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?!

Haven't rtft but I also got caught out recently with a big ticking clock website I don't get how that's legal when it's then non-refundable And I'm usually sensible!

Also, the classic cigarettes and alcohol at uni. Can't believe how much I spent on them now!

I offered to pay for my sister's passport for her birthday a couple of years ago, handed her my card to pay for it. Turns out my sister had googled passport application and filled out a form online. They filled out the form and sent it to her, for £80, for her to send off herself and pay the fee. It's not technically illegal either. I'm still fuming about it.

I managed to rack up the best part of £35k debt by the time I was 25.

I have NOTHING to show for it that I could hand on heart say "this is what I spent it on"

Not even a student loan, fancy expensive holidays or designer clothes.

Took me almost 10yrs to pay it off and I will never EVER have another credit card, store card or overdraft again so long as I live.

Oh the conversations I would have with my 20yr old self if I had a time machine......

I spent £50 on a single call to my sister recently I was absolutely raging with myself for not realising I was calling her overseas number. Bu then, my Plusnet account happened to have a £5 smart cap on it and they refunded the other £45 without me even having to do anything. Phew! Good service.

YES!!

The loans I used to take out when they were just giving money to everyone! I'd.fancy some new make up or clothes or what ever and would just top up my loan. It took me years and years of debt management to sort it and I couldn't even show you a pen I bought out of it

I didn't ask and the thread might be dead now, but... Do we sell or do we go? Selling, we might end up out of pocket if we get face value for the tickets, due to all the fees, would lose approx 4hrs total driving to the venue, parking, collecting tickets, handing over, driving home, and of course miss out. But, we will be less out of pocket, we might even get our money back, the cost is so high I still feel sick 3 days later...

Joe Wicks. £150 down the drain.

We were done having babies. Youngest DC was 4 so we figured it was time to buy new sofas. Spent £3500 on chesterfield sofas. Very beautiful. Found out I was pregnant the following month. Baby now a toddler and has ruined the sofas

We were planning to get a wood burning stove; my husband got a deal on 6 tonnes of wood for £350 and then ordered a wood store for £300. That was 2 years ago. Still don't have the stove and no longer have plans to put one in! Anybody need any logs?

I spent £12 today on pick n mix sweets

I spent £100,000 on a flat. Having watched A LOT of Homes Under the Hammer on maternity leave, I thought it was a good plan to buy the flat on a main road, with a short lease that had been on the market over a year. Ten years down the line, I still live here, and would have spent another £50,000 doing it up when it's finished.

@toolazytothinkofausername

Try £40 on eBay for Japanese gummy sweets. You will not be disappointed.

I've wasted thousands over the years on binge eating food I didn't need, when I wasn't hungry, on foods I don't really like.

I paid £80 for a stomach flattening treatment the day before my wedding. Honestly, it did nothing at all and I felt so stupid giving them £80 just to put this stupid wrap on my tummy and massage it with something, I still had a bit of a tum in my photos so it really was money for sod all.

@cushioncovers

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

hmmhmmhow is that helpful?

I think @ogglet was trying to be helpful, in case OP had made a salvageable mistake. I don't think she was smug or anything.

£2000 on a plan for a house we decided not to build, it was a tricky plot and we got cold feet , luckily we managed to sell the plot on and it’s still empty.

I once had more money than sense.

Decades ago we moved into an idyllic farmhouse and decided I NEEDED a vegetable garden complete with raised vegetable beds. Knowing full well I've never managed to grow a thing.

£3,000 later the contractors had finished and my raised beds were stupendous.

I managed to grow in total, a few carrots before my husband got fed up with the weeds and bulldozed the lot to lay a lawn.

They were the most expensive carrots in history. I still cringe when I think how much money I wasted.

I still can't grow anything, but I am older and wiser.

@cushioncovers Pipe down Sweetheart 😂

I’m currently sponsoring 3 Nigerian princes

I bought a £££ mountain bike, envisioning days of cycling in the crisp mountain air. I can’t ride a bike. The curly handle bars in front scared me. I sold it for half it’s price.

Bought an indoor cycling machine. Was going to lose tons of weight, just pedaling away in front of telly. The cat sits on it more than I do.

I spent £99 a gorgeous pair of suede boots... left them in the bottom of the wadrobe unwornand. A few months later when I went to wear them, they had mould all over them and were falling apart.

@WhatAboutTheWeather I actually do need logs!!!

I would hate curly handlebars too!

Op first step, find out if the venue will check id. If so, then you can't go, the names on your tickets will not be yours as it is a platform for selling tickets, so someone else will have bought yours then passed on to you.

If they don't check id then the choice is yours. But I'd be tempted to buy more tickets, from a proper site, take those and get your viagogo ones stamped as invalid. Tell viagogo after the event that id was checked and you were refused entry ( even if you weren't), send viagogo the scanned invalid tickets and hope they refund you.

Over £1000 (I’ve erased the actual figure from my memory) on hideous photos of the four of us at Venture photography when the DC were toddlers. We were given a voucher for a ‘free’ photo shoot and tiny photo but we were totally sucked in by the presentation of the photos and ended up buying a set of 3. Twelve years on and they’re stashed in a cupboard as I can’t bear to look at them they’re so bad. But also can’t bear to throw them away as they were so expensive!

Ugh I booked a last minute holiday yesterday, we have been procrastinating for 2 weeks looking at different hotels, countries, weather forecasts and reviews I’ve been a bit overwhelmed and we just panic bought.
Dh and I were talking about 2 different hotels with similar names booked through 1 company who have outsourced flights and ended up paying £1000 over our budget and have had to add on seats. The hotel Ive booked looks gorgeous but has mixed reviews and some of it shuts down on Oct.
It’s forecast rain for 3/7 days and I forgot to put in the discount code .
Keeping everything crossed it’s worth it