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?

Me too in the past, but it’s working this time. Consistent weight loss, so I’m not grudging the cost at present. But I bought a fairly expensive coat at the start of winter that’s now much too big.

Philips Lumea. I know some people love them but I just couldn't get on with it.

Well done! I must remember buying the membership doesn't make it a magic wand ..... 😂

Laser eye surgery. £2.5k for 2.5 years of not wearing glasses or contacts.

I love the TooGoodToGo bags of food for a little treat and saw one come up at a small posh food shop that does amazing cakes. I jumped in the car for 25 minutes and paid a tenner and when I arrived I was promptly handed a bag of out of date pickled onions and gin and tonic tea bags. Neither has been eaten/drank but I can't bring myself to throw them out because of how stupid I was.

Bought myself to a posh face cream as a rare treat, when I didn't have much spare money - made my face/eyelids swell up and go blotchy 🙄

Vinted purchase. Splashed on a beautiful dress. When it turned up it looked completely different. The colours were a lot less vibrant than in the pictures. I won't make that mistake again.

Group guitar lessons for DS. We realised when we went to the concert at the end of the course that he was just pretending to play, while all the other kids actually played. Seemingly, the teacher hadn't noticed 😆

Well this thread has made me reflect!
I paid for gap insurance on a car for 4 years after I got rid of it, also paid for not 1 but 2 memberships for an activity for over a year after the minimum term.
A phone contract I paid for 12 months after it ended, and hadn't used the phone for over 18 months.
Most of the time I'd just forget, then forget again.
I paid for Spotify for over a year because I couldn't find a way to cancel it!

I think I need to stop thinking about this now...

I lost my handbag with a weeks wages in cash in it...twice in a month!
I paid for a course of sunbeds from a tanning shop that's not very close to my house. I then stopped going with about £60 credit unused. This was more than 2 years ago and I'm too ashamed to go back now and ask if I can still use it!
I also ended up paying for 2 mobile phones contracts as I mistakenly took out a new contract when all I wanted was a new phone?!

I spent £1200 on a professional certification that I had no time to do 😭

Parking fine of £60 when I had actually paid by phone to park - but I'd put in the wrong car reg!

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DH and I paid £100 for a marathon entry. We started training and realised it was going to totally dominate every weekend for 4 months, which we didnt want on top of working all week. We tried to switch out for a half marathon instead but realised we'd missed the boat 🤦🏼‍♀️

I recently mowed over the cable of a brand new electric lawnmower the first time I used it and that's exactly how I described it - a tax on stupidity. I was raging less about the money than the wastefulness of it in terms of the resources used to make and ship it.

Legoland, in the rain, when half of England seemed to be there. I came out that day saying I may as well have flung the money in the Thames.

My ex dh did this to my diesel car - worst thing was he was also a mechanic!

Me too!

Same - those few months of being able to tell the shampoo and conditioner bottles apart when in the shower were great though

Nancy Birtwhistle has a great tip Re bring back a shrunken jumper @Leafalotta google her if you've still got it!

I booked train tickets X3 from Edinburgh to Brighton for a friends wedding - but I booked the wrong weekend!!! 🙃

My daughter went through a phase of loving doing cartwheels..etc so I have encouraged her joining a gymnastics club..she did the taster session, seemed to love it. £500 for a term ! She refused to go as it made her anxious 😭

Also stupidly encouraged dc to try horse riding - now I might as well burn my entire pay packet as soon as it comes in

6k on a nose job and then broke my nose 6 weeks later in a martial arts class. Spent the next 5 years paying off nothing.

All the cheap pile-of-tat garbage that DH has bought off Temu. It either doesn't work as expected or breaks very quickly. From the garden hose that had to be plugged into the kitchen tap and sprayed water all over the kitchen (literally all over the kitchen - walls, units, floor, you name it) to the mini flying drone thing that crashed all around the livingroom to the bath for the budgie that was meant to clip onto the cage but fell off said cage with the poor little sod in it.

Honestly, it's all just absolute cheap crap and is such a waste not only in money (granted not a lot of money) but in the materials used to make this rubbish.

16k on a fucking zombie apocalypse truck my husband wanted so we could travel the world off grid after he left the forces. It's sat in our garden rotting