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?

On a par with my mother making the Christmas cake using a bottle of brandy I'd given them when we were on holiday in UK from our home abroad, she said to my brother she didn't recognise it, it wasn't Martells that she usually used for cakes, they weren't drinkers generally. Brother took her to somewhere to show her Remy Martin Napleon brandy and it's price.

Had similar - wanted a driveway put in, explained where I wanted it to the architect, not in the middle but following the path. He made plans with it bang in the middle saying Highways might prefer it and we could move it later when I said I didn't even like the look of it - convinced me main thing was getting it approved then we could move it. Went through all sorts until the local association said it would change the look of the area due to the wall being removed and vetoed it. He wanted me to pay again (a further £1.5k) to do the plan I wanted initially where only a tiny section of wall needed removal... Nope. Now can't afford to do the whole thing again and finding anyone wanting to do work in the building trade seems to be a running joke.

bulimia :(

I'm old enough to wonder about a lot of things people spend money on when they have a baby.

Fitted furniture in kids bedroom. Total waste of money as they grow and their needs change. I can't think about how much we wasted.

court fees and lawyers fees. The delays in the courts mean that people can basically do what they like tbh

£200 deposit for windows from Safestyle that never happened because they lied about the product and cost, no refunds.

You could have simply left out the last 7 words, terrible reputation.

Spent over £100 to join Thornbury nursing agency- training and uniform etc. Didnt even book a single shift after I saw how they were treated on my ITU over the period of a few months.

Shit ton of clothes that I’ve slimmed out of before even trying them on/clothes I got too fat for back in the day. Shoes! I’m a bit obsessed, I have bought/sold, it drives me nuts but I can’t stop. A lovely purple top, leant on bleach today and ruined it. 3 pairs of jeans recently, over bought, hated them all, sold for a loss. Also, combats, I never wear them, I’m too keen on jeans.

So much food, I think I’ll eat it then don’t. I know I can’t eat loads these days and I just still cook it then chuck it days later. 🙈

Loads of pointless moisturisers that don’t do what they promise.

Dog toys: destroyed within under an hour. Equally, a really lovely chess set that they chewed up as puppies. Clematis Elizabeth Montana, eaten by them. I cried. (Plus a pair of Nike Airforce and some Hotter shoes. Gits) Every bed I bought our first dog, I’d come home and it would look like he’d massacred a sheep on the patio. I’m glad we no longer have the dog flap, destroyed by the next pair flying out of it with such force they took it off the hinges. Three times.

Horse, he cost so much! Buy a rug, he destroyed it within hours. Bedding, ruined because he rubbed off the water drinker, destroying everything in his box.

I have an entire full size cupboard full of them, plus CDs. My DH is reluctant to get rid, so I reckon they’ll be packed and move with us! Pointless.

Throw out the boxes and put the DVD'S in a case, save your space! Makes loads of room

Shoes

A series of worsening foot conditions means I now live in Skechers and orthopedic shoes for the orthotics to fit into

I have spent thousands, THOUSANDS on fucking shoes which I can't wear

I hadn't realised modern architects just design what they fancy regardless of what you actually want..

Until the first go-round of my Disabled Facilities Grant which ended up taking over 6 years to turn into a useful bathroom and kitchen.

We visited the idea of a single storey extension off the back - bedroom and bathroom.

I wanted the bathroom off the kitchen and a doorway that took you out into the yard plus a small bedroom, leaving my dining room/living room as is, as I use it for work. This would suit the two of us, meaning I could still work from home and maintain my independence.

What I got... was a bathroom off my living room and my dining room end of the living room converted into a single bedroom, no way of working from it as it had no natural light (would then have been the centre point of a terraced house), not enough room for a double bed as you needed room through it to get to the bathroom. Apparently me not being able to work and my partner having to sleep on a different floor to me was absolutely FINE!

Fortunately the £300 I was conned out of for their architect I got returned, but still... ugh!

Books! Bought every Terry Pratchett ever, George Martin, gave the lot away free last year when I decided I’d never read them again. 🙈

You’ve just reminded me of my full collectors edition set of Terry Pratchett books, currently in an attic as I have no space to display them :( You are right though…

What a great post OP!
I am absolutely prone to this sort of thing.
Same as others....tickets that couldn't be used/sold, plants that died, parking fines.
Clothes or shoes I thought were OK, missed return window, used, then realised they weren't.
Direct debit payments for clubs and groups for 2x daughters, they often miss weeks as they are often ill, so those wasted weeks must have added up over the years.
Once i had to pay rather alot to get an emergency locksmith to come out and board up my patio door then for it to be repaired, as I threw a bag of old xmas decs at the back door to go out to the rubbish not realising there was infact A heavy glass crystal in the bottom.It hit the
door and smashed it all the way up in seconds! It was like an explosion!
Also money to fix my car when I drove it through a flood once, vets bill to treat my cat as a precaution when I didn't realise lillies were toxic and she ate one, and more recently vets bill for my hamster due to her getting a corneal abrasion from some hay!
Oh and alot of money on hairdressers appts last year because it got coloured and it went wrong!
And finally, £250 on a car deposit once that I backed out of.

There are probably many more I don't recall!! I'm not lucky with money...

erm.... I will happily take them off your hands! for a decent price

Paid a non-refundable £125 for an interview, which at the time was the speediest way to get a passport renewal for DS....only for DS to read out the expiry date of his present passport - which still had years to run. DD's passport had run out and I just presumed DS's had too but I'd renewed it for a school trip then forgotten. Cancelled the appointment about 30mins after booking it!

Some hoody on Instagram that never turned up. I can't even remember which card I used.

I am like a dragon with a hoard when it comes to those books 😅I love them from (somewhat) afar. For now, my pretties, for now…

Someone should have gone to specsavers 😂

Place marking

If you buy a car as a PCP deal, that's money set on fire. Car dealers must piss themselves with laughter everytime an idiot signs up to one of those things.

PCP
If you miss payments, the car is gone and you own nothing. At least with a loan, you could sell the vehicle and repay the loan.

Not that loans are great either.
New cars are really a mistake too and I hope I never buy one, even though they are so lovely, unless I can pay in cash I really should not buy one as they depreciate so fast. (Please let me remember this thread forever)

What do you mean, what happened after the 2.5 years?