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 bought a sack of 300 scarves from eBay years ago. I don't know what I was thinking.

@Tobebythesea I had the exact same happen in Bravissimo bought about six bras after the fitter assured me the size was correct - they cut my back til it bled - never again

@Haypanky I'm so glad you posted this - you've made me feel less alone in my silliness!!

I was on Instagram earlier today and an advert popped up with Dani Dyer promoting Nativity! The Musical starring her and her dad.

I exclaimed next to my 11yo DD and after half an hour of pester power I'd spent £280 on tickets for the family to see it in December! 😬

My DH went nuts saying he didn't know which Dani/Danny he hated more!!

Making memories...

@Mamamadecookies, Do you think they would? I rang them up and demanded to know why we were paying for a service we hadn't requested and weren't receiving and they confirmed that I hadn't signed up but DH had while ordering something ages ago from our joint bank account. It didn't come up as a direct debit and we didn't realise it was going out every month. I'm assuming he got next day delivery on that item so that might count as using Prime although we wouldn't know how to use the tv service so not sure if they'd know we haven't.
Thanks for your suggestion, it's a few weeks ago but I could try. I just assumed we'd have to pay for his stupidity.
If I did that, I'd never hear the last of it!

@cms1972

I HAVE to see this dress 😂

I booked plane tickets for me and my daughter to go to Paris last year , week before we went I checked online booking and realised I had booked both tickets in my name , it was a £100 to change one ticket to her name. It didn’t matter how much I pleaded on the phone they wouldn’t budge.

Way back in the 90's I bought a pretty decent second hand car for £500. Not long after I "won a competition for a free photo shoot" so trooped off to Manchester. I got thoroughly sucked in by the sales patter and spent £600 on the photos (at £50 a month for 12 months). I never passed my driving test so sold the car for £50 a couple of years later. The photo album is languishing in the back of a cupboard. One or two of them are absolutely gorgeous, the rest....meh.

Bought 2 tickets for Shawn Mendes tour for my DD’s birthday, was so pleased with myself, she loves him and birthday present sorted months in advance.
Went to circle the date in my diary a few days later and realised DD would be on a netball tour in South Africa. The tour has been booked for 2 years. I’m an idiot.

After my Mum died i went temporarily crazy for about a year during which time I bought about 11 dinner and tea services on eBay costing about £2000. I can't explain why I did it, I wasn't drunk or anything but at the time I just had to have them and my poor loving dh seemed to understand and drove all around country collecting them for me. Then we had to rent small storage unit to store them in. None have ever been used now none of us ever mentions them. At the time I just seemed to get comfort from having the. I look back now and think it was madness but will always be grateful to dh for understanding.

@cms1972 - Brilliant!

I paid a premium, for some years, to BIGWarranties for my washing machine as they offer a 'If we can't mend it, we'll replace it' guarantee. When my washing machine finally broke down, they just handed over the problem to a third party repair company which wouldn't even come out to make an assessment until a whole week later. (For a washing machine!)

Of course I had to buy a new washing machine as I couldn't wait for weeks for a repair/replacement (I live in the countryside - no launderettes).

The new machine was cheaper than the premiums I'd paid to BIGWarranties (by about £100)...

That is true love!
And don't beat yourself up 💘

Caringcarer
Could you put them on a fb selling page or eBay?
Your DH sounds so caring. What a lovely gesture.

@greendinosaur - I somehow managed to sign up for either prime or the kids kindle service. I can't remember which and they refunded me. I didn't "demand" anything though because it was my fault and did it through onlne chat (it'll take you an hour to find it though). Maybe ask for a refund on the months you've not used. These days if you sign up for the free trial you get a reminder through before they start taking paymnt. Point out you didn't get that. Fingers crossed.

Due to come back home from a two-week holiday tonight. Only realised last night while I was attempting to check-in online that I, in fact, never booked the return flight A distraction that cost me £412. I admit the taking of the Lord's name in vain might have been happening when I realised how bloody stupid I have been.

If it is they are notorious, if you search viagogo on twitter you'll find a lot of support on how to claim your money back. Thank you!

Once spent £8.50 on a bag of cherries - I'd misunderstood the price was per kilo and not for the bag. It was at a time when I really couldn't afford to spend almost £10 on fruit, but was too embarrassed to say anything at the checkout. I don't think I even ate all of them...

But the worst was in Greece when I accidentally spent almost £50 on a bar of olive oil soap - miscalculated the draachma or whatever the currency was then. me and my then boyfriend (now DH) were on our first holiday together and were carried away in the moment. When we got home we were both too scared of the soap and it's hefty price tag to ever use it. It just sat on the side in the bathroom until it eventually went mouldy and had to be thrown away. Didn't even smell nice either. We still laugh about it now...

Gosh it annoys me! Why are we all embarrassed to say "That's too much!" There's a shop near me...a sort of basic grocery shop/corner shop and they don't label anything at all. No prices.

It's because this is a tourist village and they know that holiday makers will come in for tea bags or sugar or shampoo and pay silly prices due to embarrassment!

I might brazen it out one day and ask the owner "Why don't you put price tags on anything?" just to see her feel uncomfortable!

So many it is hard to narrow it down!

One relatively minor one that I resented for a long time was 20 euros for a blown ostrich egg that toddler DD picked up and dropped in a French service station shop. Our fault for not watching her of course, but, ignoring the question of why ostrich eggs were for sale in a service station at all, I always felt it was suspicious to have a whole basket of such delicate items sitting on the floor. Almost as if they were trying to get rid of them via tired parents of clumsy toddlers...

£45 Reki healing session for a guinea pig with a sore leg

I’ve completely lost all composure at this

Mine is Uber’s

Fucking hell, I think I’d vomit If I added that up!

Browsing in a little boutique I saw a fabulous scarf (think punk/Vivienne Westwood type knitting!). I was feeling in a bit of a style rut and felt the scarf was a fashionable statement without going OTT. I also thought the price was outstanding at £95 but wanted to feel cutting-edge so went for it. However when I got to the till I had read the price wrong and it was £195!!! Pride made me buy it but I still can not believe I spent £195 on a bloody knitted wool scarf!

cat puking but otherwise well. DD convinced it was dying so took it to Vet. Cat refused to be examined so had to be sedated so they could do blood tests etc. £270 to be told he is fine but has a bit of a sensitive tummy!
He'll have a fucking sensitve arse to go with it!!!

about £1500 on a holiday to new York that me and dp booked when drunk. Thought it was a bargain but wasn't such a bargain when we couldn't go because he couldn't get a visa spent extra going to the embassy in London to try and get the visa but still got declined so was a comets waste. managed to sell the holiday tho on gumtree so made some of our money back which we spent going to Paris instead

I bought a Mulberry handbag off EBay. It wasn’t even especially nice, but I got it for fifty odd quid, bargain.

When it arrived it was tiny, like a pencil case with handles. It’s possibly the ugliest and most useless thing I own.

I went for a bike ride a few weeks ago. I got really bored and couldn't be arsed half way round so got a taxi home. It cost me £40 because a) I had to get a massive taxi to fit the bike in and b) it was in the lake district so taxis cost a bomb.

I could have cycled home in an hour or so but I just didn't want to.