one of the worst things about being a grown up is that you spend a lot of money on things you can't even get excited about

250 bucks on amazong for bedsheets, iced coffee pitcher, face wash, razor blades, shaving cream, soap, spare pillowcases
13 grand to the fed for taxes
450 bucks for MRI fees that my 600 buck a month insurance won't cover

bump this thread when you spend too much money on shit that brings you no joy

honda needed a new starter: $725

the money i drop on insurances in various forms is something i just really try hard not to think about at all

ditto taxes

ugh yea car repairs

it was like $1200 for my car last time, it needed just a bunch of random ~$200 repairs that quickly added up
then like a month later is was $900 for wife's car, same thing

before somebody jumps in with I WISH I HAD 250 BUCKS FOR BEDSHEETS allow me to say that this is not a braggin thread about my 1800 thread count slipcovers for the yacht, this is for shit that you have to buy/spend money on because if you don't, you will not be able to keep your job / credit score

it is astonishing how pricey bedsheets are tbf

bills, bills, bills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGam9QQIua4
i think of this (or Destiny's Child) EVERY TIME i get a bill in the mail

clutch. waiting on figure.

Insurance is about the least exciting thing in the world to spend money on - and my wife and I spend more on insurance than on groceries and utilities combined.

Just paid car insurance for the year - a little over $800.

mail order contact lenses 12 euro

Ooh yah 60 bucks for registering renewal for my car?

I solve the problem by buying myself fun shit as a reward right after.

More money than I can bear to think about suring up the beams under the floor that stop our house falling in on its foundations

It feels like this is like 95% of my spending though. My new job's health insurance has like $50 and $70 co-pays for doctors. Childcare and baby product expenses out the wazoo.

$300 a month on copays for chemo and related med visits

I think you won this pretty awful competition

yup

well beats the alternative, eh

It is crazy (and depressing) to figure out the percentage of your salary spent on things that only keep you functioning. Out of my typical 50 hour work week, I'd guess 42-45 hours worth of salary goes towards paying for bullshit.

Godspeed Dr M.

Was waiting for you to show up morbs

Now I'm depressed.

i get kind of excited about a new face wash

same old facewash, new bottle
i should point out that amazong order also had a new bathmat and a shower curtain

so much money spent on kids

lol that's okay i don't mind

$108 quarterly spraying around the house for ants
i bought an $800 water heater this summer. that was exciting

A couple of years ago we spent $8,000 to put a new roof on the house we lived in at the time. It looked exactly like the old roof, which seemed totally functional but was ancient enough that it would be scary to potential buyers and we were looking to move. So we spent the equivalent of two really nice vacations on something that looked and worked exactly like what was there before.

two really nice vacations for ten people.

jewellery, this lunch time.

you're not excited about jewelry?

getting a tree chopped a bit, 300 quid ffs
need blinds/curtains on nearly all our windows
a ladder
a smaller stepladder

New roof on our house this summer, since the old one was leaking all over the place. $11,000.

We just got a list of "code violations" from the city including our garage doors (which have been on the garage since WELL before we owned the house) and back steps, probably gonna set us back another $2-3,000.

£1800 on getting floors sanded and varnished - I don't need need it but it will be nice to not look on their pitted surfaces and wince, and also it's a thing that I'm doing to the house now that I'm going to die in it alone (not imminently, I hope). It brings me some joy to see them but also very tempered by the knowledge that they'll get back there again - my ex was not the clumsy one in the relationship, it's only a matter of time before I try moving a desk or table that I shouldn't do by myself.

I'm not excited about jewellery nor the extra l in jewellery

why you buying it

Staring down the barrel of the following upcoming unexciting purchases:

Mattress
Clothes dryer
Laptop

will have to purchase some winter tires in the next 2 months or so

I remember buying a "real" mattress for the first time feeling like a particularly painful adult purchase.

yeah, buying a mattress is a horrible experience, it always feels like you're massively overpaying

How real?

man in what way is a laptop not an exciting awesome purchase

It's a couple hundro that I hate spending every few years, is all.

mattresses are like 500 to 1500 for normal people iirc
it's been a decade and i am probably due here too honestly
sadface

Yeah, my mattress plan is to hopefully - "hopefully - spend somewhere between $500-$700 and be able to get a good night's rest again.

With mattresses I feel like there's no reliable way to evaluate the quality, so you can pay more for some feature that you have no fucking clue if it actually matters, some particular kind of coil or foam or topper or w/e. And even feeling good in the store doesn't mean it feels good at home.

Or feeling good after sleeping on it for 3 months.

I bought a crazy expensive mattress (mattress shopping is the pits) but I thank my past self every night because it's amazing. If you can afford it, way worth getting the best you can - you spend enough time in bed that it's worthwhile.
Being confident you're getting the right one is not easy though

One thing I will say though: memory foam creeps the shit out of me and I never want to touch it again. We had a memory foam "topper" for a while when H was pregnant and it felt so bizarre.

Ha my husband is the same. I find it makes me too hot in bed, yeah that's right

they have this SLEEP NUMBER thing now and tempurpedic and can't you just make this easy for me

need blinds/curtains on nearly all our windows

I've been here 6 years and still have no blinds on the kitchen window because nobody can see in, the sun only comes in annoyingly at times of day when I'm in and awake for like 2 weeks a year, and have you seen the price of that shit (yes you have)

would like a new bed (the current one collapsed in one corner, which is ok probably my fault because I stood on it to change a light bulb and must've put my foot in the wrong place; however it was a hand-me-down and I've never totally liked it) but every time I look at bed prices I go "hooray for being short so my feet only just reach the collapsed area"

would like a new fridge/freezer because the bottom of the door is rusty and the door seal is beginning to go and one corner of the inside of the freezer gets remarkably toasty, making me fear that things are not actually properly frozen, but similarly

there are a few things I might need to call a plumber for soon and argh £££

Ah fuck, I just went to a tailor because I had to get a suit altered for a wedding (am in the wedding party so I have to wear THIS stupid suit and make it work), plus a couple pairs of pants and some jeans I wanted fixed up. TWO HUNDRED FORTY FIVE FUCKING DOLLARS. I have no idea how to haggle or what a good price is for this stuff so I just sort of went, uh...ok.

sorry ONE pair of pants and some jeans. I mean the suit needed the jacket and waist altered plus a hem, the pants needed waist and hem, and the jeans needed the waist taken in and hem. Seems like a lot of fucking money though, maybe I got taken. Needed it fast so maybe it was also a "rush" premium (i.e. the guy read on my face that I wasn't going to go shopping around in this situation).

i got a new used car last year and because it was "nice" and not made in the 20th century, my insurance doubled. car insurance is the most joyless expense. at least medical bills help alleviate pain or the potential prevention of pain.

Legal fees, stamp duty, removal van, council tax, new flooring, bed, mattress, sofa, fridge, desk, table, bookshelves, wallpaper, paint, chairs...looking at about £9000 to move house, on top of mortgage deposit. This is why I'm getting obsessive about paint colours and garish wallpaper designs. Probably another £10000 on a new bathroom and super boring stuff like pointing and guttering next year.

yeah we moved 2.5 years ago and still need a bunch of that stuff

Fuck don't even get me started on when we bought a place -- we did pretty minimal work and no "renovation" per se but still had to refinish the floors, paint the whole place, resurface a bathtub, etc. and that shit plus buying new rugs for almost every room (co-op rules on floor coverage), window blinds and various furnishings really fucking adds up, esp on top of closing costs and moving expenses. And all this shit is way more pricy in NYC too.

fwiw I had to interview this dude who wrote a book about negotiation at a newspaper job I had, and he told me that a good thing to do in that price shock situation is to start by asking something like "why does it cost so much?" Allegedly that sometimes leads to an immediate price drop, and even if it doesn't it kind of gives you room to push downward without locking you into a "fuck this, I'm leaving!" position that you can't back out of. But I always forget to actually do that in the moment.

^good advice. dude who wrote the book otm

yeah, buying a mattress is a horrible experience, it always feels like you're massively overpaying

I looked into this when trying to figure out whether my mattress was the cause of my back pain (it wasn't, turned out I had arthritis) and came to the conclusion that the industry is a joke.

some people sleep better on hard mattresses, some on soft, but treating yourself to an expensive mattress is mostly a delusion. they're all just foam and springs at the end of the day, there's not some magic material that comes with the high end models.

industry is built on skeezy salespeople + making it impossible to comparison shop

http://i.imgur.com/Jp1NJJT.gif

Flea meds for the cat. Anti-itch meds for the cat. Anti-arthritis meds for the cat.

Not even a thank you.

Same cat who vomited on my most recent mattress before I'd gotten the sheets on.

iatee there's a large store here where you basically pay for the amount of springs you get (in the thousands) plus 'better' natural materials etc. I could tell the difference between quite a lot of them. There was also a 35,000 GBP mattress which I have no idea why it was that expensive.
There are also shitty stores with endless variations of gimmicks which drove me mad.
I'm just glad my horrible hip pain has disappeared but annoyed I slept on an old hard mattress for years thinking it was doing me good.