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?

Ah thats rubbish. But what you did for the old couple was priceless! I bet they were extremely grateful for you that day.

Have you heard of UK LASH? Wear it overnight every night and it makes you eyelashes grow really long!

My horse broke my ankle and I had to have metal plates in it too - one on both side the absolute B*** !!

He is now a field ornament 300 miles away because I knew I wouldn’t be able to look at him and not try one last ‘thing’ that would lead to the fairytale success story 🙈

For the PP who said I must really love him - I genuinely didn’t. It’s a personality tick a lot of horse people have !

We had the exact same with ours a few months ago! Just stopped eating and lost weight scarily fast. Wasn’t coming out from under DSs bed. Vet investigations but we decided to max out at £300 ( observations, bloods, thermometer up the rectum and an injection of an anti depressant!). They offered a scan and we said no at that point. After awhile she got out of her funk and started eating. We seriously think she was stressed out by next door’s bully cats and that’s why she stopped eating. She’s now living her best 3rd life.

what for and did you win?

I usually try not to think about the money I have wasted over the years. However this is recent and I am really upset about it. I have an old clock that belonged to my late DF. It hasn’t worked in years. It was the only thing he had of his mother’s (she died 10 days after he was born). It had great sentimental value to him. When he died it passed to me. I eventually found someone 70 miles away from me who said they would repair it. A miserable bugger but never mind. I drove to the shop where an equally miserable woman took the clock in for repair. A few weeks later I went back to collect it. It cost £400 to repair, again never mind. It’s in no way a valuable clock. I got it home. It is losing an hour every 24 hours so constantly slow. I was told to adjust a little screw on the pendulum to solve any problems of losing or gaining but no amount of adjustment has made any difference. The case is also now slightly scuffed on the bottom where they must have manhandled it. I don’t know how some people sleep at night. I can’t face the journey back to them and their horrible attitude. I blame the Repair Shop it makes us think everyone is lovely like them😂.

This has reminded me that when I was clearing my elderly mum's house a neighbour of hers offered me £1400 cash for a rather nice-looking mahogany dresser with a glass-front bookcase on the top. She even had her husband, son and son-in-law ready to carry it round to their home there and then. Instead of biting her hand off I got a bit suspicious and assumed it was worth more, so said I'd need to talk it over with my siblings before disposing of it. In the meantime I sent photos to several antique dealers, none of whom made an offer. A couple of months later I went back to the neighbour and said she could have it for the price she'd offered, only to find that their house was for sale and they now didn't want the dresser because the new place they were looking at was smaller and wouldn't accommodate it. In the end I had to pay £50 to have it taken away.

If you believe that, you might also like to buy the Severn Bridge from me for £5,000. I have the paperwork and all that...

To be fair @Abeona there might be something in it. My aunt has Glaucoma and the drops she has to use have actually given her amazing lashes (bonus side effect), so there are some things that do actually have an impact. My work colleague also had a similar thing after chemo which really improved hers. I’m sure they are charging a fortune for it but it’s not necessarily snake oil.

Two years of baby swimming and he still doesn't want to take his feet off the ground.

His sister who never went to baby swimming is happily splashing around like she was an otter in a past life and will probably be swimming before her brother does.

Surely those are prescription-only type products? Chemotherapy can certainly radically change hair: you lose it and it grows back differently because of follicular changes. Glaucoma eye drops are prescription-only: they involve lowering blood pressure in the eye.

Patronising much 🙄 and there was me thinking they were issued to make her look pretty. Fuck me.

My point is that there are ingredients that do work on eyelashes, just because they are prescription products doesn’t mean some of the ingredients aren’t available in non prescription items too and can work.

Most of the money I spend on clothes could just have been thrown out of the window. I end up wearing the same few items to death. I think I just need to accept that I am a very boring as far as fashion goes and should never buy anything beyond a couple of decent pairs of jeans, navy or black sweaters and tops, possibly one in hot pink that will make an occasional outing, and some nice boots and trainers. Coats have got a good decade in them, so don't need to throw money at any more. Job done.

Patronising much 🙄

Not patronising, just talking from personal experience of having had hair loss and very unexpected regrowth after cancer treatment. So yeah, fuck you.

I have used it and recommended to all the women in my family because it works a treat. I don’t believe it- I know it! The reason I bought it in first place is because I thought my colleague had false lashes on until she told me she’d been using it.

Oh my gosh so many things over the years. I go through phases of deciding I want to wear nice clothes - feminine dresses, nice jumpers etc as opposed to the hoodies and leggings I'm actually comfortable in. Wear them once or twice and then decide I want to go back to comfy clothes again so don't wear them. Annual gym membership and then haven't been enough times to justify the cost compared to pay as you go. Spiraliser so I could make carrot spaghetti and then promptly decided carrot spaghetti was disgusting and I'd rather just put chopped carrots in my normal pasta dishes.

Oh a not so fun one was spending hundreds on a hotel room and travel in 2022 for (kinda) work purposes and then showing COVID symptoms on day 2 of my trip so not actually able to do the work task I needed so having to spend hundreds a month or so later to go back to the place.

ETA sadly despite it being for work purposes, I couldn't claim expenses 😑

Might be wrong but the findus lasagne comment had me creased 😂

In my attic I have a gadget that I think is called a Brickie. You stick it on top of a wall you're building and it helps you build it straight. It sounded absolutely amazing on late night telly after a couple of glasses of wine. It's been there about 20 years and has never been out of the box, I'm not into building walls. My family reminds me about it regularly.

To be fair some lash serums are amazing!
I bought one off Amazon once that had loads of 5 star reviews, when I received it there was a note in the package that if you left a review you'd get a free second serum...so I thought "oh no wonder there was so many 5 star reviews, I've been scammed" ....I was a bit scared to test it after that but I did anyway and it worked amazingly!!

Ooh name please 😊

I finally got the hoover I had been wanting for ages. Quite expensive, over £200 for sure. The washing machine leaked so my son decided to hoover up the water when I wasn’t at home (and didn’t tell me so I discovered it a few days later when I went to use my lovely hoover). I can’t tell you how distraught I was for quite a long time!

This is recent and raw. £1000 to reserve a new build house, on the basis that our current house was under offer and the prospective purchasers were due to exchange and complete in two weeks. Ten weeks later, after much prevarication, lack of contact and ignoring, we’ve discovered that they lied. They didn’t have a sale agreement and weren’t in a position to offer for our house.

So that’s the reservation fee, plus various fees for searches etc. I loved that house too.

@Bluevelvetsofa is there any chance the developers would part exchange your house?

That's what we did and it was sort of a win/win.

No, we were trying to downsize and they’ll only part exchange when you’re trading up. It’s a small company and they don’t build volume houses, so there’s not much wriggle room.

Driving lessons for myself 🙈