What's the stupidest thing you've ever spent money on?

tom222

Probably buying a Louis Vuitton wallet for £205. Never had that much in it since...

Puzzcat

£1000 on England v France rugby tickets for OH's 40th...and England lost....

eyeopener2

Wisden cricket books( you know, the yellow ones) about 30 of them. When I had my LB moment I tried selling them, no market, no value, ( as the ones I bought are quite common) so I still have them stuck on a shelf gathering dust.

It's a good reminder of stupidity every time I walk upstairs though!

Chrisblue1962

On two separate occasions, I have previously bought a moped and more recently, an old 125 East German motorbike with a view to doing them up, learning a bit about motorbikes and having cheap transport...moped was scrapped, sold motorbike for what I bought it for three years later without having put a spanner to it...

Have just started restoring OHs 1984 Honda Spacy scooter while she gets used to riding a 125 cruiser!

Glamourpuss23

Monkeyballs wrote: »

Ahhhh... The wonderful world of trading cards, I'd forgotten about those...

I spent £300 on a complete set of Garbage Pail kids collector cards about 6 years ago only to have my youngest niece cut "the ugly babies" out still, it kept her quiet for an hour or so...

MB

Haha.

"The ugly babies".

Kids are hilarious sometimes. :rotfl:

Powered_By_Pies

When I was in my first year at uni (and therefore had more money than sense), I bought a replica WWE wrestling belt, the full works, real leather strap, gold plating on the plates, it was their model with a central spinning medallion, it looked the nuts and cost me almost £400.....

....it sat on my shelf in halls for four months when I sold it for £80 on eBay.

Definitely my most pointless purchase. I've never bought anything quite so stupid since.

Newyorkdreams

£250 on a pair of Swarovski champagne flutes http://www.swarovski.com/Web_GB/en/255678/product?BannerID=04000661.200&gclid=CKyp4v7Msb8CFWPItAodrQsAbw


Gorgeous but we only used them once on our wedding day and the stupid photographer didn't even get them in a picture!


Waste of money.......


NYD

Elsewhere

eyeopener2 wrote: »

Wisden cricket books( you know, the yellow ones) about 30 of them. When I had my LB moment I tried selling them, no market, no value, ( as the ones I bought are quite common) so I still have them stuck on a shelf gathering dust.

It's a good reminder of stupidity every time I walk upstairs though!

If you want to do something nice with them, how about donating them to the OP of this thread, who is looking for a birthday present for a seriously ill friend who loves cricket

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5010821

hoglet121

About 500 books which I haven't read, and probably never will as they're in my loft, whilst being too lazy to join a library for free
About the same number of DVDs which fill the bookshelves (hence the books are in the loft), which we never watch and cannot sell as they are not compatible with NZ DVD players
Far far far too many clothes, most of which have gone to the charity shop
A brand new car I could ill-afford at the tender age of 21...
Food - when I was in a job which provided 2 meals a day....

The list is long and not glamorous - I'm just glad I realised what I was doing before it was too late

[Deleted User]

Oh gosh where to start,

Rowing machine (used twice)

David Hasselhoff branded mug

So many DVDs & blu-rays purchased at full cost and then sold on ebay for a couple of quid a few months later.

Oh, and the one time I went and did a car boot, making a decent amount of money but spent all the earnings on a set of encyclopedia's. Needless to say they were never read either.