What is the biggest waste of money in your opinion.
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
January 6, 2020 10:22am CST
In Your Opinion,
What is...
The biggest waste of money for you?
The biggest waste of money you've seen others do?
Something you've spent money on that you wish you hadn't?
It is the beginning of the year and most of us have finances on our minds. Either we've created a budget, or will be creating a budget. Either we've made our own goals and aspirations for the coming year, or we will.
The above questions are probably things you've already asked yourself, but if not, I'm asking for you.
The biggest waste of money in my opinion is spoiled food. Buying something and then not eating it.
What I've seen others do? Hmm, that's a tougher one. I guess I'd have to say I've seen old friends spend way too much money on clothes and perfumes. That's a big waste in my opinion.
Something I've spent money on and wish I hadn't? Hmm.. That's a lot of things. I'm not sure I could narrow it down. I guess the biggest thing would have to be when I spent money on a French class and only went to one class.
What about you?
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27 responses
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
7 Jan 20
Are you able to pay for the cost of the extra GB by online earnings? or no?
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@cool83 (4465)
• Sri Lanka
7 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum Well Nope .. i`m still looking for good jobs earn from online .. Are you doing online jobs for earning ??
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@cool83 (4465)
• Sri Lanka
7 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum Thank you very much for giving some information .Well i`m looking for some short link marketing things . well my country not supporting those survey things so on .. But i feel survey sites you can earn more rite ??
@LadyDuck (502914)
• Italy
6 Jan 20
I agree that the biggest waste on money is spoiled food, same too much expensive restaurants, food is food, I cannot accept to spend $500 for a dinner. The biggest waste of money I have seen in others, I would say the make up that my niece buys. What I regret more to have bought a mower robot.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
I see all of these fine dining places and how they get away with charging so much money for their foods. It's crazy! Food is food, and it shouldn't be anymore expensive than is necessary.
I do not wear make up though I do have a pallette of eyeshadows around here somewhere. Celebrities get away with charging massive amounts for their makeup when it's really all the same.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
7 Jan 20
@LadyDuck Personally, I wouldn't spend more than $12 for a pallette of 24 colors. $70 for one is ridiculous.
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@LadyDuck (502914)
• Italy
7 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum I wear make up, not a lot but eyeliner and eyeshadows , I do not buy cheap Chinese products, but normal products by Revlon or Maybelline. I would never spend $70 just for one eyesshadow color, my niece does.
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@LindaOHio (222978)
• United States
6 Jan 20
People that spend money that they don't have makes me crazy. Then they complain that they can't afford the necessities. I bought an expensive scanner and then couldn't get the channels in the nearby big city without an outside antenna. That was a waste.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
Oh, we used to have one of those types of scanners, but now you can just get an app on your phone and listen to the calls that way. Our scanner broke and we didn't get another one.
Yes, I had a friend who would spend on clothes and make up when she didn't need it. She goes to parties nearly every weekend and she'd have to get another outfit just for that even though she had plenty. That irritated me.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
@LindaOHio I am not sure if the app is still available, but I had it on one of my phones several years ago.
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@LindaOHio (222978)
• United States
6 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum That kind of waste irritates me too. I don't have a smartphone; but I didn't know there was an app for calls. That's cool.
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@resukill22 (25050)
• Las Pinas City, Philippines
6 Jan 20
For me, the biggest waste of money is when you buy a things that you don't need
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
Yes, but there are so many of those things, and sometimes we convince ourselves that we really DO need those things.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
@resukill22 That's easier said than done, surely?
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@resukill22 (25050)
• Las Pinas City, Philippines
6 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum just limit it, save the money
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@Luap1050 (878)
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6 Jan 20
I'll go with Unspoiled food too...but...I for instance am not a Star bucks fan...yet I love great coffee....
Mc'donalds...and even 7-11 has great coffee ( when its fresh ) for a Buck ...but I usually enjoy it at home and do a travel mug when I go out ...can save big $$ over a year by avoiding Starbucks a couple times a day!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
I don't mind a starbucks once in a very blue moon, but yes, I think it is a waste otherwise. You can jazz up your coffee at home for cheaper.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
@Luap1050 You can buy the starbucks brand in stores instead of going to the coffee shop as well. I feel like someone, somewhere has analyzed the starbucks coffee and probably has a "recipe" for what types of beans they used and how they prepared it.
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@Luap1050 (878)
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6 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum ...ooo Starbucks is great coffee...just saying its expensive
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@porwest (112928)
• United States
7 Jan 20
I definitely agree with you about the spoiled food, and rarely food ever goes to waste in our house. Worst case scenario something becomes a soup or a casserole, or promptly goes into the freezer. I think the biggest waste of money is really not shopping around, not knowing your prices, and paying too much for things unnecessarily. I harp on this a lot when it comes to food or household items. If you know you can get pork on sale for $1.99 per pound why buy it at $3 per pound? And why not stock up on it when it IS on sale. If you know you can get Glade air fresheners for 97 cents at Walmart, why buy them elsewhere for $1.29? And again, why not buy 10 Glades when you are at Walmart so you don;t run out and aren't forced to pay more them somewhere else. But that's just me.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
7 Jan 20
@porwest I get your argument, but I still have to stay firm with mine. There are some people that don't have the same discipline as you do, and the more stores they go to the more likely they are to spend more money. Of course this can be avoided if people carried cash for their shopping, but more and more use the debit and credit cards for that purpose. There are even rewards programs that require the use of the debit card to get cash back, which people are always for.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
7 Jan 20
That kind of shopping is good but it has it's limitations. If you can spend $1.29 at the grocery store for glade and save money on gas, then the $1.29 is worth it in my opinion.
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@porwest (112928)
• United States
7 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum I always hear that argument, but it misses the point. You design your shopping destination at any given time to what you need and who has the best price and you stock up. No extra gas spent. You just know where you have to be to get what you need at the right price, and if you have properly planned you never need to be somewhere else paying more for something. Just me.
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@patgalca (18481)
• Orangeville, Ontario
6 Jan 20
Waste of food is at the top of the list I think. I throw away so much food that doesn't get eaten. I have told my family that once a casserole left over does not get eaten, I stop making it. I stopped making lasagna because I threw some out that no one finished eating. Now I buy a frozen 4-serving lasagna that everyone loves. I've tried other brands recently and we all agree that this one is the best, next to my home made version. But I won't make it if it's going to get thrown out.
@patgalca (18481)
• Orangeville, Ontario
6 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum Left overs are mostly meant for them to take for lunch at work. That just doesn't seem to happen anymore.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
@patgalca The three of us are here all day, no work for us to take things to.
I used to love taking leftovers to work though, I wonder why your family does not.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
I do not blame you and that is the best way to go about it. My family won't eat leftovers, so it's hard for me to find the right portion size. There are sometimes that I make too much and end up eating too much because I don't want it to go to waste.
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@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
6 Jan 20
There are so many things that I call big waste of money that I would not know where to start. Leaving water faucets open and bulbs on when someone leaves a room pisses me. I eat all leftovers, but if you are not a fan of them, just cook the amount of food that you will eat. I have also seen people that spend a lot in clothes, but they are not near me so I close my eyes.
@marguicha (230365)
• Chile
7 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum Buying too many clothes is not only a waste of money but also a waste of water. I heard a while ago that the jeans industry spent 2000 liters of water making each pair of jeans.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
My family leaves lights on, and I am always going behind them now to try to turn them off. I try to limit my faucet time, but even I sometimes forget to turn off the water in between.
I had a friend once who went to parties nearly every weekend and she needed a new outfit for each time, I could never understand that.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
7 Jan 20
@marguicha Oh wow that is a lot of water required to manufacture those jeans. I do not understand the trend of jeans that have large holes in them. People spend $100 for those jeans when they could take an old pair of their own and do the same thing for free. I also think it's silly to wear a pair of jeans with so many holes.
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@LeaPea2417 (40062)
• Toccoa, Georgia
6 Jan 20
Spoiled food and eating out too much.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
7 Jan 20
The former can be avoided if there was less of the latter, I think.
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@LeaPea2417 (40062)
• Toccoa, Georgia
7 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum That is true.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
Oh yes, plastic water bottles are something I don't buy. My family does, and I find it a waste. I drink tap water, though I usually boil it first since we don't have a purifier.
@Morleyhunt (21741)
• Canada
6 Jan 20
I paid for a years gym membership and went two times in the first month. After that time, opportunity, transportation all kept me from returning. That money could have been better spent on a good pair of shoes.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
I've always thought about getting a membership but I know I wouldn't last very long before discontinuing it.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
You mean to waste food then?
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@mrki444 (15162)
• Croatia (Hrvatska)
6 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum Yes. I hate see when some people buy food, nothing new, and they just disposite into garbage because they change oppionion about what they want eat today.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
@mrki444 Oh that is awful! Yes, they need to decide and stick to that decision. It's like you said, throwing away the money!
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
7 Jan 20
Just buying things for the sake of buying or for status issues is a big waste. You don't use them or enjoy them.
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
12 Jan 20
@cool83 Yes sort of. Like going for way too expensive luxuries like destination wedding to show off their status.
@cool83 (4465)
• Sri Lanka
7 Jan 20
@arunima25 what do you mean by status issues ?? is that mean usually people wasting money because they want to be higher status than neighbors etc
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@florelway (23339)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
7 Jan 20
Gambling, betting is putting money to waste.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
7 Jan 20
I agree. Though there is a sort of "gambling" game that I just thought of. The latinos here in the US do this. I don't know the full rules or details, but they put $20.00 and their names down on a list. At the end of the the period (usually three months or so) they can get the $20.00 out + $80.00 more. No one loses anything, and they all gain money. I am not sure exactly how it works, but I still think it would be smarter if they just put $20 of their own money away each week.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
8 Jan 20
@florelway It's not. It's called "Tanda" or something like that. The problem is you have to know whether to trust the people you are doing it with.
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@florelway (23339)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
8 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum looks like a pyramid scheme.
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@snowy22315 (209267)
• United States
6 Jan 20
Didn't you start a discussion like this about a month ago??? lol. I think food or eating out...at least in my case.
@snowy22315 (209267)
• United States
7 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum Right!Ur doesn't hurt to "revisit"an issue anyway.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
I think I might have started one similar. I asked myself that before I started this discussion but then I figured I wouldn't be the first person to repeat a discussion, nor would I be the last.
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@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
6 Jan 20
Food - yes - I agree totally! Yesterday in fact I sadly threw out a bunch of ingredients I bought intended for our meals during the holiday in between days . . . it was like throwing out $$$, seriously, but it all went bad - what a waste. I see a friend wasting money on Starbucks (that has been for years) . . . I mean she makes good money, but still she has Starbucks nearly all day and everyday - not to mention I believe it has a taken a toll on her health. I wish I hadn't spent money on all the extra stuff for our house that I am now trying to get rid of . . . at the time everything seemed necessary and usable.
@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
7 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum I get over my head with ideas of grandeur in the kitchen - and then something happens and I don't have the time that I thought I would have. I have to stop "planning" like that - I get so mad at myself when I have to toss stuff out.
Oh wow - is your sister picky too or does she just naturally do not eat very much? My friend just lives off of coffee - has a terrible sleep schedule - etc etc - she needs to eat real food and get a hold on her health!
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
Yes, you know those types of coffees are okay intermittently, but they do take a toll on your health. I used to buy frozen coffee's like that, not from starbucks but from others.
I hate when I have to waste ingredients too. I have julienned carrots that I am going to throw into a meal somehow just so that I do not waste it.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
@much2say I buy meat for the week, that is, If I know i'll make two dishes with meat I'll buy it the week that I am going to use it. I've had too much meat go to waste otherwise.
My sister, love her to pieces, does not eat at all. When I saw her at Christmas she was a skeleton. Her daughter is picky, so very picky, and I hate that she won't eat much and hope she doesnt' end up like my sister.
I hope your friend will eat more fruits and veg. I had a friend who was like that too. He wouldnt' even eat a salad.
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@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
6 Jan 20
Over indulgence of food. And every new gadget on Amazon.
@TiarasOceanView (70020)
• United States
6 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum Yes and me..not really a gadget queen but buying some things not needed..no more.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
@TiarasOceanView There are so many new gadgets coming out all the time, things that are supposed to make our world simpler. It just makes me how much more simple can we get before we do nothing for ourselves anymore?
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
I used to be the new gadget queen, but I grew out of that a long time ago. I use whatever I have until I simply cannot anymore.
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@Lushlala (4028)
• Gaborone, Botswana
6 Jan 20
Gym membership. I know a lot of people who join, go for a few classes, fall by the wayside but have to keep paying because they're locked into a contract. Been there, done it and bought the t-shirt LOL
@Lushlala (4028)
• Gaborone, Botswana
6 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum I don't bother with that anymore. I just cut right back on my food intake and WALK. That works a treat!
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
@Lushlala Oh yes, I used to walk around my neighborhood all the time. That is what I need to start doing again, is walking. It's the best exercise out there.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
Ah yes, that is a good one. I hadn't thought of that, but you are so right. Especially this time of year. People get a membership and then stop going.
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
7 Jan 20
Eating in five star hotels and spending thousands of dollars for taste less.food.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
7 Jan 20
I used to work for two of those 5 start hotels and I ate the food for free. 
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
7 Jan 20
@amitkokiladitya Not really. The food we were allowed to eat was several days old. We could sneak the fresh stuff from time to time, but the cooks hated that we did it. It was always extras, and we always waited until we were sure no more guests would arrive, but the chefs hated it.
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
7 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum wow...lucky you
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
Ah yes, those who gamble do waste a lot of money. lottery tickets are another waste of money.
Oh wow, and the treatment didn't work?
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
6 Jan 20
@Sojourn Ouch, I am sorry to hear that. They promised it would not return?
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@Sojourn (13833)
• India
6 Jan 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum No, the pain came back as it is after few days.
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