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?

Our wedding. Still married but we both had D&V all day. Couldn't eat our wedding food; managed to nibble on a bread roll and some carrot sticks but had to halt the speeches to go and be sick.

I feel like I look drained and dug up in most of our photos - I've only ever had one on display in the house where we're both looking down at the ground 😂. DH spent most of the evening outdoors trying to get fresh air and I did my best to bop around and make the most of it in the evening.

People keep asking us if we'll do anything for our 10 year anniversary party to make up for it but, given our track record with illness & events, that'd be a waste too!

Our (40 feet by 20 feet) top of the garden needed flagged over. I got a couple of quotes (one from a gypsy fella) considering all the things people say about these people that I decided to ignore, as I’m originally from Penrith and any that I’ve known have been such decent people. Anyway £8000 later and he’s flagged it over but used them cheap ones that aren’t really meant to be used for a patio, they’re just for under sheds and greenhouses and stuff, I just can’t believe it. To have used the proper decent materials would have been a case of and extra £300 or something which we would have happily paid instead of effectively paying £8000 for a giant mess that’s gonna have to be paved over with something else now.

Paid privately for my daughter's orthodontic treatment as the waiting list was so long. Cost us thousands and much time taken off work to attend appointments. Turned 17, wore her retainers for a bit then stopped wearing them at all (against the advice) and her teeth have gone back exactly the way they were.

Too many to mention

Oh no I've just signed up for a trial 😫🙈

I bought something from Next which I ended up returning. I used a gift card to pay for it. I realised yesterday that Next posted the refund giftcard to my old address… That’s £50 I won’t see again 🤦

Spent £700 on fixing a fence after a delivery driver ran into it

I spent the best part of 20 years getting pissed 5 nights a week and smoking 30 a
day. I feel sick when I think of how much money I must have gone through.

Only for another delivery driver to destroy it a month later.

£70 on a guitar beginning of lockdown thinking we’d all learn. Never used.

Husband bought a watch online that came from China. Worth £70ish and cost £25 to send back. Also some other rubbish from FB that would cost more to return than it’s worth.

A top recently that I have worn but decided it doesn’t really suit me.

A few parking tickets over the years too.

I feel your pain! Daughter currently does this. And I kept her first horse for years when she was at Uni, then away working, then the horse was too decrepit to ride, but regularly incurring vet's bills.

My very elderly cat atm. She’s sweetie but has become SO fussy that I’m considering bypassing her altogether and just putting the sachets in the bin 😁

@MrsAvocet - me too. My feet are size 1 and are now getting a bit too wide for small shoes. I have so many pairs that might fit but don't fit and are uncomfortable. I live in kids trainers and ankle boots.

£12k goodwill deposit on a house I couldn’t proceed with. Try not to think about it 😳

Did this too, except got a 10 year fixed rate!

Ours took 17 months with the motor ombudsman which we subsequently won. Mercedes engine packed in at 24k miles but because we were 62 days over the service they refused to fix. Car sat there for nearly 2 years in the end. It was 26k to fix the vehicle with a brand new engine (which they paid) however we paid 1k a month to finance whilst all this was going on. We should have put a second hand engine in for around 9k then just had Mercedes reimburse us when we eventually won. At least then we’d have had use of the car. We sold it as soon as it was fixed so essentially around 20k down the drain paying for a car that we couldn’t even drive. Never. Ever. Again.

Lol same here! Allsorts of different machines which have become great for drying clothes on! New house, new equipment, mission to use! Xx

Money spent on college fees in the US when my son didn't end up completing his degree 😢

Husband got a peloton… need I say more?

£20 on sandals that have broken a week later. Buy cheap, buy twice...

It’s £14 to renew, but I’m sure that I paid more than that too

Personalised number plate. The only reason I still have it on the car is to get my moneys worth. I wish I didn't bother getting one in the first place.

Same. We had my daughter’s horse on livery for 11 years over £50,000 for his retirement. Bless him he was 37 when he died, clearly looked after him too well.

Owning horses. A literal financial bonfire, plus they are ungrateful, freeloading, opinionated mardy cowbags.....

Did their employers not pay for the damage?