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?!

When Ebay first became a thing I was on the computer late one night and bid for three lots of triple bunk beds and won them all 🙄 I hadn't realised I was committing myself to buying them when I bid for them!!

You'll have a night to remember! When your old and our society is even more fractured you may regret not seizing every opportunity not to experience live music.
Like not walking into town (to save money to see Bowie, Dylan, Marc Bolan, John Lennon......I can still turn a head telling how I met the band thar opened Woodstock

My Henry Hoover sadly passed away so browsed the Facebook for sale pages and found a total bargain second hand one for £20. DH went to pick it up.. He sniggered all the way back home with the 6 inch high TOY Henry Hoover. DOH!! I told him FFS he could have tried to make an excuse not to buy it when he saw it and defend his wife's utter dimness in the process but I think he wanted to see my face upon his return! What a plank I am!!

I’m eating a £25 breakfast in our hotel as I go too hungry to check how much it was before I ordered it. I’m going to have to sit here all day to get my moneys worth...

Just learned it's £40ish for a Virgin Trains ticket, but I can claim a refund for the delay.

Recently the worst was a "haul" to Claire's with 7yr old dd.
They had the rip off but sounds good offer of buy 3 get 3 free.....

Over £60 lighter in half an hour.

I have a loft filled with collections from ds's younger days. He's 15 now. When he was around 6-8 he was obsessed with Gormiti characters. They were like LOL dolls in that you collect them and couldn't always see which ones you were getting but half the size of them.

He had thousands of them. He was an only child at the time and I used to think nothing of buying loads and loads.
And I wonder why I'm poor.....

I got a horse

Fiffyshades DD found a dinosaur vertebra, so that was free! 😆

Studied amateur pharmacology in my twenties.

I can't even think about the money. The waste of time was worse.

@PhilomenaButterfly

My son would be jealous!! He's only 7 and his brother is 5 so I'm going to wait a couple of years and take them to the Jurassic coast and he can search for as long a he likes! Might save me some money lol (I've namechanged)

1870s mother of pearl opera glasses anyone? They are still in their original bag

I would love them, have no idea what I would do with them, I have no idea where one would keep such a thing either but it's the kinda thing I would buy and then shove in a box destined for the loft.

Car broke down on motorway, cam belt had gone, very luck we could get a repair at all - £900 to get us back on the road.

Then discovered the car had a 4 year warranty, not a 3 year one as we had assumed and we would have been covered

Drunk ebaying reminds me CTK and the eggs!

I'll see if I can find it...

Went on a ski trip and broke my leg on the first day on the slopes. FML.

Missed thr HMRC deadline for renewing dd's 30 funded nursery hours last month. I'm really hoping that they accept the code late but not expecting them to

I don't think it's here anymore. 😭

I have literally just spent £199.99 on some amazing leather trousers from H&M. They looked lovely, they weren't that 'coated' type and I was absolutely obsessed. Tried them on in the shop, and I fell in love.

Read the label as £19.99. Get to the till, £199.99!!!! What the fuck!!! But shyness got the better of me and I just bought them.

When DH asked how much they were I told him £50....

When I'd just had our first baby, a Kirkby salesman called. He somehow got invited in to show us how dirty our home was.
He shamed us so badly. Please bare in mind I'd been hospitalised at 34 weeks with pre enclampsia and DH was working on the miners strike all hours of the day.
He started off at around £1000 and said if we could find some old toys He'd knock £10 off for each one. These toys would be sent to the local hospital for children.
Our baby was 48 hours old but I was gathering brand new toys, in tears to send to these poor children. 😥😥😥
When it arrived it was dreadful. So heavy and bulky.

Even now. When we have a big decision to make. We always say "it's not going to be a Kirkby is it?"

Worst and most expensive error we ever made.

I once payed £50 for a cd by a band I thought were quite good on ebay because I put the decimal in the wrong place. It was only meant to be a fiver!

I don't even have it anymore

How many tickets did you buy?

I sold a guitar for £50 that was actually worth about £1700. Or £1000. Some 4 digit-amount, huge amount more than £50, anyway. The disabled neighbour guy who bought it off me told me all this with glee. Gee whiz, thanks.

A very expensive partwork dollshouse. Took two years for all the bits to arrive and the quality was appalling.

It did come with some good books and miniatures, though, and led to me buying and renovating a proper dollshouse that now has pride of place in my (full sized) house.

Imeant she tells me it's a juvenile ornithopod.

Back in the early days of ebay, if I really wanted something I'd just whack a rather high bid in, on the basis that the actual bidding wouldn't get anywhere near that.

Unfortunately, I learned my lesson when someone else must have done the same thing (or there was some shadow bidding going on).

£60 bloody quid for a second hand ramones t shirt that retailed for about £25 new. 🙄 🙄 🙄

Similar ones had been going for £4 or £5 quid max, plus postage.

and I looked shit in it

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