What can't you BELIEVE you used to spend money on?

queenofthedump

Having my legs waxed. It hurts it never ever lasted the 6 weeks, and i always had ingrown hairs. £15 not well spent

Marieb

queenofthedump

My best friend spends money on ICE. Now what a complete waste of money I have even bought her an ice tray but she insists on buying it Weirdo but she is fab

naomi123

I used to smoke 20-40 cigarettes a DAY!!
As well as going to the pub about 5 times a week!
I bought all the weekly magazines; eg. womans own, chat etc- they-re quite cheap but I used to buy ALL of them every week!!

Now Im pregnant- things have changed- no more smoking- hardly ever go to the pub- and things have to stay this way or else we will be homeless!!

shariatlanta

Have to confess to spending lots on Ty Beanies, gave a load away to the grandkids but the rest are still in my bedroom, could sell them on Ebay but I'm not quite ready to part with them yet.

Magazines, mainly crosstitch, my hobby but now I've stopped, I've got enough kits and charts to last me a lifetime.

Craft stuff when I've still got plenty to use.

I stopped buying meals at work ages ago, not cos of the money but because someone got food poisoning, anyway DH's cooking is far better.

Never been one for beauty stuff and I never go to the hairdressers, just get afriend to trim it up for me or hack into my fringe myself, it's the feathered look.

scottishspendaholic

I've remembered some more! Glad this thread has been so popular (& I'm not the only person who spent money on rubbish!)

*Eyebrow waxing - now I'm more vigilant and do a quick tweeze every morning.
*Having hair dyed at the hairdresser - now I buy permanent dye and dye my own (chocolate brown, if you are interested ha ha!)
*Considering (but never done this) spending £20 to have my engagement ring cleaned - when my OH will do this for me with a small cloth and a toothpick!
*Buying Tesco 'finest' tin foil?!?!?!?!?!
*Buying beautiful kitchen equipment and letting it sit in a cupboard because it was too beautiful to use (e.g. Nigella Lawson pestle & mortar, Nigella citrus juicer, Nigella whisk and Emma Bridgewater pottery) - now all sold on eBay for lots of dosh, you'll be glad to hear!
*Buying clothes thinking I would fit into them one day - I have so many of these items
*I love little tins and pots and boxes etc - buying things like expensive hot choc, posh candles etc - just to get the box/tin - crazy, eh?
*Lunches at work at £5 a pop for nice sushi or lots of meals in the pub with OH

...the list goes on! Keep 'em comin'!

scottishspendaholic x

frugglewump

scottishspendaholic wrote:

*Having hair dyed at the hairdresser - now I buy permanent dye and dye my own (chocolate brown, if you are interested ha ha!)

I still have my hair dyed at the hairdressers because it reaches my waist & I can't cope with it on my own. Haivng said that I have gone from a full head tint 1 every 6 weeks, to foils 1 every 4 months and in a year should be able to stop dying it altogether.

*Considering (but never done this) spending £20 to have my engagement ring cleaned - when my OH will do this for me with a small cloth and a toothpick!

You'll be so glad you haven't had this done in a moment. My OH used to work for a jewellers - not the high street variety, but a very upmarket one with stores in Knightsbridge & Hatton Garden. (He called me once and said "hi love, i've got a quarter million of yellow diamonds in my breast pocket"). Anyway, they get stuff in for cleaning a fair bit and this is how its done:

1. Soak item in hot water & washing up liquid for 10mins
2. Buff with cloth
3. If necessary re-rhodium (or whatever the proper word is) item

Apart from no 3, which is only necessary on very old very dirty jewellery you can do all that yourself. The only exception is emeralds as they are porous and would absorb the water.

themaccas

Mine is the NEXT sales, I regularly used to spend £200-300 a time on 'bargains' only to find the same clothes sitting in my wardrobe the following year, labels still attached and unworn. Sold almost all of them at a carboot sale last summer!

$17mma

Same here I used to wait all yr for the NEXT sales..sometimes spending £500 but I never bought clothes throughout the yr for either of the kids everything used to last the whole year and that would include suits for work.

And then there was my car used to spend £265 per month on that... dont ask!!

tee_pee_2

Make up YSL and clinique, now I got them as treats birthdays etc, of if I am buying I waint till Boots has an offer on and stock up.

Also I only buy my d/ters baby clothes in the sale. No full price items for you ( unless it's a pressie from somwone else.)

mom23

themaccas wrote:

Mine is the NEXT sales, I regularly used to spend £200-300 a time on 'bargains' only to find the same clothes sitting in my wardrobe the following year, labels still attached and unworn. Sold almost all of them at a carboot sale last summer!

I was the same they used to ring me a few days before the sale (cos i was such a good customer!! :rotfl: think i've got shares in the company!! )
and i used to produce this extremly long order,( just in case some things were sold out)so i used to get all these so called bargains.
The last sale they had at xmas i placed a really large order , only to have my lightbulb moment during the period it was being delivered so i sent it all back!!!