Money you may as well have set on fire

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Like you literally got NOTHING for it.
DD wanted to go to drama club for ages. Loved the first term. Asked if she wanted to do the second term. No sooner had a I sent the money across she came and told me she didn't want to do it and has been moaning and tantruming about it ever since. £90 completely wasted. I'm feeling pretty salty about it atm. Help me feel better about it with your wasted money stories?

I had more than fifty sessions of therapy with a counsellor who was self-employed. Looking back, more than half of those sessions I was just ranting / venting, which I now realise wasn’t therapeutic. So I feel financially exploited and wasted north of £1K.

I had more than fifty sessions of therapy with a counsellor who was self-employed. Looking back, more than half of those sessions I was just ranting / venting, which I now realise wasn’t therapeutic. So I feel financially exploited and wasted north of £1K.

Sorry for the double post 🫢

Ex’s father retired and took some of his pension as a lump sum to buy a new car.

Ex got some sort of fine and rather than pay up, eventually got summonsed and decided to borrow his dad’s car and drive to the court to “contest it”.

For some stupid reason he drove as fast as he could there and back “it was a laugh, lots of squashed flies on the windscreen”, going through speed cameras and blowing the head gasket on the way back.

His Dad ended up paying all the fines and repairs!

I’m curious how you spent five thousand visiting universities? How many did you visit? How did it cost so much?

I dont want to talk about it but I had fun. 🙈

When I took ILs to WDW, £15k and the holiday was completely destroyed.

They were Ivy League universities in the US. The head of department that we were visiting got his dates wrong making a visit fruitless - tuition and accommodation would have been $300,000 for the course.

Every type of baby bottle in existence in an attempt to get DD1 to take expressed milk from it.

Gave up in the end as it was too stressful. Didn't even attempt to get Dd2 to take from a bottle.

Same.

🤣🤣🤣. Truth!

Extra weeks in student accommodation that are never used because college finishes well before the contract ends.

Even in healthy people with top immunity it takes an average of 2 years to clear the virus. A common misconception is that poor immunity leads to cell changes when it's actually the strain of virus you have, there are many and only a few cause changes. So it's more luck than health.

ExH bought a flat on Portland in Dorset in the property boom in the late 1980s. Months later the Navy pulled out of Portland harbour. Businesses left the island. Property prices crashed. Bought for £35k, sold for £16k 10 years later. £19k just thrown away. We only earned around £30k between us!

Which company..good to know 🙏

Recently we were on holiday, all my friends were going abroad the morning after the night we got home, for a 40th. I started having total fomo when we were away, so my husband booked me flights for £250. Never got to bed till 2am the night we got home and couldn't face getting up at 6am the next morning to pack, fly again and have a weekend of drinking so didn't go. Then a month later he had £90 come out his bank, when he booked the flights he done it through some daft site that took an annual fee off you to find cheaper flights.

Same here, pressies, days out, holidays to Disneyland Paris....then my sibling declared we stop buying stuff when they are 18....fair enough but my child was 1!

So no time, energy or pressies/Easter eggs reciprocated here either 🫣

Surely 3 days was not long enough to give it chance?

Vinted. Bought a handbag for £90, returned it as it wasn’t new. Somehow Vinted released money after the handbag was returned. Seller blocked me once he received the returned bag back. Nightmare. I got nowhere as Vinted “customer services” were total non-existent AI trash, as much a scammer as the nasty Seller.

I bought a lovely red wool coat years ago. A short time later I list about 20 lbs and gave it to charity because I read that was psychologically the right thing to do. Reader, I put the weight back in within a year. Madness!

I had 10 stamps on my hairdresser's s loyalty card so I had an unexpected free luxury hair treatment.

All the time I was sat that hoping I wouldn't get a parking ticket for going over the hour. Yep, I did. That hair treatment cost me £60!

School fees.

A yearly swimming membership. Didn't use it as much as I'd hoped.

I know this sounds trivial - but floor mops.

Have tried many over the years. Braid one’s, squeeze one’s, cheap ones, fancy ones. All rubbish.

now get down on my hands and knees 🧽 it’s quicker, easier and more effective.

I lost £500 on a deposit for a dog, I found out I was pregnant shortly after and they refused to refund me despite selling the dog to someone else.

Car, yep. Needed a new one in 2021. No new cars, 2nd hand ones high. Bought one 6 years old. Had it less than a year, automatic gear box went, warranty not worth the paper it was written on. I finish the loan this November! Idiot.
Therapy, yep. Paid £50 a session for basically talking for an hour. No helpful advice at all, no context or anything.
House, yep. 1991 spent £65000 on a house 100% mortgage, spent 5 miserable years at an astronomical interest rate and eventually sold for £62000 , moved and rented. Same house now worth £550k, obvs