Great 'What do you hate spending money on the most?' Hunt

sistercas

I have the old green driving licence too ( which was free) we have just applied for a provisional licence for DD - £50 :eek: then when she passes it will be another £50 for her full licence.

CupOfChai

sistercas wrote: »

I have the old green driving licence too ( which was free) we have just applied for a provisional licence for DD - £50 :eek: then when she passes it will be another £50 for her full licence.

Never?! When I passed a couple of years ago I handed my licence to the examiner who had just passed me, to send off for changing into a full licence and that was free. They use the same photo etc.

You can send it to be done yourself but if you hand it in to them they can get it done faster at no extra cost to you.

Edit: Ah yes, here's the page that explains all the driving licence fees:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/DriverLicensing/NeedANewOrUpdatedLicence/DG_4022089

It is free to change a provisional to a full licence.

Nicoll

Car insurance....my husband is just 3 years older than me at 46 and has 6 points for speeding, but if I put him on my insurance it goes down by £50. That really annoys me :mad:

Also someone crashed into my car when I was stationary at the beginning of the year, luckily he stopped and admitted full liability so I didn't have to go through my insurance company but when I went to renew my policy they wanted to add another £40 on as it went on my driver history :mad:

Nicoll

I also hate anything that I have no choice in paying out for like tax and insurance. Don't mind paying council tax as realise we have to pay for services though like everyone I feel I don't use them all lol.

Dentist annoys me as I've had loads of fillings lately and they always try and get me to buy white fillings, which I refuse to do for back teeth. Everytime I go to the dentist I come out poorer and they just expect you to pay there and then even when it's a couple of hundred pounds and that's on NHS, I dread to think what private costs must be.

Paying out money on my car annoys me too as I don't use it much but can't do without it and when things go wrong I know I have to pay it out as need the car and wouldn't even be able to sell it and get another one without paying out for the work as won't get any money for it....Grrrrr really bugs me

unhappymeal

First post on here and it's about hate - heh.

Hate having to pay for overpriced sandwiches on trains/in stations/motorway service stations, sometimes due to rushing and bad planning.
Hate having to buy lunch at work, always the same sandwiches, same places, same crap, different day. Happens rarely nowadays since I started cooking more often.
Hate places that don't take cards and always force me to take out big lumps of cash, only to be left with change I'll end up spending one way or another.

And I hate paying for bills individually...if some company came to me and lumped them all together and said 'this month you have to pay £130' I'd be happy knowing that's the total, it all comes out on the same day (not bill on the 2nd, council tax on 7th, rent 14th..ugh). Life would be fantastic. Instead I just have to work the total and transfer it into the 'direct debit' account.

Primrose

Water rates, especially when water falls free from the sky in the form of rain and our water utility is now foreign owned and just ripping consumers off, , and the TV licence when there are so few quality programmes worth watching and I feel I'm just funding the fat cats TV executives' salaries.

I also greatly resent having to pay high corkage fees for bottles of wine in restaurants, although we very rarely eat out these days as it's such poor value for money. I'd rather have a couple of drinks at home first and then drink mineral water during a restaurant meal, just to spite them.

Dippypud

Primrose wrote: »

Water rates, especially when water falls free from the sky in the form of rain and our water utility is now foreign owned and just ripping consumers off, ,

I also greatly resent having to pay high corkage fees for bottles of wine in restaurants, although we very rarely eat out these days as it's such poor value for money. I'd rather have a couple of drinks at home first and then drink mineral water during a restaurant meal, just to spite them.

Water rates are for what goes out, not just what goes in.

Also if you ask for TAP water in the restaurant it's cheaper, in some places it's free !

Regards, Pud :cool:

southantrim3

Sarah_Joanne wrote: »

Tax and insurance are the ones for me, the ones where I don't really seem to see a benefit, and they're always so much more than what I feel is reasonable.

I agree - money into thin air as you never seem to get benefit from either

reformedEffortmaker

1. parking fines.....luckily i havent had many in my lifetime, but they still get to me

2. CHAPS fees to transfer money electronically -surely in 2010, it doesnt cost £35 to send money same day??!!

3. being made to throw bottles of water away at the airport, and then forced to buy over priced water in the plane-side shops, or worse, on the plane!

4. excess fees on insurance

CHlHlRO

1. Tampons etc. Having to pay VAT on top is just an insult.
2. Prescription charges. If I didn't have a long-term, potentially life-threatening illness I probably wouldn't mind forking out for the occasional lot of antibiotics or whatever but it really gets my goat I have to pay for the medication that essentially helps keep me alive every month.
3. Dental check-ups. I'll happily pay for treatment but resent having to pay for him just to count my teeth even if it is only once a year...
4. Parking charges, especially if I have no choice in the matter, e.g. at hospital - especially if I am the patient!!
5. Interest. I know, it's my fault I ran up the debt, but I pay it back regularly I just hate having to pay back that extra just to fatten your back pockets, banks!
6. Busfares. They just aren't cheap enough considering I have no choice but to catch one every day just to get to work to earn the money to pay for the ticket (no wonder I feel like a hamster on a wheel lol). Why does my local provider not allow me to purchase an annual pass, just because I happen to live just outside their boundary although closer to the central mark than those on the other side of the map??
7. VAT. Tax my income by all means but don't tax me again when I buy stuff because you've left me with very little to buy the stuff with in the first place because of all the tax you've taken out of my income!
8. Postage prices are increasingly extortionate these days...
9. Gas/Electric - ditto. I've despaired at the amount of some of our bills only to be told we are actually "light users". Dread to think what it must be like for bigger families in bigger, older houses.
10. Library fees. Not late fines, that's, well, fine, but to join in the first place? No wonder they're having to close all over the place!