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

National Trust membership. There’s hardly any properties near us so it barely got used and then cancelled ASAP.

My slow cooker - I was quite excited when I got it, all the lovely meals I could make by bunging in a load of food, going to work, coming home to great smells etc ... Everything tastes exactly the fucking same!

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About £350 - £400 spent on bloody teeth whitening through the dentist. It was 17% peroxide and I used up about 8 syringes of it but my teeth look exactly the same as they did before

I always thinking a baby monitor was the biggest waste of money. I bought one then I got given one, and then I realised I could hear my son before I heard the monitor anyway, so I ended up giving away both of them.

Also various race entries where they won't let you transfer to another person if you can't run. Lots of races will, but some won't.

Loads of crap that I bought and never used/ hardly used or only used once and then sold for a fraction of what I paid or had to give away on Freecycle as nobody wanted to buy it. Eg: George Formby grill, juicer, food processor. Also loads of books that I never got around to reading and eventually gave away to charity shops. Clothes that I bought and never wore.

Biggest one was an expensive camera (£500) bought from Amazon that they delivered to a neighbour several doors down, who denied receiving it and Amazon still refused to refund or replace even after many, many emails and using Resolver (where they simply ignored my complaint by saying there is no customer account linked to this address, even though there most certainly is as I have had an account with them for over 18 years!).

Conservatory. Too hot in summer, too cold in winter and just became a dumping ground for crap that wouldn't fit anywhere else.
Have moved now and have a space that would be perfect for one, but it's never going to happen.

@Parly I had a 2004 Clio with an ECU failure. It was a well known issue. Water tracked down through the sunroof to the passenger footwell and blew the ECU. Cost me about £400 at the time though to be fair that car just run and run and that was its only issue.

My TENS machine which hurt more than the contractions

Another one here buying exercise equipment. At least with my rowing machine I get exercise every time I step over it.

A truly revolting evening dress; it was godawful. Purple and pink, with a bow on the arse and a fish tail. I think I paid about £200 for it! Considering my own wedding dress was a (beautiful) secondhand one from eBay, I honestly don’t know what possessed me. I think I gave it to a charity shop.

Probably my wedding. The divorce is costing me more than the bloomin' thing cost as well...never again!

3k on a cross-trainer. DH used it a couple of times, then I used for drying superking duvet covers, just freecycled it.

A couple of proper cowboy builders did our driveway in this quite fancy pebble resin effect for a knockdown price of about £3000. It all came up within a couple of months, and the cowboy builders had disappeared off the face of the earth leaving us with a god awful messy drive (which still needs redoing).

The ironic thing was, the two builders actually grafted really hard, worked long days for more than a week in a heatwave, really earned their £3000. I mean, if you’re going to go a bodge job, it shouldn’t be such hard work should it?

Fees to a lawyer for a house move that didn't happen. It was for the best but so annoying for the money to be paid and absolutely nothing to show for it

2000 on a car that blew up on way home.
100 on a fire that got delivered anywhere but here and still no refund
Various awful hairdyes that washed out straight away
Personal trainer
500 on a course that I did nothing with

@MadSweeney No way? Mine was an 03 plate with a QS gearbox / automatic clutch. If it hadn't been so consistently unreliable and totally unsafe, I'd still be none the wiser.

It was a brand new car out the showroom though and started to cut out and stick in gear / stall without warning just a month after getting it which is why I went off reading up and researching online to see if I could get to the bottom of it myself.

Thousands and thousands of others with-05 plates were exactly the same. Renault adamant there wasn't anything wrong.

Le creuset teapot that I'd coveted for months beforehand. Bloody thing pissed water out like the Trevi fountain and not into the cups. It went to the charity shop in a fit of temper.

DD had a Renault Clio = we paid over £2k for it as her 1st car, and the ECU went 6 months in. We paid over £1k to keep it on the road in the 1st 18 months and that was with the mechanic buying a second hand one for us. I'd never touch another Renault with a barge pole.

Emma Bridgewater mugs, they are horrid stoneware that doesn't like the dishwasher so end up all tea stained and holds enough for a sparrow to drink out of. So so disappointing.

I need to stop buying crockery shittery

My degree.

Most of the toys I used to buy, I bought far too many.

Most clothes. I now don't buy any for myself, I have too many and I can't be trusted to buy stuff I will actually wear. So many things look nice, until you get them home.

Oh yes, £1000 on a course which was only relevant in the country, (not England), where I was studying. Halfway through it, dh got told he was being moved to an office in London. I finished the course, but it’s quite useless here.

I bought a mattress, new, from eBay. It was the hardest thing I have ever laid on. It was absolutely terrible and we ended up having to replace it within the month.

£3000 on a dental implant. My dentist was struck off for something else shortly after placing the pin in my gum. It wasn’t properly placed and started to protrude from my nasal cavity which absolutely stank and gave me a constant stinking, running nose. I finally had it filed down which stopped the symptoms but I can’t have another dental implant placed so I have a gap in my teeth and it cost me nearly £2000 to get filed down

£4000 on laser eye surgery.

5 years later I'm back in glasses and the damage to my left eye caused by the procedure means I have contsant light distortion and can't drive at night.

My first wedding.

@Hellohah I LOVE my slow cooker. I can pm you a couple of recipes if you like?