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

[Sixteenbars]

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.

@Alpacamabags I
Feel your pain, 3 new bras purchased for £110 because my wire came out of all my previous ones

@EineReiseDurchDieZeit
Thank you. I almost started a thread after it happened as I was in bits but felt it would be a poor me pity party. Still cry everyday about it though.

All the bloody birthdays just after Christmas. We have one DS but almost everyone we know has at least 3 kids. It's getting very expensive, £140 for this month.

Also new brakes for my car. I can't wait for pay day!

@HaudMaDug
Sorry to hear that
We had to Pts our lovely collie/lab cross this week despite our best efforts (£1500 later) he didn't get any better, I don't begrudge the money just wish he'd made it x

£57 on a new tyre that had only been replaced less than 6 weeks prior, because of going over a bastard pothole and getting a flat

Not sure if I'm more annoyed about that, or that the first tyre change cost £101 at a chain retailer, when I could have gone to the little independent garage down the road in the first place and only paid £57. FOR THE EXACT SAME TYRE.

1300 on car repairs
50 kettle

@Albern for you
Sorry about your little man.
It's so hard to go through it with them knowing that they rely on you to do the right thing.
My Lab I knew I was making the right decision but to loose my Pointador too has knocked the wind right out of my sails.

Wishing you strength to get through this sad time for you. x

@Serin I definitely still pay gtcs? Is it different in England? Mine comes of my salary annually.

£30 on an Indian takeaway. I thought I was ordering something else and it ended up so hot it was inedible.

£100 on pants, socks, tights for the family. They're not even proper clothes!

makes me feel less annoyed to realise it's not just me that scrimps and saves then ends up spending on other stuff!

£250 excess car insurance - had my catalytic converter stolen in my work car park, under cctv which the police are too busy to remotely care about

£50 on flea treatment for the cats

£200 on electricians bill to find out a fence panel blew down, knocked an electric cable leading to the shed, and turned off all electrics in the kitchen. Still have to pay for the fence panel, and flaked plaster round all the spotlights they took down looking for the fault

Carbon monoxide alarm as I convinced myself that's why I was always tired... it's not and t cost me £18

£90 to find out our elderly cat is getting old her insurance excess is £60 so not worth claiming

@Tunnocks34. I see someone else already mentioned it, but in case you missed it - hang the sheet on the line and leave it there, never known a bio stain not come out!

@Sixteenbars this is THE BEST and not expensive IMO.

1. £500 to replace window & change indoor & outdoor locks when I got burgled last year.
2. £4k new roof - I wanted a holiday to the carribbean.
3. £50 on new microwave I've now realised I should have spent the extra £40 for the bigger one.
4. £50 new kettle and toaster (both went at the same time - so annoyed). I wanted the Smeg kettle & toaster set but I couldn't justify the £££. I'm upset that I'm almost 50 years old & I'm still counting my pennies. This was NOT the life I envisaged.

£950 damp course
£270 new tyres

A bastard build a bear Flareon pokemon for ds. He's wanted one for ages. He sold one of his switch games to pay for it, he had £25. Then, of course, the super thirsty bab assistant is like, give it a voice! Give it a smell! Give it a cape!...and how can I say no, with both ds and a the assistant looking at me with puss in boots eyes? Fecking thing cost me £42! Ds is in love with it though..

Also a bag of £19.99 cat food for cats with ridiculous stomachs, as my sassy little cat throws up exuberantly at the mere whiff of go cat..

My water bill. It was £280. My eyes were watering..

I have to buy a new vacuum cleaner. I really don't want to spend money on a vacuum cleaner.

Replastering walls that fell down when the wallpaper was taken off. I just thought I was doing a bit of frivolous Farrow & Ball decorating.

Haven't spent it yet but when my bridge comes out (dentist has given it a year) I have a choice of either a plate with dentures ( no way) or 3 implants for £7500!!!

The wanky Chinese we’ve just eaten. It was shit. Tried a new one 😭😭

Money on bras that will only fit for a short while due to being over halfway through pregnancy

Money on lunch from KFC which was some of the worst food ever

Money on the worst scone known to mankind at notcutts today

£7593on Corporation Tax

£25 on a pair of school shoes because dc keep wearing theirs out.

£300 that we still have to find for the garage bill. It was only the coolant bottle that'd gone but because it was a pain in the arse to get to it's cost a fortune in labour.

Cover and screen protector thing for new i-phone. Juat been given a new work phone and terrified of breaking it.

£1250 on new fencing grrr.

£670 on new glasses. Frames were £200ish, rest is varifocals and slimming lenses (complex prescription). Don't know how people manage this tbh. My prescription is about 7.75 diopter for short sight, bit of long sight and astigmatism so even if money was a problem would not get any help. Yet I am as blind as a bat.

7 birthdays in January, grrrr