most wasted money you've ever spent

tara73

hey,

need to share this story from today:

had to go to the doctors this morning and it probably got me distracted.
when back at my apartment block I couldn't find the keys, not in my bag and not in my coat.

there's only my flatmate who has another set of keys but I left my phone with his number inside the flat too and he's not coming home until monday.

so called to a neighbour trying to find phone number of flatmate on the internet but to no avail.

there's no other possibility than to phone the emergency locksmith as I must have left them inside or lost them or they were stolen at the doctors:eek::eek:.

locksmith is opening the door in 1 minute as it's not locked (only good part in it).

paying him 57 euros for it.

then, 1 minute after the locksmith left, finding the keys in front of me in the pockets of my jumper..WHY DID I PUT THEM THERE, I NEVER DO:mad::o:(:mad::o:(...:P

what's your story about the most wasted money you've spent (booze spending stories excluded:D)

dirtyden

I went to see The Da Vinci Code in the cinema.

The Peanut

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/time-is-money-euro349000-watch-sells-at-cork-jeweller-320566.html

It's all relative I guess.

The Backwards Man

I used to have to go in the middle of the night to fix a boiler for a local business, I used to work there and it was just a tap of a hammer to get it going again, the owner used to give me €50 for it.

One night, one of the young whippersnappers started moaning, €50 for two seconds work, handy money, all that craic.

I says to him, 'my boy, it's a euro for the tap of the hammer, and fortynine for knowing where to tap it.'

brummytom

I spent £500 from the Friday-Tuesday around Paddy's Day, just on drink and fags. Probably not that ridiculous when you're paying €5, but when it's around £3, that's a stupid waste.

nokia69

I won 10K on the lotto once

I spend 8K on booze and women, the rest I wasted

Spunge

about 300e in 36 hours of drinking

The Peanut

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I says to him, 'my boy, it's a euro for the tap of the hammer, and fortynine for knowing where to tap it.'

The Inishowen Male Hooker.

callaway92

Always have the same answer for this question:

Sony PSP

L.Jenkins

€2500 I spent purchasing a Ford Fiesta. Worst car I ever drove.

Wang King

12k.......I got married

WoollyRedHat

80 euro on a radio, when Ipods were becoming popular.

I don't know why......

robman60

Invested €1500 in bloody bank shares when I was 11 in 2007 on my dad's advice. 8 years on and I'm a broke student and the shares are worth about €30.

fussyonion

€60 for a bottle of champagne which tasted revolting.

wandatowell

Just under a grand on my holidays last year.

I got a serious vomiting bug on the second day. Spend the next 5 getting sick or spraying yellow piss water out of my arse. All in glorious 30+ degree heat.

We are going to Kilarney this year.

retalivity

400 in a casino in about 2 hrs

WoollyRedHat

wandatowell wrote: »

Just under a grand on my holidays last year.

I got a serious vomiting bug on the second day. Spend the next 5 getting sick or spraying yellow piss water out of my arse. All in glorious 30+ degree heat.

We are going to Kilarney this year.

Aren't you worried about the Kerry people?

Grays Sports Almanac

robman60 wrote: »

Invested €1500 in bloody bank shares when I was 11 in 2007 on my dad's advice. 8 years on and I'm a broke student and the shares are worth about €30.

Note:

If anyone other than a stockbroker (and preferably one you know) tells you to invest money in something, thread very carefully.

The amount of amateur 'players' banging on about Eircom shares about 10 or 12 years ago was hilarious. That went well. Muppets.

PrettyBoy

VHI Swiftcare Clinic in Dundrum twice - it was €45 for a nurse consultation which was adequate on both occasions. Both times a doctor was called for some reason and each appeared for 10-20 seconds, doing nothing but increasing the fee from €45 to €125. Totally unnecessary.

PARlance

€80 for a hotel room in the Burlington at 3am on morning after attending a very very boozy function.

By the time the lift doors opened to the second floor I had realised that I should probably just go home.... seeing that it was a 5 min taxi journey.
Didn't even get out of the lift let alone go into the room.

Glad I did, the missus (GF at the time) wouldn't have been too impressed....

Spent a good 20 mins getting the room rate down to €80 as well. God knows what the girl at reception thought as I handed her back the key card 5 mins later. Think I just said "I'm checking out" and stumbled home.

rawn

€50 on a wristband in Playa de Ingles from a rep, that got us into all the nightclubs for free...

...they were free in anyways.

Areyouwell

tara73 wrote: »

what's your story about the most wasted money you've spent (booze spending stories excluded:D)

A wedding.

keith16

Stupidly booked a return flight in the wrong directions. Wasn't even paying attention.

Only noticed about a week before the flight when I thought the departure looked earlier than usual.

Lost about 400 quid. STUPID STUPID STUPID!

*punches self in groin

893bet

Bank of Ireland shares
600 euro car stereo that got stolen after a week
4000 "doing up" a car.....

Toots

The Peanut wrote: »

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/time-is-money-euro349000-watch-sells-at-cork-jeweller-320566.html

It's all relative I guess.

I'd kill for one of those watches!

A few years ago I put my car in for a service on a friday, spent the guts of €600 getting bits and pieces done to it, had two lovely days of driving, then wrote it off on the monday morning on the way to work.

fleet_admiral

The wife pulled a double sucker on me by making me to go see and pay for the tickets for that bastard mrs brown film

Son Of A Vidic

Areyouwell wrote: »

A wedding.

An increasingly common one I find.

I paid a stupid amount for a ski holiday in Norway, broke my wrist on day two.

Mint Sauce

A mini disk player.

bb1234567

I bought one of those balance bands for facking 40 quid.

Tugboats

Hollis Hurlbut wrote: »

Note:

If anyone other than a stockbroker (and preferably one you know) tells you to invest money in something, thread very carefully..

No you should ignore stockbrokers

maxfresh

bought 2 leather jackets from a fella headin to the airport

bodhrandude

I suppose it was the fiver at the Oxegen Bar at Electric Picnic for an alcohol vaporisation shot, a load of twaddle really.

dutopia

€100 for an electrician when the box outside the apartment breaker switch had tripped.

Super-Rush

€50 for a bit of turf wrapped in tinfoil.

ColeTrain

Spent the guts of €700 on a replica Soviet WW2 military officers uniform off ebay. Only wore it out a couple of times.

Tugboats

29.99 on those 60 condoms over on bargain alerts

€1800 on the leg of a horse that never raced, or did anything useful bar mow the lawn.

It was back in 2006 when you'd make that in jig time and think little of pouring it into a nag, de lord be wit the days.

I vaguely understand how parents feel.