what is your biggest waste of money

redshadows said:
From my 1st PC to my PC now has cost me in excess of £22,000. Wish I had just waited.

Stopped gaming for 6 years due to collage and uni but kept upgrading/downgrading/regrading.

Wasted £10,000 and more in 6 years with nothing to show apart from a few FPS years ago.

All for parts I could read about in someone elses review page :(
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Assuming you have a long-term g/f or partner then it's vaguely acceptable to spend that kind of cash on your hobby.

Otherwise you've spent a hella lot of money on entirely the wrong thing. And if that's the case then I hope you enjoy DIY hand-shandys. Because that's all you're ever going to get.
 
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My MK2 Golf, spent about about 10k already, just about to get a newer engine, so another 2 3 k. If I sold it I would struggle to get £1500 for it.

Good investment, the worst thing is as I'm 'stuck' in Cyprus for three years I haven't even seen it for that time.
 
My apartment, its not a waste really as i enjoy living there etc, but i bought it right before the recession hit. Could have save a fortune if i waited a month. Negative equity woo!
 
My laptops. Bought one about four years ago for a grand. Replaced it earlier with another, also a grand. I use any laptop about twenty times a year, if that. I can go a month or more without doing anything on it except update the OS.


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All the normal things I guess...booze, petrol, high monthly phone bill for wanting the 'latest' phone for free :(

When I was living in Devon and driving to Bristol EVERY weekend for 3 and a half years I daren't think of the amount of money i've spent/wasted on petrol. Other than that i'm pretty frugal with cash...I live about 120 miles away from the folks so I try not to get in the position where I need to be bailed out by my friends.

I would like to get a bass guitar as i've wanted to learn for a while and that would be about £200...so fingers crossed that won't be a waste :p
 
Ex girlfriend. I could have had so many crates of booze along with high class hookers for the sums of cash I splurged on her. :(

Women: Cheaper to rent. :D

*hides*
 
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hurfdurf said:
Can we have some more details on this. What exactly did you/didn't you do? Did it go to court?
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sure, I left it in a fresh water estuary, filled out the chadlery paperwork and sent it off for the boat to be lifted mid december, desaled and stored for winter. Turns out I sent an empty envelope, at first I went mental at the boat guys, tore strips off them and threatened all manner of legal action.

once the boat was recovered we had a good look round it, under the passenger seat was a strong box I used to keep the spare key in (combination lock), popped that open and was rather shockingly presented with two credit cards which I also swore blind had been stolen, fifty odd quid in cash, some ciggies, a lighter and of course the letter to the chandlery......

turns out I'd come back from falmouth boozed up, moored up, lost my tender so swum for it, not an uncommon occurance but normally I'd not bother to empty my pockets just carry my jeans above the water..

anywho, probably during the same drunken trip I'd cracked the transom, just on/under the water line, nothing massive and the auto bilge pump took care of it for a while (mates had seen it in the water upto a few weeks later) but that must have run out of batteries, subsequently the boat quite rapdily sunk, it hunkered pretty low in the water anyway so after a decent night of rain come morning time it had sunk. I cunningly picked my mooring location to avoid the large trawlers and yachts - they have a habit of making a large amount of wake and bashing my boat into other boats with slack moorings. Anyway, as it was out of sight and oiut of mind no-one noticed it sitting on the seabed about 2 feet from the surface, and there it sat for 4 months till I bothered to try and claim it from the shipyard....xr2 off shore engines dont like that much time underwater :(:(:(

boo hoo

yellow peril, rip
 
Probably a green laser, was probably around £100 at the time for a toy as it doesn't reallly have any real use! :/
sanaxe1 said:
Purchased a very sexy Toyota Celica and ended up going travelling for 6 months.. the tax ran out while i was away and they crushed it.
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Oops! :D
 
Will Gill said:
Turns out I sent an empty envelope, at first I went mental at the boat guys, tore strips off them and threatened all manner of legal action.

popped that open and was rather shockingly presented with two credit cards which I also swore blind had been stolen, fifty odd quid in cash, some ciggies, a lighter and of course the letter to the chandlery......

turns out I'd come back from falmouth boozed up, moored up, lost my tender so swum for it, not an uncommon occurance but normally I'd not bother to empty my pockets just carry my jeans above the water..
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i'm sorry but i just literally laughed out loud at that
would've been good to see your facial expressions as the drunken memories slowly came flooding back
 
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