talk to me if you stupidly bought something £££ you couldnt really afford

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In my defence, I have had a horrible time featuring death which has left me on a swing between dark depression and f*ck it do it now you might be dead tomorrow.

I bought a pair of shoes that I really liked but were a ridiculous amount to spend on shoes of any kind. I feel a bit sick when I think of it. I will keep them as its not bankrupting but it is stupid out of the savings money. I do like them but it was really really really stupid. No one should spend that much on a pair of shoes.

Hoping I am not alone and someone can make me feel a bit better with similar tale that didn't end horribly.

I hate you all for introducing this to me. Of course I don't! It's all lovely and a dress could be in order. At the very least a t-shirt. I wish some of the children's tops went up to teen years because I'd definitely get one of those!

Thanks to @LieutenantJumboJr
I have also now ordered some miffy stuff 😂I hadn't seen it before. Maybe you should be getting commission!

Personal training sessions. I hate gym and I hate exercise. I prefer exercising in the comfort of my own home but home personal trainers are super expensive.

6k on breast implants. Got pregnant 3 weeks later.

they have changed so much

I spent £4,300 on a new laptop earlier this year. I'm unemployed. It was absolute madness. I've never owned anything that cost so much, apart from my car. No regrets though!

DH is still aghast that I spent £230 on a kitchen bin. It’s such a good bin (Joseph Joseph totem max in stainless steel) and I still really love it which I know sounds weird to say about a bin. DH does admit it’s a good bin too but he then also finishes it with “but £230!!!). 🤣

I think my honeymoon cost over £12k. We had an amazing time, but £12k? I wish we had just paid a massive chunk off the mortgage now.

I bought the same summer dress in 7 different colours for just under £1000 when on special over winter.

Come summer, turns out the cut doesn't suit me so much after all. Now too late to return!

Bit weird that you didn't try one on at the time. Especially as they were £140 each.

I did try two actually, and thought they suited me, but now feel the colours I didn't try don't.

The other colours were my go to colours, so didn't try as it was the same cut.

Not unusual to think something suits and change your mind.

Actually I think this is the kind of thing that is really worth spending £££ on, if you have it to spend. As long as you are paying for quality and function (I.e. like joseph Joseph), it will outlast several cheaper ones and you use it multiple times a day. The cumulative stress engendered by a crap kitchen bin pissing you off/being smelly/being difficult to empty etc shouldn’t be underestimated. You have paid £230 for years of kitchen serenity and happiness! I can’t remember the cost of mine (brabantia) - as it was years ago and it has lasted! - but I did deliberately splash out after getting fed up with useless ones.

This has really tickled me. I can just imagine you sat around a table looking at things through a monocle while Bob and Jane etc are sat beside you wearing their ripped jeans and t shirts acting like you aren’t dressed up 🤣🤣🤣

Agree. I have the Totem Max too (although I'm sure I didn't pay that much for it, but maybe I've just blanked it out). Not an ounce of regret, no more multiple bins and caddies knocking about - I love it.

I’m not sure what the kids put in it the other day but when you opened it it was absolutely honking. DH was moaning about it so I did take the time to tell him how at least you didn’t notice it in the whole kitchen which we would have done with the old crappy bin. The filter on the lovely one was definitely doing its job. And because it has the bottom section for recycling we don’t have bags hanging off cupboard doors for all of that, so the kitchen looks much tidier too. I think he’s slowly coming around even if he will still randomly shout the price at me. 🤣

Plus the old one was just a plastic swing lid type one and the lid was a nightmare to keep clean because of the awkwardness of it. Then don’t get me started on the inside. 🤢 At least with this one it has boxes we can remove for easier cleaning when necessary. That’s why I knew I wanted it, it did seem a lot for a bin but it’s definitely much better.

You might have got a good offer. Although I have the stainless steel one which is the priciest. I think the Max is normally around £200 but it’s another £30 to get the stainless steel. 🙈

Yes, stainless steel here too. It's probably just shot up in price like everything else. It was certainly a hell of a lot of money for a bin, whatever it was LOL, but no regrets.

I think anything that gives you lovely memories is money well spent.

It literally WAS like that! My friend's new partner showed solidarity at least, by really getting into the spirit of things when he was assigned 'Lord of the Manor' and putting on an exaggeratedly upper-crust voice. I thought it was hilarious and had tears in my eyes laughing at him. It was only afterwards I twigged he wasn't acting at all - that was actually his voice!

Yep, that's not an evening I care to remember...

A theatrical costumer/props business might be interested?

Istill have my wedding dress, from 1990. Don’t know what to do with it as it is too old to be fashionable but too new to be properly vintage!

Well the expensive cutlery is destined to be a family heirloom at least - hope it’s insured!

edited to add - didn’t realise it was an old thread which has long ago moved on 🤦🏻‍♀️

For costume type clothes definitely try any local am dram places. I’m wardrobe mistress in our local one and we get a lot of offers of things like wedding dresses. I would definitely jump on a Victorian style outfit as the ones we have are actually Victorian, very fragile now and also so tiny we don’t have any actors they would fit other than the younger ones in the youth group (and I definitely wouldn’t be putting them in something so old and precious).

Vinted may be a good idea too as when we need something we don’t have in the wardrobe we will trawl Vinted for ideas. 🙂

£500 on a meal for two, ten years ago. It was a special occasion, but still, I was not (and still am not) someone who has five hundred quid knocking around doing nothing and it was an insane decision.

Great meal though.

1990s are back in but not sure if this is with bridal fashions too 😆 Vintage is over 20 years I think, so you'd be well within your rights to class it as vintage.

I really want to spend £200 on a dualit toaster and this thread makes me feel better about spending that 😅

I commented on this thread when it first came out about a 'jacket' I bought for £470 (or something like that – and certainly the most expensive item of clothing I've ever bought apart from a winter jacket) that turned out to be more of a shirt... I was going to return it but ended up keeping it because it was the nicest piece of clothing I'd ever tried – I felt very guilty about it and wasn't sure I'd wear it much. Since then I've worn it so much. Cost per wear, it's better than almost anything else I own I think (and I get compliments on it every time I wear it!)