will go back to villas and aircon.

This summer I'm going to be setting up a tent at a time in my garden, fitting in around the weather. Quite looking forward to garden camping 😂 I've told dh I'm selling up as we just aren't using the stuff and its too good to have it all just sitting there in the shed, he's thrilled.

I might keep one tent though, just in case.

I totally support you in this.

I once looked everywhere for a pink dinosaur for DD when she was 3, found it in The Works of all places and was £6. Worth every penny when I saw her face.

Limited edition Trunki for DS’s first Christmas, including next day delivery. He was 8 months old. I was having a really shit time, living hand to mouth and my loving parents wanted to take us to this amazing all inclusive in the summer. I felt so crap about how rough his start was (dad pissed off when I was 6 months pregnant never to be seen again) that I got it into my head everyone would pity him on holiday so I had to make sure we didn’t look pathetic. It was the height of the Trunki phase but the 1 day I took off work to get it they only ones I could find were totally standard. Ds is now over six feet tall and thr Trunki is sitting on top of the wardrobe filled with baby clothes.

I was going through a crap time back in 2021 (we'd just lost my darling fil) and was shopping to fill the void he'd left

I bought a perfume that was based on scents Ann boleyn would have had around her

It arrived- a tiny bottle (about the size of my thumbnail) and its rank

It lives in my handbag as a reminder not to waste money on crap (I don't learn)

Dp couldn't stop laughing when he had a sniff

I was obsessed with footwear when I was younger and owned a ridiculous amount of boots. I listed 6 pairs on eBay. Got the the last few hours and I tried to cancel the bids as I changed my mind and I couldn't do it had to create another eBay account and bid against other people for the right to retain my own boots. Cost me £19 in fees 🤷🏼‍♀️😂.