Great 'What's your biggest ever waste of Money?' Hunt

nonnatus

booking a holiday on impulse (on the computer following several large glasses of vino) and then realising it was not possible to go. Lost £250 deposit and it still hurts today, 5 years later. Feels like I sat at that computer and literally burned 25 £10 notes. Never, EVER again.

jenniewb

1. 3 Mobile: not my choice, they scammed me. (Will detail if you have a good half hour!) Contract ends in Feb. Lesson learn, new contract will not be with 3 Despite them sending me a letter AFTER I tried to cancel early/in advance, telling me my contract had been renewed.

2. Pair of running shoes for neutral feet when I know I severaly over pronate...but they looked so pretty....!

3. Half my wardrobe- well, maybe slightly less, I took most of it to the charity clothes bin on New Years Day. Stuff looks good on the hanger...looks terrible on me!

4. Make-up Foundation. Never wear it, own loads of it, never seem to learn.

5. Soaps from Lush, smell divine and I own boxes. Never use them. (I use body wash).

6. E music subscription. £18 for many downloads, could be useful if there was anything worth downloading on the site!

7. A chair from The Pier, bought on ebay, collected over the other side of the country by coach, sold on ebay 6 months later when I realised I had no use for it.

8. 3-4-2 books. Do this about once a year despite yeilding the same results: I never end up reading more then one of the three, theres always a better book out there!

9. Curling wand. Can't be bothered anymore.

10. Tinned beans, never get round to using them, similar with herbal tea, tinned tuna, dried lentils and herbs.

brewerdave

Gardening "accessories" - 1. leaf blower bought before we realised it didn't work with wet leaves!!!
2. Small (very expensive!) hardwood greenhouse for seed germination etc - now rotting against the garage wall.
3. kneeling stool plus box of tools - never used yet! My OH still using old trowels etc
4. Electric moss raker/leaf remover - absolutely useless!

roddydogs

Digital Photo Frame

noody123

My ex husband cost me thousands.

davenport151

To pop80_uk;mine was also a Metro.Should have had it looked at before buying,it was high milage and had not had regular servicing over the years.I threw loads of money at it as I thought each time that was the last thing that needed doing to it.
Lesson to be learned;Always get you mechanic or someone you trust to look a car over for you.That was the only time I didnt do that.

Trillian_2

Fred56 wrote: »

The world's worst money wasters
3. Moving home - huge con - you young people, just decide how big a house you need, buy it and stay there for life.

If only it were that easy...

ehalil

pop80_uk wrote: »

My biggest waste of money has to be my first car, 17 and I bought a Rover Metro for £800 and then insurance TPFT for £1200 a year, then proceeded to waste around £1200 pimping it up.........

All for two years motoring when the un-comfy, slow and frankly death trap dangerous car failed its MOT with the dreaded rusted underneath.

It was good only for scrap and I made about £200 from the scrap and a few parts......

I may as well just burnt a load of fivers! When your young you will never be told though

Just wanted to say, I got a rover metro as my first car too but I wrote it off within 4 months of passing my test which was a shame as it was a lovely little car, don't diss the Rover Metro too much!;)

My biggest money waste was when I went on holiday last year, in the rush of organising everything, I didn't realise that my hotel didn't accept credit cards so I had to withdraw all my hotel fees from an ATM, so I got a lower exchange rate and had to pay fees for withdrawing the cash!!

I got burned!! but still had a fab holiday up to that point :cool:

SmileyMiley_2

Having kids.

OK so there are some upsides there but seriously, if anyone had told me how much they cost I might have got a dog instead!

melroccan

needaholiday wrote: »

Putting my teenage son on a mobile phone monthly contract. What was i thinking! Aaargh.

I have my son's contract with 3 and have set a limit on it, was going to go with Vodaphone as he wanted but discovered you couldn't set a monthly spending limit with them.