What expensive purchase do you regret spending money on?

[Teadrinker11]

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?

@Roominmyhouse

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.

Ditto. I got 9 years of glasses free but I'd worked out I only broke even at 10 years! And now I'm long sighted so I have to wear stupid reading glasses instead of handy contacts. Waste of time, money and pain!

@Mumblechum0

A Chagall at a charity auction. Don’t even like it, I was just getting the bidding going but no one else bidded 😟

Blimey- can't you sell it on? Surely that cost a bomb?

Exercise equipment, bike and treadmill which I used a couple of times and gave the bike to charity shop my friend runs and sold the treadmill for next to nothing.
Just had to have the photochromic vari focal lense glasses I saw in Asia as there was nothing like those frames in UK, loved wearing them whilst there and now in UK they are useless, I can hardly see a thing when I go out so never wear them and they cost an arm and a leg. Don't know what I was thinking, old life crisis.

Not my purchase but my friend - she bought a Kitchen Aid mixer and 2 days later asked if I wanted it. She had paid over £400 for it and the second time she used it she caught her beads on the arm that speeds it up and the machine went mad and frightened her to death and she would not use it again. She wears beads all the time and said no machine is going to stop her and she will go back to her Kenwood.
Anyway she gifted it to my hubby and would not take any money for it,

Dyson cordless vacuum. Absolutely useless, battery lasts about 10-15 mins max and shite build quality. Plus James Dyson is a stupid Brexshitter!

Bought a Miele parquet plus instead. Couldn't be happier.

Another vote for laser eye surgery. Had it done in 2014 and was back in glasses by 2020. Infuriating.

I love my Dyson cordless. The battery lasts more than enough time for me to do my whole house, it's really light and so small to store. With my old clunky hoover I used to fear for my life when lugging it up and down stairs.

A lovely dress during the first lockdown so I could look smashing when it was all over. Plank!

Actually DH has some expensive bike exercise thing in the garage that cost about £700 iirc, he bought it in the first lockdown and I don't recall he has used it for ages, since the first lockdown probably, I must remind him

@Carpediem15

Not my purchase but my friend - she bought a Kitchen Aid mixer and 2 days later asked if I wanted it. She had paid over £400 for it and the second time she used it she caught her beads on the arm that speeds it up and the machine went mad and frightened her to death and she would not use it again. She wears beads all the time and said no machine is going to stop her and she will go back to her Kenwood. Anyway she gifted it to my hubby and would not take any money for it,

Naice drinking glasses and crockery. They break the same as the cheap stuff. We’re Ikea basics all the way these days. Clumsy lot.

Accidental quote, sorry.

But while I’m at it, I did laugh imagining that scenario. Ach well…a free Kitchen Aid for you.

The stupid bastard Shark, as I call it. I hate that you have to fully unravel the lead to use it everytime, sometimes I want to just vac a few crumbs up and you have to build the fucker from scratch. It can't even stand up by itself so I have to lean it in corners or lie it down. And it can't cope going from wood floor to carpets without changing the setting. Makes me miss Henry and I hated that drama queen too.

I bought a Shark too. Crap. Someone said earlier, more fragile than a newborn. True. All ours ever seemed to do was clog up and spit everything back out onto the floor. I was so disappointed.
I brought cumbersome old Henry back out of retirement. He’s an awkward sod but he sucks up the dirt.
The Shark lives in the hall covered in dust.

My Nikon camera. I bought a new one before I got married as my old one was 8 years old and the processer wasn't great. Stupidly bought it off Amazon and the light meter has always been a bit wonky but I couldn't return it by the time I realised. It sits in a box and is now 6 years old and probably out of date and worth about £20. Sigh.

My first house too. Bought it at almost the peak of the mid aughties boom, I realised as soon as I moved in I'd made a huge mistake and rented it out 3 months after I bought it and ended up renting for a decade until I could buy another house. I wish I'd sold it 6 months after I bought it, I'd have made a profit instead of having a money pit. The price crashed about a year after I bought it too and it is still in negative equity so I can't sell either. I wish they taught financial advice in school.

The fancy camera is another one. I do a lot of hillwalking and wanted to capture the amazing scenery I see. It’s a good camera but tbh a lot of my best shots are taken ad hoc on my phone.
I’m glad I’ve got the camera but it hasn’t quite earned its cost yet. Plus, it’s heavy to lug about, despite being a compact SLR. There’s no comfortable way of having an SLR to hand when you’re climbing a mountain. I wear mine round my neck and pressed to my chest with my rucksack straps. It caused strain but I haven’t found a better method yet. It’s a real labour of love.

Shark hoover...hated it.
My husband bough a recumbent bike a few years ago, cost getting on for 2k with the accessories, didn't really plan where he would store it (no garage or anything ), used it twice and sold it a couple of months later for about half the price.
Expensive exercise bike, I'm determined to use it eventually but it's just gathering dust in our bedroom.
Radley handbags, I have 2 but I just use my cheap deichmann one instead.

@StellaGibs

The Babyliss Big Hair is the only thing in my house I look at and get angry about. I've no idea why it gets such good reviews.

I love mine though I now use the 32mn one. Gave the 50mn away and still have the 45mn one. Though I bought the Babyliss big curl which is still sitting in the box unused. Also a hot paddle brush which also doesn't get used. It might also be Babyliss

@GeneLovesJezebel

Don’t waste your money on hair removal, once you hit menopause it disappears anyway !

...it doesn't so much "disappear" on menopause as "relocate to your face", sadly.

So true

Yes, and strangely changed to white springy hairs which appear overnight.

Fitted hall carpet. It's a big hallway with lots of doors and we replaced the ancient shabby fitted carpet with a smart new wool-mix. Big mistake. Our cats tried to dig their way past every closed door - they didn't do that with the old carpet! - and in a year the smart new carpet was frayed and ripped and worse than the old one. They exposed the grippers so it wasn't even safe to walk on. A year later we replaced again with hard flooring and rugs, still fine 10 years later.

My previous pair of glasses. I suffered them for 7 long years. They cost a few hundred and I did try them on but... they weren't the colour I ordered, they were a low wide style fashionable at the time which doesn't suit my face especially well, metal frames with big sides so not that lightweight. Didn't like them from the start and they only got more uncomfortable as time went on. Promised myself new ones for a 60th birthday treat but then lockdown happened! My new pair are wonderful big lightweight round ones with dainty titanium frames and worth every penny of the £600 I blew on them.

I do like my Babyliss drier, even bought a new one after the first one broke. I don't have enough hands to hold a drier and a comb and twirl a blowdry brush. The Babyliss spinny wand thing gives me enough hands!

Heard clothes horse drier thing. It takes so long to dry that your clothes end up smelling. Tumble drier works out loads cheaper.

It's just used as a bog standard airer now.