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?!

Oh and paying a couple of hundred quid for The Cure tickets. Sitting on the sofa a few months later, in PJs watching Judge Judy with a large glass of red while DH off fixing a car somewhere, browsing through Facebook and see a girl I went to school with had tagged herself at Manchester Arena 'waiting for The Cure'..... cue mad sprint to the calendar where said expensive tickets were pinned, tearful call to husband who dutifully packed up his tools, came to pick me up, drove like a madman the hour and a bit to get me across to Manchester, waited in the car outside while I sprinted up the stairs, security bloke whisked me in as I got a bit teary and upset again. Got in to the Arena..... just as Robert Smith is waving to the crowd saying thank you Manchester, bows, and the crowd files out behind me. Followed them all out, DH still where I left him on double yellows trying to google parking places in Manchester . Most expensive 30seconds of my life

I spent about £500 on a course to practice a particular alternative therapy.

I then paid about £300 on an online course to learn how to sell my therapy.

I then paid another £3000 to a business coach to help me sell my therapy better!

Said coach then told me how to sell- and then realised the techniques she was teaching me was the techniques she used to sell me her business coaching felt like a right mug!

To be fair I was in the midst of a PND fog but I feel so guilty for spending our savings!

@haypanky i feel for you! Gigs are so expensive now. I’ve recently paid £215 for 2 tickets to see Metallica. My hubby said £100 each was the limit but i couldn’t resist. I am actually getting the tickets for both my birthday and xmas!

I go to loads of gigs and some bands still charge like £25 but most charge onwards of £50! I go to on average 10 gigs a year now but one year i went to 22. Imagine how much that would cost these days. At the time i worked it out to be about £450. I like Mumford & Sons but £170 each is insane!!!!

I also don’t like ticket touts which is why they have brought in policies such as ticket purchaser having to go to the gig, however, this is unfair when people can’t go and genuinely want to recoop their money!

I am sure you will have a really good time :) i would check to see if you have purchased special tickets or vip tickets?

ZhuZhu pets.DD wanted ZhuZhu pets for Christmas. As a child, I wasn't bought a lot, my parents would have bought me one ZhuZhu pet and would have spent the rest of my life wondering why I hadn't got something to go with it...so I bought loads. Many of the little creatures, bags for them to be carried in m, room of houses, cars, a pizza shop etc.It covered the whole of the living room and more.

She played with it on Christmas Day, and never again. I had boxes of the stuff taking up half her bedroom for ages. I couldn't even give it away. Eventually I inflicted it on a charity shop.

Got my day and month of birth the wrong way round on a Power of Attorney form for my dad. I didn't notice, DH didn't notice, the person who checked and witnessed the form didn't notice and I used it in all sorts of official places for seven years without anyone noticing. Then needed to use it really urgently to submit a tiny simple query to his insurance company so I could adjust his standing order after a change in nursing home fees and of course they blooming noticed - £80 down the drain for a whole new Power of Attorney application for the sake of two numbers in the wrong boxes.

I recently paid a McKenzie friend organisation to help me with a family court case, I paid via bank transfer (should have been a warning as they would not accept any other type of payment) a week later I was more than disappointed at the lack of communication from them, so said I changed my mind, they made me wait over a month and only gave me 2/3rds of the money back - paid nearly £700 and got just over £400 back, they said they had 'done work' which apparently consisted of reading paperwork(!).
I almost took them to small claims but decided that it was not worth it - learned a big lesson though. Never again!
I would go, have a good night and make sure you thoroughly enjoy it OP

Maybedoctor if the value of the mail order goods were worth more than £50 then special delivery is recommended and if we have a mystery shopper and haven't at least offered the correct service we would be in trouble!!

Thousands over the years blown on boots and trainers, bags and bikes.
I've managed to reign myself in now quite a lot and with really expensive purchases I don't take my card, have a look and a think for a few days first.

Not me but stupid DH. We recently had a couple of days away in Oxford staying overnight in a very nice hotel. As we were driving there I looked at the reservation on my phone. It stated he had booked for 2 nights. When I queried it (thinking it might be a surprise) DH said don't worry it's a mistake. Got to the hotel and the special rate he had booked was for 2 nights but we could only stay for one due to a hospital appointment the following day. Wasted over £200 and that night I lay in my bed at home knowing we were paying for a lovely empty hotel room 😡😡

I once bid and won £250 for fake tan on EBay (instead of £2.50) unsurprisingly I won 😮

Omg! Did u have to pay that?!

This thread has made me feel SO much better! I waste money, that I can't afford, all the sodding time! Often during a night shift when I go a little bit mad I think. Also got horses ....

I lost a few bitcoin.

@Tammyxxx

I hope you didn't actually pay it! There is an option to retract a bid for that exact reason; making a type error. They don't make you pay it.

Ten years on, I've not seen a penny back and she tells me that she's not going to as it was a gift

I am afraid I would never speak to a relative who did that again

I spent £250 on acupuncture the week before my induction hoping it would bring on natural labour. It didn't and I ended up with an emcs anyway. Also £300 on baby swimming lessons that my then 3 month old son hated.

@IJustLostTheGame You're my spirit animal. I've bought some antlers, a set of Neolithic flint arrowheads and a sword recently, but your list is simply amazing. The difference is I'm delighted with all my purchases (even the ones I bought drunkenly and forgot about). Can I have the drinking horn?

@Goggle4 now Metallica would be ace!!! And possibly worth £175...

@HopeClearwater

Oh yes, our endowment has a massive shortfall and we'll need to re-mortgage. I don't even want to think about how much that mistake has cost us.

We were going to Norway for a gig, so decided to make a wee holiday of it and stay for a few nights. Just before we went, my DP got made redundant. We opted to go anyway since it was all booked and paid for, but knowing food and drink would be crippling. When we arrived I discovered I had booked and paid for the wrong hotel dates (out by two days, like some sort of complete idiot). I ended up having to pay for two “extra” nights on top of the two we didn’t stay - which I assume they actually sold on. I actually cried when we got into the room. The gig was amazing though.

Contacted the seller and after 10 agonising days they said they’d accept £50 - was stupidly so relieved that I paid it (the fake tan was rubbish)

I've just read all of these, some made me snort! Feeling a wee bit better...

Until I remembered more I could add, like the plumber that charged £250 for 20mins work... 😱

Concert tickets do my head in. Why are they so bloody much???? I can't go morally let alone financially.

£200 on flights for me and baby DS to go to Ireland  Our passports still haven't arrived! We fly next week.

Anything I buy when I am shopping to make myself feel better - recently a dress from HUSH that is tight fitting - it reminded me of dress I had 20 years ago that I lived and died in. I am not the same shape I was then!

Ditto anything from Top Shop - I am too old for most ‘fashion’ now. Always meanly cut and overpriced

Need to stick with Hobbs, Whistles etc

Also most lotions and potions purchased when I am feeling old and tired looking...

Some days I feel great though!