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?

Rowing machine.
Lockdown.
Expensive way to dry towels/bedding.

Hypnotherapy @ £75 per session. Even before I went I knew I was likely to be quite resistant to being hypnotised, but I was determined to try it - not once, but twice. It was so crass I almost burst out laughing. I didn't realise that hypnotherapists are totally unregulated - anyone can claim to be one and charge what they like.
I also spent a lot on a counsellor @ £45 per session before I realised I was wasting my time. She was supposed to be a specialist in the issue I wanted help with. A lot more research later I realised that many counsellors claim to have expertise in a large number of issues, far more than is realistic.

£150 to a nursery 14 years ago where I posted the cheque through the letterbox of the outside gate as admin fee to start the application process - I never actually set foot inside the place! Competition was so fierce for nursery places I was hedging my bets in case I didn't get my first choice.

I'd be looking for a refund if I'd been decked within 15 minutes on a riding school horse. They need to provide you with a safe horse whatever your standard of riding!

Why?

Stupid Miele dishwasher that was an absolute lemon. After 4.5 years of nursing it along with snotty letters to Miele HQ and regular engineer callouts, the pump & seal have finally died. I'm getting a Bosch - no more Miele, ever again.

@therealcookiemonster take your political attacks and partisan polemics elsewhere. It’s cheap - and of course patronising and arrogant - to insert them on unrelated threads. This thread is not about brexit.

As I said there always one 🙄

Most recently I bought a wedding dress of Vinted not realising it was knee length not floor length. No photos showing it's length, just a link to the retailer's website showing it (which I didn't click). Will have to try and resell (while still doing wedding planning)

Swimming lessons… not the first term, so basic skills had already been learnt. But the second year in ds was put in a class with about 25 kids (was supposed to be 10), and the rest of the pool was full with other lessons going on. The instructor was 17 with no experience. It was absolute hell and we stopped going after the second lesson.

Also Pokémon cards 😫

Paid for a term of baby signing up front (this was a new thing, 25 years ago). Still rankles that the person running it complained that my DD was disruptive and we shouldn't be going if she was so advanced on speech - her speech was a new thing, and it just meant she repeated all the words you said, so trying to teach her the sign for eg drink she just said 'drink'. Loudly and repeated often!

I was so shocked to be kicked out, we were basically told don't come next week this isn't suitable for your child, and I was so shocked I didn't think at the time ask for a refund so emailed later that day and got a curt 'no refunds are given for any reason without 1 term's notice' reply, and never got any replies after that, was just blanked.

Still cross about it now! I reckon as she had a waiting list I probably wasn't the only person to suffer.

I'd be willing to pay for someone to listen to me ranting I think.

announced that I’d organised a ‘family surprise’ for DH’s birthday. He replied that he’ll love it as long as it’s not escape rooms. I’d booked and paid for escape rooms

It’s not really possible to get a wool jumper back to where it was after being shrunk/felted, unfortunately. You might be able to stretch some parts out again, but it will never go back to even close to original size or shape. It’s because the fibres have now essentially locked together.

£300 on baby sleep advisor. My daughter was prescribed lavender scented baths with calming music and mood lighting.... made not a jot of difference! I was so stressed I could have done with one of those though!!

£700 on as piece of furniture that doesn't work and can't be returned.

£200 sunglasses that I left on the train.

Endless diet club fees

Booked my wedding - paid a £1000 deposit. Looking back I was a spoilt brat in the early days of my wedding planning and put a lot of pressure on my now husband. After a while of planning , I realised that not only was paying the rest going to be a massive strain but it wasn’t the wedding we wanted and I had gone into it blindly. We cancelled and did it on a much smaller scale - a lot less than it would have had we stuck with the original place , even with us having already paid the deposit. We had a lovely day but that £1000 was completely lost.

stop taking out your brexit failure frustrations on others. who died and gave you the job to police what other users say on threads?

I will insert my political opinions where I like thank you. if you want to live in a fascist state where people's freedom of speech is curtailed, there are plenty of places to choose from.

you might think it's cheap but after brexit, opinions may be the only thing left that is cheap 🙄

and ps I didn't attack anyone, my initial post was just to say the money spent on brexit was a waste. you are the one that is so triggered by just a mention of brexit that you decided to attack me. did you expect me to just run away crying?

This seems to happen quite a lot; but how do people who do this even try to justify their blatant selfishness and CFery?

Surely you would say no more buying presents for children who are now adults, so it's just the turn of the baby/younger ones, until they are 18?

You spoiled the thread by judging other people’s contribution. Just let people post. There’s always one 🙄

Can you find the band or the band's social media; perhaps the singer has it tagged to a store or brand in an older post? short of that I would try to write a message to their management or something; maybe you're lucky?

Isn't the phrase something like "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me" ?

Not criticising you, but I detest that Oscar Wilde saying. Yes, he was an extremely clever, witty man; but what a nasty, smug, grubby turd to make fun of people who have been orphaned and blame them for it, and to try to turn it all into a big hilarious laugh, just so he could get a 'clever' quote out of it.

It's bad enough when you lose both of your parents as an adult, but imagine being a child whose parents are now both dead, and some sick 'wit' has a good old chuckle over it.

The quote is from a play, a farce called The Importance of Being Earnest. It's said by Lady Bracknell who is supposed to be a snobby obnoxious character. We are supposed to laugh at her ridiculous opinion. It has to be seen in that context.

He didn’t ‘say’ it, it was said by Lady Bracknell in his play ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’.

Which is ironic, given you are being too earnest in your outrage, it’s just a joke, it’s not that deep. No one can be blamed for losing their parents.

Send her anyway she might just be tired right now and she might enjoy it