What’s the most annoying thing you have wasted money on?
By Fleur
@Fleura (30338)
United Kingdom
March 18, 2019 1:52pm CST
I’m generally very careful with my money and only spend it when I’m sure I really need something and it’s going to be good value or something I really want, so it’s extra annoying when I waste some on something stupid, and especially when it’s all my own fault!
I’m not really talking about impulse buys, but avoidable things – for me in the last few years I have had the following:
A £40 parking ticket because while struggling to deal with small child, pushchair and dog in a confined space in the car park I forgot to get a ticket for free parking – Doh!
£120 for windscreen repair because while delivering our old tumble-dryer I had sold to someone for £15 I slammed the back window of my car shut and it hit the edge of the dryer and shattered – Doh!
And most recently, £60 for overstaying the free two-hour limit at motorway services by 15 mins – Doh!
I guess that could be worse but I am still annoyed at myself for being such an idiot. With that extra £220 I could have treated myself to something quite special, but of course I wouldn’t because I would have thought it was too much money to splash out like that – and then I just go and throw it away!!
Have you ever done anything as silly as that?
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It's alright for you to say you're stupid but not so nice if I say it. 
@florelway (23284)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
20 Mar 19
When I buy expensive shoes and don't get to use them often.
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@much2say (55512)
• Los Angeles, California
18 Mar 19
It happens . . . I know there are several times I could have kicked myself. Recently, I forgot we still had DVDs we borrowed from the public library - 4 of them which were not even good to watch. They were VERY overdue and the per day charge made me cringe. I probably could have bought a nice new current DVD for that. I never learn my lesson about keeping track of the due date better (mine, but mostly my kids' books) . . . at this rate I think we literally support the library 
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@LadyDuck (471272)
• Switzerland
19 Mar 19
My niece visited us a few months ago, she parked on the main road and she got a ticket (that I paid) for parking the car in front of the "bus stop". Well they put the sign the same day, surely AFTER my niece had parked the car, the dumb policeman who gave the ticket surely did not know, but I was furious.
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@DianneN (247186)
• United States
18 Mar 19
So sorry. Those sound more like accidents or bad luck. I bought a powder blue pantsuit when on vacation in Brazil in the days I was nice and thin. It was a tiny bit snug, but I loved the color and style and thought I'd knock off a few pounds for it to fit properly. Never happened.
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@everwonderwhy (7303)
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20 Mar 19
Monthly electricity bills which my sons have no idea how to reduce our usage. When my older son moved out, we have reduced our power and gas bills significantly. :-D
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
19 Mar 19
When we use a parking lot where we have to pay we get two pieces of paper from the machine - the one we have to place in the car and the receipt. One time we placed the receipt in the car instead of the other one - and we got a ticket (about $100) That was really stupid because we actually paid, we just put the wrong piece of paper in the car.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
18 Mar 19
Throughout my life there were people I wished I had not helped ( don't want to go to details) but I had learned to forgive them now and forgive myself for being too stupid and too generous 
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@cherriefic (10399)
• Philippines
19 Mar 19
That's really inconvenient! Does loosing money counts?
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@marlina (154131)
• Canada
18 Mar 19
In 1970, I bought a great little "ensemble": a coat and slacks of baby blue power. I paid 3 times more than I earned on my weekly paycheck. But you know what? I have never felt bad about it as I totally fell in love with this clothing.
It is definitively the piece of clothing that I loved the most in all my years.
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@garymarsh6 (23404)
• United Kingdom
18 Mar 19
Yes annoyingly I took an emergency call pulled over on a red line and got a £60 ticket. It was indisputable as the picture for those blooming traffic cameras are better than the security cameras in the banks that only show unrecognisable faces. It makes you wonder why eh! I saw someone else smash their window as you had done! Oops!
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@janethwayne (5191)
• Philippines
19 Mar 19
If I buy things that I don't need like clothing.
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