Whats the most DEPRESSING money you've had to spend ?

[jimbob5]

Today, I spent £25 on a new Sky remote control.
TWENTY-FIVE QUID

The old one was shite. You had to MASH the 'select' button in for it to function. The 'Up'button was pretty much a writeoff, and I had to have long, rhythmic, borderline erotic persuasions of the red R button in order for it to eventually consider whether or not to accept my desires to actually record something a bit later.

Twenty-five nicker on something that is expensive, needed, but dull. Its up there with new tyres on the motor - that could've gone towards a decent night out.

So whats the CACKEST thing you've had to buy lately, and deeply resented it ?

Change the battery

 

[jimbob5]

£39 for a new toilet seat!

Sorry. You can get a perfectly good one for twenty squid and an OK one for even less.

 

[jimbob5]

£117 to have the cat put to sleep.

£117 FFS.

name and shame the vet

 

[jimbob5]

£450 for a HIP 6 years ago. Did not even sell y place in the end.

 

[jimbob5]

Divorce, not even going to try and add up the amount!

'good thing I didn't remind you of the cost of the wedding!'

 

[father_and_son]

£190 for a multi-point locking mechanism for patio doors for a flat at the Marina. Previous residents had overheated the washer/dryer and tripped the cut out. Rather than press the little button they had bought a sh*tty tumble dryer and and run the hose out through the patio doors... permanently. Exposing the lock mechanism to the salty sea air and f*cking them completely. Doors were 10 years old and finding a correct replacement took ages, removing the rusted mess took longer and it was bloody expensive for just a long strip of metal with a couple of springs on it.

That flat taught me a lot about buying /renting a house and what to look out for. Ended up suing the previous owner for £1,000 over the amount wrong. The property had been abused massively by his son and his son's mates who lived there, comfortably cost the dad £25k in having to reduce the price to sell it in the condition it was in.

 

[Hillian1]

name and shame the vet

It's the going rate I've been told by a couple of colleagues who've had the same thing done recently.

It was just a depressing enough day as it was before being presented with the bill after the deed was done.

 

[surrey jim]

Not one transaction but I look back at the money I spent over the years smoking and think what a waste. It must be well into the thousands I literally put up in smoke.

More depressing is that there is nothing you get out of it.

 

[jimbob5]

Not one transaction but I look back at the money I spent over the years smoking and think what a waste. It must be well into the thousands I literally put up in smoke.

More depressing is that there is nothing you get out of it.

Yes but what about £3 a day for a coffee some spend?

 

[virtual22]

Mandatory school uniform with the school badge on each item that can only be bought from the school shop at twice the price and half the quality of buying it on the high street. Kids get detention if they don't have the "officially badged" uniform. Complete and utter racket.

 

[Cian]

What sort of tyres are these? Tyre for my Yaris (very small) cost £45. Tyres for my work van (big) cost £55. Always surprised when people say they spend hundreds on tyres but I guess they're for performance cars?

The second you go to having wide wheels and low sidewalls, even on not particularly fast cars, the tyres become obscene price-wise. Add that to bigger wheels and you've got an empty wallet fast.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Car tyres! My GOD, I honestly had NO idea how expensive they now are.

I've luckily had a company car for about 12 years, and my last (owned) car was a little Volvo 440. Last time I remeber paying for tyres, they cost £40 each.

My newest company car is on a different lease to the previous ones, and we now have to pay for the tyres (and claim it back mercifully).

Two tyres. Plus re-alignment. FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS. Wtf?

I was quoted £1500 for 4 tyres by chandlers, which I got down to £950 at SE Tyres.....that car has cost me a fortune

 

[Monsieur Le Plonk]

£600 to data recovery specialists to recover all our family photos from a failed hard drive. Expensive lesson learned about back-up copies.

A couple of months ago my imac hard drive and my time capsule blew up pretty much simultaneously.
Thought I had lost the lot but after a month at a data recovery specialist and the labour costs that come with that, the replacement of the hard drive, time capsule and a precautionary extra 'archive back up' I am 4 figures lighter. Messy.

 

[GT49er]

Funerals........

 

[Pavilionaire]

£800 quid on an engagement ring for a bird that I later binned.

 

[Jim D]

Mandatory school uniform with the school badge on each item that can only be bought from the school shop at twice the price and half the quality of buying it on the high street. Kids get detention if they don't have the "officially badged" uniform. Complete and utter racket.

Don't buy it and treat the detention as unpaid childminding.

 

[tinycowboy]

£700 on a surveyor's report on a house where the vendor pulled out a week before we were due to exchange contracts. I'd already pulled my kids out of their school and enrolled them at a new school. As a result of him pulling the sale, I had to rent somewhere at short notice, thereby having to repay my mortgage (which was at about 0.49% interest). He then put the property back on the market six months later, and when I moved out of rented and bought a new house (not the same one), I had to get a new mortgage at about 3.5% interest. This man has cost me thousands of pounds.

 

[Notters]

Thats good to hear i just got a new (second hand) Yaris on Saturday

Best purchase you'll ever make. Mine's on 110k and has had one set of new break pads. Nothing else.

 

[Codner's Wallop]

Three words:

PRINTER INK CARTRIDGES

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Three words:

PRINTER INK CARTRIDGES

That's a good call. That truly is the DULLEST thing anyone ever spent £50 on.