Expensive mistakes.

[Peppersteak]

I lusted after a new pushchair for weeks. Didn’t actually need it as DD was happy enough in her travel system but I HAD to have it. DH thought it was a waste of money but I wore him down.
New pushchair is rubbish for winter as no cozy toes and you can’t even buy them in the colour I have. The steering is really bad on it and when it folds down it’s bigger than my pram.
Feels like money down the drain. Please share your expensive mistakes to make me feel better!

New kitchen - beautiful - all except the expensive laminate flooring which gets very muddy and hairy from the large black dog. All I want to do is hose it down and use soap on it rather than gently polishing with the tears of a new born baby
Next time it's much cheaper lino!

Not the point of the thread but I love my Silver Cross Reflex! Yes it’s quite large folded but the seat bit is so deep and comfy, when I see other toddlers slumped uncomfortably in their stroller I think I made the right choice. Also love the extendable hood bit could you see if you could recoup most of the cost by selling it on?

£800 on lipo freeze and a course of dermarolling 'vampire' treatments on my double chin/neck. So bloody painful and made no difference whatsoever. I didnt bother going for the last one.

A Turbo Scrub. It's shite.

Raising a grievance about being awarded a zero bonus because I worked part time. I got made ‘redundant’ 6 weeks later.....that was an expensive mistake - sadly.

That and a black granite bathroom sink which looked amazing in the shop. Not quite so attractive covered in toothpaste residue twice a day.....

£600 on car repair only for it to breakdown (with a completely unrelated fault) not even 100m down the road. Couldn't afford the £500 for that repair, got £75 for scrap value.

£80 for a months family gym membership for January. Its 15th and I've not set foot inside yet.

Got DBil who lives in the US to purchase two identical toys not available in the uk as DD was desperate for one. Plan was to sell one of them on for more than it cost which would cover the postage cost etc too.
Except the idiot sent them in two separate large boxes using an extortionate insured shipping service rather than in one cheap slow package.
Which meant that even after selling one on for a good price DD's present cost twice what it should have

Too lazy to take my earrings out before showering, then used a shower scrunchy thing to wash my neck. Caught one of the diamond stud earrings my husband had saved up specially to buy me, ripped it out of my ear and sent it straight down the drain.

To compound my stupidity, I then stood there staring at the drain in horror like a fucking lemon instead of immediately turning the shower off and giving myself at least a tiny chance of it catching in the drain.

Still cross with myself.

Bought a house in the wrong area. We're absolutely miserable here but we spent all our money on deposit, legal, carpets throughout that we have no money to move at least not for the next 3-5 years. Realllllly expensive mistake

TBF probably having DC 😂 so expensive when you add it up 🙈

@Randommess God yes. Who needs 3 children, 2 would have been sooooo much cheaper

As a young adult my Dad asked me to search on the internet for suitable accommodation for our upcoming holiday. I entered the dates and duration of stay and found a beautiful condominium on the waterfront. It was reasonable for the week as it was a special offer (around £400 for the week, a long time ago) so I called my Dad and he said to book it straight away, giving me his card details.

To cut a long story short, after I’d paid I saw that rate I’d seen was per NIGHT and not per WEEK. The website was deliberately misleading and the total was only given after I’d paid. I immediately called the company and explained the error and they said “In the small print you will see that bookings at our discount rate (!) are non-refundable. There’s nothing we can do I’m afraid.”

I was crying and nearly vomited when I called my Dad expecting a total bollocking. He confessed he’d had trouble with the exact same company before and that he knew it was easy done so was very forgiving and kept saying “well, it’ll just have to be a holiday of a lifetime.”

It was bloody lovely but not worth £400 a night!

£30,000 on a shiny black car... never buy a black car!

We spent £5k having slate flooring laid right through the downstairs of our house while I was pregnant. DS has now scratched it to bits by crawling with a toy in his hand.

£800 on a super king size bed with memory foam mattress and pillows.. DH and I went two weeks before finally admitting to each other its the most uncomfortable, unpractical bed in existence. It's too big for our odd shaped room we literally have to jump (yes jump, it's very fucking high) on the end of the bed and crawl up to the top. Changing the sheets is now a family affair. And the end drawer I'd begged for is utterly useless after one spare set of sheets goes in (granted I could fold them better but I don't want to that's why I wanted a big end drawer!).

It's so big we joke that we have to text each other good night because we are too far away from each other! Occasionally we'll have a really great sleep and be like 'oh actually this is great' but then the next night we'll be back to an average sleep and remember we really need to stop buying on every whims.

The new bloody telly. All singing all dancing, top of the range, apparently. Does a million things. Except it never seems to actually work. I can’t figure it out. Dh, a highly paid IT consultant, can’t make it work. I even got in a professional home entertainment installation specialist (friend of friend) to come round; he made it work and showed me how to do it - but I can’t seem to replicate it.

Fucking waste of money. Bring back the old boxes with an on/off button and four channels.

Buying a Fiat500 on finance! Told my now stbxh I couldn't afford it but let him convince me i could.
Big mistake! Hated the poxy car after a month.

My dining chairs. The perfect ones I'd thought but turns out they are bigger than the table and I need a cushion to reach the table properly.
Darent tell dh as I drove him mad for them. Only £100 but still.

My new smart tv cost over £1k. Then I found out you can only get C4 catch up on Samsung TVs. Still annoyed about that

@DoneLikeAKipper

Could you coat the inside of your rings with clear nail varnish to stop the allergic reaction?

Booked a 4 berth campervan for 10 days in the summer holidays. Assumed 4 beds meant 4 seatbelts. Double checked the night before we were due to go and it had 3. Not illegal, apparently! I refused to travel in it, owner refused to refund. Spent 10 hours trying to find another campervan to hire in August and finally found one. Most expensive campervan holiday ever.

A Mini Convertible. Lusted after one for years. Finally bought one (not new but still expensive) and hated it after a week... hated the poor rear visibility because of the huge soft top and it felt like a small tank.

Traded it in at a huge loss for a little Smart Fortwo which at least I love driving!

DH and I bought an expensive VIrtual Reality headset, which is brilliant, but not in itself a waste of money.

What is a waste of money is the two new TVs we’ve had to buy in less than a month, due to them being punched whilst playing VR

Several thousand pounds on a horse, who turned out to have major health problems despite having passed a several hundred pound vetting with flying colours. Ended up having to have him put down. Devastating and an enormous amount of money down the drain.

Cream wool carpet in the sitting room. I love it, it does not love our two big dogs and outdoorsy lifestyle.