to ask you what things people spend money on that you just don't understand?

[FeelinTwentySixPointTwo]

This isn't a judgey thread or a bashing thread. People are absolutely free to spend their money on whatever they choose. Horses for courses.

But that said.. what expensive things do you see other people spending their money on that you simply don't "get"?

Mine is personalised numberplates. Cannot compute why anyone would care what combo of numbers or letters is on their car.

Interested to see what others think!

Designer labels. Might as well tattoo "I'm a mug" on your forehead.

Do they not even reuse the ones from years before? I mean, I can sort of get people wanting to get stuff like the odd Xmas throw, cushions or whatever, up to them, definitely, but if they’re doing it for every occasion (Easter, Halloween…) and not using the same stuff then yeah, that’s not something I’d get, at all.

ubereats
people including my dd actually order ubereats for a bottle of wine/vodka, from their supermarket

Oh God...
I'm a fake tan lover, I adore going to the hairdressers/beautician and I have a pedigree dog!
Things I would not spend money on

• any football season ticket
• anything to do with golf
• bottomless brunches
• Christmas Eve boxes which cost the equivalent of an entire set of Christmas gifts
• festivals

@latetothefisting

"You'd have to be really unimaginative" to not realise that this is exactly how the OP expected this thread to go, wouldn't you? 😄

Re. Takeaways I usually only get them if I’m in a hotel travelling for work or a solo trip but I did used to order them to my home a lot. Like multiple times a week! I dread to think how much I spent on them.

In my case it was because I was feeling very stressed, low mood and also deprived of sleep due to a nasty bout of insomnia during the pandemic. I love cooking but I just didn’t have the energy patience or focus to cook or do dishes so even sticking something in the oven seemed too much of a task.

Other reasons were functional/low level depression which sapped my energy to cook, go shopping for food. So as I was an emotional eater it’s not surprising I was drawn to the greasy high fat /high sugar food the many takeaways in south London were offering. It got pretty addictive and was a bit of a pick me up - albeit a temporary one. Or I’d run out of food one day but due to anxiety I’d prefer to order food in rather than go out and buy ingredients.

I know some people who work in jobs where they’re on their feet all day and they can’t be arsed cooking either but don’t find ready meals that tasty so go for takeaways. Or they get home super late and feel they don’t have the time to cook and wash up.

Don’t get me wrong I have always thought it was a waste of my money and it wasn’t good for my health - but again as pp have said, there’s a bit of a lack of imagination going on.
I don’t think it’s really that hard to understand why someone might order takeaways regularly - even if it’s not a great decision.

I have my hair cut & tinted every 6 weeks and my nails done every 3 weeks. I have my lashes tinted, eyebrows tidied and a facial. I also have regular pedicures because I love being pampered and feeling well groomed. It doesn't matter to some people but it does to me.

I don't understand people spending loads of money on clothes they hardly ever wear but keeping them (I don't mean special occasion clothes). Even the late Queen wore her 'working' outfits at least 7 times before passing them on. I don't know what pleasure people have from wardrobes full of expensive clothes they don't wear when they could stick them on Vinted for me to buy!

Very expensive branded handbags. Ludicrous. I assume it’s just to show off.

I see ads for it all the time on my local Facebook community pages and someone round the corner from me has had it done. It seems to go along with the current trend of offering pressure washing services for patios/driveways etc.

Expensive handbags and shoes, Lip fillers. Kids designer clothes- actually designer clothes full stop. Just don’t see the point,

I can understand both of those reasons.

Depends! If your toilet is leaking or something then a refurb starts to seem more appealing!

Dubai absolutely doesn’t appeal to me but why Turkey?

We had the most lovely holiday in Turkey, it was similar to being in Greece. We went to a hamman, ate freshly caught fish, took a boat out sailing for the day. The owner of the house were staying in invited us for dinner in their family home. One of the more blissful and relaxing holidays I have had.

Botox, fillers, tattoo, gambling, smoking. Esp the last since it is a killer, you smell awful and it's so expensive.

Seasonal home decor.

Cigarettes / Vapes

Personalised shite at weddings, e.g. a personalised bag of his and her favourite sweets.

My MIL does this. Easter decor. Summer decor. Halloween etc. Always buying loads of new stuff. I think there is several years’ worth of forgotten tat in her loft because she buys new all the time. Cost aside, I don’t know where she gets the energy to change it all every couple of months!

Mine would be pictures/wall art type stuff that has no meaning other than matching the decor.

Takeaway coffees
Flowers
Museum gift shop things
Souvenirs

Thing is, in order to have a supply of second hand cars and clothes and whatnot, someone has to buy them new at some point. I recently bought a new car for the first time. Being able to specify everything I wanted was worth the extra cost (I’m telling you, the heated steering wheel is a lifesaver on cold winter mornings with arthritic fingers).

Agree with this!

Oh behave 😝

This completely. Why on earth spend money on something you don't even like!

Adding to the above pets. I cannot compute why anyone would keep an animal, let alone in their home. They cost a lot, curtail your freedom and, if you choose a dog, are forever picking up its shit.

So I probably would have agreed with you on personalised plates until I came to buy a old 2nd hand sports car that happened to have a really cool plate and paying the extra sort of hid that it was quite an old car to the untrained eye. I feel like such a knob that I cared about these things but I did. I’m amazed how many people buy new clothes rather than Vinted/ebay etc
perfume - lots of it, surely one nice one used occasionally is Sufficent?

I always thought bottomless brunch meant as many eggs/muffins/spinach/beans /hash browns / tomatoes you could eat then I discovered it was Prosecco 🐷 which gives me acid reflux 🤮

I prefer driving away with that second hand 20k car that still feels brand new and leaves me with 15k extra in my bank account. 😁 I guess perhaps it’s different if you are passionate about cars, but I’m more into money/other stuff. Also I actually dislike that new car furniture shop smell.