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

cigarettes

I bought a big new car I had wanted for ages then promptly lost my driving licence.

Still bitter

I bought a house in a godawful, uncivilised pennine village that was like Royston Vesey. Absolutely horrible place, full of really damaged and dreadful people. Sold it at a loss after the financial crash and have never been so glad to see the back of something.

Full blood tests for the cat every time she was poorly.

£225 a throw to confirm that she is a very old cat with thyroid and liver issues that are totally consistent with being an elderly female cat.

I wouldn't mind if it was a one off but after the third occasion we found a new vet practice that specialize in cats. A typical visit is under £30 and the elderly cat is in better health and more content than she's been for most of her life. She's be 105 is she was human.

A house in Spain ,cost £££££ to renovate,caused massive mental distress and we can't get rid of the bloody place.

One of my friend's has a Rolf Harris picture, she's been advised to hang on to it because in time the scandal will be forgotten. We are talking very long term though. Many artists had 'racketty personal lives' - think Caravaggio - a couple of hundred years ago. Your children's children may reap the benefit. Small consolation.

£100 swinging chair for my baby. Turns out he hates being swung or rocked. It’s the one thing I bought new for him as ds1 wanted to be rocked constantly so thought I’d save myself a job and buy him a swing. He screams every time I put him in it so I’m going to sell the bloody thing.

downcasteyes does the

village start with a D? If so you are definitely not unreasonable.

A Margaret dabb pedicure in liberty. £60 the day before my holiday. Nails looked fab but then suddenly two days later my entire foot went as rough as sandpaper all over, like how your heels get but all over the whole foot where she had used some supposedly magic tool to smooth the skin.

All parts of my feet were catch on the cotton sheets!

So cross.

Our house extension. We could have made much better use of the space by doing it differently and the builders fucked us over and did a shoddy job.

My degree.

A beautiful corset, metal boned, £95, never worn, now too small, can’t sell it!!!

Oh this is my speciality!
Although some of mine are just fucking pointless rather than bank breaking.

Any white clothing, im still a toddler.
Anything from the middle aisle of Lidl, Aldi.
Baby changing mats in every room seemed like a good idea. Used ONE once.
Baby monitors, in a one level property i could hear a pin drop.
A gadget thingy to place my used tea bags, grim and a hassle to clean!
A fancy ashtray in a non smoking house
A wine bottle holder... None of us drink wine!

@downcasteyes Is it Barnoldswick?

Hahahaha! No, it starts with a P, and it's in the north of the Peak District (that is the pennines, right? Geography not my strong suit).

I'll probably mortally offend some residents with this post!! Oops!

My marriage licence...

Nothing expensive. I'm pretty good at my costly purchases.

But that tat... the endless tat. The shapeless clothes, the dodgy patterns, the dress that would do because it was in the sale... ewwwwww.

I throw away bags and bags still, because the damn stuff keeps coming out of the woodwork. Slightly better at impulse buys now though...

My wedding. DH wanted a big wedding. I went along with it and ended up paying for it

Bought a suit for £25 so DS could dress up as Count Olaf for World Book Day last week. Just as we were finishing off hair and beard he fainted and ended up spending the day at home. Aaaaarghh!! he was going to look great, too

spent £1800 on a prada bag

or actually lending my friend 6k to get plastic surgery which you can guess she stole

£200 on a robot vacuum.

Absolute pain in the arse - knocked the cats water over and chewed it's way into my rug.

Tried setting up the barriers it came with... didn't work. Neither did the 'homing' feature.

I'm still disappointed -bitter- now.

Moving house while DD1 was in preschool, attached to the infant school.

Actually moved geographically closer to the school, but outside of its' catchment area.

Refused a place at that school, and then refused a place at the catchment school because we hadn't put it as first choice.

2 years of driving to a much further school, we eventually decided to move closer to that school, but this was at the height of the housing crash.

Meant we had to sell house at a loss, with all the moving costs on top.

Would be in considerably less debt now if we'd either stayed put, or just moved straight to where we are now (which we love).

I mean our school applications were refused - not that we refused the places!

Fixing mortgage for 5 years just as interest rates dropped. If there is a big money decision to be made I always make the wrong one.

I came on to say the cranial osteopathy we paid for in a bid to help DDs horrific reflux as a baby. Same as Didiusfalco. It was such bollocks, but DD was so poorly and losing weight from being sick all the time, I would have tried anything. I was so sleep deprived at the time I can’t even remember how much it cost. Maybe £60 or £90 a session? God knows how many times we went. At least DD puked all over the woman doing it a couple of times. TOTAL BOLLOCKS.