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.

I'd definitely be taking that fucking rabbit back.

I resent the £45 blazer I had to buy for DS3 after he spilt bleach on his. If he needs to wear special clothes for school why can't the school provide them? If he doesn't really need them, why should I have to buy them? Never been able to work that one out.

Car parking at Crewe Station. £12 a day. I foolishly assumed that "a day" meant 24 hours so booked my return train journey the following day. Was charged £24 - ie 2 days parking - for a total of 21 hours parking. Just to make it worse, the parking spaces are so stupidly narrow I couldn't open either door to get in when I returned and had to climb into my car through the boot.

Dental hygienist treatment. Two sessions at £69 each, plus £30 deposit for another one in 4 months time.

I have a fixed retainer which is very hard to clean around and although I brush twice a day every day, I didn't floss, so my own fault really. It's given me a big kick up the bum to look after my gums better.

I resent paying for travel every month; it comes in at around £200, but if you take into account tax, NI, pension, student loan etc on the "extra" that I earn by working in central London, it actually costs me about £4.5k a year in real terms to commute in, plus 3 hours a day.
If I wasn't TTC I'd be looking for a job more locally.

Cake, I thought I'd corrected that...

Also every toy or cat bed I've bought for the furry little fucker.

After this weekend, probably fences.

DH would say his rail season ticket to work which is 10% of his gross salary and the service is rubbish.

£60 for another year of Microsoft office.
£12 to post an item at the post office because it was so heavy - but I needed to send it
£75 on another pair of identical off-road trainers for DH - because the treds have worn away on the last ones

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

This has always annoyed me, why should people give their employers interest-free loans? I've argued the toss a couple of times when it's been over £100 and said they pay it or I don't go. They did back down. And in another job we managed to get a weekly expenses pay run introduced so we didn't have to wait until pay day, that was much better.

£800 childcare
£50 hen do accommodation
£150 sister birthday
£150 dad birthday
£400 fixing the car
££££ tax, MOT and insurance on car

I'm not sure why I am spending so much on birthday presents except my siblings dictate we 'go in together'. At my birthday they spent £10 on supermarket presents for me. Fine, but now I do resent the £300 I spent on them, which I cannot afford (see childcare).

Not my money but 6 year old ds has just spent some Christmas money on utter tat toys that he will hardly play with. I tried to get him to buy Lego but instead he has a talking dinosaur.

All the nurses I know see the fees as a massive financial hardship.

Do all qualified professions have an equivalent?

If not its a pisstake.

@strawberry2017 this is the type of thing I'd do

£110 going halves with my neighbour for a skip to get rid of the heavy crap that's been languishing in my place for far too long. Now to start on getting rid of the small stuff.

£300 on a new wing mirror because some anonymous dickhead decided to kick mine off 🤬

My DP got made redundant just before Christmas so anything outside our standard monthly payments feels like a punch in the face while we’re on one salary.

This month the cat needed her annual check/boosters, and the TV license had to be paid. My glasses broke (the leg, not the lens) on Thursday night, which was totally unexpected, and as they can’t be fixed will be expensive to replace. I only wear them at home so had no intention of buying a new pair.

Shoes for DS, £36! Which isn't a lot in the grand scheme of things but he needs a new pair every 2 months at the moment he's growing so fast!

MOT, literally the most boring thing to spend money on.

Thanks for the support re the rabbit. I've tried to speak to the charity I got her from, they've refused to take the rabbit back or help with the vet fees :-(

£800 quid on vets bills for two pets - £250 of which was an emergency appointment to put one down.

Christmas.

Almost £1,000 one day last week on:-

1 My car service and MOT [my car is 15 years old!!! This was probably more than it's worth.]
2 My car tax [£300 FFS!!!]
3 Our two cats' yearly inoculations.

It was the cost of a cheap holiday...

Don’t know how much it will be, but I’ll have to pay for eye treatment that the NHS won’t pay for. Thousands probably. I don’t have thousands. Or anything spare really.

£6 to park at fucking work to do my fucking job.
There are over 700 on the waiting list for s car parking pass with a wait time of over 3 years.
Yes that’s right, I’m on a waiting list waiting to pay out of my wage each month to come to fucking work.
The joys of working in the NHS, ripped off at every turn.
£220 per year. The price of our caravan holiday for my family.
Fuming.

£2,500 for a new shower cubicle, due to water leaking through sitting room ceiling :(

Also plumber did crap job, so still lots of arguments/discussions to be had before it's finished.

A new wok after DD scorched something on ours and utterly ruined it. The poor hamster got a sticky eye that didn't clear on its own (he's getting old) and so vet for £30, poor wee thing. Someone left the microwave bacon tray on the hob and then accidentally switched on the hob. One burned bacon tray.