To ask what the most ridiculous thing you have ever spent money on is?

[AveAtqueVale]

Mostly to make me feel better. I'm currently up and about because I have a hacking cough and can't sleep, and have just spent £6.50 on a baby lego crocodile on eBay.

Backstory: DS(6) has a Lego set which includes a family of crocodiles. Today a friend's toddler was over and took a shine to the baby crocodile, so he gave it to her to take home. He is totally unbothered, and knowing him will remain so, but I've felt sorry for the parent crocodiles all day, and have now spent actual real money to assuage my upset that two small pieces of plastic might be missing a third smaller piece of plastic. I even caught myself (briefly) worrying that the new baby crocodile isn't quite the right shade of green, and that they might know it's not really theirs.

My only defence is that I am quite pregnant and hormonal, and due to aforementioned cough have had very little sleep for the last few days. I'm honestly not usually this batshit...

Has anyone else spent money on anything so completely ridiculous?

I just spent 10 pounds on getting crisps and ice cream delivered.
I have no defence

I don't see the issue 😂

Is there a concern that the Lego crocodiles might reject the replacement baby and eat it?

I can't think of anything off the top of my head but I wanted to thank you for making me laugh (with you, not at you, and in a very kind not nasty way I stress) after a crappy day! This has really made me smile OP and I hope the parent crocodiles love their adopted baby as much as they loved the child that has now flown the nest! Hope you're feeling better soon 💕

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Best post on here in a long time !!

An empty violin case.

At one point we had several violins in the house (3 of us played) and decided to package up a learner one of my brothers to donate to a village in Malawi. I picked the worst case to send it in.

Turned out the case was the one that came with my slightly, actually, valuable violin which belonged to my step dads father and was something of a family heirloom. I had no idea if the case was valuable too and didn't want to make anyone suspicious by asking. So I bought a beaten up old case on eBay that had similar colours, scuffed it up, broke the lock, bent a hinge to match what I remembered of the original, and hid it in mum's attic (which is where I had told them it was). Never told a soul, it cost £50!!! I have no idea if he would have been angry to this day.

He's old now so hopefully i will never see the consequences of my lie.

I hadn't read the thread before but I have now and I'd like to express my sympathy to those who have sad stories to tell, especially @AuntieEstablishment - I am so sorry for your experience.

But I also have enjoyed many of these stories - especially the red-haired barbie and the seagull pasty. The things we do eh!

I too would like a pic of the crocodile family pls @AveAtqueVale

Placemarking for baby 🐊 pictures

Love this!

A knitted frog

I once bought train tickets to an exhibition about five hours away. At the time of booking I really wanted to go.

Set my alarm early, woke up and thought I really can't be bothered. So turned over, went back to sleep and never went to the exhibition.

I completely understand the crocodile one 🐊

I once bought the kids and myself a Greggs lunch. Everyone chose what they wanted. Then I had it delivered to the house. I ended paying a stupid amount, the latte arrived spilt and nothing about it was remotely healthy. One of the kids changed their mind and wanted a chocolate muffin, which the other had and didn't want to share. It was a disaster. Cold, half filled latte and a crying child. Loving the seagull Greggs story upthread. Reminded me of my own little Greggs experience.

Skin cream that promised to combat redness. It sure did combat the redness ... by turning me into an orange oompa loompa. On closer inspection it was actually a tinted moisturiser. Unfortunately the tint was mandarin orange. Tried it once, cost me more than £20. Ffs.

I was coming on here to say my allotment 😆

Obviously different business, but I bought my wedding veil from a Ukrainian company and it came super quick. No problems.

I am really tempted to do this with a Teddy I have , it was a christening gift for me over 50 years ago .
I slept with it for 40 yrs but now its to delicate .

Cranial osteopathy - I was desperate and sleep deprived and spent money I didn't have for someone to hover their hands in the direction of my baby's head. It made absolutely no difference!

Blimey, what kind of house do you have that needs a suit of armour? 😁

I once spent a silly amount of money on a teenage mutant ninja turtle monster truck for ds2, who must have been about 4 or 5 at the time. He'd seen a picture of one and it was ALL he wanted for Christmas, but I think it had to be ordered from America or some such nonsense.
To be honest, he did love it very much so it was probably worth it.

Another horse . We had my son’s 43 yr old pony at home , and lost my horse, so she was on her own . She kept jumping out to go visiting all my neighbours horses , so we decided the easiest thing to do was get her another friend . We could have had the pick of all the equine rescues , but no, we went for the diva rescue who has decided that having come from a terrible start , that she deserves all the luxuries that can be bestowed upon her. She has a massage therapist , a pedicure every six weeks , and turns her nose up at anything but the best treats .

last year I stupidly bought a piece of a Banksy (actually a brick I think). I think it’s currently on display at a theme park in Margate. Or somewhere. What an idiot. It’s genuine etc but not sure what the point of it is.

Came here to say this...!

In the build up to Christmas 2020, I ordered a Christmas tree from Robert Dyas to our tiny London flat, with next day delivery so it would arrive on the Saturday and we could decorate it over the weekend

once I’d ordered it, got a message to say it wouldn’t arrive until Monday. So when we went to our local pub that evening (sitting outside) and they were selling lovely Christmas trees I convinced my partner we should buy one of those and cancel the Robert Dyas order…

obviously Robert Dyas refused to cancel the order, we ended up with two £50 Christmas trees in a tiny one bed flat and ended up giving one away on gumtree 😂

my only defence is that mid pandemic having to wait two days more for a Christmas tree felt like the final straw!

I’ve never bought by anything from Robert Dyas again on principle!

My husband bought our dogs a ball pool.