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Wastes of money.........that are best avoided

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You know. Madness and all that. Either at a personal level or a Governmental level. And if you pay for these then you are incurring a 'stupidity-tax'. Thus earning zero sympathy from the rest of us.

1. I once knew a young lady who didn't like the fast train from Victoria to Norwood Junction, at rush hour. Her solution, hop into a black cab. On her own. Well that didn't last long.

2. Owning a holiday mobile-home on a caravan park. The illusion of it being cheap. Management fees, administration costs, compulsory purchase of a new rig, ground rent.........it will break your heart.

3. Restaurants on the Costa Del Sol. Take a 2 quid supermarket soup, microwave it, and hey presto....charge a tenner. Dopey tourists are too hungover to even notice themselves being robbed blind.

4. A pint in the West End. The equivalent of large crate of booze at a Supermarket in Hungary.



what others ?
 
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ready meals from supermarkets...pretty photo on box ("this is what you could have had") followed by a garlic laden mean portion, hunt the tiny pieces of meat.
youve paid a fair percent for just the box and alluring photo.

tiny boxes, tins, cartons of spices & pastes that are a fraction of the price for a larger plain bag in most indian / pakistani mini markets.
 
Expensive watches. I own a very fine Tag Heuer that was a gift and cost just over £5k. It has to be wound and I have to manually change the date and adjust it when the clocks go forward or back.

I also own a Casio solar powered Edifice that cost £330. It keeps perfect time and it automatically adjusts with the dates and changes to winter and summer time. To be honest I prefer it.
 
Expensive watches. I own a very fine Tag Heuer that was a gift and cost just over £5k. It has to be wound and I have to manually change the date and adjust it when the clocks go forward or back.

I also own a Casio solar powered Edifice that cost £330. It keeps perfect time and it automatically adjusts with the dates and changes to winter and summer time. To be honest I prefer it.
they do tend to keep their value though POG.
wife bought me a TAG for my 40th, 25 years later its still like new (only wear it weekends due to my mucky job though)
Certainly agree with the battery & date etc point.
 
postage stamps, utter rip-off.
No Christmas or Birthday cards next year.

£5 balance transfer
Txt : HB Bday
 
Expensive watches. I own a very fine Tag Heuer that was a gift and cost just over £5k.

I read an article a few days ago about status and it said that no watch however good it was cost more than £500 to make however the status conscious wouldn't buy it at that sort of price which is why they charge prices in the thousands or even tens of thousands in some cases
 
I read an article a few days ago about status and it said that no watch however good it was cost more than £500 to make however the status conscious wouldn't buy it at that sort of price which is why they charge prices in the thousands or even tens of thousands in some cases
I have an Omega watch which I paid about £400 for in the Eighties. It is a nice watch but today I think a new one would be about £5k which I don't have.

My main bug bear is the service costs. The last time I asked it was over £200 just to replace the battery and give it a quick clean. I expect the cost is probably closer to £400 now. To avoid the costs I just ask a jeweller to replace the battery which they do but will not take responsibility if it doesn't work. I haven't had Omega service it in 20 years at least so my Christmas present to myself will be to do that.

In hindsight I should have asked at the time about service costs.

Because it is expensive I rarely wear it, my go to watch is a Casio which cost about £15 and the battery never seems to run down.
 
wanna keep the rain off your bike ? maybe better off buying a new bike, every time it rains. Bicycle Shed



And another money-pit of stupidity-tax : .........Annual Gym Fitness membership. They always have a bumper-crop of fat eejits in January. With the credit card, big ambitions, and never to be seen on the barbells again.
 
Expensive watches.
it evidently has very little to do with 'needing to tell the time accurately'. And everything to do with giving off the appearance of being high status and looking impressive. Consequently, i will give it a Freudian interpretation. Its really all about your d.1ck. And wishing to impress the ladies.

therefore, why not ditch the watch and use the 5k to employ a Professional ? to get the old rocket polished ? another waste of money in my humble opinion 'hoooeers'
 
I have an Omega watch which I paid about £400 for in the Eighties. It is a nice watch but today I think a new one would be about £5k which I don't have.

My main bug bear is the service costs. The last time I asked it was over £200 just to replace the battery and give it a quick clean. I expect the cost is probably closer to £400 now. To avoid the costs I just ask a jeweller to replace the battery which they do but will not take responsibility if it doesn't work. I haven't had Omega service it in 20 years at least so my Christmas present to myself will be to do that.

In hindsight I should have asked at the time about service costs.

Because it is expensive I rarely wear it, my go to watch is a Casio which cost about £15 and the battery never seems to run down.

I had the same - got a second hand one was only around £400. still probably only worth around £750 now.

Needed the battery replaced and the guy servicing was you need to spend another few hundred to get it pressured sealed. If I didn't - my watch couldn't be guaranteed waterproof anymore at 200m.

Frankly if I'm at 200m below sea level, I've got bigger concerns than my watch taking on water.
 
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Some gentleman I know, wears a watch he acquired for £28,000.
It tells the time just like my watch which cost somewhat less !

Personally I don't even notice watches worn by kind souls and even if I did I would have no idea if it was a 'Luxury' watch which was acquired for a gargantuan sum of money.
 
Some gentleman I know, wears a watch he acquired for £28,000.
a big chunky piece of gold or silver metal, from a charity shop, for a fiver....... works just as well in making you look smartly dressed. Good for photographs or a job interview. And 99.9999999% of people won't even notice that its telling the wrong time - especially if the hands are a similar colour to the face.

there is surely something immoral about spending 28k on a feckin wristwatch ? And a special punishment reserved in hell for all transgressors. Plus the irony that some expensive watches look cheap. And other cheap ones look expensive.

28k minus a fiver ? you now have a leftover of £ 27,995 to spend on sweets.

And another waste of money : Mobile phone insurance
 
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And another waste of money : Mobile phone insurance
And medical insurance Palazio. Especially at my age. An exorbitant cost. I used to have cover provided by my employer, which was cool, but these days I let the NHS do the biz and they do it very well thanks.
 
I read an article a few days ago about status and it said that no watch however good it was cost more than £500 to make however the status conscious wouldn't buy it at that sort of price which is why they charge prices in the thousands or even tens of thousands in some cases
I recently went online to buy some white handkerchieves - M&S £16 for 7, Turnbull & Asser (of Jermyn Street) £35 each. And unless you put a post-it note on it, there's not even any status attached to it.
 
I had the same - got a second hand one was only around £400. still probably only worth around £750 now.

Needed the battery replaced and the guy servicing was you need to spend another few hundred to get it pressured sealed. If I didn't - my watch couldn't be guaranteed waterproof anymore at 200m.

Frankly if I'm at 200m below sea level, I've got bigger concerns than my watch taking on water.
I’ve never understood the difference between waterproof at 200 metres and worn or dropped in the swimming pool or even just the bath.
 

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