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?

A second hand car. Cost over a grand, lasted less than 6 months. Should have ave walked away as the car dealers nickname was dodgy deal Dave! But he was a friend and gave a very good (coked up as we realised later!) sales pitch.

@SunflowerSmith

Wooden floor, harder to keep clean than a carpet and showed every mark plus cold and clunky.

Memory foam mattress, no idea why I thought it was a good idea for a mattress to remember me, I want one where it instantly springs back to shape when I turn over and not have to crawl out of a person shaped dent.

You have expressed my hatred of memory foam far better than i ever have!

A couple of expensive handbags that are a bit heavy to use (not Mulberry expensive but still about £200). I generally just use a sale Kipling bag for casual wear.

An Air fryer, though now electricity is going to a lot more expensive I will have another go with it.

A PC
Bought it before DS started secondary for homework and playing games on. Homework is all done on the iPads bought through the school scheme and it's obviously not powerful enough for gaming. A £600 white elephant.

@Topseyt

Mine is my heated clothes airer, as some seem to rave about on here.

I never use it now. Far too big, runs at 5p an hour - if it is on overnight that is 50 - 60p, so might as well have just run the tumble dryer for 90 minutes. Waste of £100.

Yes! I used it for a while then noticed how much my electric bill went up and it still takes ages to dry clothes! Reverted to the tumble dryer and it's much quicker and cheaper!!

@Shadedog Thanks so much, I appreciate the info! I'll definitely buy new.

Wedding for sure. I don't regret the marriage, but I do regret getting swept along into a big generic charade that I never wanted. And at the time people told me that £10k was really cheap for a wedding. £10k!!! And now we've got kids, I only work part time because I can't afford any more childcare, and I won't be able to pay my electric bill next month. £10k on a party, what a fucking idiot.

Varifocals
They give me motion sickness. I have tried and tried to get use to them, but still I feel 🤢. I hate them so much

230 quid on a dark blue suede bomber jacket from Hobbs. Had forgotten I have v mild dandruff, I never wear black and seldom really dark colours and was so taken with the jacket - what a waste gave it away.
Have probably wasted 100s+ on clothing that I love the look of and too taken up in the moment to realise it did nothing for me.

Things to replace stuff I’ve already got, but they’ve been recommended on MN . Only to discover that the things I’ve already got are better.

Yes, I agree about the wedding. Should have had a much smaller/cheaper do and not invited people from his family that they haven’t seen for years, or people we invited because we’d been to theirs. Such a waste of money.

This thread is quite fascinating really. It’s interesting to see what different people have been enchanted by and spent out on. I’m certainly not one for gadgets but I have been seduced by a few wasteful things.
The one that springs to mind is my Campomaggi bag - £500. It’s absolutely beautiful and the quality is undeniable…but it’s so heavy it gives me an ache to carry. I end up taking my Fat Face mini satchel everywhere instead.

Antiglare coating on spectacles. I've been upsold it for years, to help with my night driving, but I hate the weird purple tinge it leaves on my glasses. Latest pair I refused to have it and for the first time in decades, I can see perfectly well at night.

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

My mulberry medium Lily bag. It managed to be both too big and too small. Think I’ve used it twice!
I keep meaning to resell it.

Our first condernser dryer. Never had a problem with dryers before and we decided to fill in the hole where the filter went out from the old one. Now are stuck with condenser dryers (though at least the one that came after wasn't nearly as bad as the first one grr indesit!!!)

Every roseacea cream I ever bought, they're an absolute sham!! (Avene skin recovery cream worked in the end for anyone who needs to know!)

Yes, I agree about the wedding. Should have had a much smaller/cheaper do and not invited people from his family that they haven’t seen for years, or people we invited because we’d been to theirs. Such a waste of money.

Totally this. Amazing day but we got so carried away, all we needed were the family and friends, not the big hotel!!

Numerous large shoulder bags which looked lovely, but were awkward to carry and caused musculo-skeletal pain. I now carry far less stuff around with me and have more small crossbody bags than are strictly necessary, but don't regret buying any of them.

The family framed photos we had done twenty years ago with Venture. Lovely, but completely done over with those.
Yes, our wedding too. It was already small, but I wish we'd gone smaller and cheaper and saved a few thousand. Can count on both hands the number of people we ever see now, family included, years on.

I’ve always wondered if our wedding was a bit crap as we were never tempted to spend big money on it. We didn’t have money, big or little back then anyway.

We married at the registers on lovely Victoria Street in Edinburgh which was inexpensive but great for photos. Then it was pizza and champagne all round at a rustic Italian place we’d hired out. The evening do was in the function cellar of a nearby pub. Dh’s brother, who was a dj at the time, kept us all on the dance floor till 1am.
I wore an evening dress from Monsoon and dh hired a kilt. I think the whole thing came in at just under £1000.

It was an informal party sort of wedding. I sometimes regret not taking the opportunity to make a bigger deal…but having read some of the posts here I have remembered our ‘big day’ with fondness. So ta. X

As a student I bought an expensive MP3 player that came with a DRM system that made it basically unusable. Bitterly regretted that one!

£300 fire pit for sons to enjoy during lockdown and the summer, Rubbish, now has herbs growing in it.

@Thewiseoneincognito

Am I the only one who goes hmmmm at all the Dyson hate on MN? Dyson products are far superior to most of their cheaper competitors. Yes they’re expensive but if you can afford it why settle for anything less?

I just imagine anti-Dyson bot farms churning out the hate on behalf of Babyliss and Hoover 😂😉🤣🤭

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I bought the Alyson hairdryer. Loved it. 2 years and 3 weeks after purchasing it just stopped working. Warranty was for 2 years (I’d paid £300 for it). I contacted Dyson - can I send it to be fixed ? I’ll pay?
They don’t fix their products but they offered me the option of buying another Dyson hairdryer for £250 as a gesture of goodwill. Did not and will not buy from them again. If you are paying £300 for something there should be some way they can fix it - it’s wasteful too! So I have tried Dyson and found them to be lacking.

The house I lived in before this one, my top
tip is don’t buy a house near a busy road.
I love my Dyson hairdryer, totally life enhancing bordering on life changing.

Hot water solar panels. The low energy pump seems to be running most of the day even when there’s barely any hot water being generated and seems to cost more than the actual gas heating ever did. Plus now when I need hot water and have to put the gas on I need to heat a much bigger cylinder using extra gas and taking longer. I wish I had done some research before and I am gutted that I spent ££££ to neither save money nor energy.