What do you resent buying?

[LoudNowSing]

I really need a new iron. The one I have is over 20 years old and just spits mucky water on to my clothes. I have tried descaling it, to no avail. Who the fuck wants to spend good money on an iron, though?

I also need a new mattress protector as the plasticy-rubbery stuff on the underside of ours is flaking off and its all a bit manky. And we do need one, as we live in a hot country and I'm peri-menopausal. Again, though, when I think of all the fun/nice/pleasurable things I can spend my hard-earned on, somehow the mattress protector never quite makes the cut.

Am I alone in this or do other people also have a growing list of un-fun things to buy?

Formula milk. I hate paying for something my body can produce a better version of for free, and resent the fact that I couldn't breastfeed! Annoys me every week

And, after someone had agreed to buy our house a window pane broke and I resented paying having to have it fixed when I hardly thought of the house as mine anymore.

The Pill. Costs me $90. All because otherwise I flood. If men had periods the pill would be free, or they'd have some cure for awful periods.

Contact lenses. Ugh.
Curse you healthily sighted people and your god damn perfect eyes!

Head phones
Sanitary towels
Tissues and wipes

@HLS1985 you nailed it about new build houses! I never really pinned down my feelings but YES seething resentment. You couldn't even hang a shelf on the internal walls in my new build, it would have been stronger if I made it of papier mache. And the "lawn' that was just rolled out over rubble, no one told me to check they'd actually put topsoil down first. Such a rip off.

Formula. I was so determined to breastfeed

@eatitgood

The Pill. Costs me $90. All because otherwise I flood. If men had periods the pill would be free, or they'd have some cure for awful periods.

I was going to say it's free of charge, but obviously you're not in the UK! That's a lot of money.

Contact lenses £17 a month
New glasses £300, (as I can't wear contact lenses 24/7)
School uniform
Shoes
Anything car related - tax, service, tyres etc
Toilet rolls, soap and any boring household essentials
Gas/water/electric
Clothes, especially sensible work clothes

Pretty much everything

@Piccalily19

Contact lenses. Ugh. Curse you healthily sighted people and your god damn perfect eyes!

The amount of money I've spent on lenses, cleaning fluids, spectacles, prescription sunglasses etc....some people just wake up and manage all day with good eyesight! Resentful!

I resent having paid for and bought my ds up entirely on my own, his father hasn't paid a single penny in 19 years.....I adore my ds mind...

Otherwise bras as mentioned upthread and running trainers....(reluctant runner)....

Mechanical repairs to the car. I want to be the sort of person who can say, "Ah, yes, there's a slight play in the left rear axle, get me a monkey wrench and some WD40 please" or whatever. Reality: google for five minutes, ring Hassan the mechanic, fail to identify the car part correctly.

More niche, but anyway - I run a food bank. We get a lot of excess stuff from supermarkets. We're particularly inundated with a certain brand of smoothie and a certain brand of non-dairy yoghurts and drinks, week after week. I now can't imagine paying actual money for them. At some point earlier this year we had 200kg of Scottish venison .

Anything that another group of people don’t need but I do so have to pay for it. Eg

Glasses/contact lenses
Sanitary products (although I am now a mooncup convert)
Wig (hair loss problem)

And I can’t believe I’m the first person to say it- masks!! They’re mandatory so we have no choice, AND we have to pay for them...

Prescriptions. I wouldn't mind so much if everyone had to pay for them but people in Wales and Scotland get them free, as do people who are retired or pregnant, even if they earn 20 times what I do.

Definitely carrier bags ok only 10 p and it’s a tax and I’m fine with that as I have a million and stops me buying any but shops that sell those paper bags that you still have to pay for ( Morrisons) really annoys me it’s not plastic bag tax so wtf are they charging us to use the crap bags.
Also just spent a fortune on a new roof I’ve needed one for years and I have the money but would rather spend it on something else . I mean it’s practical and I need it for my house but nobody is going to say oh lovely roof are they .

McDonald's. On my head it should be a cheap treat. £15 for DDs and me yesterday. DD1 needed an adult meal. DD2 had just a box of 9nuggets...

Tyres. I really resent replacing tyres.

Filters for the Brita filter jug. I probably could've had a filter fitted at the taps for the amount I've spent on them over the years.
Council tax, yeah!
Trousers (joggers etc) for my young kids who are so skinny hardly any shops make them narrow enough - then the knees wear through in weeks.

Pet insurance/ vets bills.
The astronomical cost is scandalous.

Oh, and ridiculously expensive school uniform, printer cartridges before I got rid of the bloody thing, and adult public transport fares for children still in full time education.

I resent every penny my DH spends on crap from Amazon.

I resent the price of handbags. And their fucking existence. After all if we had pockets we wouldn't need to bother
I disagree with this and a lot if men i know now carry some kind if bag. Obviously not a Mulberry or similar but a cross body satchel or mini rucksack.
I hate spending money on parking in our town. Its full of charity shops, cash converters and betting shops. I have to go in a couple of times a month to go to the town hall and resent paying £1.70 for an hour.
I know that is cheap compared to a lot of places but its not good value!!

I know one of you said don't go on about moon cups, but I spent £20 on one about 4 years ago and that has been my expenditure on sanpro since then - .41p a month. I can spend the rest on gin and frilly knickers. Why don't you do the same?
Jesus, you sound like my nan!
You know your own mind, have considered the alternatives and know what you want and she still tries to convince you to do something else!

Clothes. Only buy from supermarkets or Primark because I find anywhere else stupidly expensive.

@DappledThings I even sometimes baulk at Primark unless it's on sale

@Ozymandias101

I resent every penny I ever spent on tampons or the like, considering that the event itself is totally unnecessary.

I resent money spent on clothes without pockets, when the same item cut for a man DOES have pockets. And if pockets are present in the female tailored version, I'm usually infuriated by their tiny dimensions.

I resent the price of handbags. And their fucking existence. After all if we had pockets we wouldn't need to bother.

Mostly, I resent the time I'm expected to waste doing things nobody expects from a man. They don't paint their faces. They don't bother coloring their hair. They never worry if their shoes match their bag, or if the shoe/bag combo matches their outfit.

So I guess I'm quite resentful, but I object to having my time wasted on trivial nonsense that men never have to think about.

And although I dont actually tend to waste my time that way, I am reclaiming my time. I'm angry about the expectation that I would even try to be a "proper girl".

God yes, this. Not bothered about spend on menstrual supplies, but the rest? Fuck that shit.