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?

Years ago a state of the art video camera - used a few times that was it, used a few times for no more than an hour

Similar for my wedding. My eyebrows were in space. Sat in the car on the way to the registry office with a wet wipe trying to tone it all down!

countless amounts of dummies refused by dc. next to me cot that just got full of laundry because baby slept with me. £100s spent on clothes for him worn once

@solice84 but if you hadn't gone to all that I trouble maybe the current situation would be worse? Hope it all works out okay x

Hundreds in getting the car MOTd, taxed, repaired, ready to drive after DP had a brain tumour removed and passed the period of time to get the ok to go back on the road. Lasted a few months then he had a seizure. Back to square one, car rusting on the driveway 😕 (he's fine, though)

@ilovesushi urgh same here, also the back border issue that's cost me hundreds in dead plants enthusiastically recommended on gardening websites for the hostile conditions it provides.

A tiny amount of money but the stupidity was that I kept repeating the same mistake

Every time we went to a fair, school fete, the seaside or anywhere with a bouncy castle throughout DDs childhood she would always express a burning desire to go on it, then we'd queue up for ages, pay the two quid or whatever and every time she would then throw a tantrum and refuse to actually bounce. I would remind her every time of the last x number of occasions and she would say that this was different, she really really did want to this time and she never did.

Money I’ve spent on son’s gym kit, school tie, blazer, earphones, packed lunch, shoes (I kid you not) that he leaves on the school field week to week. Makes me weep. He has ADHD so I try not to get mad but it’s like setting fire to hundreds of pounds as I know it will happen again and again.

I’ve stopped buying tickets for theatre or cinema in my nearest city because I can never face the train journey home. That’s about £100 over the last couple of years. Gym membership, I went five times and then did my back in so that’s £100 to cancel and £500 on an osteopath. Expensive shoes, about £1000-worth and I live in trainers.

The extortionate amount of booking fees lost moving our flights, hotels and wedding in 2020. 3 times we moved it and still never went. Ended up marrying and honeymooning here. I will always be bitter over it!!

The cost of my Wedding.
The cost of my Divorce (lawyer messed it up)

€3k on an architect and planning permission for an extension we then couldn't afford.

Also done this!!! 7k we spent 😫

The numerous hobbies my kids wanted to do and 'really really needed' the equipment or supplies for, then as soon as they had everything they NEEDED they gave up on them.
both have been diagnosed with ADHD as adults, which kind of explains it now.

*sitting here looking at my craft room with multiple craft supplies and hobbies that I occasionally dip into and wondering more and more if the apple didn't fall far from the tree

Loads but one that still annoys me..

£400 on a Ryannair flight to Portugal in the pandemic in 2020. Even though we were recommended not to go there by the gov as it was in the red zone. The flight left anyway so we lost the money. Claimed on insurance but still lost £400.

I could have paddled in Champagne instead.

DD wanted to be a Brownie. No sooner than I'd paid the subscriptions and bought the FULL kit, she didn't want to go anymore, 'Never again in my whole life' was how she phrased it.
Apparently, her DGF did exactly the same with Wolf Cubs in the 50s and his parents weren't best pleased.

My phone which I dropped in a bin at work. Timed out of Apple Care and not worth claiming on house insurance with excess and increased premiums. One expensive new iPhone purchased.
Very outing if anyone’s heard this story in the last week!

This happened on my MG ZR and my Dads Rover too. Head Gaskets ugh!

I'm in the process of decluttering my house ~ I've been here for 15 years.

I keep coming across so many things that I don't remember buying and now have huge amounts several carrier bags to donate to the charity shop

Such a waste ~ I'm really cross with myself but the sad thing is that this happened at my last house too 😖

Fully carpeted and newly furnished a warden controlled bungalow for my dad to live in. The bastard died the day before he was due to move in!

Luckily the furniture shop agreed to take the furniture back but id bought everything he needed brand new. Down to cutlery and curtains.

a full term of swimming lessons, dance classes and a residential outward bound trip for DD2 when she broke her leg at a birthday party (parents didn’t mention a bouncy castle and didn’t think to ask extra people to stay to help supervise…) a week into the term.

My first driving test and three pre test lessons in the 48 hours before when I got diagnosed shingles

The first horse I bought. The second horse I bought.

Gosh ive got loads.
One being a new bed spent £££ on it then hated it gave it a way for free on FB got a secondhand bed for free a few weeks later from FB and ive still got it 3 years on love it.
Buying the best mobile phone when i can do the same on any other phone.
Now have a cheap PAYG android smart phone saved me £££££ over the years.
Buying books and never reading them.
Booking day trips and not going or changed my mined i have stopped that now.
Also becoming a minimalist has helped me keep track of what i really use and need.
So far this year ive done really well with not buying crap with my think twice first method.

Happened on mine too... TWO YEARS IN A ROW!! 😡😫

When I am feeling really down I regret buying my house. The area I live in has gone seriously down hill in the last 10 or so years, it will never change for the better now and i cannot afford to move. I am retired with only a small amount of savings plus the upheaval and stress is too much to contemplate. I get really depressed at times and have to have a stern talk with myself because I do have a roof over my head and it is all paid for. But I really hate where I live and it affects my mental wellbeing.