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

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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 thought of another one (hmm - sensing a pattern here). I got divorced 20 years ago and the first Christmas I asked my sons to buy me a knife set. I was really short of money and I think ex had taken all the best ones (I think they had been a present to him at some point). My DS bought my a set of 5 basic stainless steel knives in a wooden rack.

Anyway they were getting a bit blunt and I didn't seem to have much luck with a knife sharpener, so I sent 3 of them to Blade & Butler to be sharpened and generally tarted up a bit - £40. I could have bought new ones for that ... but hey - sentimental value eh?

Podiatrist nothing worked. Waste of time and money.

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In the past, a wedding.

Later this evening - a baby Lego crocodile... 🐊

Next time, did you know you can contact Lego and they will send you "missing" parts?

We lost a panda from a set so got another one sent - ended up finding the original....

Oh no, this one has to be the winner! That is exactly the sort of thing I would have done though, so no judgement here!

Me too!

I have ADHD and make very impulsive purchases but my worst was a Peloton.
Not nearly as easy to sneak through the front door as an ASOS parcel.

You've made me smile for the first time today. That's so cute

"I squirt mine off with a Calpol syringe!"

GENIUS

When DS was very little he was hugely into Thomas the Tank Engine and what he wanted now than anything was the Trackmaster Crash and Repair trains. Not sure they were ever officially available in the UK as they were stupidly expensive. After much searching I managed to get four of them at not too bad prices.

A few years later the big thing was Lego Ninjago. He wanted the Season 3 Ninjacopter set more than anything, but it had been discontinued. Paid £80 for an unopened one on eBay. He absolutely loved it, now he doesn't remember it.

We have 3 "Dollies".
DD got the original for her first Christmas, less than £10 from the Mamas and Papas factory shop that was near by. Within a few weeks I realised we needed a spare, and got a second from eBay for not much. A couple of years later, Dolly2 got properly lost, and I was so worried about being Dolly-less that I spent £60 on Dolly3 on eBay. Which obviously made Dolly2 turn up. Dolly3, all £60 of her, is still sitting in the bottom of my wardrobe. DD is nearly 13.

😂😂😂 I did this for my pfb. My second one is going to be 3 months on our next holiday and she will be lucky to get a swim pants only.

I bought 2 handmade Christmas tree ornaments because I felt if i only bought one, he would be lonely and ostracised from the older ornaments I have (and be bullied) 🥲😂

I got those fashion house books for our coffee table (LV, Chanel and Dior) they cost like £30 each and were donated to the charity shop about 6 months later. I can't afford to buy their handbag or any of their clothing, not sure what possessed me to buy them. I have no interest in fashion either.

I was the proud owner of a cheese toastie subscription. Every 2 weeks I received all the necessary ingredients to create a toastie in the post. Funnily enough they went out of business quite quickly, my only defence was I was young and without responsibility.

Lots lots lots of designer bags. I spent £2k-£6k on a bag before. I love bags, but now i realise there is lots of mid range bags who also beautiful and cost less than my designer bags.

This is hilarious. Would have been even funnier If you watched them fly away immediately after opening the box.

When I was much much younger and not long after getting my first smart phone I spent about a fiver for an app - of a mirror.

Yup, it was basically just the camera. I've no idea what I was thinking.

Cheese posties! I briefly got these too

Once when I was drunk I apparently went on a washi tape buying spree, from multiple different vendors (many I think in China) which resulted in me getting random deliveries of washi tape for about 6 weeks after. To this day I still don’t know what I was planning to use it for

Shoes! I’ve lost loads of weight and my feet have shrunk. I’ve bought so many shoes, some don’t quite fit, some are still sat in the boxes, I’ve ended up wearing the same few pairs.

I went through a phase of buying jeans because I can get into them now without having to buy plus size. I ended up with about 7 pairs, sold 3 in a bundle on Vinted because they just didn’t suit me. I am forever looking at clothes. 😢

So many of these posts chime with me, but this is uncanny - I, too, have a drawer packed with impulse-bought washi tape.

That doesn't sound like a waste of money AT ALL, I would love that!

Whenever I see lovely washi tape I want to buy it but I can never figure out what I would use it for!