To ask what's your stupidity tax?

I've done this. In my defence it was my 1st day back from maternity leave & I was frazzled 😂

My husband.

Letting my DP who is a classic "champagne lifestyle" but in his case zero income, almost 20 years now and I'm broke.

A family friend decided to take the old washer or fridge to the tip as refused to pay £20 for the old one taken away by the retailer and £25 for bulky waste from the council.

On unloading the item at the tip, he damaged the boot lock. Cost to repair that - £120.

Saying over and over "we must get breakdown cover" and not, then getting a puncture and having to pay nearly £200 on emergency call out to patch it and then also buy new tires.

Was so pissed off with myself

We lost the car keys to our hire car in Spain. We had to pay £50 but as this was 1998 it was a lot more back then. We paid on credit card but it was still the machines with paper that you signed. They never ever cashed in that piece of paper assumed they lost it so they paid stupidity tax on our stupidity tax.

Couldn’t find my passport before a holiday. Had to book an overnight trip to get a new emergency passport - cost a fortune. When I got back, found the old passport tucked into the side pocket of the carry on luggage.

Buying food every 1 or 2 days from Co-op instead of meal planning and doing a big shop from Aldi or Lidl.

When my ex and I went on holiday one of us booked and paid for the flights and one paid for hotels.

I booked the hotel for Prague and I was working and he had a day off. He booked the flights and forwarded the email. He booked for Paris!!! As the drop down menu Paris is before Prague as listed alphabetically. Texted him that he's a muppet for booking Paris, not Prague.

Got home and couldn't book the flight to Prague as fully booked. Changed it to 2 days later. That was about £160 more for admin and that the flights (both ways) two days later were more expensive. Tried to rebook the hotel and full on the last two days. So ended up with a hotel that cost about another £20 more a night. Could have booked cheaper hotels but they were well out of the city centre. Don't want to be wasting 45 mins going into central Prague and back each time.

So our bargain break to Prague cost us another £240, about two thirds more than if he bloody checked which flight he originally booked.

Driving the last few yards of the bus lane. I wasn't driving a bus...

I would 'spill' but I appear to have put them all in the ' move on' folder🤣🤣

some advantages to menopause brain fog I suppose.

I had to start charging our Fleet drivers for incorrect fuel refilling. It was costing us a fortune & I hope it would focus their attention!! The vehicles had stickers on the fuel doors/flaps and the fuel caps, all vehicles took the same fuel. They got the first accident/mistake free, but had to pay after that. It helped, but didn't entirely stop it.

i live in fear of filling my car with the wrong fuel, I often drive several different vehicles a week for work and have to refuel them all so I’m really strict about always reading the label in the fuel cap and matching it to the fuel nozzle every time I refuel any car, even my own!

last year I lost my keys while I was out but luckily had my spare key in my car and had left it unlocked also luckily no one had stolen my car 🤦‍♀️ I then lost my spare key THE SAME DAY. Fortunately my car was at home when I lost the spare key somewhere in my village. I was self employed at the time and couldn’t work for 3 days until someone found my original keys in a puddle in the woods and handed them into the police station where I collected them. Trying to explain to all my customers why I couldn’t come to work for 3 days was embarrassing and if cost me a fortune in missed work!

Putting the wrong car reg into parking app, so not only paying for parking (albeit for friend's car that was not there) but also having to pay the £25 fine for not having paid for parking for the car actually in the car park. It's a relatively small amount but insanely frustrating stupidity tax!

Not ordering the bag of dog food online in time because I forgot about the bank holiday Monday. She wouldn’t have had enough so I had to buy an extra bag from the local shop which is more pricey per kg (online I get a 12kg bag delivered, but the shop only stocks 2kg bags).

the bit that makes it more annoying is that it’s not even the first time I’ve done it!

Could you not have gotten off at the next stop and used the old tickets n paid the fare for the wrong train up to then?

Constantly buying too much fruit and veg at the weekly shop and always throwing half of it out. I never learn. I can never get it right despite meal planning efforts. I blame the family of teens constantly making last minute changes to their plans!

Buying stuff on Vinted that is badly fitting, or more worn out than I could really tell from the pics. I wouldn't have bought any of it if I had seen it first-hand.

Repeatedly buying glasses that don't suit me. It's such a high-value exercise that I do so rarely, that each mistake is a very expensive one.

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Booked flights to the wrong airport so had to hire a car a week before we needed it and do the 4 hour drive there and back.

Didn’t know you needed a visa for visiting Australia (thought it was only work visas because that’s all I’d heard anyone discussing) until trying to check in and couldn’t get one sorted in time so missed the flight. And then didn’t think to reuse the return flight so bought completely new tickets…premium economy 😤

I did this (though not as dramatic). Booked a taxi home from a night flight the day before I actually landed. Cue one v confused taxi driver at the airport when I was in Miami. Had to pay him twice £80 (obviously), plus he was my neighbor 😂

The more posts on this thread the more I'm realising how much stupidity tax I've paid!!

Coming home from Maldives we had a separate flight booked from Dubai as we thought we would stop off for a few days. When we went to check in, we were told it was the day before and we had missed it! (In the days before internet check in) I had got confused with the overnight dates as it was a night flight. Very expensive to get back to UK! I am super careful now!!