To ask if what things you've resented spending money on recently?

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This is just today
1.) 8.99 on worming tablets for dd
2.) £20 on birthday presents for twins in dd's class
3.) new slippers for ds as he lost the ones we bought a month ago
4.) Overpriced vegan stuff, it is getting cheaper but it's taking a while. Why is vegan mayo never on offer, or why can't you get tofu for the same price as shit ham? I'm not vegan but going that way and I can't believe how much extra everything is
5.) petrol, just because it isn't very exciting. I only top up once a month but it reminds me of how much I used to save before we had a car.

£4 on a water bottle that my ds lost at school the day after. I now have to replace said bottle.

PE uniform for the dc. They have specific crested tracksuit tops and trousers with piping on the legs, so realistically there’s no generic alternative.

If they were in a posh school, or guaranteed to feed into a desirable secondary I’d suck it up but it’s just the ordinary local school, and the only one we could get ds into (baby boom). They just have notions of grandeur.

Tax on fuel. We didn't have to until a few months ago (due to tax rules for military personnel posted to Germany). Realising how much of the cost is tax...

MOT on the motorbike because it was one of the records that the Army managed to lose. 6 months early.

New garden gate as the old one, that has been falling apart for 8 years, finally broke. Looks really nice but spending £105 to end up with what was there already grates a bit.

A battery for my new to me car.
It seemed to work fine but after a couple of mornings it kept dying.
Cars great now though just could have done without that extra cost at a broke time.

Yesterday we needed the stop cock turning off and it just wouldn't, plumber came out charged us £70 to fit a new one, total unexpected expense.

£10 for food that a family member cheekily put in my trolley and expected us to pay for.

£70 for a 5 minute consultation with the vet and a course of antibiotics for the dog. She is getting better though. Just seems very expensive.

£83 to get a tooth pulled out yesterday, £158 for a new battery for a 3 yr old car, £114 for a plastic wheel trim for said car (just how), 2 new tyres. Grrrrrr

I'm currently refusing on principal to get DD a PE top. The top it self is £5. Postage will be £4. The other alternative is visiting the shop 25 miles away. Again, a normal community Primary school, in a big town with uniform shops... Bit they chose a supplier that far away. It will wait until the next time the school does a bulk order to be delivered to school.

£16 on car parking!

£16.40 a month RCN membership. And £120 a year NMC fees. 😡

£450 excess for a claim to repair the damage some bastard caused when they drove into our parked car, then buggered off.

Gutters.
But they do look smart now!

Nearly £2k on dental treatment for DH. If he’d had regular visits over the years it wouldn’t have got to this point (NHS treatment would have taken ages). I have told my mum that if anything ever happens to me she is to make sure that the DC go to the dentist - I don’t think DH would even think about it.

A flipping new handheld food mixer.

£20 because I followed some stupid twats online recipe for lemon buttercream as follows

80g butter
1 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp milk
500g icing sugar

Instructions:
Place in bowl and just mix, simple.

Yeah, fucking simple...my arse.

Instant fine cloud of icing sugar and previous hand mixer's motor seized and died in seconds with a tremendous amount of death squeaking.

Why must I believe other people know better than I do when I've made buttercream so many times before by adding a little icing sugar at a time. I had my reservations, literally suspected it might happen and still tried it.

I am a fucking idiot.

Coffee from places like Costa. I end up spending at least a tenner, for drinks that are not as nice as the ones I make at home.

IHaveBrilloHair Bin number stickers are in poundland. Neon yellow though, but mine has stayed on.

Last minute train tickets to London for £135 for a meeting with work. I'll get it back on my next payday as expenses it just means I'm tight all month just because my company won't pay it in advance.

£2300 on a full house rewire that we since found out we didn’t need. They also made a right total mess of the house in the process, damaging all the artex ceilings that we specifically mentioned we wanted them to go careful with. Oh well can’t do anything about it now apart from plod along rectifying it all.

That's a bit crap @FruityWidow. Our train tickets for work get billed back directly to the company. You shouldn't have to be out of pocket all month.

@FruityWidow
That drives me potty. Why do companies always assume we have spare money lying around‽

60 quid to park the car in Bristol for a week.

I regret spending money on £3 meal deal and a £3.65 coffee when I have food at home and a decent coffee machine.

Unplanned for expenses since December
£800 vet bill as a dog attacked one of my cats
£100 replace element in cooker
£350 buy and pay plumber to fit a new pump on a shower

Planned for but not yet bought
I want to replace my 35 year old boiler £2k plus
I need to replace my double glazed front door as it doesn’t lock properly and the lock Smith says not repairable so another £700 plus.

Looks like being an expensive year