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?

Which one, out of curiosity. I have one of those, and thinking I may stop it.

Fees/uniforms/books for a new private school. My daughter attended for literally 3 days and HATED it. When I withdrew her I lost my deposit, terms fees, etc…I still can’t bear to think about it 😩

Despite having seen it a couple of months before my degree certificate vanished into thin air when I needed it for a job interview. Explained at the interview I couldn't find it they said no problem, if I get the job just bring it in with my proof of address and NI etc.

Got the job. Paid £60 for a replacement certificate. Never asked for it.

And one for an ex - paid £250 for a pair of tyres the day before their car was written off after being shunted by a volvo.

My husband did this .....on the day we picked it up new from the garage!

We spent £100 on gig tickets and then totally forgot about it until after the event. Still feel gutted thinking about it.

Because I never went on school trips apart from day ones I was always keen for my DS to go. His second trip he was so keen so I paid the large deposit. By the time I had to pay the amount outstanding he refused to go. So I either made him go, pay more money and spending money or call it quits. I called it quits .

I'm with the poster up thread with cat food. Our late DBoycat would be so keen on something so I'd get lots in. He then went off it. But he always preferred human food.

I've never had pet insurance and I've only ever had cats. Maybe we've been lucky but with DBoycat I paid less than £1k in total for his entire life (he died when he was 18) and include tests for cancer, a non invasive operation, anti biotics and painkillers over the years. Which I think is much cheaper than insurance especially if you can't claim anyway.

But the worst was my last house. I lost thousands having to move really quickly.

Spent £30,000 on a renovation that ended up being just a cowboy builder company. Had to get the whole thing redone. The work was utterly shocking.

Spent £20k on a bathroom and he broke our entire hot water system and caused a flood. Cost £10k to get everything fixed and replaced. He claimed he'd done nothing wrong.

Spent £60,000 on staff that were utterly shit and ended up with more work than if I'd just done it myself in the first place.

Kids birthday parties at venues. People always cancel last minute, today I still lost £50 but was luckily able to round up a couple of friends kids to take the other places I’d only paid for after everyone had rsvp’d.

For years, I have thrown money at plants for the back border of death in my garden. They look great for a summer but never return. I have also ploughed a shed load of money into improving the soil but have finally realised that only a limited few plants will survive there and I just invest in them now.

Always forget my glasses when I go into town and have to buy a pair of readers so I can make out the back of food packets [diabetic] . Last count I had 21 pairs .
Also , have an obsession with leather wallets , have a drawerful but nearly always stick to my two old favourites .

I lost a (large and colourful) brand new earring between our house and outside the next door neighbour's, the very first time I wore them. A €40 holiday present to myself 🙈. It is honestly bizarre how thoroughly it vanished! At first I assumed it would definitely show up, because there was only about a 10m range where it could be. But no sign a year later!

So many times but the most recent was twice in the space of an hour.
My car needed a new tyre before I took it to have it's MOT as the tread was just about legal. I also decided to treat the car to a full wash and valet. Within an hour of both those things being done, the new tyre got a puncture (thanks pothole), and a seagull with obvious tummy issues crapped all over the roof of my car whilst the tyre was being changed at the roadside.

Spending £220 on semi permanent eyeliner that didn't work. Been to court to get money back - obviously won my case. CCJ against her. She won't pay. Bailiffs next.

Hundreds on clothes every season. Gain a size. Leave squashed up in wardrobe waiting for “when I lose the weight”. Charity shop the bastards. Repeat.

Well there are a few expensive mistakes but my DD took up archery as part of D of E and enjoyed it and after her initial lessons decided she wanted to continue so we bought her the full kit (£400). Then a month later covid; the centre closed for lockdowns, then she had exams and she never returned to it. She used it twice. The equipment is to your size and strength so not so easy to sell on.

Useless garden shredder
Hand weights, hardly used
Stuff from Amazon, often

I feel the pain. Every so often I discover lonely plant labels and think “ Oh yes, I remember buying you.”

Dahlia tubers.

Turns out the slugs have very expensive taste.

Is that how long it lasted? I recently enquired about it and they said they don’t do laser surgery over 40, only ‘lens replacements’ which I do not want, so I was kicking myself for leaving it too late! You have made me feel a lot better thank you.

As for me, fabric and patterns. Hundreds and hundreds. I barely spend anything on clothes but buy fabric and patterns and am so full of optimism about sewing but everything turns out huge on me. I get so pissed off and put the sewing machine up in the attic and then a few months later the cycle starts again. I am improving but I have wasted a fortune on sewing.

100s on cat food that gets eyed up, goes crispy, gets thrown away…then cat pesters you to death as he’s literally starving.

Garden plants, I’m a good gardener but spent 1000s on plants that die or have grown too big…

Currently have a gym membership though that I’ve been using since last august…and it’s working! Turns out if you go, it does work.

That's interesting. I'm training to be a spmu artist and it's drilled into us that the results depend on skin type, aftercare, and health issues such as auto immune disease or stress. Did she guarantee a good result? I'm wondering how you can win a case where its usually in the small print that 'results may vary'.

Can you sell it at a lower price? Better to recoup some of the money than none and then you could put that towards the bike you need.

£80 on professional make up for my 21st. Was feeling shit about myself so booked it as a pick me up
Looked like a drag queen Pennywise

About 70 quid for plants for the front garden, lovely delphiniums and such and overnight an army of slugs came and chomped through the lot!