What's your biggest waste of money ?

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Ok so currently fuming at myself and my stupidity because I purchased something by accident thinking it was an upgrade for an item but it was infact the same one I already owned. It's the type of thing that cannot be resold.

Company have refused to help even though I proved already having the item etc etc . Anyway.... £60 down the drain on nothing .

Also started a small hobby business but struggling to see how I'll get the money back that I put in (not mlm btw) so another £300 gone (be lucky to get £100)

What's your biggest waste of money lately? Make me feel better that it's not just me who throws money into the wind and kicks myself for weeks on end about it.

I bought my dream car at the start of 2019, a 'from me, to me' thing, convertible 2 door as the kids are old enough now and don't need to be ferried around in car seats. I used to do 1000s of miles for work so it was a luxury to drive something so wonderful, and I could claim back the mileage costs which paid for the car.

Come March, lockdown hit, it sat on the driveway and did only 2000 miles in 12 months. The most expensive driveway ornament known to man. I sold it, lost money and bought a second hand, oldish mini

Joules wellies. They didn’t have the design I really wanted but I felt I needed some wellies so bought some that I didn’t really like that much. And I don’t wear them as much as I thought I would and I get really sweaty in them and my legs get stuck and dh has to forcibly yank them off.

More expensively, my kitchen. Horrible company boss and cowboy fitters. I was too stressed and upset to complain at the time (pregnant and dh was fucking less than useless) but feel pissed off every time I look at it.

Also Joules wellies for me. I bought them from their outlet on eBay so they are non-returnable. Wellies arrived and they are so narrow! You'd need the legs of a Barbie doll to fit into them.

Whilst drunk I booked an expensive restaurant online and paid a non refundable deposit of £120.
Forgot I'd made booking. Ignored calls from the restaurant on the day as I was out visiting a garden centre (!) They took the amount out next day 🙈gutted

[quote Jins]@NothingIsWrong so pleased you found it. Sharpening overlocker knives isn’t very successful

Have fun with it[/quote]
New knives will be here tomorrow :-) so happy!

Bought stay and play for Peppa Pig World. Thought I had changed the date but forgot to press complete. Luckily I hadn't told the kids

Accidentally bought my mum the same thing for her birthday as I did for Christmas from her Amazon wish list 😬 Luckily it was something I wanted anyway so I’ve kept it but it did mean needing to spend another £20 on something else.

[quote NothingIsWrong]@Jins OMG thank you - I think I've found the knife it needs, Singer S14-78

Not cheap but at least fucking available![/quote]
I was going to say, I have an Aldi/Lidl overlocker from about 6 years ago, I did the same thing (admittedly not on the first day!) and managed to get someone to service it and she sourced the new knife. So it definitely is possible 🙂

@Antinerak

Dh bought me a lovely dress that I later found out was £300. I usually alter my own clothes but didn't want to risk damaging this one so took it to a seamstress. She got my order mixed up with someone else who was requesting an adult's dress was made into a child's dress. The gave me the cost of the work (£30) and that was it.

What?!? That’s bloody disgraceful!! I’d definitely be posting an honest review on their Facebook/Google/whatever.

A lovely wooden outdoor table. Unfortunately it didn't last well. Wasps attacked it and it looked very weathered v quickly and only lasted a year or 2. Replaced it with a metal one.

Booked theatre tickets the other week .. over £100. On the night of it I was in a really foul mood so decided not to go 😂 money down the drain. Stayed home with wine instead

I’m always wasting money. Most recent was $400 on concert tickets in the wrong city, 12hr drive away. No way I can go. Idiot.

Buy clothes that aren’t quite right or too big or something, end up giving them away to friends or to charity. Bought a pair of golden goose sneakers, wore once, so uncomfortable and ended up with many blisters and walking around bare feet instead they were so bad. Always have misses with footwear. Hate to think of the thousands and thousands I’ve wasted over the years

I detest wasting money on things, but the thing that comes to mind is buying one of those baby wetsuit-type swimming outfits for my then 4 month old to go to Center Parcs. Cost £25, she screamed at me squeezing her into it and out of it because by design they’re meant to be a snug fit, and the next time I took her swimming it was too small. Plus the pools at Center Parcs are gloriously warm. What a waste.

Today springs to mind. Odd clunking noise from bike as I'm cycling in, it's been doing it for a day or two. Only vaguely paying attention as I plod along imagining my lottery win. Clunk escalates to a CHUNK and there's no resistance, have to get off. Takes me a while to work out what I'm looking at. It's an elastic luggage strap o use for shopping and left on the luggage rack by mistake, which has slowly wound itself around the chain and gear mechanism as I cycled until it sheared the whole thing clean off. I'd guess it will be over £200 to fix

I bought a new academic year diary last week. Got it home to find it’s the same dates as one I have already just in a different colour! I have done this about 4 times in my life!! Not an expensive purchase but it’s adding up!

My wedding hahaha.

@NothingIsWrong after having pin bits come flying at me (my overlocker is quite sturdy so the knife cuts through the pins!) I now mostly use sewing clips when I'm overlocking instead. Much harder to accidentally miss one.

this kind of thing

I have lots of lovely clothes that don't fit or I do t feel comfortable wearing. I need to sell what I can.

I used to work for a company that had a really good company match for the pension. At the time I was young and I not bothered about looking after pensions so didn't even log in. Couple of years later I get my act together and log in to discover that the default investment is an extreme low risk money market fund growing at 0.1% per year. I have since moved it to more equity based funds, but I reckon I lost probably 20k in lost opportunity cost. Hope it gives someone the incentive to not make the same mistake...

Boots that rub my feet.

Exercise bike that if I'm using during l the day the DSs pester me. Then in the evenings it's late by the time I sit down so I can't be bother.

But the most annoying wastes of money is having to replacing my things that DSs have broken.

Our sofas. We've lived together for about 14 years and only ever had second hand sofas. Last year we decided to redecorate and get brand new sofas. My grandparents had this same make and style for years, they're so comfortable and still look almost like new- turns out they're no longer made to the same quality. Cushions all flat and lumpy within weeks, fabric catches really easily so it's got snags, they're too low to the ground and really not comfortable. So disappointed.

Oh yeah I forgot about my sofas. Hated them almost immediately upon delivery.

The house before the one I have now, it was near a road, a complete muck up and it hardly went up in value even though every other house did.
Expensive clothes, my weight varies so much I never seem to get the wear out of them. I’m more of a high street girl.
Cressulet frying pan, too heavy to lift.
Garden furniture that’s an L shape. it’s so awkward. Even once you get your seat the table never seems the right distance from the L shaped sofa.
Anyone wanna buy some expensive clothes, a noisy house and a dodgy garden set?

Mine is just a drip drip of money on things I don't really want or need that all add up to the amount something I do really want or really need would cost.

I also spend money on my daughter when it's not really needed- random toys or clothes or treats. I feel like it doesn't count when it's for her.

My worst thing is spending money on the house/things for the house that I realise don't really work in the way I've planned it. Often furniture etc is not cheap so it can be a real waste of money.

Tres chic bistro style folding metal table and chairs for the garden. First day we used it we bad lunch and went out for the afternoon and it rained. Wiped it down, pit it in the summerhouse. Next day every joint was rusted. Hardly use it now. £300.00 wasted really. Will sell it and get an all weather wooden job instead next summer.