What do you regret "saving money" on?

[kalniel]

Supporting the local football team :/ Watching them fail in the play off first leg is depressing.

[snedger]

Supporting the local football team :/ Watching them fail in the play off first leg is depressing.

Was that Brighton/Derby/Walsall/Bradford/Accrington?
I'm torn between watching Brighton fail tonight or joining the Lestah parade - I think that I hate chaotic crowds more than taking the medicine of disappointment, so I'll probably just watch the bus go by from the Exchange pub and then go home to watch the game.
Anyway, back on topic.
Cheap PSU for a PC build.
A "bargain" Bosch drill that used proprietary drill bits and was gutless - couldn't get a 10mm drill, so had to buy another drill!
Cheap tins of food from the world foods aisle.
I'm glad that nobody has listed prophylactics

[Zak33]

Difficult one. My hyundai i20 has been perfect small auto for me. Still passing its MOT with no work at 5 years old. Reliable and cheap which fits me perfectly however I still sometimes wonder if I should have gone for 3 year old ford focus auto instead... That said i'd probably be hating the bills on the focus right about now!

YOU'RE the one person on here who SHOULDN'T be feeling bad.

A focus is a great car.. but the auto gearbox isn't

at all

[cheesemp]

YOU'RE the one person on here who SHOULDN'T be feeling bad.

A focus is a great car.. but the auto gearbox isn't

at all

Fair enough. I picked the i20 as honestjohn recommend it as the best small auto along with the i10... it's a good car but I still love the idea of something nicer. Still it saved me on maintenance when I need to save cash!

[Zak33]

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”

best post of the week

[TooNice]

Hugely simplified though. A lot of things do not last "years and years" (and I would throw "really good pair leather boots" into the list) and quite often nowadays, chunk of the cost of expensive stuff goes into the design, branding.. and quality, but not to the extent that it would outlast something at 1/5th the cost by over 5 times.

And while you get really rich people out there living a pretty frugal lifestyle, you also get plenty more who aren't afraid to pamper themselves spending on really expensive things. Not talking like Apple product "expensive", but supercar/mansion expensive. For one reason or another, their income simply greatly exceeds their lavish expenses.

[opel80uk]

Supporting the local football team :/ Watching them fail in the play off first leg is depressing.

That's why you should support the mighty AFC Wimbledon!

[kalniel]

That's why you should support the mighty AFC Wimbledon!

That's true - when you start off as a base level of depression the only way is up

(nice club though)

[BobF64]

"Consumer grade" drill bits, should have known that even decent brand drill bits in large packs just don't last.

[DanceswithUnix]

And while you get really rich people out there living a pretty frugal lifestyle, you also get plenty more who aren't afraid to pamper themselves spending on really expensive things. Not talking like Apple product "expensive", but supercar/mansion expensive.

Supercars can be a great example of cost effectiveness. Buy a normal car, watch the value plummet. Something like a Merc is horrific. Buy a second hand exotic, you might even make money when you come to sell it.

[kalniel]

Buy a second hand exotic, you might even make money when you come to sell it.

But if you drive it then you have to maintain it which costs a fair bit

[Butcher]

But if you drive it then you have to maintain it which costs a fair bit

Not to mention if you put a fair few miles on them the value tends to plummet too. Appreciating supercars tend to be the ones sat in a nice heated garage and only taken out on sunny weekends.

[kalniel]

Not to mention if you put a fair few miles on them the value tends to plummet too. Appreciating supercars tend to be the ones sat in a nice heated garage and only taken out on sunny weekends.

That's why you need a Nissan Micra for rainy days

[Zak33]

"Consumer grade" drill bits, should have known that even decent brand drill bits in large packs just don't last.

oh THIS... with bells on!!!

[Saracen]

oh THIS... with bells on!!!

Indeed.

I've seen some fancy-pants "super" bit sets regularly advertised on one of the TV shopping channels that look, from the advertorial, too good to be true. I've been tempted, I admit, but they do just look TOO good to be true.

I've never found anybody I "know", like you guys here, that's actually tried them and can give an impartial opinion, but I wonder if they're the DIY equivalent of snake-oil. I tend to buy bits from a tool shop the name of which escspes me, but it reminds me of carpets .... Axminster? Wilton? Dunno, and I'm not at home to check. Axminster, I think. They're generally pretty good.

[Zak33]

Washing Up Brushes.. and Tooth Brushes

Same reason... cheap ones go flat and lose all semblance of "bristle" too fast!