Tell me about your spectacular wastes of money

[Pennybubbly]

I'm feeling physically sick.
I placed an order overseas for a move-coveted Christmas present and paid and obscene amount. The goods arrived and they're the wrong size. (Kind of my fault, kind of not). Worse still, the goods cannot be exchanged. My fault for not reading the small print. It's a company in the US and you can "re-sell" them on their website, so today I just spent another fortune shipping them back and listed them on the website.
I'm such a twat. Please tell me tales of stupid things you've done so I know I'm not the only one.

Spent £6000 having my breasts enlarged, as my Ex boyfriend blamed his porn addiction on the fact my tits were too small (they were average size !) Had the boob job, and he still preferred to wank over porn than have sex with me. Hence why he's an ex!! In hindsight, I should have made him pay for them 😔

When I was very young went on a work trip - jet lagged - ran a bath but fell asleep , you can guess , bath ran over - paid for the freezer full of food which was ruined ( my room above the kitchen - but was concerned I would be sacked . ) More than my monthly salary. But - done and dusted . I suspect I would have handled it differently now .

Loads - missed flights (not always my fault - one was due to a tube strike) and had to buy last minute seats on the next one. I also seem to have a habit of trashing brand new phones, losing favourite new items of clothing, I even lost my engagement ring. Losing handbags on nights out. Locking myself out or locking my keys in my car and needing a locksmith. So many things it's depressing if I think about it!

My fucking horse. I love her to death and wouldn't be without her as she keeps me sane BUT god the money, I'm sure I could have funded a new house! The farriers coming tomorrow, that'll be £75 leaving my account. Due to life circumstances at the moment I'm hardly riding so I might as well be literally setting fire to the money. I also run a big 4x4 car so I can tow her about in a trailer which costs £££ every month on finance. Been out 3 times this year 🙈🙈🙈🙈

Ought a bathroom from Victoria Plumb. Absolutely shite.

We eat out almost every night. I actually checked how much I didn't last month. Wowzers

Before moving in with DP I owned a flat in an old Victorian tenement block which had a perpetually leaking roof - fortunately I was not top floor, but had to constantly pay out for communal repairs.

Due to said leaking roof, I had water ingress around the living room window because of rain constantly pouring/seeping down the wall. I had no clue, and posted on a website which matches tradespeople with customers. A very nice man came round, told me it would be a full day job, and he would knock out the wall then replaster it. Fine. Like an absolute fool I agreed to pay him in cash as he requested, and left him an envelope stuffed with notes. i returned from work to find he had not done the whole area we agreed, per pp had done an un-flushed shit in the loo, and of course had taken the money. I later found out from my neighbour that he was done by lunchtime. He did, however, leave his lunchbox behind. (I did not eat the contents.)

When I told my DP and colleagues they were absolutely flabbergasted at my stupidity. I am a pretty sensible person with a very responsible job, but for some reason find tradespeople really, really hard to deal with.

Spent thousands over the years in diet clubs,online clubs,shakes,keto,exercise equipment etc and I'm still 6 stone at least overweight.worst was being scammed for £800 when buying raspberry ketones.

The Dyson hoover my husband persuaded me was a good buy.

I guess if you only have a patch of carpet about a metre squared then it is, but otherwise it's a waste of time. Just bought a new Miele one as my mum has had one for 20 years and I'm already a million times more pleased with it!

I've always wanted a horse.. maybe after reading this thread I'll reconsider 😆

For me, buying a Stokke Xplory V6 pram for my first born. Was absolutely fixated on wanting one and begged my DP for us to take out a credit card so we could buy one. We got it, I loved it, until I took it outside. It was absolutely horrific to push, felt like it was going to topple over going up kerbs etc. Had no suspension whatsoever so it was clunky as fuck. Cost us well over a grand. Then we stupidly went on a spending spree with the credit card. Now we've had to take out an IVA cause we're in 8k worth of debt. Fuckwits.

@Tilltheend99

I have an ongoing problem with not being able to tell the size of things from the pictures when shopping online so think I’m getting a bargain but when it arrives it’s smaller then realised. I mostly do it with the food shop.

This reminds me of a story I read on here once about a lady who thought she was buying a beautiful couch, delivery included. For £100 or similar. When it showed up it was dollhouse furniture!!!!

Sorry for not replying sooner (time difference). Some of these are particularly awful to read and I'm sorry for your experiences. And I'm a shitty person to say this but they are actually making me feel better about my spectacular fail.
💐💐💐 to you all for your "wastes"

During lockdown I decided I was going to take up rowing. Bought a beautiful wooden water rower. Used it 6 times and got bored.

Decided I needed a treadmill instead. So I sold the rower and bought a treadmill. So far I have used it once.

😳

I haven't wasted any spectacular amounts of money - although I'm sure if I added up all my mistakes I would reel in horror at the combined total - but some of your stories have really cheered me up and made me feel better. Sorry!

Actually, to add to my pp, last week I was trying to find something I had bought on a local site similar to Ebay, going back two or three years worth of purchases. I was horrified to find how few were actually sensible buys which I still have, and even more horrified to find how many I don't even remember buying. Fortunately the prices I paid didn't show or I would probably be in a weeping mess on the floor and I don't even want to know how much I wasted on Ebay itself, which inludes high overseas postage prices. I think (hope) I have learnt a lesson.

In August got ridiculously excited about my twins first Christmas so wanted to book to see Santa at the “North Pole” ie the snow dome in Milton Keynes. About an hour from home but worth it! Booked a ridiculously expensive ticket before realising I’ve booked the snow dome in BIRMINGHAM. 🤦‍♀️ Now trying to cobble together the money for a hotel/ travel etc.

Diet books, slimming clubs, online weight loss courses, gym membership, PT sessions - I'm fatter than before I started!

We payed over £500 rearranging a pre-Covid booked holiday last year to change flight dates for this year so we could be in the U.K. for A level and GCSE results.
Except they then unexpectedly brought all the exam result dates forward which clashed with the new booking. And due to rising numbers never got to go on the damned holiday anyway.

Paid for a survey for something on our house to then realise when I got the report it was three pages of utter rubbish. No pictures to back anything up which I was told would be given. Basically looks like they have drawn a picture on paint and repeated themselves three times in different ways on the report.

Registered company, but it means nothing. Never again. I have learnt to do my research after that!

Prom dress just a few weeks before lockdown.

Expensive ski trip at school, DD freaked out the week before and said she couldn't face it. No refunds.

Years of driving lessons and six tests for DS who says he now feels like he doesn't have to drive.

Months of tutoring and then all exams were cancelled in 2020.

I'd be sitting on a pile of money if I didn't have kids.

@dayswithaY. If it’s any consolation my dd took and failed 5 driving tests and then gave up.
8 years later she has just passed what we refer to as ‘first time.’
And she paid for herself this time round.
She wasn’t ready emotionally before.

Absolutely everything I have ever bought (or done).

I’m either incredibly stupid, or incredibly unlucky (I’m stupid).

Even when I think i’ve thought things through there is some mistake it it’s just a huge waste of time and money.

I’ve just wasted the £30 I worked hard to save up to sort my hair out by fucking it all up.

I generally limit myself to charity shops for any purchases now. Less to lose.

Spent £600 on horse insurance for a family members horse to help them out of a hole - that I never ended up riding.
Complete waste of money, I still don't understand how someone can afford horses while on benefits. Never again!

Paid a fortune for my youngest dog. He is a total arsehole. Lovely, but an arsehole nonetheless.

My eldest dog was £50 from dogs trust. She can also be an arsehole but at least she was cheap.

Several years of private school fees for my three oldest children. Our faces didn't fit and they were all much happier in local state schools.

A three storey extension to a house in a rough area. The end result was spacious and beautiful, but I only got back about half the cost of the work when I sold it.

A garden landscaping project in which I imposed my own half-arsed design ideas instead of saying, "This is the budget," and leaving it to the professionals.