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?!

@Sarcelle I massively panicked and just handed my bank card over! I've worn them 3 times since I bought them on Tuesday. I will get my moneys worth!!!

Loads of money on tops which I then put in a charity bag

I find what I think is the holy grail of tops and then buy multiples of it, store and then go off that style. I recently charity bagged 15 tops and it made me ill when I roughly totted up the cost - approx £250.

Knob!

Loads. Probably the most in a one off payment was £500 for architectural plans for a house extension that we didn't go ahead with

£480 on fixing my car. Because I moved it when I didn’t need to, and managed to scratch it on a flatbed truck. I don’t regret fixing it, but it was an unnecessary cost that could so easily have been avoided.

We got our money back from Viagogo by getting the tickets stamped as invalid at the venue. They had a woman's name on so my 17 year old ds would never have got in.

Please consider doing this, don't let viagogo win!!

Similar story as somebody above. In the early days of eBay, I got very carried away bidding on a ceramic Snow White & 7 dwarfs, toast rack. The price went up & up, I ended up paying nearly £80. . It’s actually hidden in a box somewhere, it’s hideous & I was so embarrassed.

DH spent £100 on an extra pair of glasses which he never wears because they make him look like Jacob Reese-Mogg.

@PhilomenaButterfly testing 😉

We're not mentioning the b word then? (bank charges)

Toss up between the car I abandoned (young, daft and heartbroken)-ended up being charged with a hefty fine for failing to notify change of use.

Vs

Bricked up a window, changed our minds, put it back in (nicer and bigger though). About a grand

I'm impressed by the ebaying,

I booked flights a couple of months ago, due to fly now in 2 weeks time, so checking in online and discovered I'd booked my flight in my maiden name and not married name, as per my passport....

Just paid €130 to change my name, I only paid €199 for the original flights!!

Been married for 15 years, and have never done that before.

Maybe there could be a Mugsnet section to trade embarrassing buys

For a band like Mumford and sons who are not a huge band I would only expect to pay maximum £30 a ticket! Metallica tickets were cheaper and they are huge!

Yeah thanks for that last one 😱

In what world are Mumford and Sons not considered 'huge'?

I paid huge money to see Busted. 2 years ago......

I can't actually look back and think about all the money I've wasted through the years. Part of it on absolute shit. The rest due to procrastination. Not filling in forms so missing out on tax credits, not getting my pension sorted,work pay 3% even if I don't contribute. Going overdrawn rather than walking the 100 steps to my bank and putting in work cheque. The list goes on.

Don't beat yourself up.

Went to Germany and saw a Bayern Munich tshirt I though DS would like.
I don’t speak German and the label said 60 E and then something about 20 E so I assumed that was in the sale so total 40 E.
Got to the till and the 20E was some sort of tax so it actually cost 80!!
I was too embarrassed to try and explain so just paid for it
It was too small

Nearly £60 on a set of leggings, booties and a hat for a four month old. I read the price as £16 and thought it was great value! But I carried on even when I found out the actual price!
Fortunately I returned later and exchanged them for a much less expensive dress for dd1 and they refunded the dress.

Crikey I almost did this for Tim Minchin tickets on Viagogo. Thought I was paying £170 for two, but realised at the very last minute it would have been double that! I'm not going near that website again.

Meanwhile, I have a pair of Kurt Geiger shoes upstairs that don't fit my fat feet. I can't walk in them, but they're so beautiful I can't bring myself to part with them!

I spent about £200 on cranial osteopathy for DS when he was a few months old and very puky. It was relaxing for me but she did absolutely naff all to DS apart from put one hand lightly on his head and the other hovering near his bum. It did absolutely nothing at all to improve the situation and after 4 sessions even she conceded it didn't work with everyone. Didn't help that she couldn't scientifically explain exactly what was supposed to be happening - something about energy and the body fixing itself. I was in a sleep deprived fog and with a sicky baby I was desperate. People in my hippy mums Facebook group raved about it.

When I later went for post natal physio, I told the physio woman (who was great) about it and she said 'i believe in it'. I thought, why should you need to believe in it? It either works or it doesn't surely?

Almost £500 on a leather jacket for an ex on his birthday. Found out two weeks later that the bastard was cheating on me left, right and centre

EBay, I don't spend lots at a time but fairly often clothes arrive and go straight to a friend or charity bag. I just don't seem to learn.

Aw @Haypanky If it makes you feel better I've seen Mumford & Sons so many times and they're unreal! You'll have a great time x

About £2500 on car repairs after lots of repairs were needed in quick succession. Car was only worth about £1k!

£250 falling for a scam

Two parking fines at work due to my own stupidity. I have one permit for both our cars, though 98% of the time I take car A. On the couple of occasions I've taken car B I've remembered to switch the permit into it, then forgotten to put it back in car A the next day and got a fine. Would have bwwn cheaper to just put car B in the pay & display bit!

@Haypanky, I haven't received the email yet, but I usually receive them after I've seen the tag on the thread anyway!