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What expensive purchase do you regret spending money on?

347 replies

Teadrinker11 · 12/02/2022 21:08

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?

OP posts:
3Sheetstothewind · 12/02/2022 22:19

The house! It's a money pit!

ToffeeForEveryone · 12/02/2022 22:19

@MartinMartinMarti

Wedding.

It was a great day, but just a day. Not worth the £££.

This.
ShavingTheBadger · 12/02/2022 22:20

A really expensive suit from Jigsaw for an interview for a job at a Premiership football club that I really really wanted. Thought I could recoup my outlay from my first wage packet. Got down to final two but didn’t get the job.

Ten years later the same football club hunt me down on LinkedIn and ask me to apply for another really good role. Suit no longer fits (I’ve been trying to diet into it for three years), so buy another interview outfit. Got down to final two but didn’t get the job.

If they come after me again I’m telling them to fuck off.

storminateacupagain · 12/02/2022 22:23

a New Motor Home
DH and l both work shifts with no time to use it Sad

Synchrony · 12/02/2022 22:30

Wedding dress. Was beautiful but should have bought secondhand.

Babygrows with zips. I believed people who told me I'd appreciate not having poppers to fiddle with, but I hate that I have to pretty much undress my child for every nappy check and change rather than just unpopping the legs. I avoid using them.

Shadedog · 12/02/2022 22:34

Wedding (it was massive, I’m an introvert. I was bored shitless)

Engagement ring. £3k for something I never wear

I’m perfectly fine about the actual marriage.

Also bought a Philips lumea and couldn’t be arsed to use it consistently enough to benefit

Expensive rug which I’ve spent years worrying about people spilling stuff on when I could have got a normal priced nice rug and chilled out.

I currently looking for a range cooker and think that may be my next overpriced regret. I got v excited about a smeg portofino (£6.5k). I can’t regret it because I don’t have the money to buy it but if I did…

Lightning11 · 12/02/2022 22:34

CrossFit induction plus upfront block of future sessions. Felt totally out of my depth after doing body pump for years, couldn’t master the moves, had no idea what to do when I was there and couldn’t get anywhere close to doing the moves that the regulars were doing. Cost hundreds. Never went back. Still fat.

MooPointCowsOpinion · 12/02/2022 22:35

My wedding! We tried to do it on a budget but our parents pushed and pushed even though we were paying, it was a lovely day but I’d rather have the £10k or whatever we spent back and go on a few brilliant holidays!

Bogofftosomewherehot · 12/02/2022 22:35

Georgio Armani suit.
Cordless Dyson.
Peleton.

Have a Lumea - been sat in the box for 4 months, not even opened. Still have hairy legs. This has prompted me to open it tomorrow.

CoastalWave · 12/02/2022 22:36

Worse purchase was a second hand used Audi for £2700. Went into the garage after 3 months and cost me another £800 and then 8 months after that the engine blew up. Absolute right off.

11 months of driving around in an old car for the princely sum of £3500. Could have bought a decent new car on finance for that.

blessings2022 · 12/02/2022 22:36

Invisalign

MysteriousMonkey · 12/02/2022 22:37

@EndersGame

Bought a house once, only had it 6 months. Only lived in it for 3 of those. That was rather expensive and lost a fair bit on it as well, which left me in debt for a few years. My regret was buying it in the first place.
Me too!!! Well I loved in it on and off for a year and it took me another to sell it. I was so happy when it was finally gone even though I lost so much money.
itbemay1 · 12/02/2022 22:38

@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.

Me too! Mine gives me backache
JudgeJ · 12/02/2022 22:40

@MartinMartinMarti

Wedding.

It was a great day, but just a day. Not worth the £££.

I wonder how many others feel that way? A young relative of mine was getting divorced and they were still paying off the wedding!
niki26 · 12/02/2022 22:41

@1415isgreat very similar! My husband bought me some lovely Louboutins on Madison Avenue, New York when we went for Christmas a few years ago - the following March I found out I was expecting baby number 1 and they have never fit properly since! Baby number 2 is nearly 2 years old now and I still have them in their beautiful box...such a waste but I naively think I'll wear them again one day!

VodselForDinner · 12/02/2022 22:42

[quote Iamthedom]@VodselForDinner
Same I bought the oak Bayswater irs so heavy and awkward and i can’t fit all my crap in it
I think I bought it 4 - 5 years ago
It comes out for funerals & weddings
It’s been to both of my parents and a friends wedding in that time

I also bought the matching purse

Cost £300 and it’s been used every single day so much more useful and it’s lovely well designed and gas loads of credit card slots[/quote]
Oh snap.

Mine is oxblood and I also got the matching purse which I absolutely love and use pretty much every day.

BrennieGirl · 12/02/2022 22:44

Dustin cordless vacuum. Expensive piece of shit.

Christian Louboutin shoes. Most uncomfortable shoes ever.

Got scammed into buying an expensive ring in Bangkok years ago. Still feel really stupid about it.

BrennieGirl · 12/02/2022 22:44

Dyson obviously.

AutomaticMoon · 12/02/2022 22:45

(Refurbished) Dyson Pure Hot & Cool, loud, stops working for no reason and has to be regularly sent away for fixing

Second Hand Dyson Vacuum: just useless

IKeptYouLikeAnOath · 12/02/2022 22:47

A steam cleaner after everyone on here went nuts for them. Utter shite.

See also - the heated clothes drier. It's horizontal instead of the usual vertical so took up about two metres of space, and only dried the bits of material touching the bars.

WetLookKnitwear · 12/02/2022 22:47

LG washing machine

A designer handbag… still haunts me what a pointless waste of money that was, and it’s been about 10 years.

littlesnowdropfairy · 12/02/2022 22:48

@Shadedog if you're thinking of selling the lumea I'd be interested!

lightand · 12/02/2022 22:49

Possibly the windows many years ago. We ummed and ahhed whether to get plastic frames. Roll time forward, and would it have been a better idea[lasted longer and looked better after a few years]? Dont know. Probably.
I do not like that such a thing as windows, cost so much money.

MsAnnFrope · 12/02/2022 22:51

Not madly expensive but a mouth guard to stop me grinding my teeth. I hate the taste and I wake up with a sore throat due to the wonky jaw which makes me grind my teeth in the first place. I should have put the cash towards the crowns I will need…

justasking111 · 12/02/2022 22:52

Friend hangs ironing on her peloton these days 😅

My hot tub was great for a few years then a storm blew off and wrecked the lid. OH wouldn't pay Three hundred pounds to replace it. So it sat empty after that. Was a bastard to balance all the chemicals in those days too