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?

Every day for the past 13 years.( Eyes horses). Not set fire to it,but ripped it up whilst standing under a cold shower,whilst someone kicks and bites you at intermittent periods,and an angry sounding woman shouts at you. That is what having horses is like.

I've spent thousands on make up and nail polish over the years. Thinking about the stuff I've thrown away or given away is nuts! At least I had fun buying it I suppose. 🤷🏻‍♀️

I have just got all my summer clothes away and packed up my winter ones. Why have I got so many clothes and so many versions of what is basically the same thing? Clothes are my weakness and I dread to think of the money I have wasted on impulse buys over the years. Same applies to earrings, I have so many and could wear a different pair every day for several months!

Bought an electric car for 55k. Sold it one year later for 35k 😭😭

Anything I bought for my narc mother
I remember falling in love with a squirrel ornament when I was about 8
I saved my £1 a week pocket money for ten weeks and walked over 4 miles to the shop to buy it
Wrapped it up and proudly presented it to her
'That's fucking shit!' And it promptly went into the charity bag
I got older and ended up a skint single mum-every penny was accounted for
She'd demand something expensive,so I'd save up and buy it (I skipped many meals to save money to buy her whatever she'd demanded)
Every single time it either got broken or was in the window of the local charity shop a week later
Then I'd get weeks of 'why did you buy her that expensive candle/handbag/jewelry?do you not know she hates candles/handbags/jewelry?' From her flying monkeys
My brothers could have farted in her face and got weeks of praise for their thoughtful gifts

I went nc and I never have to waste money on her again (I'm sure she feels the same over the utter tat she used to buy me)

££££ on a private school for just two terms before DS7 begged to go back to the state junior he'd left.

Tbh it was good to get it out of our system and see it for what it was, as it made us all realise how good the state junior actually was.

The private school parents I met seemed to be mostly hairdressers, although the independent schools in our area do vary enormously.

Ouch!!

walking machine. sorry if anyone else has pointed this out. which probably a dozen have by now.... sorry

Vinted clothes that are disappointing, I try to think of it as a charity donation rather than wasted, as it inevitably goes into a charity bag. Paid to get a car door lock repaired only for someone to drive into same door days later and entire door need replacing. Minor one that irritates is buying a bag when I forget to get them out of the car at supermarket.

Don't ever get self-storage.

Youngest son Army Cadets, went for weeks then as soon as we'd paid for full uniform he never went again. 😡

Oh, this is awful. In the past 6 months I've lost thousands.
1k on online schools for my home Ed children with SEN. 2 weeks later one finally got into a specialist setting after a year on the list and the other just couldn't cope with it.
400 on a holiday deposit that we can no longer go on due to the above.
2k on a property abroad that never got finalised.
160 on a drama group a year ago that my daughter found boring after 2 months. She's happily doing gymnastics and parkour now but it still irks me.

It's genuinely not like I have money to lose either! I make such poor decisions at times, I think I have my own additional needs. I don't trust myself anymore.

Love the poster who said about Rob Beckett's idiot tax 😂

I'll add Karate to the mix too.

Nearly £5,000 we didn't have, visiting universities that we didn't want DC to go to because we didn't want to have a gifted teenager feeling that their dreams weren't fully supported.
The universities in question let themselves down when visited and have done much worse since. Child has flourished and is an accomplished, independent adult now, so maybe a good investment in the end, but felt like tearing up £50 notes in the shower at the time.

Not a huge amount, but a certain magazine subscription - thought it would be interesting and I had a voucher from work for my birthday, but it’s kind of unhinged and full of conspiracy theories. It’s just renewed automatically, too, as I forgot to cancel!

I saved up for a new top quite a few years ago which cost over £50.
I put it on to show a friend and her young daughter grabbed it with jam all over her hands.
I washed it and it came out like an old rag, I hadn't realised it was dry clean only.

Paid £2k for a varicose vein operation, only for them to come back 🙄. All that pain for nothing.

Over £60,000 for renovation work. Builder guttered our house and run, never to be seen or heard from again! Had to remortgage ourselves to the hilt to finish the alterations and fix his shoddy work which didn’t pass council inspections.

Far too many race entry fees when deep down I know I have no intention of making the start line - or deferring races at £££ a pop !

£300 on a pair of custom made orthotics after the ones I got on the NHS caused me more pain than not wearing them.

I have horrific foot pain as a result of nerve damage and was desperate for something to relieve the pain.

Might as well have bought off the shelf for £20 for all the good they have done 😭😭😭😭

The one that makes me the most salty is spending £250 on a rug from Laura Ashley, taking it back a couple of days late and having the refund on a gift card. NOT being told the card only lasted 6 weeks and going back 8 weeks later to spend it and being told there's NOTHING ON IT!!! it had expired! Wtf??? So they now have the rug AND my money!!!!!

I reached into my back pocket and lifted out my shopping list after being out, I threw it on the fire....only to remember it wasn't my shopping list, it was £60 that I had just lifted from the card machine. Could do nothing other than watch it go up in flames.

An Oura ring and subscription to Oura and Natural Cycles for the purposes of family planning.

Wore it for about five months before realising it was utterly useless with my irregular cycles and nearly every day was a "red" day.

Still, I suppose I got off lightly as I know two people who accidentally got pregnant using them.

I may as well have taken out £20 and burnt it KLF style last week.

Bought multiple hand fans / water misters which are a godsend keeping cool in hot summers having spotted them out shopping. Felt smug.

Later on to the 18 month old, when I wasn't looking tore off every single one of the foam fan blades and chewed them.

sharontheo what an awful story, so sorry your mum was like this.
can I say thanks OP, I always think I’m the only person to be making crap mistakes. Reassuring!