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?!

By no means on the same level but only last week I went to ASDA to buy a cooked chicken for a quick easy tea was walking past the reduced section and saw one with 70p off so I swaped them over (honest I put the other one back in the correct place on the correct shelf it was only when I go home but I realised that I'd bought half a chicken and it must of been the smallest chicken in the world there's more meat on a pigeon.

£125 on a ‘postnatal recovery’course, which was basically an excuse for the facilitator to rant about paleo diets, and how we’d all die early if we ate a Dairy Milk. I tried following it, got food poisoning and was horrendously ill. Then couldn’t attend most of the rest because DS was ill. She made me feel like shite for vaccinating him too.

Fifty - that’s some collection!!

grumpbum I sincerely hope you're well soon

LittleJay I know yours is the least amount of money, but probably the most amount of annoyance! Who would dare thwart an 8mo of woman?

OP - you didn't buy from Viagogo, did you? Your checkout experience sounds like their rip-off site. Worth trying to stop the sale with your card provider perhaps? Saying the site was misleading. If you try, do it today on the fraud line.

I paid a stupid amount for laser hair removal for underarms. Such a con as you have to keep doing it!

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.

Or when they fill it up but leave the first row empty and it's not obvious at first glance. So the twirly thing twirls and pushes what you want to the front.

I'm sure they do that on purpose

Not in the same league as some others on here, but I spent £40 on a cranial osteopath with DS1 when was about 3 months old. She said giving dairy to a baby was wicked (he was on formula by then) and pretty much ranted about the evils of dairy for the entire time I was there. Her recommendation was to put him on apple juice instead.

i booked a holiday after a glass of wine then realised i couldn't go. expensive glass of wine. Ok, maybe it was three.

You're never the only one haypanky, never. Years ago I bought a beautiful grey leather jacket (£125 from M&S) which was admired by many - it was lovely and soft. But it wasn't really me and eventually it found its way to a charity bag. Criminal.

I can think of two more - a pretend suede long flowing coat which was lined with faux fur - beautiful but too warm. And a brown faux fur jacket (what is it with me and jackets?) neither of which are still in my wardrobe.

@ijustlostthegame, lol at the drunk ebaying! mother of pearl theatre glasses Like I can talk! your post made me laugh, we need a breathalyser on the back of the card, not a 3 digit code..

Lego sets, God knows how much I have spent, only for DS to build them and in the next few weeks, take them apart and build his own stuff, if I had thought about it, a big box of lego and a book of designs would of done it and much cheaper

£3.50 on two jacket potatoes from M&S years ago. I was too embarrassed to say they were too expensive and had to walk the 4 miles home as spent my bus fare on them.

Jackets! They are a downfall. I got beautiful brocade coat which I never wear because I'm too scared it will get rained on!

the usual here, like booking a trip to centre parcs and realising that we had double booked, spending £250 on the recent Jo Malone promotion - never tested scents, bought online and hate 80% of smell and buying several handbags just because they were in sale but were still not cheap. so basically wasting about £1500 in last couple of years.

55 pounds on 2 m&s king prawn platters after several glasses of wine

IJust please could you change your username? 😭

A huge hunk of ham last Christmas. I thought the price was good, but it was per lb not the whole thing.

Op you need to google Victims of viagogo, they will help you to get a refund.

philomena no.
If you are in the game there is no opt out. It's a lifelong commitment. And I am a bitch. And I have hangover.

Siun tip of the iceberg.
I'm talking light up rollerskate wheels, a drinking horn, a load of lacemaking bobbins (I don't make lace) a georgian carriage footwarmer (WTAF) and a crossbow. Amongst other useless things.

We didn't buy a house because our budget was 215,000 and the house was on sale for 220,000.

We're now probably going to buy that house for 350,000.

We were clueless idiots!

Not keeping up pension payments for a period as a SAHM (stupid, given a way could have been found to do it, by re-purposing savings). The Govt literally gives you free money, matched against your contributions, when you pay into pensions. It's craziness not to accept it - then grow the whole pot for decades. The loss down the line will be much greater than the cost or inconvenience of sorting it out at the time.

I'm talking light up rollerskate wheels, a drinking horn, a load of lacemaking bobbins (I don't make lace) a georgian carriage footwarmer (WTAF) and a crossbow. Amongst other useless things.

DH? Have you suddenly started coming on MN?

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

how is that helpful?

I've won free tickets to an exhibition at Ally Pally.

Today's the only day I can go.

The train service on Sundays is so abysmal, I bought a return ticket by coach from the West Midlands.

The first journey started at 03:15 and would have taken approximately four and a half hours.

The return ticket price was £34.40.

I overslept (having finished work at 22:00, last night) so missed the coach.

After balking at paying over £40 for another 4 hour coach journey, I ended up buying a single £16 train ticket from Birmingham, paying £4 tram fare to get there and got to the station with plenty of time to spare.

The train was a 'stopping service' calling at ALL stations between Birmingham and Euston and was scheduled to take two and a quarter hours.

It would mean missing about half the day at the exhibition, but I would still get there with about four hours to get around.

We were stuck on the platform at Birmingham, in the pouring rain until it was the scheduled time to go.

The ticket collector (and guard) only shifted his arse at the last minute and we left over 6 minutes late.

We are now stuck in Rugby, while our driver fucks off and rescues a broken down train stuck in a tunnel ahead of us.

There's now no telling how long we're going to be stuck in Rugby and our train now terminates in Northampton.

We're not supposed to worry, though. There are plenty of onward services to London from Northampton.

So much for free. I'm never going to enter online free draws for something I have to pay to use again.