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Your biggest waste of money

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  • #32
    Dr. Kenneth Noisewater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,234 ✭✭✭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.


  • #33
    Jimmyhologram
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭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


  • #34
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭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 :confused:

    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


  • #35
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭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... :D


  • #36
    OldNotWIse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,468 ✭✭✭✭OldNotWIse


    Buford Tannen wrote: »
    You bought 2 penis extenders :eek:
    sh1te you got there before me :D


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  • #37
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,055 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    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.


  • #38
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭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.


  • #39
    dr strangelove
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 816 ✭✭✭dr strangelove


    €100 worth of scratch cards

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


  • #40
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #41
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #42
    allibastor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭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


  • #43
    stunmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭stunmer


    Returning all my Anglo dividend slips in return for more shares :(


  • #44
    Diapason
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭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.


  • #45
    19havinitlarge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭19havinitlarge


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


  • #46
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    £1400 on a conversation, its a long story.


  • #47
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    Where To wrote: »
    £1400 on a conversation, its a long story.

    Was it with a hooker?????


  • #48
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    shopaholic01 wrote: »
    Was it with a hooker?????

    He meant conversion!


  • #49
    ScumLord
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,787 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #50
    Diapason
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭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.


  • #51
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭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 :p


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  • #52
    shopaholic01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭shopaholic01


    Where To wrote: »
    Na, wouldn't be a long story if it was :p

    Well you might be one of those lonely men who pay hookers to listen to them ........... but you're a taxi driver so people pay you for that.:p


  • #53
    Reg'stoy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,638 ✭✭✭Reg'stoy


    I bought a couple of first edition, first printing hardback books. An Arthur C Clarke, Stephen King and Philip K Dick, which now sit mocking me from the bookshelves. Luckily sense prevailed when I genuinely thought about getting a Frank Herbert Dune first edition, first printing which would have set me back 000's. The one good thing is that at least they will retain most if not all of the value I paid.

    Again while not a waste of money as again hopefully I'd get what I paid for them, but buying Family Guy, Disney, Star Trek and Hanna Barbera production cells seems a tab bit extravagant.

    God when I think back, why rent it from extravision when I can buy it online, watch it the once and let it gather dust for the next ten years. Same went for clothes, Mr Visa and Mrs Mastercard must have put the neighbours kids let alone their own through college on the money I put on their cards every month.


  • #54
    RumDrinker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 75 ✭✭RumDrinker


    1. Second PS3 so that I could play while in bed in the evenings. Gets dust.

    2. Breakfast rolls from O'Briens. Every day + 2 cans of coke and a coffee. Got me 20kg extra, took me almost 2 years to get rid of it.

    3. Smokes. 17 years until I gave up 5 years ago. What a waste.

    4. Staying in my current job, underpaid. Every day is a loss. But I'm gonna change it quite soon.

    5. Money I've spent on my former girlfriend, until I understood that my wife is actually best girl in the universe.


  • #55
    JoeA3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,616 ✭✭✭JoeA3


    1. A Wedding :mad:
    2. The $$$$ I spent on her (see above)
    3. Several cars
    4. A house (but fortunately got most of my money back on that one)
    5. A Nintendo Wii (gathering dust, along with a PS2)
    6. An Omega watch (looks great, but a casio is a better time keeper!)
    7. Home entertainment system (big TV, surround sound, blu-ray, etc)... could not really be classed as a waste, seeing as I use it every day, but I spent too much on it.

    And loads of other "lesser" ones, some of which others have mentioned here!


  • #56
    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 9,867 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    Aged 20-30 inc. the obscene amount of money I spent on booze......


  • #57
    st3veebee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35 ✭st3veebee


    A kayak for 600 in total. Used it twice.

    For about twenty minutes total..


    Sold it for about 450.


  • #58
    blacklilly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,687 ✭✭✭blacklilly


    My beautiful Porsche 911


  • #59
    Carson10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Carson10


    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


    Are you Ross O'Carroll Kelly?


  • #60
    Max Power1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,179 ✭✭✭✭Max Power1


    blacklilly wrote: »
    My beautiful Porsche 911

    Hows that a waste! (unless of course you sold it since for a lot less or something)


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  • #61
    BillyMitchel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,324 ✭✭✭BillyMitchel


    partyguinness wrote: »
    Brutal Deluxe wrote: »
    Did it work?

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

    Hahahaha needle dick :)


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