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?

Ah, I understand now. My daughter is similar, waiting for an ADHD assessment, she’s very impulsive and buys loads of shite she doesn’t need, unfortunately this has got her into debt 😳

It’s good that you understand what you’re doing and can afford it. I’m the complete opposite to my daughter and yourself, I talk myself out of buying lots of things, I’m very boring in that department 🤦‍♀️

A giant exercise wheel for the cat. And well anything at all for the cat now I come to think of it.

£2000.
deposit on a holiday to Bali, £1300. Then decided I didn’t want to go so another £900 cancellation fee. I still feel a bit sick.

Two come to mind:
*A mechanic that didn’t fix the mechanical problem with the car and it cost £420.
*A medical appointment where I apparently did not follow the cancellation policy and it cost £130.
Bye-bye money down the drain!

Get yourself a pre-payment certificate.
Pay once per year (£110 I think?) and everything is covered for 12-months.

I am on multiple medications and this has saved me a fortune in recent years compared to paying individually.

The endless amount of rugs my horse destroys in a matter of days.

He has a condition that requires him to be rugged up in summer too to protect him.

He often comes up to me with it dangling in the mud, dragging round his legs and stands there like it just happened to him without his knowledge.

Good job I love him, but he costs me a fortune. I no longer buy new, he gets second hand ones all the time.

My other horse has had her rugs from new for 12 years. She is a bit smug about this and who can blame her?

Bath bombs. Literally like setting fire to a fiber, every time.

£300 on botox turns out even after the top up I'm completely resistant to it!

Do you have crows and ravens around? Some will take shiny things.

Oh me too. During my second class I found out that the other 4 members all knew each other and were all midwives on the same unit at the local hospital.

@olderbutwiser to prevent slugs and snails in your potted plants use copper tape around the pots. It gives them a small shock but doesn't kill them.
Garlic is also a natural repellent.
Happy gardening 🥀🌻

Any heels I'd sell on a fetish site to recoup.

Honestly, you don’t need to stay at home to prevent cheating, you just got a wrong husband.

And again, nothing to do with your choice of a husband either, most times they don’t show their true colours until you have kids and other responsibilities. It is a lottery.

not money I could have burned as such so slightly OT but

ALL the money spent on sanitary towels and tampons from age of 11 until 58 .... and during the extremely long menopause sometimes non-stop and each one lasting 20 minutes (lockdown).

and yes I did have investigations and everything is fine just awful bad luck

@therealcookiemonster well said 👏👏👏

Those idiots who voted for Brexit have and will cost ALL of us so much in terms of cost of goods, travel etc. and for what? No benefit whatsoever.

Fully support what you've said. A very valid point on a thread about waste.

I'll have them!!

Omg that is appalling - is there no comeback on the broker who fucked up?

Yep my brother topped up his house reno fund by selling his old 90s Warhammer collection. Although in fairness it should probably have gone back to my parents who funded it all in the first place 😂

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. My NCT fee was some of the best money I've ever spent, not because of the classes but the ensuing friendships.

@MrsBobtonTrent @Buildinganark Very long time ago, but I didn’t resent paying for the antenatal classes which were good, but the postnatal meet-ups undid all my confidence and left me feeling useless and miserable. Continued in the hope that it would improve but it never did

My first antenatal classes (not NCT but similar) were a waste of money. Went to the first class and it was all about the local hospital and how they did things. I was having twins and everything was “…that probably won’t apply to you though with twins…” and then two days later I ended up in hospital for the rest of the pregnancy.

They had two post baby meet ups - the first was only for people who’d been to at least 3 of the 6 classes and when I complained (as we’d paid for that as part of the classes) about that they changed it, but (knowing my ex was working away) stated that there must be a 1:1 ratio with adults and babies. So I still couldn’t go. The second I was told they’d send the details and didn’t.

I think I offended the course leader because someone asked about home births in a group chat and she said our area didn’t do home births. I commented that must have changed as a friend of mine had literally had a home birth the day before and she had a rant about how dangerous they were.

My current one is vegetable plants which get eaten by snails with a day or two. I might as well just burn the money.

There were lots of meetings and solicitors letters... basically there's not enough to bring a case and we don't have the money to anyway! But yes, he's a fuckwit at a big firm covering his ass.

@thisisasurvivor so happy to hear you got there. We're still reeling but yes, we're planning and pricing etc. So hopefully it'll get going again. We were already saving by refurbing an old kitchen, salvaged sinks etc. It's supposed to be a cottage so things can look second hand. It's not like we'll have to forego the jacuzzi bathtub! Fingers crossed...

Also seconding all the plants eaten by slugs, they've been awful the last 2 years!

You are the one, who is turning it into a brexit bun fight - give over!

@NeedToKnow101 I have had exactly the same experience, this is a terrible year for slugs and snails. DH got copper rings to put around the plants and now they are all thriving, but we have to check that leaves don't flop over the edge of the ring and create a bridge for the slimy critters!