AIBU to ask if you have ever lost money?

[Tinkerbec]

After a conversation on a flight yesterday I was just wondering if you have ever lost money that you wished tou had just blown or even thrown in the street.

Once when we were young and stupid we bought a cat D car without realising. Totally conned but lost about £4000.

Once I also got a Christmas present with £100 in. I didn't realise and threw it out with the Christmas rubbish as it was a white envelope against white wrapping.

My friend once lost 10k on Northern rock shares.

Another 2k on a holiday that wasn't all covered by insurance.

It is gutting when you think about it. I wish I had blown it on Champagne and takeaways.

Ahh these things happen I guess.

Well Barclays Bank helped themselves to £2500 from my bank account and wouldn't give it back for 3 months.... It wasn't lost to be fair, I knew where it was!!

50 quid on the grand national.

Over capitalised on a house, lost a few grand there.

I put fifty quid in an envelope for my niece and posted it to her for her birthday. She didn't get it and the envelope had not been tampered with.

I truly believe she didn't get it. My sister (her mother) got the police involved as it was a theft. I complained to the Post Office but nothing could be done.) Yes it was a daft thing to do, sending cast by post but hey.

I'm still left wondering how fifty quid cash disappeared out of a sealed envelope. I definitely put it in there. I even checked my purse to make sure I hadn't only, 'thought' I did it. I even remember the envelope feeling fractionally thicker as I posted it, because it had the money in it.

Lost quite a lot of money on first house when the prices fell. And yes ripped off buying fist car at 18, needed a whole new engine within a few weeks.

Does lending to a gobshite (now ex) friend count? If so then yes. When I was adding it up I stopped half way as I was so annoyed at myself and her for the amount it was at.

We once bought 4 tickets to the theatre and forgot to go! £160 down the drain. I did appeal to the box office but didn't get anywhere. Own stupid fault.

I lost £100 in a supermarket car park once. At the time I was a student and extremely skint. I was devastated. So yes I would rather have blown it on takeaways since I could barely afford to eat not at all bitter 10 years later

A builder took a few hundred from me for 'materials' and buggered off.

Took him to court but I'll never see it again. I feel slightly better when I remind myself that the whole thing has totally destroyed his credit rating for a few years. Hope he used that cash wisely

A large sum of money, a Rolex watch and about £25000 worth of jewellery. It wasn't lost, we were burgled.

500 euro on a gym membership. I paid up front for a discount, then they moved to a location couldnt get to.

£500 loan to a friend which was never repaid..silly me, never again.

Gym membership, yoga classes and weight watchers subscription every month. I use none of them but can't bring myself to cancel as I believe that one day I will get my shit together.

20+Years ago when we got our first car we took out out a 1k loan over 18months 5 days after we got the car a van drove into it and wrote it off, the insurance would only pay out £500 so we had to buy a real banger for £500 and spend the next 17 months paying off the loan

100 euro loan to a colleague to save them bank charges as they werent in their home country

23k on 1st flat we bought. And around 10k of my redundancy pay out because DH missed a payment by mistake on his 0% credit card so they put it back to the much higher usual rate and I had to clear it for him 😩

ToEarlyForDecorations do you think a postman could have stolen it, steamed it open in the evening, taken the money, resealed the card and put it back in the post the next day?

Some really awful stories.

Deste did you get any back on insurance? Its more the sentimental cost though.

Am with you with gym and weight loss. I have wasted hundreds on packet milkshakes for a VLCD that I never stick to and sit in the bag and go off.

Years ago I bought a second hand cooker which turned out to be faulty and was condemned

When I was a student I leant my 'Christmas money' (i.e. Cash gifts from my family). She gave me it back after New a Year and as there was a queue in the bank I walked passed and went to the library, planning to pay the money in to my scoping on the way back.

Someone in the library dipped my pocket that afternoon (and other students too). £100 quid gone and I was extremely skint, in final year at uni with a crap-paying job!

A whole house plus contents.
All my MIL's diamond and gold jewellery stolen by a carer.
Plus other large amounts I won't mention as I am still trying to get the police and the FSA to take it seriously.
HMRC took 5 years to pay me £6k they owed me. No interest.

Account...I have no idea where scoping came from!

Lent £1000 to a friend...was an awful experience

Car written off by an uninsured drunk driver. The car was 6 months old - courtesy car costs while replacement had to be built to spec, plus huge hike in insurance premiums as had to claim to get car replaced. Took him to court but never got anything back. Also had to claim on house insurance as had to have garden wall rebuilt and house surveyed for damage.

Hubby then wrote new one off within 6 months Of getting replacement!

Not money, but I accidentally threw half an ounce of weed away when cleaning out my room many (many) years ago.

DH and me were shopping, he gave me wallet to pay for something. My two year old was 'playing' among clothes racks, I was 8 months pregnant and as husband was browsing I was chasing my son. In and amongst browsing and holding onto son I misplaced my husbands wallet containing £300. He didn't agree with carrying debit cards!!!