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?

Taylor Swift tickets. I’m too embarrassed to say how much.

Of course you did as everyone bullies Xmas trees! 🌲 🌲 🤣🤣

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I just, accidently, spent 3k on air bnb while researching places for a birthday celebration I haven't yet run past anyone.

It was no cancellation.

I have had half refunded and the owners have okayed the rest but phoned to let me know air bnb are notoriously slow at actioning refunds. So currently 1.7k outta pocket because I had a vague notion of flouncing round a Victorian villa in a seaside resort.

Not read the full thread but I love you @AveAtqueVale and I am here for you!

This is not money but my son once dropped his favourite Lightning McQueen toy car (which you could buy in any shop at the time) down a gap in a Costa Coffee fridge. He cried a little. I cried a lot (I was 7 months pregnant in my defence). And the manager removed the entire front panel to retrieve it which meant customers had to point to select their coke or sandwiches.

Two doughnuts. £13. But damn they tasted good!

Was it the vaulting horse? I cried buckets at that one.

This made my heart happy.

I have pet rats - they only live 3 years (and that’s if you’re lucky) but my boys are my babies. I spent over £500 on one of my 2 1/2 year old boys and it was worth every penny, giving him an extra 6 months with me.

I also have several dogs and I’m not going to get into how much those buggers have cost me (and mostly worth every penny 😄)

About twenty years ago I spent a silly amount of time and money on Ebay, painstakingly replacing little individual plastic pokemon figures belonging to my son that our puppy had chewed up. Lots of people at the time said, " That's ridiculous! You shouldn't replace any of them. It will teach him not to leave his toys all over the floor." But I did anyway. (And he's all grown up now, an engineer, with a partner and a place of his own. And yet he still has - and loves - all those little pokemon toys. And we often have a laugh about me tearing my hair out on the internet, trying to source them all. So no regrets, really!).

I’m autistic and the way you describe your hormones effecting you is the way I’ve been like my whole life and I’m not pregnant

I 100% had this thought too when I read the OP’s post.

£375k plus taxes that had to be spend on the only available 3 bedroom property to fix a 2 bed property problem and of course, it didn't.

So I over paid, maybe £25k to £50k.

It will come back and I'm not worried about the money but for those reading, the decision was rushed, though considered and objective. There was nothing wrong with the decision in principle.

My advice is to stand down, stand back, even when faced with a terrible future because often it does not require the sacrifice to endure.

I absolutely love this. The sort of thing that l'd do xxx

Love this -what a lovely family you are 😁😁

Hands up who’s searched for the Lego crocodile on eBay?!!

your husband is a legend in the dog world!

This is so the sort of thing I’d do 🤦‍♀️😆

Getting married (twice).
I'm no longer married, and won't be making that stupid mistake again!

£125 on a pair of Reebok Pump trainers the day they came out, it was 1988 & I only earned just over £100 a week but the minute I got paid I knew I had to have the trainers.

I bought a seagull a pasty from Greggs a few weeks ago

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Mn quote of the year

Rookie mistake

You suppose to of been switching them daily

My DD1 hated the pram from day one, but whilst pregnant with DD2 I was adamant that she (by then a headstrong 2YO) would want to sit in the pram with her baby sister. Spent £1400 on a fancy double pram which she sat in once. It was heavy, cumbersome and took up all the room in our (large) boot - even as a single pram - so I sold it for £600 less than I bought it for within about 3 weeks 😭

If I could upvote this, I would 😆

Oh bless you @AuntieEstablishment 😥

This is fabulous 😂