We all have something – experience, product, or service – we regret spending money on. One Reddit user wanted to lớn know what other members regretted spending money on and why. Here are some of the best responses from this thread.
Clothing
One user spent a fortune on clothing they vì thế not wear, “A lot of items of clothing that cost a lot of money but I just don’t wear.”
Video Games
Another is addicted to lớn spending money on the latest Clip games, “Basically any game on Steam that without fail goes on 75% off sale lượt thích a week later.”
College Classes for Career Path Not Taken
A user regrets spending money on a course they never applied in real life. One gives a basic example, “Nursing. Grew up my whole life being told I was going to lớn be a nurse, ví I went to lớn school to lớn work towards that without any hesitation. I had done several classes before I started volunteering at a hospital. Once I saw someone die for the first time, I realized I wasn’t cut out to lớn be in that setting.”
Gambling
According to lớn one user, although gambling is fun, it is a money pit, “Gambling. Sure, it’s fun and exciting, but man, is it stupid.”
Another adds, “I brought 200 bucks to lớn gamble in Vegas 11 years ago. I’m now an adult with a family and a nice house and have wasted much more money in bits and pieces since then, but man, if I don’t often think about that 200 dollars that evaporated in 15 minutes playing roulette.”
Going Out and Drinking
One user wasted her parents’ savings on drinking and going out, “My parents had made savings for bu that I choose to lớn basically spend on going out and drinking when I was around 21. It had around 15,000$ in it, and it was gone in about two years.”
Subscriptions No One Uses
Another user has a bunch of subscriptions they never use, “$10 – $15 bucks a month doesn’t sound lượt thích much. But when you forget about it and subscribe to lớn a bunch of other things, it adds up really, REALLY quickly.
I was subscribed to lớn World of Warcraft for 5 years when I wasn’t playing the game because I figured ‘I’d get back into it eventually.’ What a waste of money.”
Chinese Food
A user is stuck on Chinese food because they have an ingenious way of getting to lớn him, “Every time I get close to lớn the place, they offer bu a Cantonese chicken sample, and I take it and love it, and then I buy the god**** chicken and for some reasons is never as tasty. I fall for this twice a month.”
Craft Supplies
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Some hobbies can be expensive; according to lớn another user, “I bought a lot of craft supplies I only ended up using once or twice. I thought it was going to lớn be a big hobby, but it was just a short obsession that quickly passed.”
Cars
One person regrets spending too much on their xế hộp, “The last xế hộp I had. It was a bad ‘09 Saturn aura hybrid that was perfect until I got it off the lot, naturally. Spent 4,900 on it when it was probably only worth a third of that. I had it for about 6 months when the hybrid engine went out, and I started having problems with the transmission and the starter and such.”
Pizza
People love pizza, and others think they spend too much on them, “Every time I order pizza and I eat it all, I regret it immediately. Then I have a bad day and vì thế it again… Why don’t I have any willpower!?”
Beauty Products
One user cannot help themselves when it comes to lớn beauty products, “I have really bad impulses when it comes to lớn beauty products. It’s been three separate occasions now where I bought lipsticks that weren’t flattering on bu. I can’t even return them because I lost the receipt.”
A Trip to lớn Vegas
People love trips, but one thành viên regrets a specific one, “I regret spending money on a trip to lớn Vegas. It was fun, but I could’ve spent that money on a trip to lớn a better đô thị, and I would’ve gotten a lot more bang for my buck.”
Country Club
One user says that these club memberships cost quite a bit, “Thought it would be fun to lớn rub elbows with the people there. It was not. It was just lượt thích hanging with the cool kids in high school with them all looking around, making sure they were cool.”
My House
Contrary to lớn what most people think, one user does not consider his house an investment, “Houses are not an ‘investment’. It’s the least diverse investment you can own; you’re exposed to lớn a single mailing address. The building depreciates. If you make money on a house, it’s either from inflation, putting in work yourself, or from the land appreciating under you. In that last case, you have to lớn pay more property tax, a thing that doesn’t happen to lớn any other investment.”
Luxury Watch
Another thành viên spent a lot of money on a luxury watch that turned out to lớn be unreliable, “I blew some money on an Omega Speedmaster 1957 50th anniversary limited series, steel on steel, 311.33.42.50.01.001 Co-axial.
Probably the most beautiful sport watch ever made, but boy, is its Co-Axial mechanism unreliable. Apparently, everyone in the know has something negative to lớn say about it. 750 euritos to lớn have it serviced with a useless warranty of two years duration. It winds manually, and the inaccessible crown will hurt your fingers badly when you spend approx five minutes to lớn get it primed. What c***.”
Pyramid Scheme
One thành viên was sucked into a pyramid scheme and lost a chunk of money, “I ended up getting sucked into a pyramid scheme in second-year college. Waisted 1000$. I know it’s not much in the grand scheme of things but it really screwed bu over at the time and made life very difficult for a long time, and I swear it’s what started my credit thẻ debt that I am still paying for 5 years later.”
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