Stupid ways you've wasted money

[Haypanky]

Please help me feel better by telling me your tales of money mistakes... I'm so embarrassed and horrified... On Friday I spent £390 on 2 tickets to Mumford & sons... I like them, but not that much!!! And we don't really have the money! It was supposed to be a massive treat. I thought £175 was the total price, there was a big red clock counting down, the kids were at me, I got click happy confirm confirm confirm... There isn't an adequate excuse. The tickets are non-refundable, and if I sell them, I need to go there on the night and hand them over to the buyer which involves a couple of hours drive, paying to park... I can't be the only one to have done something so stupid... can I?!

I once paid £80 equivalent for a little set of French baby clothes, because I thought the price for one item was for all three. I was much less confident then. Now I would have refused. I couldn't afford it either.

You are not alone.

I hate the way that honest people get ripped off with things like over priced tickets.

Drunken ebaying is my weakness. I have bid and won some really pointless things that I can't really afford.
1870s mother of pearl opera glasses anyone? They are still in their original bag.

Lol doll. I’m on a tiny budget and that over priced piece of shit made me cry.

The Post Office annoy me on a regular basis with their constant upselling.

I overheard them trying to charge an elderly lady £8 on registered post for some mail-order returns.

I know it’s not a bit one,

I was using a snack vending machine and Everything looked good (snacky & 8 months pregnant) put a pound in, presses any number and happened to be the one that was empty. I honestly cried and no more change.

Driving in London. Oh, plenty of parking, excellent. Should have known that plenty of spaces is for a reason, like residents/permit only. Stupidly didn't check. £65 down the drain.

£90 fine for not noticing that Aldi car park still had a 2 hour limit at 9pm. I’d taken a friend out for a glass of wine because she was recently bereaved. We left at 9.10.

Oh my gosh! We got x2 tickets for £170! How did you end up paying so much?

@MaybeDoctor completely agree! I only use the post office if I absolutely have to now, I wanted a few euros to top up some I had left over from another trip. They tried to sell me travel insurance, a travel credit card and then finally tried to get me to but more euros I didn’t want or need (in case I go abroad again soon 🙄)

Spent a fortune on baubles last year off of eBay.. they all came about the size of a conker! Still beat myself up about not checking the sizes.. you couldn’t tell on the picture

I very recently bought a Jo Malone hand wash which cost £30. This is ridiculous. A bottle of Palmolive or Dove is what, £2.99? I am filled with regret, what a waste of money. I can afford it and the packaging and little extras were beautiful, but it just seems such a waste.

Gym membership at £80 a month I’ve been unwell since May and in hospital since August. Finally managed to cancel next month

Montezumas Easter eggs.
£35 for 4 basically empty shells.
Beautiful chocolate (hubbys favourite) but he biggest waste of money. The only time he has complained about what I spend.

I am waiting for someone to say smoking for 10 years. Mine is 2 tickets to see Art for 70 pounds. This was years ago though.

Trusting a "friend" I got introduced to and signing up to their gym. An independent small a bit upmarket one.

I was just looking at buying classes as didn't want to commit to a full year but She was super friendly and said that even though the contract says 12months she's "reasonable and discreet" and knows circumstances change and if I need to leave just speak to her and she'd sort it all.

So my work situation changes and I did as she asked and then cancelled my DD and 2 months after I started getting letters with fees and fines for withdrawing out of the membership. She claimed we never talked about it and I never told her I needed to cancel and basically fell off the radar and in the end after lots of back and forth between the collectors, myself and futile attempts to talk to her I'm going to be £350 down 😤

I once ordered a load of paint online. I was pregnant and wanted something non-toxic, so in the full throes of precious firstbornism I just picked a colour. It was hideous salmon pink - we never used it. Cost about £80.

I spent £400+ on Jonas Brothers tickets...twice. Lord knows how much I spent on the Jonas brothers in my late teens

I think I must be quite naive. I hadn’t realised concert tickets could be so expensive.

£2800 on a fossilized raptor claw.... there's just no explanation for it.

It’s gutting, OP.. Bloody ticket sites 😡😡😡

Go and enjoy the event - put the money out of your mind, you’ll feel less cringey soon ❤️

Fifty - more information needed!!

£70 on a passport application. It was a really bad time for me to be trying to do it, and I had to argue so much with them over name changes, and in the end I missed the deadline and forfeited the application fee. Less than thrilled, and still no passport so will have to start from the beginning of the whole weary process again.

My son has a collection of dinosaur teeth (altogether probably around £2000 but collected over years and from various family members) and I saw a raptor claw on one of the dino fossil sites and thought it was really cool. I turn into a bit of a child with dinosaur stuff. There a no excuse or reasonable explanation for buying it.

30k on a wedding. Budget was 15k but I got carried along with wedding fever