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 spent about £10 on an identical backup of my son's favourite teddy, which originally cost £1.99, just in case.

It's been hidden away for three years now.*

I did the same, a jellycat giraffe and rabbit are in pristine condition hidden in a cupboard for 7 years now. I figure if I have grandkids I can gift their parents favourite cuddle toys - and it did contribute to my user name.

Post separation I went to power wash the patio (previously my exs job). I couldn’t get the power washer to work so bought a new one, unboxed it and started using it. At that point I realised the old one did indeed work, I just didn’t connect it properly. I now own two power washers.

I love this thread. Thank you to all who have contributed so far!
I also have lost a single AirPod in my bed overnight, not once, but twice. Both times the right one. Searched for weeks. You can order replacements to match up from Apple, but not cheap.

I also fully relate to the washi tape. I may or may not have a stash. Can I just say anyone under the age of 12 will happily use that crap up for you 😂

It was an expensive way for someone to post you 2 slice of bread and a little drop cheese.

But at the time 100% thought it was worth it.

Roller skates - I don't drive and had visions of myself skating everywhere I needed to go and I would look so cool. I've got them out twice and both times felt like I was too high and was scared of falling over. I'd like to try again but feel like I need a helmet which is another expense!

Oh I did this too, I had dreams of starting roller derby after I watched Whip It… forgot that I’m really uncoordinated and scared of contact sports

I'm a bit of a history nerd :-D

Same! The amount I have spent on 'indestructible' toys only for them to have last a day is insane.

If anyone knows any proper good ones, I'm all ears!!

A Stanley cup!

I resisted the trend for so long, and then got 'influenced' by family members.
Biggest waste of money ever!!

I thought it would be perfect to use on commute to work, but the pink ugly bastard was too big to fit in my cars drink holder. Then it rolled off the passenger seat and decided to leak its watery contents all over the car floor. Thought I had a faulty one, but no, this is what all Stanley's do apparently!

Don't get 'influenced' people!! 😂

A new, independent, ethical, organic, woman-owned plant shop opened in my neighbourhood.
I spent hundreds and hundreds on plants for every room in my house.
It looked amazing.
But because they were all organic and had been looked after incredibly well, all bar one of them croaked it under my care.

I quickly went back to Morrisons and B&M as my go-to plant suppliers which means spending much less and things actually living.

Love your OP. I bought many bonkers things when DD was younger. Never as sweet as that though, mine were more panicked.

As a grown adult who should know better

A racehorse - well a leg (slow, so bought some more, also slow)
A designer's guild covered armchair (still have it 14 years later, still love it)
Recently some furniture wax for painted furniture. I'm never going to paint it.

Me too - only the one reading, but he put me off so badly. I'd lost my wonderful dad and our dearly beloved family dog within three weeks of each other, over the Christmas period, and then my dad's much younger sister dropped dead very unexpectedly the day after our dog, so I was reeling. I paid for a telephone consultation with someone who had very good reviews, but it was pure cold reading - he kept going on and on about how I'd lost someone young (my dad was 94), about the terrible state I was in trying to deal with the finances (which had all been so straightforward that they were sorted in a single afternoon), just all sorts of rubbish/guesswork. Not one thing he said resonated with me at all, and he just got vaguer and vaguer as I kept saying 'No, sorry, that's not right.' It was awful. I was so much more upset by the end of the call - I do believe some people have a gift, but I would never have another reading. So sorry you've been hurt by it as well.

I bought a pair of massive silver angel wings, made of plaster or something similar, a bargain at £199(was £249)…I thought my teenage daughter would love them(to display on her bedroom wall? - they were huge 😂) I put them in the loft to save for her (16/18th? Birthday)…nearer the time, I thought WTF was I thinking?! I sold them online for probably £50 or something. SO ridiculous 🤦‍♀️

A 3rd hand Basset Hound, wouldn't be without her though.
A mobile home, converted out of an old minibus, major repairs needed, of course!

£2,500 on huge canvas photos of my boys at 15 and 17, just before my eldest was leaving home for Uni and changing our little family unit forever. The kids hated them so I never hung them and they live in my wardrobe to this day.. 17 years later.

Maybe (she said, darkly) they already have....

I got scammed by a fake online job....lost thousands. In hindsight it was so blooming obvious but I fell for it, everything looked real and genuine.

A man I gave vast amounts of cash to without knowing he was a gambling addict

It’s a toss up between spending £3k and 2 weeks of my life to going to Spain to rescue a dog I saw on line (he’s the love of my life to be fair), crashing the car into a bus and that costing another £2k to fix…

or the kayak that I can’t use as the car I used to take it to the river died…

or the VR headset that I used constantly during lockdown and then got Ménière’s disease so I can’t use it without getting really dizzy and sick!

A wooden rabbit to keep the other wooden rabbit company. Because rabbits are unhappy if they live alone.

No regrets.

Snap.

Dog toys.
My dog was a cruelty case. Terrible start in life. Makes me boil thinking about it sohhe is treated like a king now...... with far too many toys

Oh I forgot, or the caravan that I bought, realised I wasn’t allowed to tow, did a driving course to learn how to tow it including a weekend in a hotel in Essex £1k, then 3 months later the car died and realised I hate caravanning. So yeah!

Washi tape is perfect for sticking notes on your front door without leaving a sticky residue like sellotape did as we have full sun all afternoon and it went all melty

My dog had an old hub cap that he happily played with like a frisbee, lasted him years!

Just come back from a hen party in Ibiza and I paid 10 euro for a lager, I was fuming when the waiter brought a half a pint to the table, really thought for the price it would of been a pint 🙄🤣