Expensive mistakes - purchases

[SouthWestmom]

So mine is an Apple Watch. Costs an extra £20 for 4G a month and I never use it. I'm not interested in fitness and I can't find any purpose for it my phone doesn't serve.

OTOH, my collection of scarves is such good value on cost per wear basis - Missoni, Westwood etc and I wear them all the time.

Dh bought a deep fat fryer to make kfc style chicken. Granted the food is nice for an occassional treat but its a bastard to clean and everything gets covered in a film of oil, i assume from the steam it lets out. Told DH if he decides to use it again he has to get an extension lead and use it in the garden.

Biggest mistake was our house. Bought it to do up, realised its issues were way worse than our novice diy talents could manage so muddle through doing our best. Kind of wish we'd just bought a house we could walk into and not have to do anything for.

@OneRingToRuleThemAll it it makes you feel better our lease extension cost double that. 4 years after moving out the flat we have only just paid off the loan we got to pay for it!
Big mistake! Huge!

I use my juicer virtually daily and my fit bit watch is never off my wrist.

I made the mistake of moving to the countryside for dps work. Then moved back again after a number of years.
You don’t really recover from that financially.

Do remember looking for some curtains on eBay and seeing one listing that must have been a horrendously expensive mistake

The owners of some curtains had a large barn conversion I think

It had been left up to the husband to measure and order the curtains for a large floor to ceiling window.
Something like 18ft drop by 25ft width.

Except he had ordered it in metres not feet.

They had the whole family, including grand parents and children holding these 18 metre x 25 metre x 2 curtains out in a field.

None of them looked like they could keep a straight face.

The description was hilarious.

@Oliversmumsarmy

I am crying at that!!

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DS2 was really into farms & tractors for an intense phase of his toddler years. We live near to farms and i thought that buying him a dolls house type barn with multi levels and a water wheel with the works would make his Christmas rock.

I bought the barn, and found myself assembling this wooden cut out frame right up until Christmas morning and was totally frustrated as the online instructions didn't say that it would be so hard and so fragile. Christmas Day came and so did his smiles. By Boxing Day the pieces of the barn /dolls house had come undone and those connector bits for the walls and levels had disappeared. His toy tractor it seems doubled up as a bulldozer. The barn has never been reassembled, and probably can't ever be. But those pieces keep popping up in the most unexpected of places. All I can say is that that company made a bloody killing out of me!

RandomMess

I was crying too just remembering it.

Horse. Nuff said. Those things eat money.

Also sofa. £2000 on a very beautiful corner sofa, plus 2 seater. Looks amazing, is the most uncomfortable thing you can imagine. And the one in the shop didn't feel that way!

Most of my kitchen appliances - though I do use my bread maker 2-3 times a week!

Expensive sofa from John Lewis, took 2 months to be made. Within a short time the seams on the cushions had pulled apart.

It had screw in legs which buckled so had to be careful when sitting down.

It was barely used when it was donated to a pet rescue for use as a dog bed.

Wouldn't buy another JL sofa.

You should have returned the sofa Shitley. JL are pretty good at customer service.

It was only used rarely, so I thought it would be too late to complain about it, and it just got worse. Had more use out of a cheap clearance one from Homebase, about 14 years of constant sitting for £100.

£275 on a cream Berber rug I'd seen online and wanted for ages.
It malted like you wouldn't believe. Crazy amounts of cream fluff and fibres absolutely everywhere, all over the house. After few months of hoping it would stop and hoovering a thousand times, DH took it to the dump yesterday. Good riddance. The waste of money has annoyed me though.

Why didn’t you eBay it Mog6840

£50 is a lot to just chuck away though. Rug sounds awful ! We've chucked so many blinds/rugs/cushions that have been bad mistakes over the years.

Bread maker - terrible bread. The first time I used it I left it to it's own devices and the resultant "loaf" looked like it belonged in a Victorian freak show. You had to watch it while it mixed to make sure all the flour mixed in properly. So much for waking up to fresh bread in the morning.
My bicycle. Used it a bit, got too busy, then got ill. It sat in my garage gathering cobwebs until I gave it away. Then it got stolen.
Quite a few kitchen gadgets.
My previous laptop. Designed as a tablet with attachable keyboard. Except the keyboard kept losing connection and the memory was pants and I never did use it like a tablet because it was bad and the clicky buttons were annoying and it kept glitching.

The giant curtains sound hilarious!

I love my bread maker. And it didn't cost me a penny as it was given to me by someone who'd bought it and never used it. I also love my window vac.

However, the juicer has been used once only.
The expensive sports car sits in the garage for weeks at a time. I did less than 1,000 miles between MOTs last year.
Gucci boots with high heels never even worn once
Boxes of size 10 clothes I'll never get into again.

Bought two tickets for a play in light cinema , live-streaming from New York, costing £30. Was on 27th June 7pm, but in my head it was for the 28th, remembered on the 27th at 11pm to check the ticket.

Doc martens Chelsea boots with buckled - just haven't softened, coat £40 in sale

Samsung s8 phone, using the sim in my old iPhone 6s, just find Samsung so messy to use

iPad Pro. I needed a new laptop. My husband was convinced I should have an iPad Pro instead. I was fairly sure I'd hate it. After debating it for months, we bought an iPad Pro. I hate it. It's not big enough for me to want to use as a laptop, and it's too big to snuggle up on the sofa with and flick through Pinterest.

It hasn't been charged for about 2 months, and I've commandeered one of his iMacs, which I also hate. So in the near future I will still need to buy myself a laptop (PC, not frigging Apple anything.)

Another sofa purchase here! Post separation and choosing new sofas for new house and decided I wanted cream leather ones. The ones in SCS were very comfy but after a couple of months mine had refused to bed in and its really only comfy if you're lying down!! Desperately trying to sell the 3 seater before I move house but even at £50 no one on Gumtree wants it!

I am the queen of buying shit and then realising I should've just gone in to the garden and set fire to £50 notes. So off the top of my head.

House in a village, bought new sofas, hated rural living so sold up and moved back to a town, new sofas didn't fit in new house.

Breadmaker.

Big Kenwood mixer.

Tassimo coffee thing.

Sewing machine.

Piano.

Muzzy French language course for the dc, none of them speak French.

I'm sure there are thousands more but you get the gist 🤦🏻‍♀️