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?

A root canal - three days before lockdown.

i now have a gap as it failed and no one could see me to fix it.

This, I thought it would just the ticket for reading in bed, but somehow it's the wrong shape. Put it on Ebay for £20 - no interest at all. It's stuck at the top of the wardrobe now. 🙁
https://littlejax.co.uk/products/backrest-pillow-with-arms-headrest?currency=GBP&stkn=f2e565402889&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwmMayBhDuARIsAM9HM8dwsDN2rDOv6NCKC_6K1r5TRFBh9-Jmimi7TKLfJayD5M3cXBkI1aIaAsJdEALw_wcB&variant=42816183009534

Around 30k on solicitors after a neighbour took us to court.

This is a brilliant thread, OP!!

Great mixture of:

Oh yes, I’ve done that!!
You did what???
OMG, that’s awful - and
HaHaHa!!

Experience gifts for a friends birthday on two occasions (she requested) that she’s not booked herself in time as she’s unorganised and they’ve expired

All the plant ones.

Expensively fed slugs

Dying plants

Finding plant labels in the garden but the plant is long gone

A few days ago pulling up a buttercup. Two days later realising that it is/was a geranium.

I’ve just thought of some more

Buying perfume (untried) during Covid with no testers allowed
Big mistake!! The menopause made me hate about 98% of any scents.. but I kept doing it🙄 my friends now smell amazing (apparently) as I gave it all away to them.
Ditto shoulder bags… keep buying them, convinced that this will be the perfect one…they never are🥴
Yes to the bloody Ddog food.. she eats vile stuff she finds if I don’t watch her and once ate 12 eggs and their shells and box - was fine… however, try and feed her breed-specific premium stuff and it’s either a refusal after 2 mouthfuls or it’s shat out everywhere💩

Whenever I go to the tip I hate the fact that every single thing I am chucking is something I have paid for

Off topic but their podcast is hilarious 😂

PFB in 2003, we bought a fancy £85 baby monitor for our 2 up, 2 down Victorian house. I don’t know what I was thinking our house was so small you could hear everything. And if I went out and left her with DH could hear her scream from the end of the road. I’m still annoyed I spent so much on it 😂

So many lovely merino and pure wool clothes plus a cashmere coat that was my best ever charity shop find - hundreds of ££££s worth - eaten by moths, some before I've even worn them.

This thread is filling me with second hand dismay for everyone, I will come back to list my own later.

Just fyi, we had similar but we were given a brand new one so not so bad. If we have a lovely hot summer we use it as a 'cool' tub. Really nice for a refreshing dip. We have the filter on all the time and I have worked out it is a couple of pence an hour. My DS loves it.

Quark in bloody everything.

The classes are too big in most areas to discuss anything after weigh in and you get minimal value in my humble opinion…

@onemorerose
tiktok shop. It’s a scam.
How come.
My sons had loads of decent stuff from there at good prices.
What have been scammed on.

Got told our chances of conceiving naturally was a couple of percent at best (cancer). Spent about £40k on IVF to freeze enough embryos for two kids and then conceived naturally before the transfer. Took us two months of trying to conceive our second! So eggs are still in the freezer cost us several hundred in storage each year

I've just bought a panini press I don't need and will hardly ever use. Still, I had supermarket loyalty vouchers to use up by the end of May so it only cost me £23.

Lazer hair removal!! 600 quid and 6 painful, inconvenient hours of my life, for absolutely fuck all difference. I moved area after starting the course, not realised how far apart the sessions had to be, so four if the session involved a 1.5 hour drive each way 😖

Me too :(

I found NCT far too evangelical about "natural birth" too when I went over 20 years ago. At one session at 35 weeks I had been told by the midwife a few days before that DD was in the breech position and I was referred to the consultant to consider a planned caesarean. The leader tried to convince us to insist on still having a vaginal birth and was pushing us to see a particular consultant who specialised in breech births. I shut that nonsense down pretty sharpish - no way was I risking mine and DD's lives by trying a breech birth! Was pretty annoyed about the pressure that was put on me

In the event DD moved into head down position before the birth so the caesarean wasn't necessary thankfully.

Oh many of these , but as my late MIL said Fool me once fool me twice. Which I think means I'll make a mistake once but not twice. Bit like as Oscar Wilde said - to lose one parent is unfortunate - to lose two is careless . But all sunk costs so not worth losing sleep over . Anything you can sell if you get some money back that's fine.

and @ scribbling pixie I had so many things eaten by moths - there is a thing to can get from Lakeland or amazon where you can spray the clothes with moth repellent. Otherwise I have had the house sprayed by Rentokill and may have to do it again. I hate the little fuckers.

Braces… hours and hours off work/school to take him to the appointments. As soon as he went to uni stopped using the retainers and we are back to square one.

20 years of smoking. My cash literally went up in smoke and I was killing myself at the same time. Although, I still, after 15 years of not smoking, fancy a cigarette on occasion. I don't do it because I know 1 will never be just 1. I'll be on 30 a day within a week.

School ski trip to Boston, paid about £400 in instalments before realising, over a half term ski holiday, that DS wouldn’t listen to the instructor, kept disappearing and we couldn’t be sure he wouldn’t try skiing off piste. So… we just found a excuse and cancelled, too much to handle for a teacher, with 20 kids and probably no skiing experience, to handle.

About 20 years ago, I joined the fanciest gym in the city. £130 including locker hire. I went three times in the year… cancelled my membership and didn’t ever go back to collect the expensive trainers/kit/toiletries (worth another £350) I left in my locker 🤦🏼‍♀️

So £637 a workout 🤭😂🤦🏼‍♀️🙈