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?!

£250 on a fart !

PFB was only small and out of sorts , I was due to go on night shift but wasn’t happy with DC and his tummy was rock hard .

Rushed to the paed only for DC to let out a huge fart and fall asleep so between taxi fares , loss of earnings etc it cost £250

When we bought our house we were extremely risk averse. Went for a small house at 165k which had an old kitchen etc. At the same time there was a house on at 200k with a lovely kitchen and bigger etc but dh particularly wasn't keen as he felt it was too much.

Now ten years later our house is worth 200k. But we are out growing it and it's needing renovating etc. But the 200k house would now cost us in the region of 320k.

These posts are making me feel so much better!

• £250 on flights to Greece last year. Bought thinking a bargain for 4 of us. But it became a heatwave with temps up to 45 degrees. Thought it would be awful with 2 small dc so wrote off our flights and went to wales!

• £500 on fixing scratches to my car. Parked in a hurry at a soft play centre as baby was crying in the back. Gutted.

Realised I've done far more of these since having kids as I'm permanently knackered, in a rush, distracted etc and make mistakes :(

Decided on a sofa and paid deposit, told dh in coming weeks that I thought it was going to be too big. He told me he didn't want to loose the deposit. It came. Massively too big for our frontroom. Had to sell within 6 months. £3000 wasted.

Only last week our washer was leaking water. As 4years old and getting a little noisy decided to buy a new one instead of repairing. 2 day after getting new one, familiar puddle of water reappeared. Turns out the waste drain was blocked, not the washer leaking. £270 down the drain literally

Paid £60 to see Britney Spears a good few years ago, she was absolutely terrible and mimed the whole thing. The touts were selling tickets at the door for £10 🤦🏽‍♀️

Almost paid £50 to select our seats when we checked in online for a flight on Friday - turns out the only seats left were 2 together anyway!

DP spent £500 on one of them shitty MLM things a few years ago and never made any money from it still fumes me now.

Another DP one - £2500 on a personal training course - he's never used the qualification. And I've just paid £450 for personal training sessions with someone else 😂

Oh and also, DP spent £135 on a pair of glasses that he never wears. He has perfect 20/20 vision and only needed them to stop glare 🙄 I have shitty eyesight and wear glasses every day but have never spent that much on a pair.

DP cannot be trusted

I was on holiday in Tenerife when I was 21. Along the sea front there was a guy with a tray and three upturned cups. Under one of the cups was a small object. You watched him place it under one of the cups and then he shuffled them round on the tray. You had to keep an eye on the cup that the object was under. I can't remember exactly what you won if you watched correctly and chose the right cup, but I was confident enough to give him €40 of my holiday money as I figured it couldn't be that difficult to win. Except I chose the wrong cup. I watched him move them about so closely and got it bloody wrong. At that age €40 was a lot of money but I obviously thought I was good enough to beat him 🙄

@cookiesandchocolate soooo depressing!!!

the other wk end I booked train tickets from London to Manchester, then realised I could fly for around same price (£90) so cancelled the train ticket right away (lucky I got money back) but then the day before going when I was going to check in online, I realised that I had gone and booked them for December not September.... only got a 3rd of it back and then had to rebook train tickets. Then when I got up there I spent £50 in a vintage clothes shop, didn't have time to try the stuff on but thought i could post it back if that bad - they were that bad and the shop won't accept returns at all...

Previously I booked a 1st beach holiday abroad for holiday for DD and self only to be turned away at desk as passport was out of date.. cost me a few hundred £ to get an emergency passport and pay for new flights for the last 3 days of the holiday...

a few months back I left £100 at cash point...

I could go on and on.....!

Dh didn't get the €40 accidental damage once on a rental car on holiday. We got on the plane home with €40 between us. The bill for the damage was much more than that.

Well you’ve galvanised me to go and parcel up the stuff I don’t want to keep! That and the £185 I just spent on amazon

Parking in a hurry. Drove into a bollard and caused £300 of damage to the car.

A beautiful baby wrap, was my perfect colours, cost £180 and about a week after I bought it DD decided she only wanted to go up in the cheap ugly buckled carrier.
So all my lovely wraps sat unloved in a cupboard after that. Sometimes I'm tempted to have another DC just to get the use out of them

Washing machine kept cutting out

DH too busy to look

£60 for repair man to tell me it's fucked

£250 new washing machine £30 for old washing machine to be taken away.

Same day as new washing machine installed it started cutting out.

I had a look, when the washing machine went on a spin it was bumping the off switch.

Simply solved by not pushing the machine back as far.

alfiesman that made me LOL !!

@Reaa

Why did you need your husband to look? Couldn't you have looked the first time?

That's not meant in a shitty way btw but I'm a single mum so I'd have just looked myself to begin with. Don't understand this "husband too busy" when you could look.

Reaa did your doh ever know ?

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Op - I bought second row 02 tickets for Leonard Cohen. Much more than yours I am afraid. I think I too thought each was for both. Would still have been ludicrously expensive. Were a surprise for dp -lifelong and massive fan. I have not ever said exactly how much they were. Most stressful travel to venue ever (imagine missing it !). Was worth it. Magical night ( and had seen him before but never so close !). Top 10 gig for me. But I still shudder over a decade on at how much it was. Those ticket sites are so stressful and really pile on pressure with clock ticking down etc.

I was bidding for a really lovely vase on EBay. Something about the other bidder just pissed me off so much I just kept bidding so that they would not get it.

One case I had expected to pay maybe a tenner for, coat £189

Mind you it's bloody lovely

A private midwife.

I so wanted a home birth!! But was having twins so NHS would not support that choice. She was 100% lovely but then one twin was transverse and I had a c section in the end.

My Naive hope cost me a couple of thousand

One VASE cost me £189 ffs

Iaimtomisbehave1
It's what he does for a job!
Lesson learned as I do everything myself now.

HeronLanyon
He was a bit annoyed with himself but newer one has a 15 min quick wash, sonee get washing done in half the time so he decided it was still worth it.

"sonee" was meant to be 'so we now'

£140 on theatre tickets and forgetting to go . I remembered the next day and called up the box office hoping they would take pity on me but they basically said 'tough luck'.

I write myself little notes and leave them around the house so I don't do such a stupid thing again.