Things that you should never spend money on

whisky_galore

Shower gels and cleansing lotions marketed at women. One of the greatest con jobs ever.

Priority boarding.

Anything at a Christmas Market or branded as 'Artisan'.

Short haul flight food and drink.

Most (not all) branded foods and products that have generic substitutes.

Things hawked from door to door.

Travel agents, you can do most things these days without a middle man.

Mister Vain

Gadget insurance.

Ribbed condoms.

Pumpkins.

Archeron

A lot of the stuff in the betterware catalog, and those type of things. Unless of course you've been searching for a chrome signature banana hook or a rubber microwave egg maker shaped like a sheep. I can heartily not endorse the foot shaped shower foot scrubber with suction cups.

Gatling

Sex toys when your behind on your child maintenance bills 🤣

Craft beers made by men with beards

Cocaine, there's always somebody that will offer you a line in the toilet.

Exotic pets.

Also this might be controversial but the cost of going to a sporting event (pre covid) doesn't leave much change from the paycheck. You can probably watch it for free on the tele.

Sgt Hartman

Expensive Gillette Fusion razors. The Cien Shark ones from Lidl are a fifth of the price and I find them excellent.

whisky_galore

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tdf7187

Irish banking shares. Property.

Gatling

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117955757#Comment_117955757

That's actually a thing 🥺

Dr. Bre

Women

Potatoeman

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117955757#Comment_117955757

Board of your own thread on boards?

cavan_man2021

Electric cars

The J Stands for Jay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117955633#Comment_117955633

What's a betterware catalogue?

The J Stands for Jay

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117955757#Comment_117955757

It was €50 last time I saw it

FutureGuy

Sh!t to impress other people.

Am I the only one who came to this thread expecting to find some life hacks on how to get stuff for free based on the thread title?

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058210990/things-that-you-should-never-spend-money-on

Priority boarding is 7 euros on Ryanair , I though have been glad of it on work trips having been hanging around airports for 3 hours plus... after a long day / days... just nice instead of standing in a freezing stairwell for an age and then crawling across the freezing wet tarmac behind a Q waiting for some gimp to find their boarding pass again.. ..just....get on first, get seated, get iPad and drinks out without having to crawl over another person to find your seat. Agree on the short haul food though..

if I see anything marketed as Artisan, I avoid it, it’s usually code for ‘terribly expensive, terribly shît and sold to you by somebody really annoying and smug, in a shît jumper’

Using your public library > buying books.

KaneToad

Why not just be last on the flight? Instead of paying to be first on?

Wait in luxury in the terminal. Let everyone else queue up. Then, at the last minute, get up and walk directly onto the plane. It's usually the inexperienced traveller that is fighting to get on early. I'd rather hang back & rub shoulders with those who know what they're doing..

Collie D

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117956529#Comment_117956529

Priority disembarking might be worth paying for.

Potential-Monke

Fashion. All of it. Eliminate it. The people who make profit from idiots buying expensive clothing are the people who are telling you that you need to wear the expensive clothing, most of which is made by tiny hands for slave wages. Does not compute.

1percent

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117956560#Comment_117956560

YES!!!

Fr Tod Umptious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117956529#Comment_117956529

Exactly

I crawled across the tarmac to a Ryanair flight in Germany suffering from a hangover, last by a mile on the flight

And what did I find when I got on, only the exit row just waiting there empty for me.

You see all the others who get on flights first just head for the first seat they see, so the back and the front fill up, and the middle including the exit row with extra leg room is left waiting for the likes of us who wait.

Burt Renaults

The Luas. Just be vigilant, sit/stand near the doors and watch out for the revenue protection team.

bodhrandude

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117956992#Comment_117956992

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riclad

Jeans with holes in them, 1000 dollar phones, expensive brand clothes, i used an iPhone i dont see what it does different to my 200 euro android phone. Apart from facetime apple pay 95 per cent of apps are also on android I, m not a professional photo artist, I don't care if its got 3 new super hi res camera s with cinema mode I don't take photos I don't take selfies

Digital watchs unless you use em for fitness apps or health apps

Who wants another item to charge

Special edition games that come with maps statues etc digital games on Xbox i but games play em once or twice and trade them in once you play a digital game and maybe dlc it's on no value to you it just takes up hard drive space

I realise apple fans will buy anything with an apple logo on it

Cigarettes or drugs it makes no sense to spend money that destroys your body or is addictive

Fashion employs alot of people in retail but I think most people can look good just by buying from pennys or Dunnes stores i understand fashion is a status symbol eg rich buy certain brands as a status symbol eg I can afford to buy a 400 euro handbag

Muppet Man

money Is useless unless you spend it. May as well spend it on something that might make you happy.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117956529#Comment_117956529

Only mugs stand around the gate for an age waiting for it to open. I believe airline staff call them 'gate lice'. Godsakes it's a flight with a seat, reserved for you, not the last train to New Delhi.

The only, very small, disadvantage is maybe not having your hand luggage near you due to people taking the absolute piss with hand luggage restrictions bringing mountains of it on.

homer911

TV Service from broadband or satellite providers - use Saorview and Freesat

magicbastarder

dishwasher cleaner.

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117956529#Comment_117956529

Two reasons...Because if you have a window or middle seat you have to usually get the person up and out of your way...which is a hassle for them and you...

secondly and most importantly because if you are last on, you’ll end up having to be stowing your luggage well away from your seat in whatever overhead space is left which is a hassle doing with other still boarding and then you are last off because you need to wait for everybody else to disembark before you can get the luggage ..

if you are last off 50 of those passengers are potentially in the taxi Q...ahead of you which could mean 20 more minutes freezing your ass off waiting for a taxi...

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117955762#Comment_117955762

Property is all about timing. Like it or not it's not a bad investment but not to be entered into blindly.

KaneToad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117957705#Comment_117957705

These are not concerns for me. I have no qualms about asking someone to let me into the window/aisle seat. I would possibly have to do this irrespective of when I boarded.

Also I never store luggage overhead, I always put it under the seat. If I am a travelling for an extended length of time, I will have checked a bag.

whisky_galore

Cigarettes.

I don't know what kind of numpty would take up smoking these days. Probably teens to annoy parents, now you're addicted sucker, jokes on you! Clowns.

Ekerot

Those nasty pasta bake things you see in a lot of shops these days i.e. throw it in a microwave oven for 20 minutes and then eat.

I'd rather starve than taste that ****.

L1011

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117956754#Comment_117956754

Ryanair have had assigned seating for many years now, so this doesn't happen. Exit row seats are sold at a super-premium, often to people totally unfit to sit in them.

On Ryanair now, there should be no reason to need to get on first, except getting your bag actually near to you overhead / not have to get cabin crew to throw someones small bags out of the bins. They only sell enough "priority" seats to take their bags overhead and you can turn up last and there should still be a space for it - but it could be the other end of the plane and mean you get off last.

Sex. Directly anyway, us males always pay for sex indirectly.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117956992#Comment_117956992

That's just a form of stealing tbh

The Oort Cloud

[quote]Things that you should never spend money on[/quote]

Things that you don't need. Where's common sense gone with folk? I'd say most folk's attics are full of... 'possibly expensive treasures'. There might be treasures in the attic, maybe one day in this century you may go up there and look.

Fiery mutant

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117955821#Comment_117955821

It's always the ppl with no experience or understanding of electric cars that say this.

Archeron

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117955833#Comment_117955833

Like if an Argos catalogue had a baby with one of those cheap nasty Sunday markets. It gets delivered to the house with a note asking for it back in two weeks.

Burt Renaults

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117960697#Comment_117960697

It isn't. I don't bring it home with me.

boombang

New cars has to be one of the most common item of silly spending.

Almost any watch I see mentioned in the timepiece forums.

French Toast

Mobile phones.

I've gotten in to the habit of buying a €100 smartphone - usually a Samsung - and getting maybe 2-3 years out of it. Entirely adequate for photos, casual browsing and the odd bit of Netflix.

I can't personally the sense in spending upwards of €500-600 on a phone.

whisky_galore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117960786#Comment_117960786

So if you caught a taxi and ran away without paying that's ok because you didnt steal the taxi. Likewise meals in restaurants?

pgj2015

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117960657#Comment_117960657

No we don't. Say I head out tonight, get chatting some lady in a pub, I buy a round, then she buys one etc, which is always the case in my experience. go home with her and have sex. How am I indirectly paying for sex in this situation? Also you often have men who sponge off women they are in a relationship with, how are these guys indirectly paying for sex?

And what about some unattractive virgin who has never even kissed a woman before, say he hands over money to a stunning escort for sex, do you not think that is money well spent for that guy?

Will_I_Amnt

A mobile phone game

At less than 2.50 a pop, someone I know let it build up to a huge sum. I'm talking thousands!

Mister Vain

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117960657#Comment_117960657

Well if you're paying for it either way then what difference does it make? 🤣

The DayDream

Brand name clothing isn't always a waste. Jackets and shoes for example. You'd be hard pressed to find a jacket that would keep you dry in Irish weather and also be breathable the way a Barbour jacket can (most can't do both, for example a cheap Regatta will keep you dry in a shower but you'll be sweating bullets the other half the time) and lasts for decades.

Shoes as well, if you work on your feet all day and you think some horrid junk from Penney's is going to not leave you in absolute bits you'll soon find out. It is well, well worth it to invest in something by Ecco, Clark's or Birkenstock (not the sandals, they make great chef and nursing shoes).

Another thing I found is for shoes it is actually worth the money to buy leather conditioner cream/polish. The leather lasts so much longer and stays soft.

Someone posted that stuff from Dunnes or Penneys is just as good as anything else - I disagree. That clobber is a false economy. Penneys gear will often lose its shape after a wash or two and Dunnes stuff is often cut in a most unflattering boxy way. I find it's invariably someone who never actually bought anything dearer or better who thinks that stuff if 'fine', and it's usually because they don't know what to buy. Try springing for a Ralph Lauren button down oxford, they're about 120-150 squid but the cut is so much more flattering, you won't look like a clueless frumpy numpty who went from being dressed by mammy to being dressed by wifey while she did the weekly shop. And the quality (while not what it once was) is worth it. I'd rather have a single 1 of those in my wardrobe than a dozen ill fitting Dunnes shirts.

For jumpers as well with those supermarket brands if you buy their knitwear it will be all bobbly and beat looking after being washed a few times. They're just as bad as fast fashion junk like H and M.

Even if you're a man who doesn't care much about fashion you should avoid those places, you'll have to buy less clothes less often (and go through the bother of trying on less stuff which most of us hate doing) if you actually spend a few extra bob on certain items.

Ya cheap barstewards.