What expensive purchase do you regret spending money on?

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Or purchases, whatever it was you spent money on and was so expensive, why do you regret it? Impulse purchase in the heat of the moment? I think the most expensive things I regret spending money on are expensive beauty products which I didn't need. I enjoy using them, but regret spending precious money on them. What expensive things do you regret spending money on?

How does it change ‘maybe’ to ‘aubergine’ ? 🤔

@RosesAndHellebores

I've renovated two houses for sale - and benefitted hugely.

Quite a lot of people do, but a lot of people don't too, as this thread illustrates.

@JoanThursday

I have wedding regret occasionally too (to the tune of £10k) 😬

In our last house we bought a beautiful Smeg freestanding range cooker. Utter shite. One of the back burners never worked properly, despite being 'fixed' twice. The cast iron rack that you place over the burners was uneven so the pots always wobbled. And you only had to wipe the dials with a soapy cloth and the temperature indicators came off.

We had it for 4 years and were so happy to leave it in the house when we left. The new owner couldn't believe their luck ... and for that I apologise.

I LOVE the name of that brand (SMEG!) It always brings up images in my mind, of one of my favourite sitcoms - ever!

Maybe we should set up a MN swap. I've got an airwrap I've used twice, would swop for similarly hardly used mulberry Bayswater .

I spent £1000 on a memory foam mattress, I was being pushed into picking it in the bed shop by the salesman and my then boyfriend (now husband). I knew it was too soft in the showroom but for some reason they pushed me into buying it. As soon as it was delivered and I lay on it it was awful. Not only was it too soft it also cooked you, so we'd be soaking with sweat if we slept on it in the summer, wasn't much better in winter. I tried to return it but was told I had to keep it for 60 days as I had to "get used to it" if I still wasn't happy I could return it at a cost and have half the price of the mattress returned, ridiculous. I stopped sleeping at mine because of the mattress and basically went and slept at my boyfriends every night. When we bought our house I gave the mattress to my sister, she took it to the tip within a couple of months as she hated it too. Such a waste. We've just replaced our mattress too, an ikea one which was 1/4 of the price of the foam mistake and like sleeping on a cloud.

A big saloon car less than a year old. It was far too big for the car park at work and there was nowhere else to park anywhere near. Ended up losing a big chunk trading it in after 3 months for something smaller.

God, so many things . I never learn. Sadly probably my beautiful Vivienne Westwood pirate boots. Love them, and coveted them for ages but they just don’t seem to suit me ‘in the flesh’ and I always end up in something else. Also piles of expensive make up particularly just now when I buy it all online, and then don’t like it when it comes.

@BearOfEasttown

Fair enough *@godmum56*

:)

Carpet washer. Bought in first lockdown and used once.

Carpet of non-natural fibres. Looks grubby and tired after very few years.

Kitchen aid - it doesn’t live up to the hype. You have to stop it and scrape down the bowl, or mix up from the bottom if whisking. It’s much more powerful than my old cheap Aldi mixer but for small jobs like making a cake it’s not an improvement. I have the attachment with the silicone scraper (still not as good) and the splash guard is dreadful.

Dune shoes - they’re just not the right shape for my feet but I spent £200 to find that out

Neff TwistPad Fire hob - most maddening thing ever.

@Gwenhwyfar ah fair enough. Don't beat yourself up re being more assertive. They're something you'll use every day and get a lot of wear out of over the next few years.

I'm at a very strong prescription so without my glasses on can see v little. It was one of the reasons I went to asda, I knew the price of the frames were all in the fixed £120 so couldn't unwittingly wander into a v expensive section, that and the thinning of my prescription included.

Glasses can be incredibly expensive especially for complicated prescriptions and it's not like it's something you can just do without. I'd had my last pair for 6 years. The pure joy at putting on the new ones and not having a wee scratch mark was great. I hope you enjoy your new glasses

Siemens double oven top of Which list of best ovens.

Very worst ovens I've ever had - even the teency gas oven I cooked on at uni with a grill that singed your fringe was better.

Had to replace.

Bought a massive 15ft foot pool for the garden about 5 years ago, I got a cheap deal on it (about £250-300) but it was a complete waste of money and only ever used a handful of times as even leaving the heater on for hours (to the extent I burnt it out!) didn't warm the water to anything more than somewhere between cold and lukewarm. And by the time I got it (I'd been procrastinating about buying one for a couple of years) my kids were too old to bother with it. Filling it took an eternity, and cleaning/ emptying it was a nightmare.

It mostly sat empty in the garden, as an emblem of my wasteful extravagance. During lockdown we finally sold off the useful bits of it (the pump, chlorine tablets, ladder, etc) and scrapped the rest.

Whenever I discuss buying anything DPs response is always it's not another pool is it? Bloody comedian.

Whenever I discuss buying anything DPs response is always it's not another pool is it? Bloody comedian.

Laser eye surgery. Spent £3k in 2013 and by 2020 I was back to glasses and contact lenses. Loved the glasses free years but would have been cheaper to keep wearing contacts.

Ah just remembered the Rover 416i . Part exchanged it when it was 6 years old when the THIRD engine had done about 10000 - wouldn't have risked another mile. They were notorious evidently.

An Italian sports car. Rusting heap of metal shit

Should I buy a Roomba? I live in quite a small flat ( 1100 sq ft) so not sure it will be worth it given the floor space is mostly covered by furniture or rugs. On the other hand I have a dark wenge wooden floor which shows up every crumb.

A Nordic wood fired spa tub thingy. It's still in its plastic wrapping 3 years later. I genuinely have no idea what came over me.

this really made me laugh, the 'elephant in the garden' type of thing - we've all been there...

God, I'm glad it's not just me. The bloody thing just sits there in a slightly tragic way, with a couple of wounds where DH thought he could move it using rolling logs in a caveman manner. That didn't end well.

It all went wrong from the very start. A weeny Albanian man arrived with it on a lorry. He wouldn't help get it off the taillift of the lorry, so we enlisted the help of a friend. Who had flu. Who then fell backwards off the tailgate with one of the lid handles still in his hand.

Then the Albanian chap needed to phone his boss in Lithuania but his phone wouldnt work. This was all conveyed using gesticulations and Google translate as he spoke Albanian and German and I can only speak English and -a bit of - French.

He used my phone to call Lithuania, then, again with Google translate, we managed to ascertain that he needed a SIM for where we were (France) to be able to access all his delivery details. So we set off in the car and he followed in his huge lorry

I don't know whether you've ever tried to buy a SIM in rural France, but it's not easy. It's even less easy when your nearest town has narrow medieval streets. He ended up abandoning the lorry and we all squeezed into our tiny car. The last place we tried was a little tabac. There was a long wait as the poor woman in front of us (who looked like she'd been enjoying a few too many aperitifs) tipped the entire contents of her handbag all over the floor. Sanitary towels and biros flew everywhere, so we helped pick them up and moved to the front of the queue. I could have kissed the woman behind the counter as she proffered a French SIM card. This had all taken hours and frankly I was ready for a glass of something myself.

I set up the SIM, we took him back to his lorry and waved him off, very relieved.

All that for a bloody expensive thing we never use. And can't actually get up the slope of our garden.

Our new build. Sold it 2 years later for a £20K loss.

Our sofa! Was ridiculously expensive and I don't even really like it that much, and I won't change it because I need to get my monies worth

@justasking111

KitchenAid items, they're so expensive are they worth it??

I have a KitchenAid food processor... worst piece of shite ever. Cuts off instantly if anything touches the rim/lid , very heavy to open and shreds appallingly. Doesn't even make fine breadcrumbs.

A Range Rover Sport. Spends much of its life in the garage having an interminable stream of faults being fixed. Or not fixed at times.

Everyone thinks you're an arsehole even when you try to drive
considerately (granted it takes up an embarrassing width of the road). LR garages have zero customer service. Shame, because it's lovely to drive. I pity the innocents in the dealers about to start their ownership nightmares.

I spent a stupid amount of money on my wedding dress. It was beautiful and comfortable but... not worth it for just a day.

A friend managed to convince me to spend £200 on a creative writing course she was taking as well. I hated the teacher so much I dropped out after one class, and she did too. I swear sometimes I think about those £200

@VodselForDinner

My Mulberry Bayswater handbag. Lovely looking bag but so heavy it’s just impractical for my needs.

Think I’ve used it twice and now it’s sitting all forlornly in its dust bag in my wardrobe.

Glad you said this, I've been thinking of buying one for aaaaaaaaages and the price puts me off Incase I'm nervous of using it incase I damage it (super clumsy) didn't even think of the weight aspect