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

Estate agents fees to purplebricks they are shit, had numerous time wasters through my door, 4 offers on my home & they haven’t bothered to check whether anyone has a mortgage in place & most have withdrawn because waited so long for idiot estate agent to get back to them! It’s off the market now.

Too old for a career change at 27?! That’s insane. I hope you complained.

A magimix bought in the after haze of GBBO when DD and I wanted to become bakers.
We have not become bakers.
we use the bowl for loose change
Total waste

Every single penny I've spent on take aways.

Half of them don't taste great anymore(well not me anyways)and honestly now if I could go back I'd have rather had something on toast or a sandwich and had saved the money up that I would have spent on the take away.

I'd also be a damn lot slimmer than I am right now!

Some makeup at a stall.in a shopping centre. It was a mini kit with everything in it. But it was all shit. Eyeshadow had no colour, eyeliner too hard etc etc. It wasn't that cheap either. I later read that this particular brand tries to target middle ages women in shopping centres. Insulted and skint!

Pulipatchouli

2 virgin hot air balloon vouchers. Appalling appalling con, impossible to get your money back.

You can swap Virgin day vouchers for other days out of equal value (maybe something someone else might want even if you don’t) and sell them on eBay.

Gym memberships

£150k on a flat that had lease and structural issues, sold it a few years later for £27k less. Well shot of it!

Oh God, I'd forgotten gym memberships!

Over £5k (and that was half price 😩) on Sharps fitted bedroom furniture. Pushy salesman told me I was wrong that they might cause damp due to no ventilation. Cue the first winter me finding all my clothes had gone mouldy (only the nice and most expensive ones obviously, the primark tat was fine).

Numerous exercise machines including a few hundred quid on one of those ridiculous fat wobbling machines that were popular a few years back.

I have at least 4 George Foreman grills, plus ice cream makers, food processors, slow cookers etc that will never see the light of day.

£6.5k taking my ex on a luxury holiday only for him to ask half way through would I mind him doing a naked photo shoot with an ex gf (they were both 'alternative' models)

Twat ruined my holiday

£100ish on a pair of pink Timberlands. I think I’ve worn them about 5 times. (I know I should probably just stick them on Gumtree, but I keep thinking I might wear them.

@isabellerossignol omg I worked as a careers advisor last year we had two weeks training 🙄😒 I wouldn’t trust my advice! At least it’s free now!

£1500 on a car that lasted 2 weeks before needing a full engine rebuild!

I am the Queen of shit purchases, but I give myself a monthly allowance now of 20 quid that allows me to indulge my stupidity.

Acer tablet; week after I brought it, Android released an update but Acer declined to release it to its devices in Europe, only Asia and the US (why? Fuck knows?!). The apps didn’t work with the old version of Android installed, so I was stuck with a £400 paperweight. (And that is why I’ll never buy an Acer laptop or an Android phone ever again).

Table and chairs with matching sideboard and coffee table; got table and chairs and sideboard, all covered in scratches. They all had to be replaced. The coffee table was on ‘back order’, only to be cancelled permanently after 10 weeks, spoiling the intended effect. Discovered after almost 3 months that when I sat on the chair I couldn’t actually reach the floor...

Urban Decay eyeshadow palette - my ‘you kicked arse in your exams’ present... no colour payoff never mind what primer I used.

Two pairs of Nine West heels, peep toe. Apart from being so high that my previously broken ankle can’t cope, I have no toe nails. Some people have ‘taxi!!!!!’ shoes, I have ‘shag me’ shoes

Probably should include almost every lottery ticket I’ve ever owned

Laura Mercier Translucent Powder, I looked like an oompah loompah in the so-called ‘Light’ Lesson, most so-called influencers are on commission so exercise more cop on.

Vibrio plate... most expensive clothes horse yet!

Brought a double mattress while renting through a friend of DH who worked for the manufacturer who got us a staff discount, absolute bliss. Six months later, we brought our first home and opted for a King Bed... went shopping for a mattress. Tried to get same brand / model as our double mattress but couldn’t find it anywhere and DHs friend returned to his home country. Spent 2300 on a mattress, absolutely horrific, we ended up sleeping in the spare room on the double bed for nearly 18mths until we could afford to replace the king bed mattress.

Instant Pot, too much flaff compared to my slow cookers

Over £20,000 on a Shaker Kitchen Company kitchen. Worst customer service I've ever experienced (read all the independent reviews - they delete and block anything on their own SM pages). Wish I'd have taken heed of the reviews before I invested.

Yes yes to homeopathy. Went to a homeopath's home for a treatment and she strapped me to a chair by my legs, arms and head so I looked like Bruno Hauptmann in the electric chair. She said the result was that I was very anxious. You're not kidding, as I sat helpless I realised she could be a fucking axe murderer. I actually paid for that priviledge.

You would think I'd learnt my lesson but got talked into seeing a different one who had some kind of square looking box with what looked like 2 metal skipping rope handles coming out of the side. She put sugar pills on the top, made me hold the skipping rope type things and after a few minutes told me I drank too much tea and was stressed and that the things that were sugar pills on top I was to take twice a day for 3 weeks. I felt like Jay in the Inbetweeners when he asks Donovan for some weed, and Donovan opens a tea bag in front of him, empties it into a tissue and charges him £20 for it. Jay says 'But... that's tea... I saw you open the teabag' and Donovan says 'Are you calling me a liar? That's WEED' Seriously. I watched her put them on the top of the box!

I'm so embarrassed I'm going red just typing this!

Another one for purple bricks fees!
£900 for the guy to promise the earth then promptly disappear off the face of it.
Over priced the house, hardly any viewings came in and couldn’t get in touch with him apart from generic ‘I’m on annual leave’ messages through the app. When we rang the main office 9 months later to begrudgingly pay the fee and say we had sold with someone else, he left a voicemail with some BS about loosing our number and wanting to see how we were getting on. Promptly blocked and lesson learnt about internet estate agents!

Spent a shitload on toys for DD1 in the stupid belief that she needed “educational” toys
Would love to rewind and buy less “stuff” in general

I don't regret money spent on my wedding, even though we split up.

I do bitterly regret money spent on IUIs, which I really hoped would work but later discovered my DP had been hoping wouldn't work.

I also regret money spent when I was young and stupid and thought everyone was honest. It wasn't huge amounts, but I still look back and feel angry/hurt, remembering how I thought we were all friends (and most of them were better off than me, just with worse morals).

@strangeloop oh no! My DH bought a cross-trainer on eBay for £180 last year, that had been used twice apparently. The whole family use it now and I've subsequently given up an expensive yoga club because of it.

Joined a lone gym- lovely place and just suited me.
A month later it was bought out by a chain and that specific location shut but my membership 'had been transferred'. Trying to cancel the membership was harder than trying to find the solution for world peace.

£800 on hypnotherapy which didn't work.

£2000 on a teenage drug dalliance which I still feel deeply guilty about.

£500 on an NVQ which I never started far less than finished.

£2000 on a car I didn't check properly before buying which turned out to be a complete write off and cost a further £1000 in attempted repairs.

And for the trivial guff: £95 on a pair of Ray Bans I've never worn and since decided I don't like, £80 on a pair of platform sandals I can't walk in, and an undetermined but rather large amount on craft supplies which have never been used.

£200 Birthday trip for boyfriend (which was shot loads for me) ... turned out he had got some tart preggers and he took her after breaking my heart.

Shit, not shot!