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

YES to take-aways in my 20s! I should’ve bought shares in Dominos

Spent about £200 on reusable nappies. Too much faff and the nursery didn’t like them anyway so they went practically unused.

£80 on a bike I’ve never used. It’s rusted away in the shed.

@millythepink I had the same experience with jo malone!!

My worst - £50 on a tattoo I spend £1000 getting rid of. 🥴

£50 on a 2nd hand 8 berth tent. Leaked like a sieve, then collapsed from the wind the second night away so we had to evacuate during the storm at 2am and find emergency accommodation which cost us £150 for half a night.

Chucked it in the skip when we went back to collect the rest of our belongings the next morning and vowed never to camp again.

Sorry to derail slightly (loving this thread!) but I would be so interested to know how many of the constantly feeding, puking babies were actually experiencing a tongue tie of some sort. All these things sound worryingly familiar and yet so often get explained away by other things (reflux, ‘misaligned skull’ whatever the fuck that is)

KirrinIsland i also had an unworn corset, sold it on ebay.

Wasted tens of thousands on our house, bought the month before the property crash. As first time buyers, if we had rented for six months we could have bought something for much less.
I have spent hundreds on bras that seem to fit but are then too uncomfortable when worn.
Ditto makeup that can’t be returned but doesn’t suit when worn.
I once bought a chaise longue on ebay that seemed a bargain, it the. cost loads to get it delivered, and the the quote to get it re-upholstered was so high that I never bothered and finally stuck it on freecycle.

Just about everything I have bought from E-bay whilst under the influence of wine.

Don't drink and click

A course of life drawing lessons.

First session- lovely Rokeby Venus-esque model, very professional, great poses.

Second session- Desiccated Jeremy Corbyn lookalike, very 'assertive' stances, legs akimbo.

I didn't go back.

Ninety odd quid at the Women's Nutritional Advisory Service.

Biggest load of shite ever. I was so tempted just to walk out and not pay. Complete scam as far as I'm concerned and I don't care who reads this.

I'd had PMT all my life and was entering peri in my mid 40s. Had relationships issues, felt terrible, and was pretty low at the time. Booked an appointment and was asked to keep a food diary for a week prior, which I did religiously.

The 'consultant' was an amalgamation of Sybil Faulty, Mrs Slocombe and Hyacinth Bouquet and she was also overweight. Not crime of the century I'll grant you, but the irony of it certainly didn't pass me by.

She barely glanced at food diary, but honed in on my 'sweet tooth' even though there was one solitary Mars Bar in a week. Slagged off my food choices but then patronisingly told me she was going to allow me to continue with my red wine habit as it was obviously my 'crutch' but I needed to watch my weight, despite the fact that I was several stone lighter than she was, a size 10 with a perfectly normal BMI.

She then proceeded to 'prescribe' me shitloads of supplements, all conveniently sold downstairs, where I could pick them up when I paid my bill. I don't remember most of them but 'chromium' was the buzz word of most of it and dismissed me after 20 minutes.

Needless to say, I never purchased the supplements and was tempted to do a runner and not pay the bill, for the rushed, patronising, completely useless consultation I'd received.

And another one.

The vine tomatoes I bought at a deli in Arundel. Lovely town, lovely shop, all very artisan and brown paper bags. I picked up two 'sprigs' of vine tomatoes and it came to six and a half quid. I was tempted to ask if they were gold plated.

They were nice tomatoes and all that, but no better than you'd get in Tesco, Lidl or anywhere else for a third (and less) the price.

I don't mind paying a bit more for independent shops but this was taking the absolute piss.

£50 on a Lovehoney multi-use massage wand, in a hope it would relieve the tension in my shoulder I've had for years. Didn't work, sounded like a dodgy hammer-drill, overheated and got shoved in a drawer where it's remained since. I bought a set of spiky massage balls for less than a tenner on Amazon and the tension relief is wonderful!

Brita water filter jug. Doesn't fit in my fridge, never used again.

Birthing pool. Twice. Both births too quick.

£1200 on home office furniture that looks beautiful, solid mahogany with a leather captains chair - but is absolutely impractical as a full time homeworker. The desk is too high, chair uncomfortable and the bookcase doesn’t fit A4 folders on it.

Wish I’d just gone to ikea instead like DH said

@aspoonfulofyourownmedicine

Your using it on the wrong part

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

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

I'm rocking it around in a 22 year old Suzuki!

Can't beat Japanese motors, even the AA man told me that. All this hype about German cars is bollocks. Never had a better motor than this and I've had all sorts.

So many mobile phones I cant count. I have had so many its embarrassing.

Most recently a netbook I bought from Argos. Barely enough memory to hold a document. If I spent £50 more I could have got a better laptop.

My marriage. At least I only spent £250 for the whole thing.

Can I gave your unwanted corsets please? I wear a steel boned one fie reenactments and it's MUCH comfier than a bra!

Shit toys for the dc over the years:
Milky Bunny- fifty quid for a giant rock hard rabbit that makes a noise accasionally
Any chocolate coin/lolly makers
Furby
Lol shit
Blue blue the whale (see Milky bunny above)
A doll that you fed sand and it shat out hearts- £30 and it got played with once before it was chronically constipated
I could go on!

Loads of things!!

Mason francis perfume. It was £400 for 200ml. Smell lasted 20 mins!

Lazer treatment £900ish

Orthotic insoles that killed my feet £90ish

Various shoes that kill my feet £350ish

There are many more but i cant think right now

Plants and seeds. It is hope over experience practically every time.

A shed I spent £400 then we put the house on the market the following week. Ditto the £1000 blinds we had just had installed, and £600 on the floor.

Trying to save money refilling a water bottle, didn't screw the lid in properly and ruined my best expensive handbag.

Today, a fancy wall mount for a telly which we put on the wall without checking that the telly fits. £100 down the pan.

Eg: George Formby grill

I just KNEW this would turn up somewhere in this thread. The good old 'George Formby'. The TV adverts that all came out around Christmas - just think you can cook a steak on an electric 'grill' and it will come out so darn good and no fat and hell yeah! Or you can cook it in a frying pan or under a normal grill and get the same result for a fraction of the cost

How many of us have a George Formby or a Breville Sandwich toaster or a fancy mixer / food processor / juicer and other kitchen plug in contraptions secreted away in a cupboard somewhere?

To be fair, I do still use one of my blender/ mixer things - to make soup. It comes out a few times a year. My hand-mixer - used to whip cream etc. has got to be thirty years old.

I love my breville sandwich toaster! Well panini press really - it's the flat, very easy to clean one. Gets used loads.

I use my George “Formby” quite often, only for making toasted sandwiches though, I’ve never tried cooking a steak in it.

I’ve thought of another one, a bite guard thing to stop tooth grinding at night. The dentist told me I needed one, so I dutifully let him make tooth impressions so it could be made to measure. I wore it once, for about thirty minutes, no way could I sleep with a lump of rubber in my mouth so it went back in the box never to be used again. The dentist who told me I needed it left the practice and my new dentist has never mentioned the issue. I can’t remember exactly what it cost but it wasn’t cheap.