To ask what is the worst money you have ever spent?

[millythepink]

I'm really enjoying the thread in here about what is the best money you have ever spent, so thought we could do a reverse one?

Mine is spending ££££ on genuine Jo Malone perfume, smelt heavenly for all of 20 minutes then just totally faded away to nothing

Brand new Renault Clio in 2003. ECU / gearbox went shagged within a month or two and Renault wouldn't have it that it was a manufacturing problem. Eventually had to shaft Arnold Clark in a part-exchange only for karma to come back and bite me on the ass cos the new car had similar problems.

I wouldn't have bought a car brand new but husband insisted cos the piece of shit I'd been driving around was falling apart and being tied together with twine and plastic ties.

I'm now rocking it in a 20yr Toyota Shitlet we picked up for a couple of hundred quid it's tremendous.

I spent a lot of money last year seeing a renegade doctor privately about my long term health problems. He diagnosed me with adrenal insufficiency and sub-clinical hypothyroidism. He got me to purchase some adrenal and thyroid supplements and asked me to get some private tests done. I think I’ve spent in excess of £1000 and I’ve never been more ill in my life. I’m constantly exhausted, depressed and am catching things more often than not. I think he was a quack.

Gastric band £7 k , worked well but eventually almost killed me by ripping my stomach apart causing sepsis .
What was I thinking ??

£40 on an electric plane when I had 8 doors to hand. Planed straight through the cable on my first go, blew all the house electrics and had to spend another £350 on an electrician (and a replacement plane)

*to hang

£8 on two artisan donuts at Spitalfields market on Sunday. The icing completely fell off the top of one as I raised it to my mouth and both just tasted meh. I'm still cross about the waste of money.

I paid for careers advice twice, with two different advisers, and both times they were beyond useless. And one told me at the age of 27 that I was a bit too old to think about a change of direction.

But the worst thing is that when you put your trust in other people and pay for advice from experts, you assume them to be competent, so I wasted a lot of time following terrible advice because I didn't know any better.

Mine is private Doctor too.
I believed every word he said

Spent £500 on one (!) session of NLP that was supposed to cure me of my phobia. It didn't. In my defence, I was desperate...

Jo Malone body lotion, it was greasy, felt cheap and smelt like shaving foam.

Beauticians ! Not a regular by any means, but a fabulous holiday booked and wanted to treat myself...
Hair highlights, gel nails, painted toenails, bikini/leg wax, eyelash tint/eyebrow wax + daughter's gel nails/painted toenails and haircut.

just over £500 ! never returned, never felt so wasteful, never again !

When DC1 was small I 'won' a family photo shoot following a baby event I attended. The photos were lovely, but the free print included turned out to be tiny. So faced with loads of lovely images, and a certain amount of pressure/embarrassment at having spent an hour posing just to walk away with a postcard sized photo we spent hundreds on photos we hadn't really planned for and couldn't really afford. I'm much more careful about what prize draws I enter now!

University. A complete and utter waste of money. At least I went in the days it was less expensive but still, I should have gone straight into work and I could have saved the money.

£44 on Clarins night cream. It wasn't as good as the £3 Aldi version I was using previously.

Audi A3. Unreliable and didn't seem to have any suspension fitted - ride was so hard and unremittingly choppy. Horrible.

@BlueStockingUK surely if you had bothered to look at the price list you would have known that would have been the cost? Who just walks in somewhere and has everything under the sun and then complains the price is wasteful?

Would you let someone build your conservatory and then act shocked when they asked for a few £k?

Nissan Qashqai bought last April, still having issues with it now nearly a year on. Thought a resolution had been reached months ago but Nissan backtracked and once again the car is in their garage for investigations.

@BlackPrism. Silly Billy !
I think it's a bit uncouth these days to have a price list up ( depend's where you go I suppose ) they tend to have booklets, not always to hand.
I was referring to things like, varying/additional costs dependant on level on hairdresser, stylist, beautician, apprentice.
I knew the basic cost of hair for example, didn't realise I'd be charged senior prices for new hairdresser, roots, foils, restyle as opposed to a cut, thicker hair, longer hair, additional layers, olaplex, straightening etc etc.

At some hairdresser's you choose who you want, other's dependent on availability/days worked.

I wasn't shocked when we had our conservatory built, as we had agreed price, with additional wants and needs, without add ons. We were happy to pay £30k.

I hadn't realised some readers may expect a full explanation as to why these cost's occurred. I have been to other beauticians and again, although the price list wasn't displayed, it didn't cost half of this one!

So...regards to your input on " worse money you've ever spent" thread, yours is? or do you just randomly troll?

A load of Amway beauty products that I could have had for half the price and twice the quality in Boots.

Only did it to help out the MLM bot friend who was 'growing' his business.

I recently spent £90 having DDog's teeth electrsonic-ed or something. Made no difference at all - he hated having it done and now he's booked in to the vets to have it done at £350.

In my defence I wasn't trying to save money I was trying to avoid an anaesthetic as he is an old boy but still....

There are probably hundreds I'm great as wasting money.

Babyliss curl secret. It does work quite well I just need an extra arm to do the back so I never bother. What a waste.

Years ago: a beautiful jumper from the White Company I'd coveted for months. Finally got it in the sale, still £85 mind you. A delicate fabric.

On its first wearing I spilled mustard down it. The massive yellow stain wouldn't come out and it had to go straight in the bin.

Hundreds of pounds for a baby crib that newborn dd & ds probably slept in less than 5 times each

Exercise equipment

Various items from the middle aisles in aldi & Lidl, when they first opened here (10 years ago) it was almost like I thought I had to have ice cream makers, waffle makers, gardening equipment etc

Too many Santa toys/tat. It never gets played with

£75 to have distance healing on DDog when he was terminally ill and there was nothing more the vets could do. In my defence we'd also just lost a family member and another dog, so I wasn't exactly thinking straight...

£50 on a blazer bought many years ago on impulse in the Next sale and never worn. It still sits in my wardrobe to remind me of the stupidity of wasting hard-earned money. Never, ever again.