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?

DD at university in the next city, spent £6000 on accommodation and I think she’s spent a total of maybe 30 nights there. It’s just nicer at home!

Also plants. I once planted a long row of echinacea, and not one of them returned the next year. I don’t know if they died or were eaten by slugs

16 years ago - 6000 pounds on a hot tub with flashing lights music etc. The money was from an insurance payout on my husband’s death. I used it a handful of times and it lay unused for ages until I got rid of it. I put it down to widow madness!

Spent £££K on architect plans for an extension. Specified (in writing ) our wishes for a 2 storey extension - only wanted one ensuite, and a downstairs loo. Also wanted to keep downstairs layout, just adding a decent utility/ cloakroom extension and a fair bit more space in another room, creating another bedroom above, and an ensuite. Location of extension meant new ensuite and downstairs cloakroom were adjacent to water pipes and drainage, thus keeping costs down.
Came back with one ensuite in each bedroom, sent him away for attempt 2, upstairs was OK. However completely rejigged the downstairs layout with a new back door at the side of the property to accommodate the downstairs loo - just where the car port is and we keep our horsebox under, and miles from the existing plumbing/waste. Never bothered extending in the end.

About 80 quid on a block booking for baby sensory about three weeks before lockdown in 2020. I think we made it to one before Covid became a thing and it didn’t feel sensible to go any more.

Football Stickers
Pokemon stickers
Any feckin collectible stickers.

Too many DVDs that are now worth like 10p

Oh gosh I had forgotten the DVD's, I haven't bought one in years but probably had a few hundred at one point.

Hold my coffee, this thread was made for me.
Keyboard £160 (I was 16, it was my money from my job). Never learned to play, just bashed it like a toddler. £300 new batteries for mobility scooter that cost £3k, batteries were installed and the throttle broke ... manufacturer stopped making the part. £200 deposit for windows from Safestyle that never happened because they lied about the product and cost, no refunds. £150 powered scooter than my son never set foot on. £90 MP3 that my son never used. £250 on Playmobil that looked incredible on Christ.as morning ... he didn't look at it, much less play with it. £150 on Comic Con tickets, we drove to the wrong place, the real venue was 4hrs drive away and I didn't have a car. £1500 on a Ford Focus that was basically rust held together with hope. £200 on gel nail kit and Sistaco mineral paints ... I'm a lifelong nail biter.

A great idea. That you !

Too much money wasted for nothing here too, we are not even wealthy. The recent one was £200+ climbing course that my DD no longer interested, previous to this was months of taekwondo that they missed due to various excuses then declared they no longer want to attend (3 of them!). I could have save or spend the money on other things, not the first, will not be the last, I feel the pain.

A hundred quid more a month to Barclays Bank because of Liz Truss.

Another two hundred quid a month to Bulb/Octopus because Putin, apparently.

I don't give a monkeys about kids changing their mind re hobbies compared to the whims of the markets we are exposed to.

Not a massive amount of money but DH has two separate recurring skin issues: rosacea on his face and a fungal rash behind his knees which comes back every summer without fail and needs really strong medication to shift or it spreads everywhere. Went to Drs earlier this week and got different tablets prescribed for each. Doctor mentioned creams as well but DH said no point as they have never worked.
Yesterday I went in to get his prescription as DH was double parked and got charged nearly £30. When I got back into the car, DH opened the bag and found one lot of tablets and two tubes of cream. So I went back in to the pharmacist and explained that there should be two separate tablets and he doesn't want the creams, they don't work and he won't use them. The pharmacist had a root round and found the second lot of tablets, wouldn't take the creams back and charged me another tenner.
And worse, DH has only been given two weeks' worth of the anti fungal tablets, despite telling the doctor that he needs at least a month in order to get rid of the rash, possibly two months. So in a fortnight, I'll have to go and pay again!

OP this happened to me

We took out loans and somehow managed to make it work

Was hell
We cut lots of corners

Hope there is some way around this b??

When we first moved to our cottage we had previously lived in a new build so didn't put too much thought about the tradesmen we would need to renovate the property, we also had almost no money so needed the work done cheap. It turns out the workmen had never previously worked on an older property and destroyed the upstairs original floorboards.

£160 per session for a year with a child psychologist when DD wasn't eating or going to school. I said DD was autistic they said no, after a year they said actually she was, she was just so good at masking they'd not noticed. Put us on to CAMHS waiting list just as Covid happened so took another two years to get a diagnosis.

Total waste of money

£400 on a private number plate and then with baby brain forgot to put it on a retainer. Number is now not able to be used and am £400 down the drain.

Pokémon cards and lol dolls with all the annoying little accessories that were mostly sucked up by the hoover. Lego!!!

I remember when I we had very little money and I had just had my wisdom teeth out (which wasn't cheap to begin with) which became infected and was very painful. I needed antibiotics which had to be prescribed by my dentist. My dentist didn't even see my teeth but I was charged for a whole appointment just for her to write the prescription plus £30 for the actual prescription itself which didn't actually do anything to help and I still ended up in hospital. I know it's my health but it was money we needed at the time.

300 quid on a beautiful white wool coat. First time I wore it I accidentally shut it in my car door. As said car was my then boyfriend’s filthy old banger, car door not only cut the fabric but smeared black motor oil on it. Coat was beyond repair and dry cleaning and I had to chuck it out.

We had similar once too!! £85ish call out fee, for doing nothing. The advice from ours was to periodically lift it at a tilt if it stopped working 🤔

I never knew that getting a dishwasher repair person round, was such expensive, risky business!

I gave a few thousand to a friend who said she was going to use it to get passports for her children and take them to see her grandparents in Canada.

She never did, never repaid it, refused to even contribute £1 a week.

She then used me for years - taking cats to vets/giving her all sorts of things/taking her on holiday - before telling me she thinks I am fake and care so much about men I am starving myself to stay skinny and pretending I can't help it. On and on about how she is fat and she hates me lying about not being able to put on weight because it's all a big lie and I am just doing it all for men because I only care what men think, she's a "better feminist" than me blah blah...

Needless to say we aren't friends any more after that delightful rant. It turns out I've also been diagnosed with hyperthyroidism - if only she cared to ask. I should have paid far more attention the first time she showed her true colours wasting my money on a Radley handbag and wine.
Nasty piece of work!

"Rust held together with hope" 😂I'm pinching that one!

Sorry about all of your expensive mishaps though 😬.

They could wipe out the National Debt if they charged people in Norfolk for straddling/touching the white lines, seems to be the default setting!