Money you may as well have set on fire

[Snickernoodle]

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?

£1200 on swimming lessons for the wee fella. He still can't swim.

Nintendo switch barely been touched

OH's sports equipment and gym membership. Bike in the back garden has flat tires and hasn't been used in 5 years. 5 years worth of gym membership used maybe 6 times. New stationery bike upstairs because bike in back garden has flat tires and this will be nice as he can look out the back window. Bought 3 months back, nearly £1k and used once.

Expensive robotic Lego set for DS who loves Lego and wanted it for Christmas- hardly ever played with it. It’s the only set he didn’t bother with - must be that he loves Lego but not robotics. Total waste of money.

Worst was a mistake ordering photocopying from the British Library - accidentally selected the photography option. Got charged £300 rather than £30. Felt sick when I realised but it couldn’t be changed as the job had been done.

I just bought one of these 😱bit cheaper though €35 in the Lidl specials. DS will have just turned 2 so he might sit on it. I really don't want a double buggy

Before lockdown I used to really enjoy spin class, I bought one of those home bikes for a couple grand in lockdown and due to what I now think was depression I just didn’t use it. Moved to a smaller place after lockdown and sold it for half of what I bought it for, but still feels like a huge waste of money and I cringe when I think about it.

I don’t know why but it made me laugh about your poor little budgie!

Every bit of exercise equipment.
If I hear anyone saying their going to buy it now I always recommend a model with plenty of space to hang clothes on as that seems to be what they all end up as.

Ditto my dog! Bastard! 🤣🤣🤣

Couldn’t get a Thunderbirds “Tracey Island” for love nor money the Christmas that it was the must-have toy… ds was heartbroken.
Got him it for the next Christmas, big fanfare got opening it… the craze was over, he barely looked at it, and I gave it away☹️

800 for a treadmill that didn't work after the first day and was sent over from a company in Europe who were totally unhelpful. It's been sitting behind a screen in the living room for 4 years now and will finally be put outside for the scrap men today

Leafalotta: Re shrinking a wool jumper in the wash ….

soak the jumper in normal Hair Conditioner, and a gentle wash.
Voila! Back to normal.
(sorry off track)

Counselling for ds1. He's having 20 sessions at £49 a pop. Total waste of time.

I could have written this for my dd.
And if she reads your post she’ll think I’m you 😂

Dd used to beg and say she would be fine this time.
She never was!

I thought about that! Has made me feel less guilty many times. Josh Widdicombe said it to Rob Beckett on their Parenting Hell podcast

I'm a disabled pensioner who paid out £5,000 on a new wetroom which cannot be used for showering because the builder did not build it correctly. (I tried to sue him but it turns out he had put all his assetts into his wife's name so he owned nothing.)

Now I am being quoted a further £5,000 by other builders to rip it all out and rebuild it :-(

Sorry, but I laughed too… your poor confused soggy budgie!

£250 on insuring the car for learner dd - I took her out twice because it was just too terrifying! We also initially spent £250 upfront for 10 hours of lessons from an instructor. He could only do it in 2 hour slots, so she had five sessions - he was late each time and finished early, and he only took her to second gear (I think she spent the first three sessions driving only in first gear!). We found a different instructor after that...

£200 when I accidentally filled DH's diesel car with petrol. Cost of the petrol, cost of getting it all pumped out, then the cost of buying actual diesel.

About £1k on swimming lessons over the years.

I still can't swim and have just given up now.

@Leafalotta in case you don't see the help from @OssieShowman Hope it saves your jumper :)

Huge sums on perfume “dupes”. Finally realised i spent more chasing the dupes than I would have on the actual perfume.

Forgetting to spend gift cards

I inherited 150 pairs from a relation, to add to my ~50 pairs. We did have mostly similar taste but I need never but another earring.

I was jet lagged and bought 400 dollar glasses at the airport in LA.. I thought they were going to be cheaper and then they added taxes and was too embarrassed to say no and bought them anyway 🥲. I've never worn them because I wear glasses and need a prescription! 🫥