To ask what's your stupidity tax?

We were upgrading our sofa, DH worked with a guy, just starting out so offered him our old one FOC. Young guy very appreciative and said yes. Young guy lived 40 miles from us, had no transport. We borrowed a friends van, paid for petrol, drove and delivered the sofa. We then bought the van owner a bottle of nice wine for allowing us to borrow said van. Young guy, didn’t lift a finger or pay a penny towards anything and wasn’t remotely inconvenienced. Just sat happily on his freshly cleaned sofa. 🙈🙈🤣

Marriage.

On a recent holiday I mixed up the train tickets and we got on an earlier train by accident. My original tickets were non transferable so ended up paying the enormous on the day price (£220) for new tickets. It was pretty gutting!

Misfuelling the car x2
Not paying tax on time and getting nailed for a couple of hundred quid (didn't understand the system at the time, was menopausal and had too much going on)
Breaking two rather nice glasses I had just bought against a concrete pillar in the car park

There are others. I am a fucking idiot at times.

I'm liking this thread. Not sure it's quite the same but now that I've discovered Vinted for buying kids clothes, I can safely say I've wasted hundreds, thousands maybe on clothes and kid stuff (especially baby) that I could have just bought second hand. I was swept along on the wave of shiny new things for far too long...

Buying a house next door to the world’s worst neighbours…

Small scale, not noticing the bit about needing to display a parking pass in the Airbnb host's instructions and not noticing the parking pass in the folder inside the flat until the car had three parking tickets shoved under the windscreen wipers.

Big picture, school fees. Seemed like the right thing to do at the time and it took me too long to see that it wasn't ideal for my older children.

i put the wrong fuel in the car, £300 later and I was told that apparently I was lucky not to have completely ruined the engine but not sure I felt that lucky at the time

Private education. Should have burnt the money and at least reduce the heating bill.

DH somehow managed to chuck our 'main car' spare car key in the tip last year! No idea why he had the key or how it ended up there... he was driving our older car which we use for tip runs. Bought air tags for our keys after this incident

Also car related- hired one for a work trip (I run a tiny biz so me paying for it). Treated myself to a lovely electric car as I'd never driven one before. Applied for a new driving license as my current one was about to expire, printed off all my paperwork for flight/car and put it in my travel car because I like to be organized. Car had been prepaid £200.

Get to car hire place and pull out my paperwork and license. I'd left the new one in my desk draw and only had the expired license 🤪

This is the day I learned you can hire a car with an expired license but it'll cost you!! Extra £350 for a new car... fuming at my own stupidity.

£550 in total, could have hired a bloody Bentley with that. Had a v pleasant trip though.

You've reminded me I've lost the new license again, must go through my desk and look for it

My choice in men .

I’m definitely a higher rate stupidity tax payer…

Recently had a very satisfying day decluttering the house with multiple trips to the tip. I hadn’t looked at my phone all day and couldn’t find it in the evening so asked my DH to do a ‘locate my’ on his phone - phone was in a massive, stinking skip at the tip with no way of getting it out. My previous phone had been put in the washing machine.

OP yes also been there with the car and dead battery. We camped in a beautiful remote spot in Scotland and had the car doors open to give some light. Next day flat battery and no reception.

Paying for a years swimming and hardly going

I've paid for the gym but that's 2 minutes away and not a 20 minute bus ride