tell me about stupid easily avoidable things that costed you a lot of money

xpost oh god i just remembered i kept the cable internet thing running when i moved house too - only just cut the thing two weeks ago and that was £90 i didn't have to spend :(

To make matters worse my next door neighbour and her boyfriend were inside the club, unbeknownst to me, and we could have shared one home at a fraction of the expense. Idiot Matt DC!

Even though he's been able to claw over half of it back by writing snotty letters, Ed's had almost £1000 in parking tickets this year. On two occasions we've had to cancel holidays because the money we would have used to go away had to be given to clampers instead.

In Camden a clamp-and-tow is £200. If your car sits there for a whole week because you don't use it often, it's another £25 per day. And they wonder why our council tax payments are late?

I currently owe for my moped tax. Have I learnt my lesson? No.

not trying on clothes in the store out of laziness/haste only having them not fit at home and then waiting too long to return them.

this has nothing to do with my story. i inherited a car from family in AZ and drove it back to MN; AZ doesn't require front plate, MN does, and since the car is an Olds with a pointy/curvy front bumper, no generic plate bracket would do. i needed a factory one specific to the model which i wasn't losing sleep over not working very hard to find.

i finally got hit for it, resulting in the Ionescoid ticket
95 OLDS CUT CIERA
LIC PLATE: 123 XXX
VIOLATION: NO LIC PLATE
FINE: $100

Mine is being too lazy to sign up for a credit card at the financial institution that I work for (end hence would pay next to nothing in interest and fees) meanwhile paying something like 15% on the one I've got elsewhere - for about five years now.

so lost cash, had to pay for new locks and endure housemate wrath.

Selling my car, getting a quote from Carmax. Looking over the title, signing it, bringing it in, just to find out that I'd signed it wrong or in the wrong place or something and I needed to get another title before they could legally buy the car from me. So, I sent in for another, went through all sorts of bureaucracy, finally went in to sell the damn car. Enough time had elapsed that I needed to have my car appraised again. Of course the quote was $500 less (same car, same condition, close to the same mileage)....

I think Ive worn it once ever. I cant wear it on its own, as erm... the pvc strip doesnt really well cover what it is supposed to =)

don't feel so bad sarahm, i was seven hours late and had my car inmpounded and had to go to court and get a new everything. MASSAFUCKITS. judge was decent at least.

This wasn't me, but my friend recently proclaimed she was going to see Heart at Universal Citywalk. She made this boast several times on Facebook for a month, and had bought the ticket and everything.

Pity she hadn't bothered to check the city and state this Citywalk was in and realize it wasn't the one that she lived in. She didn't find out until she actually went to Universal.

wonder if they'll refund, lol

My o/h bought train tickets for 8pm instead of 8am once.

College. Wow, was that a big one.

about 2 grand in bank charges in my early to mid twenties. would have just pissed it up the wall anyway, but still...

I spent about eight months paying for digital TV despite my box being broken because I constantly put off bothering to make the call.

£400 for playing football in room (wine, laptop)

£250 could have replaced laptop lcd/inverter myself if i wasn't so lazy

$200 for a 5 minute collect call. Apparently they can charge whatever they feel like.

wow

Missed a phone call from Mum on Christmas a couple of years back, so after a quick powwow with Mr Veg we figured, meh, I'll just give her a quick call back on my cell...how bad could it be. Besides...it's Christmas!

$250 for half an hour (or something equally as O_O. Never again.

don't u have a telco regulator?

I usually buy all of my plane tickets via Travelocity.

Recently, I was shopping around for tickets to MN and couldn't find any decent deals anywhere online. Eventually I found something passable but had some confirmation problems at checkout time. I walked away from the session thinking I had successfully managed to buy the tickets.

Later, after returning from another trip, I went to Travelocity to look up my itinerary. No tickets were there. I search Gmail for confirmation of my trip. Nothing. I panicked big time; I hadn't gotten the tickets and it was a week before the trip. SHIT. I scrambled, bracing myself to get reamed on ticket prices... and discovered that the itinerary I'd looked at 2 weeks earlier was now about $75 cheaper per ticket. I got super happy; a computer glitch saved me money! I bought the tickets and sent my itinerary to the folks who needed it.

The next day I received a trip reminder email from Expedia about my impending trip to MN.

oh that sucks

the most aggravating part was remembering the agonizing minutes I spent staring at the computer screen going "BUT I BOUGHT THE TICKETS" and even going to my bank account and looking for the withdrawl amount and not seeing it... until after getting the Expedia reminder email

panic makes you incredibly stupid

Not a lot of money but I've paid for a 1-per month Netflix plan that I don't use since 2007 as I've had four dvds out since then, and, due to two moves, keep misplacing. I've now found them and plan to finally send them back.

i could have had renters insurance when my apartment burned down :/

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left out fruit over the weekend and its all been used as flyspawn extraordinaire there were hundreds of them on the windows when we walked in this evening. she's insisting on rentokil.

didnt send back following items when within warranty

1tb media player about 200 quid
1tb external hard drive about 80 quid
lidl brand monitor about 80 quid
lidl brand desktop PC 400 quid

didnt replace/recondition turbo for 300 quid a few years back, shattered vane fragments in the engine made the engine a write-off costing almost 1500 to replace.

I'm getting better at this stuff tbf

glass of wine / miniature indoor football / macbook £400

college

drunkenly kicking a plastic bottle down main st at 3am one Saturday night invited a blindside tackle from an unknown oaf in similarly high spirits which resulted in two molar extractions and a further list of dental work quotes for which have scared me off to this day.

XP nakh u said that above but sympathies

posed for a photo with some great local gdansk lads during euro 2012, they lifted 50 quid and the key to the rented camper- deposit/replacement cost 400 euro

XP nakh u said that above but sympathies

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triggering

liquid/laptop happened multiple times

left my bike unlocked at work march last year, 700 quid (not including tax breaks tbfttg)

I think thats when I started getting a fuckin grip of this shit

oh yeah went playing football in subzero conditions while getting over the flu a few months back, that was a good one

also

lost a laptop to wine

and two bikes, within weeks of each other

grad school

the more iniquitous side of this is just not shifting from stupidly expensive phone contracts, various unnecessary legal fees which incurs more loss than the drunkenly smashed stuff over the long run

yes, procrastination, avoidance, & abhorrence of dealing with bureaucracy has cost me much more

I once put a grand (of my employers virtual money) on an 8/11 fav, which got pipped at the line and then made some back on the next race by banging another grand of more "funny money" on the next 6/4 fav. I was a terrible betting shop manager, but used to have an awful lot of fun. With other gambling degenerates we used to have a code; like if they phoned and you were deep in the shit, you would say "Gotta go, I am having an adventure right now".

Not my money lost, but I once ran inkjet-only paper through a color copier/laser printer. The paper fused to the drum, making the $35K machine unusable. And the company was already circling the drain and had let the service contract lapse.

xxp yes. those credit cards i only got to use for a few months till i had money again, intending to pay them off immediately, which are now hanging around close to maxed out sucking money from my bank account every month

having a kid

joking, i once missed a train

and i had to buy a new ticket for the next day so that + 1 hotel night plus the tickets etc. just because i really felt like going to the bathroom.

Friend loaned me rather pricey ($300 or so?) Rode microphone. Promptly lost it that very same evening by leaving it in a taxi on my way home.

Not my money lost, but I once ran inkjet-only paper through a color copier/laser printer. The paper fused to the drum, making the $35K machine unusable.

I had no idea that this was a thing that could happen.

Me neither! Turns out it was a special coated stock. The customer brought it in and wanted his color copies on that particular stuff and I didn't look closely enough at the packaging. I didn't even get yelled at for busting one of the company's last revenue streams, because nobody at the shop knew that that would happen.

I was due to fly to the UK on Cityjet a couple when I damaged my eye and couldn't go on the day in question. Got a cheap Ryanair flight out and planned to use my return Cityjet ticket for the flight back. When I got to LCY, though, I discovered I couldn't use the return portion of the ticket because I hadn't used the outward portion and hadn't contacted anyone to okay this. Luckily there were seats on the flight, but it was a mistake that cost me nearly £200.

A couple of years ago, that should be.

bought a megabus ticket from nyc, didn't realize that a megabus was something that might or might not show up, as they please, and there's no way to find out whether it's actually coming, ended up having to buy a $100 amtrak ticket that would have been much cheaper in advance