Nate
Ah, buyers’ remorse—the gut-punch for anyone who’s ever blown their whole budget and almost instantly regretted it. As someone who clutches their wallet like it’s the last twenty I’ll ever see, these spending fails hit me right in the frugals.
From tragic haircuts to regret-worthy pastries, these money spending fails will have you muttering, “Better them than me.”
1. “The Box My Cats New Cat Tree Came In Had Instructions To Turn It Into A Little House, And My Cat Prefers The Box To The Tree”
2. “I Ordered An Iced Tea From A Cafe At My University. When I Complained To The Barista She Told Me ‘That’s Just How We Do It Here, This Isn’t Starbucks'”
3. “I Think The Raccoons My Brother Paid To Get Rid Of Are Back”
4. “Bought A Fake Snake To Deter Birds. Instead They Used It As A Nest”
5. “This Guy”
6. “My Husband Was Very Upset About This Cake. Thoughts?”
“The baker we ordered it from said it was ‘no problem’ and that she had done ‘many like it.’ It was $175, plus he tipped her $20. She dropped it off at our house at 6 a.m. (she was supposed to deliver it between noon and 2 p.m.), so in the chaos of her literally waking him from a deep sleep with the doorbell, he handed over the tip without even thinking to check the cake. She didn’t offer to show it to him either—probably because she knew it wasn’t what we wanted, lol. He put it straight in the fridge without looking at it until we were getting ready for my party, and by then, he was heartbroken.
We don’t usually order cakes like this because we just can’t afford it, but he wanted to do something nice for me this year since we’ve had a lot going on. He was really upset with the final product—not only was it ugly and nothing like what he asked for, but it also tasted awful. It was very bland but somehow also incredibly salty. He reached out to her to address it, but she didn’t respond at all, so he left a review with pictures. Her website isn’t up anymore, and she’s no longer on Google.”
7. “This Haircut That I Paid $60 For”
8. “There Aren’t Enough Seats In The Lecture Rooms, So I Don’t Have A Table Or Seat, Even Though I Pay A Lot Of Money To Study”
9. “Paid $12 To Go To This ‘Pumpkin Patch’, Aka A Field With Pumpkins Placed In It”
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11. “This Is The Hot Tub Of The Airbnb Which Was The Main Reason Why I Rented The Spot. Smelled Terrible And Was Obviously Not Cleaned In Forever”
12. “My Sister Spent Her Own Money For A New TV For My Dad On Christmas Opened It And Turned It On And We See This”
13. “My 7 Year Old Spent Saved-Up Pocket Money On 4 Mystery Box Toys. We Warned Him”
14. “I Paid $100 For This? I Can Barely See Half The Field”
15. “2 Minutes After I Bought My Breakfast And Left It Outside”
16. “I Paid 16 Euros For This Pizza”
17. “I Bought This Pallet Specifically For The ‘Blue’ Middle Shade. Wasted My Money Because I Need It For My Halloween Costume”
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19. “I Spent My Hard Earned Money On A ‘Smile’ Cookie To Brighten My Day. This Is What I See When I Open The Bag When I Get Home”
20. “I Ordered This ‘Ottoman’ For My Wife… Should Have Double Checked The Dimensions”
21. “I Paid For The WiFi On My 3hr Flight To Play, Only For The Servers To Shut Down 15 Mins In”
22. “My Neighbor Spent A Ton Of Money On A Granite Mailbox Post. They Used An ‘O’ Instead Of A Zero To Make The Street Number. It Annoys Me Every Time I Walk By”
23. “Paid For First Story Furniture Delivery. Delivered To Staircase Instead..!”
24. “My Window Seat On The Plane I Paid Extra For”
25. “Wore These ‘Waterproof’ Hiking Boots For 30 Min In The Rain”
“I have to walk home now”
26. “Something Tells Me The Salad I Bought Last Night Isn’t Safe To Eat”
27. “Paid $3 For A Chocolate Croissant, Got This”
28. “I Bought A Sprite, And This Is What Popped Out”
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30. “I Was Charged $62 For A Haircut And It Wasn’t Even Cut Correctly”
31. “The View From My 30€ Ticket”
32. “I Paid For An Upgraded Lake View”
33. “I Spent $12 On ‘Anti Fog’ Mirror Film”
34. “I Had Misplaced My Wedding Ring, Spent Money Buying An Exact Same One; Only To Find The Lost Ring Later At Home”
“I had misplaced my wedding ring, I didn’t want anyone to find out about the missing ring hence I spent a bunch of money to get an exact same band. Couple months later my mom found the lost ring at home. Now I’ve got two identical wedding rings.”
35. “Months Of Saving, Travelled Over 5000 Miles And An 11 Hour Flight. Ladies And Gentlemen The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA Months Of Saving, Travelled Over 5000 Miles And An 11 Hour Flight. Ladies And Gentlemen The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA”
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37. “Bought A 3-Pack Of Blank Cassettes And None Of Them Had Any Tape In It”
38. “Company I Bought A Sculpture From Claims ‘Approx. 12cm’ Equates To 7cm”
“I bought this bird sculpture for my dad for Christmas and spent what, for us, is quite a bit of money on it (£90). It just arrived, and there is visible glue around the beak, its legs are so uneven in length that it can’t stand up, and it’s less than a third of the advertised size. I contacted the company, TwentyTwenty One, to arrange a return and refund, and while that’s possible (which is good, though still annoying), the person on the company chat tried to convince me that 8cm is approximately 12cm. They even told me that it’s actually the height when standing up that counts—which, if it could, would make it only 7cm. That feels like a stretch, right? Anyway, the interaction with customer service upgraded this from a mildly frustrating moment to a mildly infuriating one for me.”
39. “Bought A $2500 E-Bike Two Weeks Ago. Locked It Up In My Apartment Building’s ‘Secure Storage Room’. Walked Downstairs Today To See This Where My Bike Was”
40. “My Mom Bought The Pro Power Save Devices. (Scam)”
“She called me and told me she had a gift for me and to come over and pick it up. So I did. She excitedly hands me this and tells me how it’s supposed to save me hundreds of dollars on my power bill. She says it cleans my ‘dirty electricity’ from my appliances and that it was developed by ELON MUSK… Wow! It’s so amazing, I can’t even believe it! She doesn’t have dementia or anything, but she sure fell for this one.”
41. “Spent Four Months Building A Campervan, Decided To Make A Little Money Renting It Out, First Rental Came Back Like This”
42. “After 20 Years With My Previous Instrument, I Recently Spent An Ungodly Amount Of Money Upgrading. Today…”
43. “Bought This Ring On My Birthday And 9 Stones Fell Out In Just 48 Hours Of Wear. The Center Stone Is Loose, Too”
44. “Bought A New Volume Of Berserk. Did I Get Scammed?”
45. “This Pizza At The Airport”
