Your biggest waste of money

partyguinness

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/0807/1224321629609.html

Just reading that article and especially at the end and the money wasted on items never used.

When you look back, what would you class as the most pointless waste of money you have spent on goods. I'll kick off:

1. €27k on a celtic tiger BMW that I sold 2 years later for €12k
2. €250 on a....penis extender that ended up in a skip 4 weeks later...:o(Look, I was living alone, bored and with internet access and I thought I would put my spare time to good use)
3. €2k on Anglo shares in 2005
4. €300 on an exercise bike that I never used and I just abandoned it in a house when I left.

Many more will come to mind

Logical_Bear

my wedding

Cassidy28

Nothing i'm very prudent.

KTRIC

My Russian super model girlfriend

Bad Panda

Not so thinly veiled 'I've money to burn' thread.

FairytaleGirl

My degree.

Thanks Recession.

Tombi!

partyguinness wrote: »

2. €250 on a....penis extender that ended up in a skip 4 weeks later...:o(Look, I was living alone, bored and with internet access and I thought I would put my spare time to good use)

Did it work?

partyguinness

Bad Panda wrote: »

Not so thinly veiled 'I've money to burn' thread.

No my friend, "I had" money to spend. This is from the 2004-2008 period.

NIMAN

My CD, and to a lesser extent, DVD collection.

I have hundreds of CD albums, maybe 400. And nearly the same number of CD singles. A collection going back to the late 80s. I know its not as many as other people might have bought, but I probably paid £10 on average for each CD, and maybe £4 on average for each single, so probably looking at over £5k worth that is now mostly gathering dust.

Having said that, at least most of them got a listening to at some stage. Some still get listened to. I think DVD collections are the biggest waste of money, many of mine are still in the cellophane wrapping. People buy a lot of DVDs but never watch them. Or watch them once despite paying up to £15 for them. IF you are going to watch something once then renting it for £3 would be a better idea.

partyguinness

Brutal Deluxe wrote: »

Did it work?

Never tried it for long enough. Too much effort and I felt like a right prat.

Tombi!

partyguinness wrote: »

Never tried it for long enough. Too much effort and I felt like a right prat.

Where abouts did you throw it out... not that I plan on using it or anything.

Praetorian Saighdiuir

A tommy tiernan boxset....wtf was i thinking???? Fuppin celtic tiger madness!

mikemac1

700 euro on a top of the range weights bench, 140kg Olympic weights set, a squat cage and an Olympic bar

This was no Argos jobbie, bought from a professional supplier, proper gym quality stuff

Currently a clothes horse

problemchimp

Paying 3euro for a cup of coffee in a service station. It usually tasted putrid and I had to make it myself. The cctv cameras were for comedy viewing, laughing at us. Also, exercise equipment for the bedroom to hang my clothes on when going to bed.

Paulyh

Mostly on ridiculous cars around 2004-2007,

Oldish M3, traded it in 6 months later for a Lotus Elise, and that never lasted more than 2 weeks without being on the back of a recovery truck :rolleyes:
Bought a house around 2004 with a soon after ex, not too bad for negative equity at the moment, but have it rented out and its a pain in the arse!!
And from then until now pretty much everything i have bought, I'm an impulse buyer.................but I have learned my lessons now that i am a bit older and have far less money

RoyalMarine

partyguinness wrote: »

2. €250 on a....penis extender that ended up in a skip 4 weeks later...:o(Look, I was living alone, bored and with internet access and I thought I would put my spare time to good use)

clearly you cant cure stupid.

kfallon

partyguinness wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/0807/1224321629609.html

Just reading that article and especially at the end and the money wasted on items never used.

When you look back, what would you class as the most pointless waste of money you have spent on goods. I'll kick off:

1. €27k on a celtic tiger BMW that I sold 2 years later for €12k
2. €250 on a....penis extender that ended up in a skip 4 weeks later...(Look, I was living alone, bored and with internet access and I thought I would put my spare time to good use)
3. €2k on Anglo shares in 2005
4. €300 on an exercise bike that I never used and I just abandoned it in a house when I left.

Many more will come to mind

Yeah you might have been rich but you're not so big in your pants now, are ya? :pac:

CruelCoin

partyguinness wrote: »

€27k on a celtic tiger BMW that I sold 2 years later for €12k

I forked out 32k on a celtic tiger BMW....
Bloody thing is worth 5-6k now.......

the_big_shmoke

£50 million pounds on fillipo inzaghi in champiosnhip manager 04

Guy:Incognito

mikemac1 wrote: »

700 euro on a top of the range weights bench, 140kg Olympic weights set, a squat cage and an Olympic bar

This was no Argos jobbie, bought from a professional supplier, proper gym quality stuff

Currently a clothes horse

You need to give that crap away..................to me.:)

partyguinness

benwavner wrote: »

A tommy tiernan boxset....wtf was i thinking???? Fuppin celtic tiger madness!

Now that's ****ed up. I don't feel so bad about the penis extender now.

Mr Benevolent

Just spent €1200 on an electric bike, we'll see how much use it gets. Cycled to work this morning for the first time ever. Spent €14000 on gambling on the horsies, now that was a real waste of money.

El Guapo!

mikemac1 wrote: »

700 euro on a top of the range weights bench, 140kg Olympic weights set, a squat cage and an Olympic bar

This was no Argos jobbie, bought from a professional supplier, proper gym quality stuff

Currently a clothes horse

You selling it?!

BrianD3

A house. Bought near the peak of the bubble with my own and my parents' money (no bank loan) It was a luxury purchase as while nice to have, I didn't really need it, also it's too big for my needs

Anything else I have wasted/lost money on pales into insignificance compared to that error of judgement. I did spend a few hundred on a free standing punchbag/man once which was utter crap but apart from that and the house I've generally not been wasteful, quite the opposite in fact.

Buford Tannen

partyguinness wrote: »

1. €27k on a celtic tiger BMW that I sold 2 years later for €12k
2. €250 on a....penis extender that ended up in a skip 4 weeks later...:o

You bought 2 penis extenders :eek:

Tombi!

Buford Tannen wrote: »

You bought 2 penis extenders :eek:

And the women were not impressed wither the failure of both of them

Dancor

mikemac1 wrote: »

700 euro on a top of the range weights bench, 140kg Olympic weights set, a squat cage and an Olympic bar

This was no Argos jobbie, bought from a professional supplier, proper gym quality stuff

Currently a clothes horse

Give ya 300 for the lot and you can even feel how tight my ass is after a few weeks squating.

Sleepy

Booze, fags and taxis.

The booze and fags are obvious, probably blew €300 most weekends on nights out during my single days. During the good years I was a demon for flagging a taxi when a bus would've been along in another 10/15 minutes.

giant_midget

Sleepy wrote: »

Booze, fags and taxis.

The booze and fags are obvious, probably blew €300 most weekends on nights out during my single days. During the good years I was a demon for flagging a taxi when a bus would've been along in another 10/15 minutes.

wow..real high roller we have here, such extravagance..

castletownman

My racing snail. The fooker never won a single race. I even went to the drastic step of removing his shell. Had no effect at all. If anything, it made him more sluggish.

Sleepy

giant_midget wrote: »

wow..real high roller we have here, such extravagance..

Add that up over a decade and it's a hell of a lot of cash.

If we're talking single one-off purchases, an Audi A4 that I got about 6 months out of before flogging it for scrap.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

I was skint the whole way through the Celtic Tiger. My highest wage at any point during the boom was €350. But it was grand, I was young, free and single. Spent most of my money on Beer tbh, was out 4 nights a week. The most extravagant purchase I made was probably a phone.

Jimmyhologram

1) 30 on the train when the bus would have taken me for 20
2) e2.50 (coffees) multiplied x 3 (per day) x 1000s of days
3) Splashing out on the burgers of Mr. Edward Rocket when there was usually a perfectly good tin of tuna sitting in the press at home

mikemac1

Keeping taximen in employment

Used to own a little moped, loved it to bits and used it everyday until the local scum trashed it

Got into a habit of using taxis in Dublin

Heading to the shops? Flag a taximan for a fiver
Coming back? Flag another taximan, fiver again

I always rounded up, fare was about 4.50 but I paid five

Stupid of me, tipping is for badly paid staff. I've no car yet I was tipping men who own a large car

Would be getting several taxis around the place a week, probably over 10 and even more at weekends

With the money I was spending could have bought a lovely motorbike for myself, daft

OldNotWIse

partyguinness wrote: »

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/0807/1224321629609.html

Just reading that article and especially at the end and the money wasted on items never used.

When you look back, what would you class as the most pointless waste of money you have spent on goods. I'll kick off:

1. €27k on a celtic tiger BMW that I sold 2 years later for €12k
2. €250 on a....penis extender that ended up in a skip 4 weeks later...:o(Look, I was living alone, bored and with internet access and I thought I would put my spare time to good use)
3. €2k on Anglo shares in 2005
4. €300 on an exercise bike that I never used and I just abandoned it in a house when I left.

Many more will come to mind

When you think about it, 1 and 2 are somewhat the same thing...

OldNotWIse

Buford Tannen wrote: »

You bought 2 penis extenders :eek:

sh1te you got there before me

mikemac1

mikemac1 wrote: »

Used to own a little moped, loved it to bits and used it everyday until the local scum trashed it

Not really a waste, then, to be fair (though I do despise scumbags!).


I've never really been overly adventurous. Had a massive interest in WWE for practically all of my life, and I spent a fair few Euro on merchandise (wrestling figures, replica masks and belts, etc.). I'd say my collection cost 6-7 thousand Euro (but it was built up over many years).


I don't think I've ever made a silly, one off, madly expensive purchase. Gotten plenty of loans in my time (that I'm still, unfortunately, paying) but all in all I can't really complain when I think about it.

Irish Guitarist

I've never spent really big money on something I later regretted but I often regret buying things like clothes and shoes.

Most recently I've regretted purchasing a pair of waterproof shoes that developed holes in the soles after about two or three weeks of wear. Also two pairs of Converse All Stars which turned out to be terrible quality and uncomfortable as well as making squeaking noises which sound like farts.

dr strangelove

€100 worth of scratch cards

Boring, rubbish, no big win, and shed loads of little grey shavings flippin EVERYWHERE

Cienciano

A nintendo wii. What a heap of shite. It's sitting under the tv with a load of it's shite white acessories, hasn't been plugged in since 2009.

Cienciano

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

Also two pairs of Converse All Stars which turned out to be terrible quality and uncomfortable as well as making squeaking noises which sound like farts.

Got a pair of them 2 a couple of months ago. The lowest quality runner ever, the same as something from pennies for €5. I keep expecting it to split open as I'm walking down the street. The squeek has gone out of mine.
But putting my foot into a pair of retro addias is luxury compared with the converse.

allibastor

A convertible saab. the hell, we get around 40 mins of good weather a year here.

Went out for dinner with the misses around 5 night a week also, and went to a different hotel most weekends. such is the joy of being 23 and earning 65k on building sites.

i do miss it though, the work i mean, not the money. Snigger

stunmer

Returning all my Anglo dividend slips in return for more shares

Diapason

On honeymoon we went for a (long!) lunch in a baller restaurant, but it was about 50 miles from where we were staying, and since I wanted to drink I didn't want to drive. So we hired a car and driver and paid many, many hundreds of Euros for him to sit outside the restaurant for several hours.

That was the last of many Celtic Tiger follies. Good times.

19havinitlarge

600 on a meteor phone bill when I first got my new phone that was not properly set up to the internet.

Where To

£1400 on a conversation, its a long story.

shopaholic01

Where To wrote: »

£1400 on a conversation, its a long story.

Was it with a hooker?????

kfallon

shopaholic01 wrote: »

Was it with a hooker?????

He meant conversion!

ScumLord

Maybe the RAT7 gaming mouse I bought that broke down after two weeks and then got lost by the manufacturer which left me **** out of luck and €70 worse off. The company that makes it is Saitek/cyborg just in case someone comes across this thread while searching for information on the Rat mouses, don't buy them, complete waste of money.

Like most people I have a load of gym equipment, but I do use it sporadically so it's not a complete waste.

I've made a concious decision not to buy stuff any more, 99% of products are unnecessary junk. All my equipment has been reduced to one uber PC, it's all I need at this stage. It does have a HD 3D projector as it's display though.

Diapason

Where To wrote: »

£1400 on a conversation, its a long story.

I'm trying to figure out if this is a pun. If so, well-played.

Where To

shopaholic01 wrote: »

Where To wrote: »

£1400 on a conversation, its a long story.

Was it with a hooker?????

Na, wouldn't be a long story if it was