talk to me if you stupidly bought something £££ you couldnt really afford

We couldn’t afford the canteen as well! They are individually wrapped up in tissue and kept in the (free) velvet roll we got with them.

OP - can we see your lovely shoes! 🙏

You know you can get decent seond hand cars for 10k?

Your son has great taste in cars! Hope he gets lots of enjoyment out of it. They ate ace.

@WhyDidIDiddle I think the shoes make me feel so bad because they aren't things that last in that way generally because they wear out even if repaired.

Expensive shoes last longer though, and don't lose their shape. I still have a pair of very dark navy suede Bally shoes, wedge heel, from the mid-to-late 80s. I wore them a lot for years (though not in rain/snow, because suede!) but they remained almost like new. Out of curiosity I've just tried them on - they lurk in the wardrobe these days - and bloody hell, 40 years on they are so comfortable!

12k on a trip to WDW Florida when I got a life changing diagnosis for my daughter, she was my baby after a loss and we nearly lost her in the nicu then in the month before her heart stopped and was told she had a congenital heart condition that was life limiting….. I was in shock. I had went out for a coffee and booked the trip in a shocked haze of she’s only young once. We did have the best time and I don’t regret it. As a single parent it was HARD to pay for it but I’d do it again

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This is the sort of thing I'd do.

Right,, it's in the basket ...20k cutlery

Not as much as some on here but I stupidly fell for online advertising and bought two drastically reduced cashmere jumpers from a retailer which is supposedly quality stuff from a European site. They arrived and one was OK but not as nice as I'd hoped, and the other was polyester and elastane so I attempted to send them back (I was offered exchange or a refund if I returned them). Cost to return them - to China - is nearly £30 and it has to be tracked. The woman in the PO said it's a complete scam and they will try to say the parcel was lost and won't refund anyway so to consider selling the decent one on Vinted (I'd have to get a friend to do it) and give the other away.
I'm really annoyed with myself because I don't usually go for new brands unless they're recommended. I should have known better!

I sometimes feel that money is wasted on the rich.

I can't imagine just piling them up in a drawer. Presumably they'd be kept in their canteen?

We went a bit OTT at the Chelsea Flower show about 30 years ago and bought a hugely expensive, (as well as just plain huge) garden umbrella, all ultra sturdy gorgeous, polished wood mast and fixings and a beautiful cream canvas top, it looked like a galleon in full sail.

It was around a grand, AFAICR. Yes, over 30 years ago...
The trouble was, the mice also took a liking to it while it was stored in the garage and one summer when we got it out and opened it up the sail looked more like a giant cobweb.

Resin jewellery and ornament crafting has cost me a small fortune [to me] to buy everything I needed and probably went o.t.t with what I thought id need. There is a small spark of joy at times yes, as I've spent so much I'm going to see where it goes though.

Is "mid wife crisis" a typo?

Because if it's not, it's my new favourite saying.

@WhyDidIDiddle Don't worry about it. You can wear them while you're on Mumsnet or browsing for cruet.

Does 20k cutlery just go in the drawer or in a display case somewhere?!

Yep in our house the cutlery seems to go missing and needs to be replaced every couple of years.

If I'd spent £20k I'd be counting them in and out of the drawers.

I imagine spending that much on it the cutlery means you're extra careful about not putting the teaspoons in the bin - that happened a lot with DMs teaspoons, I'd have a yogurt, pot in the sink, spoon in the bin.

If my parents had cutlery that expensive I'd probably have just eaten with my hands... 😅

About £1500 on a quilt, plus another small fortune on shipping and import taxes from the US. It's beautiful and I'm glad I own it but 4 years on it's still packed away safely because I don't want it getting worn or dirty.

I bought that shortly after my mum died - I'm detecting a theme!

I bought a macbook years ago, on interest free credit. Hated it as always used Windows. Hardly used it and begrudge the monthly payments.

£400 worth of unspun yarn. Many many kg in case you're wondering how much roving 400 quid gets you.
I then had to buy a spinner.

Both yarn and spinner have lived in my loft for 2 years now

Sorry but this one did make me laugh!! 😆

Now I'm curious, what's the hobby?!? Is there definitely no spark of joy at all? I hope you find it.

£300 on a (replica) Victorian dress for a murder mystery party! No one else dressed up, so it was both an expensive and embarrassing mistake!! It's sitting in my wardrobe sneering at me! I would like to sell it to recoup some of the money, but no-one would actually want to buy it, because fashion has moved on since the 1860s!!

@edwinbear your 20k cutlery set is my new Roman Empire. Unfortunately, I think I'm going to use it to justify a lot of future spending. 😆

Don't beat yourself up Op. After I lost my mum, dad and sister in very quick and tragic circumstances I had a nervous breakdown. I started collecting the toys that I had once owned as a kid ... it racked up and now I have an entire room in my house kitted out in vintage kids toys and TV show merchandise. Makes me very happy being in there. Nobody knows but I'm well into the thousands now. Not in debt, I keep them dusted and I'm happy so fuck it.

I enjoyed my wine too much last weekend and thought I’d invest £500 in shares. Thought it hadn’t gone through so put my last 500 in. I know nothing about investing. Realised that I’d invested in US stocks so when I got paid, thought I’d make a sensible decision to invest in china. I have no fucking idea what I’ve done. I need to hide my phone when I’m being a twat.