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?!

viagogo buy up alot of tickets just for resale-thats why noone can get any at normal rate

they should be banned but theres no law yet against it

Buying a pair of Gelert Waterproof walking shoes...walked to and from work today in what felt like a bucket of water I might as well have strapped tenners to my feet and waked in those.

forgot my story kept bidding on a iphone about 10 years ago even though id gone over my budget i just wanted to outbid the prat that was bidding me up

£300 on a non refundable deposit for a holiday I can no longer go on. If I’d waited literally 24hrs longer I’d have realised I couldn’t go. Not too annoyed with myself as I really couldn’t have foreseen the change in circumstance that is going to prevent me going!

Oh and also I had races entered which I couldn’t run due to broken foot so more money lost there...

£3950 on Sculpsure - the laser slimming treatment. Did nothing at all. Still annoyed

Years okay I spent nearly 100 euro on a signed picture of the cast of the outsiders (Tom Cruise, Rob Lowe etc) I am 99 percent sure it's fake. EBay...what can you do.

Bought DD a lovely handmade doll once. Thought she was 30 pounds....that turned out to be the cost of her dress alone! The actual price was eighty quid!

My divorce you’d have thought the second time I’d have known better cost me 10x more to get rid of the twats than it did to marry them

If you buy something on the net you have 14 days grace to change your mind - does that not apply to concert tickets? www.gov.uk/online-and-distance-selling-for-businesses

As for money wasted ... buying things on ebay that turn out to be dolls house furniture is something I might once have done, but I wouldn't admit to it ...

About £800 on laser hair removal which a year later has not worked at all- apparently my hair was the wrong type...

Another Rigby & Peller one. I really wanted well fitting underwear so spent a small fortune on bras and matching knickers. First time I wore one bra I thought I was dying as the wire hurt so much. It drew blood. Couldn’t return it though as it was a sale item despite them supposedly professionally fitting it! £80 quid . I’ll never go back.

@ManorMouse i hope you have a job that takes your spectacular creative writing skills into account! I can fully sympathise & only buy handbags I can zip-check having fallen foul of a similar (albeit less expensive) problem myself

Smoking for 35 years x

I've stopped BTW. I now spend £11/week on nicotine patches.

Can I just say - the dinosaur raptor claw was totally worth it Fifty.

Got taken in by a conman in an ikea car park supposedly selling discounted high spec smart TVs. Bought 2 of them at £110 each which we couldn't really afford only to get home unwrap them and discover they were not real TVs. Luckily was a joint decision with OH as we both got sucked in so neither of us solely to blame

Letting my AA cover auto renew without ringing to say I may leave and getting about 80 quid knocked off like I usually do.

OK here's one. I saw a dress in a charity shop. Clearly brand new never-been-worn (French Connection so not 'high end' but nice nonetheless). It was a snug fit & made my figure look fantastic. But it was Bright Red! I'm too old for Bright Red.... but it was only £5.00 so I got it. I spent £6 on blue dye, hoping it would come out a purply colour but it came out a rather vile maroon. The red stitches and zip stayed red, of course. By this time I'd decided it really was a bit tight so I got an all-in-one firm control body, forty quid from M&S. I was so busy it was a week until I tried this on, only to find it was an appalling fit and it didn't 'control' very much - but I'd lost the receipt! (Topic: Is it only me who keeps all their receipts but then can't find the one receipt that they actually need? Discuss.) To cut a long story short I just had to write the forty quid off. I went back to M&S and got more firm control underwear, this time one of those doofers you wear with your own bra, much better. That was £32.50. By this time I'd bought several yards of pinky lace to sew onto the dress on top of the red stitching that hadn't taken the dye, the lace was £4.50. I'd also spent another five pounds or so on reels of cotton in the same vile maroon as the dress, so that I could (try to) over-stitch the red seams and render them invisible. There wasn't much I could do to disguise the red zip running up the back, so I found the same length of zip (in vile maroon) and bought it, another fiver or so. As I'm more careful than competent when it comes to sewing, I went to a tailor with this zip... they told me it would cost £25 to remove the existing red zip and insert the vile maroon one... Oh yes and I also bought some vile maroon lace which will match the vile maroon dress which I wish I had never clapped eyes on in the bloody window of the bloody charity shop that day.... I can't bring myself to add up how much I've spent, I don't know if it's worth going on (with the dress, not my life) and I am sure this is something to do with the menopause. Thanks for listening.

Last year I spend £270 on a Harry Styles gig ticket, BUT as a massive stroke of luck got £100 back, and tbf I loved every minute of the gig.

I got up at 5am and bought the VINYL album for £40 on release day. I don't have a record player and am not even mad about the album. Went to the gigs twice though and loved them.

Harry's worth it

Totally.

I've spent a lot of money on fangirling.

Internet purchases have a 14 day repayment period. Contact the seller and ask for your money back.

My biggest ongoing waste of money is clothes if I'm honest, ones bought and never worn