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 used to watch QVC and have spent a fortune on face creams and lotions. I have now stopped realising I was just giving money away

£2700 on a bed. A mechanical, remote controlled uppy downy bed.

It’s two singles technically together. Any bedroom activities you end up in between the mattresses.

The salesman was so good my partner got him to apply for a job in his team as a sales rep.

Mugs.

£390?! ouch. that's our gas, electricity, water and food for a month with extra leftover! pair of shoes that were £40 and are still as new as I don't wanna scuff them!

I booked a great deal on a caravan at a holiday camp. I didn't realise that although it was a very nice caravan at a beautiful park - there really wasn't much to do and it wasn't child-friendly. I didn't realise quite how far away from anywhere it was.

We'd taken trains and taxis so had to use buses to go anywhere. The buses were infrequent so by the time we got anywhere - we almost immediately had to come back. We ended up getting lots of taxis.

On the last day we realised we could have walked 5 mins from the camp to another bus stop that had hourly buses running throughout the day.

Mine's modest but consistent....
why oh why do i go supermarket food shopping when I'm hungry?
Hi-cal trashy food I don't even like when I've got a full tum.
Just.....why?

Buying off QVC for many years. Many things I could of found cheaper if I really needed it. Bought several LuLaRoe pieces which are over priced cheap clothes. Never wore them as I now realize how ugly it really is! my friend was wearing the clothes and even though it really wasn’t a good look for her it made me interested in trying them.

The usual gadgets (ie smoothie makers) that seem like a bargain and are used once. Various ‘vital’ baby equipment that barely made it out of the box. A sh*tload of plastic crap for the children that they simply must have but are played with once (now desperately trying to cut our plastic use due to the guilt). But most expensive mistake... Driving for at least 9 hours to reach our holiday destination, only to discover other people in the accommodation - absolute sinking horror when we realise we had booked the week before!! Paid another huge sum to find alternative cottage for the week. Oh, and just recently left money at the cashpoint for the second time! (Rang the bank who refunded it luckily.)

Boots Opticians. They scam me every time but this time didn't tell me I wasn't able to get the usual half off my new glasses as my contact lens account had been cancelled, and I forgot to take the coupon that gave me £90 off on top of that. That is £250 I paid for no reason!
Why I didn't just deal with the embarrassment and say I would come back once I had reinstated my account and remembered the coupon I will never know!

I once spent 6 grand taking my boyfriend to Cape town. For the weekend. Business class. FFS. We did get married. Briefly. Broke up because, surprisingly, he expected me to pay for everything!!!! I still wake up at night and fret about what else I could have done with that 6 grand!!!

I once went into a snazzy interiors shop and felt quite intimidated. I ended up buying x 2 plastic (sorry 'faux') plants for £180. I should have walked away at the till, but was a fool and bought them. They're ok but nothing that special. TK Maxx has same for £20 ☹️

£50 on pay for view porn with my husband one drunken night many many years ago. We didn't even remember until our bill came through and it came flooding back

€380 on some absolutely beautiful italian leather boots that were a weird long toe shape when on and made me look like a penguin (I'm not tall). I should have bought the size smaller, but they didn't have the brown. Wore them a few times then gave them away as I couldn't bear them looking at me each time I opened the wardrobe.

lots of parking fines. Annoying.

I'm the butt of a recurring joke in my family as I once signed up for one of those build your own globe subscriptions. They sell it on the basis that's it's £2.99 a month but it ramps up very quickly and before you know it you've got a half but globe and the introductory rate has ramped up to £22.99 a month. So I've got a shitty plastic globe sitting in my sons room in the hope it's going to help make him a master geography student (he's 8). I worked out it cost nearly £600 and therefore I'm reluctant to bin it. It doesn't even slot together properly

Merryinthechelseahotel that's the funniest 🤣 literally crying. What did you do?!

Number 1: My gym membership. In June I felt absolutely certain that I was about to turn my life around, stop eating shit and start going to the gym. So I signed up for a 12 month David Lloyd account. I’ve been once.

Number 2: I bought an opened but brand new iPod off eBay for my OH for the gym as he doesn’t like taking his phone. It cost £37 which I was pretty impressed with, until it turned up and I had actually bought a brand new, opened, iPod box. Empty.

Generally food in London, I mean quick food. For years I've forked out stupid sums of money, like £7 for a cappuccino and been too embarrassed to say I've changed my mind due to the price. Then the other day I stopped at a little coffee bar by the station I was close to, starving, and asked for a takeaway (plain!) croissant and a can of Diet Coke. £12.50! So I finally got the nerve up and said, "No thanks, that's too expensive." And left. Makes me so mad how much places charge, especially by stations when you have no real option of anywhere else.

Oh god all the work expenses I’ve forgotten to claim. Hotel bill for £400, lots of meals out with contacts... no excuse really, just lazy about admin and shit with money

I was really pleased when I managed to get house insurance quite a lot cheaper than what we were paying already. I set up the new direct debit with the new company, but forgot to cancel our other insurance..... for two months! All money saved straight down the drain 😳

My biggest one is: I have had almost 60 (possibly more) mobile phones over the last 14 years. I cant explain why.

I've blown so much money on holidays I don't even want to consider it. I got drunk on a cruise one time long ago and hit the casino, wasted money on over-priced and crap meals, tacky souvenirs for the kids, over-priced and sub-standard accommodation, it's unreal.

Bought a lemon of a car once and lost (what was at the time) rather a lot of money having to sell it as a non runner a few months later...

Not bought a bad car since though so I think I learnt my lesson 😂

When I was a student, a friend and I 'won' a makeover and photoshoot at a studio in London. Obviously spent money getting there, had to take some outfits. The haircut they gave me was awful and then the hairdresser wasn't going to dry it (I had short hair at the time)?! I was telling her she needed to because I have quite wavy, frizzy hair and was going to look awful. She eventually did. I hated the photos; I thought I looked so awful and they were so crap. Then they talked me and my friend into buying four photos each at a cost of £250 and paying in installments. We were young and not confident enough to push back. So I paid £250 for four shite photos of myself with crap hair and makeup.

@Miranda15110

I understand totally! My mum got obsessed with that colouring thing that was £2.99 a week. They kept extending how many issues that they were selling and they were starting to pile up unopened but she wouldn't stop buying them because 'she'd started now!'

Got to the point where I finally managed to make her see what she was doing and she stopped buying more after three years worth and £428.58. She looked through the books, removed the pictures she wanted to do and donated the rest (ie most of them!) to a neighbour for her kids! Then she sold most of the 'free' crayons/pens etc cos they were useless!

I waste money all the time on crap I don't need, never big amounts,just too many little things that add up 2a lot...

I bought a single peach and paid £4 for it. FFS.

Oh and the jumper I spent £85 on - spilt bright yellow mustard all down it literally two minutes after I put it on for the first time. Couldn't wash it out.

Still think the peach one is worse, though, mostly because I was younger and didn't have the confidence to tell them to keep the bastard peach.