People really spend their money on THIS?!!! - r/AskReddit

what is the most outrageous waste of money you have witnessed with your own eyes the three separate occasions where my dad bought a boat neglected to use it for years sold it and bought a different boat like the next year not the biggest waste but weirdest one around 2001 my wife worked for a national company and her team was split between East and West Coast no working from home all laptops desktops were standard for them if someone needed to work from home they had a single laptop they could use for the whole team so if that laptop was an MC and someone MCA needed to work from home they had to box it up ship it with full insurance rush shipping and a few days notice to the other coast my company recently switched to a new operating system and rather than have a few people come train our office they plan to send everyone around 200 people to from the east coast to the west coast for a week for training they did about half before realizing that wasn't cost-effective and since they're such a great company their solution after that was to stop training everyone and just give them books to read a girl I went to high school with applied to Harvard she spelled it Harvard multiple times in her essay and paid the $75 application fee High School head of math department buys about 10 pallets of chalk and retires the next year the new head of the math department decides to switch out all the chalkboards for dry erase boards they aren't allowed to throw out the chalk and aren't allowed to share with other departments who still use chalkboards they had a room full of chalk for at least seven or eight years that no one was allowed to use knew a guy that bought a device from a magic website that made it look like you shot fireballs out of your hand thing cost $200 and everyone around him said it was stupid this may be autobiographical definitely not the biggest sum of money but spent for a really stupid reason I bought a $300 bottle of scotch when I meant to buy the $60 version from the same distillery the boxes look nearly identical when the cashier told me the price I realized my mistake but she and everyone behind me in line seemed really impressed that I was buying something so expensive so now I own an unopened very expensive bottle of single-malt because of my social anxiety in Las Vegas in 2000 at the Bellagio I watched a guy walk up to a high-roller blackjack table he was being followed by a security guard and some guy in a suit carrying what we guesstimated at about dollar sign 300k in chips he sat and played blackjack by himself we watched for about 45 minutes and he had already lost over dollar sign 150 K never once showed any emotion no clue who the guy was he was dressed like a stereotypical white grandparents orts a polo shirt and white New Balance tennis shoes previous job a satellite location ran mostly on their own technically was their own company of seven people presidents of said company met someone online got catfished hard and sent them dollar sign 20k from the business then they did it again two years later in a donut shop on a Friday guy has cash and keeps buying scratchers goes through about four hundred dollars then finally stops and says something about paying rent I'm a VIP tour guide at Walt Disney World each guide costs $600 hour and charging starts when you ask us to meet you whether you're there or not a family booked two of us multiple days in a row and wouldn't show up until typically two three hours into being charged dolla sign's 7 k plus overall paid for to a time they didn't use didn't care at all I used to have something to do with warehouse logistics and what net a new manager came in and his first project was an order of about half a million dollars worth of pallet these weren't wooden pallets but plastic molded ones specifically made to fit the forklifts that we were using the order had to be made overseas and brought in by Freight they had to be exact measurements of course to fit the forklifts he started bragging that my sales department made all the money for him to spend a few months later the pallets arrived in none of them fit the forklifts in our warehouse except for one turns out he measured only one of the forklifts for these pallets that one forklift was part of a unique non-standard system used for minor modes faced with a warehouse of half a million bucks worth of plastic pallets that won't work with our standard forklifts the guy was swiftly asked to resign but yeah now we use wood pallets I work for Amazon's logistical team they are currently spending thousands of dollars sending people to 450 school so we can move Freight between sites however they are not giving out bonuses raises or any kind of incentive so everyone's just leaving immediately after to better paying jobs it's hilariously stupid I had a client who borrowed money at 6% interest only fixed for five years to invest in five year term deposit offering 2.3 percent because he was told he should have investments in term deposits when nearing retirement I have a friend who will book vacations to countries other cow Walker book trips - just so he can say he's been there first although not a big sum of money my friend once borrowed my other friends money so he could order a soda at Boston Market he then went to the soda machine and proceeded to fill his cup up with water not sure the amount of money but it was a lot of bacon I once worked for a three place warehouse primarily focused on food storage services a client company was storing some pre cooked bacon for use in some products they were planning to release they decided not to release said product and ordered all of the bacon we were storing for them to be destroyed we loaded multiple trucks with close to 150 zero-zero-zero pounds of perfectly edible bacon to get tossed in a landfill saddest day of my life while working there before anyone asks there was an auditor from the client there making sure all of the pallets of bacon were loaded onto the trucks and none fell off I worked with the guy years ago as his manager we'll call him Kevin Kevin had a gray 1987 Chevy celebrity that he bought for $300 which he customized with 18-inch rims that he had bought for $800 used and likely stolen and $500 worth of audio equipment also likely stolen he decided one day that he should put under car lights on his $300 1987 Chevy celebrity he spent $400 on a fancy set of lights and another $200 to have them installed under car lights happened to be illegal in our state but you could usually get away with them if you weren't stupid kevin was stupid he decided to show off his $300 1987 Chevy celebrity with its $800 ins $500 audio system and $400 under car lights which weren't particularly legal in our state he concluded that the best place to do so was the local carnival sponsored by and held outside of the local police station Kevin pulled up to the carnival in his $300 1987 Chevy celebrity slowed down on his $800 18 inch rims and turned on his $400 under car lights and $500 audio system not 100 feet in to showing off for the ladies one of the police officers at which there were many decided to show off the lights on his 2002 Chevy Impala he was given a ticket for 180 dollars but told that if he had the lights removed and showed up to his court date then the ticket would likely be dropped returning to the shop at which he purchased the lights for $400 Kevin paid another $100 to have them professionally removed which he then earned back by selling the $400 set of lights to the very shop for that $100 that he'd just handed them having only gotten to use them the one time after removing and ridding himself of the lights that had caused so much drama to Kevin and his $300 1987 Chevy celebrity he decided to celebrate by trying to drag racer Mustang on the way home he wrecked and totaled the car but walked away unscathed thus was the end of the $300 1987 Chevy celebrity with its 800 rims $500 audio system and $400 under car lights since the car had been totaled Kevin never got the chance to prove to the magistrate that the lights had been removed and still had to pay the 180 dollars fine friend bought a new fully stocked car he couldn't afford on his salary he said it's okay because he's getting another job that pays better wages only thing is he hasn't taken the exam to get his license for the job yet the company I work for invested 1 million dollars into a new framework for servers and databases let it sit unused for six years and then migrated a very poorly tested environment onto it when it was two years until EOL basically forcing themselves to start looking for a replacement right after migration someone buying a PS 20 extended 3-year warranty on a PS 6 kettle one of our sister companies dere commissioned a printing press that was identical to one we losing it was given to us to store in a warehouse so we could scavenge it for parts as needed parts for older presses can range from $500 for little things to several hundred thousand for larger assemblies so this was a great year for us our maintenance supervisor he'd been with the company for about a year decided to show management how good he was at cost-saving so in an effort to save warehousing costs on useless parts he told the warehouse to scrap the whole thing even if it cost dollar sign 15k a year to warehouse it we've needed about 20 times that amount in ordered parts now that could have come off that old machine two of my favorites my rich huncles bought a luxury sport boats something went wrong with the rudder that he used for water skiing they were so disgusted that after paying thousands for the repair they got a whole new one selling the old one for nothing I also worked at a high-end footwear factory making pairs of leather shoes that retail at $500 a pair the owner was a self-styled a nacho capitalist and had some entertaining ideas about how to run a business he had some notion that his staff would work harder if we were afraid of bankruptcy so he stopped buying leather I don't know how these things were connected naturally we could not make more shoes we told customers that the weight would be longer than ever for their shoes sales stopped order stopped I swept the floor ten times a day he refused to buy leather for three months while keeping all of us working paying our wages with his own credit because he was method someone who told him that his strategy was idiotic the company was bought out by another old boys club entrepreneur pinhead after the owner ran out of money my school is one of the few schools to be part of the apple distinguished schools everyone in middle school and high school gets their own MacBook Air everyone from kindergarten to middle school gets iPads meanwhile our art department is one guy who is paying for everything himself because he loves art and does it for the students my class donated the money we got from fundraisers that we world-views to go have a party after our graduation ceremony to our school departments that were in need I just bought a $17 plane burger at a concert venue me buying 5k worth of crypto at the peak of the December 2017 rush had a friend who was in his late twenties and lived with his parents 100% dependent dude worked a part-time job and said he was saving money for something big we all assumed he meant like moving out or a trip out of the country or something no this MF bought a seven hundred and fifty dollar pair of sneakers and then put them in a display case I haven't spoken to him in about a year going to study abroad in Japan while having a severe allergy to peanuts and eggs and absolutely zero knowledge of the Japanese language he left after one week co-workers putting $300 in a slot machine lost it all in a few seconds then he asked to borrow some money because his kids are coming to visit I guess I know why he was devoted parishioners spent years raising several million dollars to restore their large aging gothic Church no sooner was the extensive restoration complete but what plans were announced by the diocese to close the building and merge the parish with another all those donations fundraisers and tireless efforts wipe down the drain and thus far the only potential buyer for the church is considering turning it into a combination nightclub / restaurant / banquet facility when he was 8 my buddy got hurt in a supermarket because of random boxes in the walkway his mom suit and he got rewarded $18 0 0 0 in a settlement however he wasn't able to touch the money so he was 18 anyway when he turned 18 in 2009 he got all of the money all at once he immediately went out and bought TVs the biggest of course and box 360 is for four family members then he paid the $500 down payment on a brand-new car and leased it for three hundred and fifty dollars mo went to a local sit-down restaurant and paid for others to eat there multiple times and I don't even want to think about his online shopping this went on for a month and a half one day one of his friends made him a deal it buy him a laptop of equal value at the time for his box 360 they went to the store and went to pay for it his debit card got denied when he checked his balance he had about 150 dollars in his account few years back I used to make cast mold in pewter figurines for D&D I could buy $25 worth of pewter and MKE about 50 75 figurines which I sold for $10 $50 each depending on the size had a guy come to me by every figurine I was able to make I had 72 different molds for a cost of $900 said he was going to get deep into the end d week later he gave up on the game because he cold figure out the battle system a family friend of us pledged his money on several cars when I say several trust me they are in hundreds I've been to his garage once when he threw a huge party his garage had several Rolls Royces several Bentley's several BMWs several Audis several Vince's several Lamborghinis and several Porsches I thought this dude must be frig until I found out later in the news that he's defrauded banks off money his debts were amounting x-15 the amount of his value of his whole and his businesses he was thrown in jail he's out now I think my souls family dropped dollar sign 5k on fireworks for the 4th of July they do this every year it blows my frickin mind they are wealthy which means dollar sign 5k is probably pocket change for them it's just different school of thought I grew up living in a tent level and poor so to think what my family could have done with that amount of money every year is what boggled my mind also to those who say they would love to spend that much slash spent close to that much slash enjoy the fourth and loved sharing the fun with friends / family good on you I'm glad you enjoy yourself but for me personally I have a hard time imagining literally blowing up my cash to that extent I was an assistant manager at a grocery store and you wouldn't believe how much produce I threw out because it wasn't pretty enough the district manager set a high standard of how the produce should look if I didn't call it correctly he would write meat up he came in one three times a week so I couldn't get away with not doing what he asked when I looked at weekly reports of a shrink producer mounted for about one hundred two hundred dollars I asked him if I could donate the produce we throw out and his response was that surfed I was so glad when this place went out of business my rumored plays for tonight and buys every single scan that come out every one one from the late 1990s a large multinational engineering firm was given orders to eliminate unnecessary overhead expenses one of their departments had a large conference coming up about half the attendees were going to attend by teleconference in those days teleconferencing was done in dedicated rooms with court monitors and cameras the use of these rooms was classified as an overhead expense but business travel was not so in the name of saving money all the teleconference arrangements were canceled and all that and these were flown in to attend in person I worked at a phone store and this guy just lost his iPhone X in a river the guy had insurance on the phone and had a 250 dollar option to use it and get a phone the next day he said he needed a phone now and ended up paying the 850 dollars he still owed on his phone plus signing a new agreement to get another wry phone ax we make commission off the phones but I was looking out in his best interest that doing the insurance would make the most sense but then scoffed and said it's only $800 he was the epitome of olive off dadoes money and him acting like 800 dollars is nothing as the most pretentious thing I've ever seen donating money to get Kylie Jenner to be the youngest billionaire I work as a freelance musician and often stand in for wedding bands I have worked at lots of weddings where clearly the families have crazy money one thing I always see at the fancier events without fail is a ton of amazing fully prepared food and expensive drink being tip / thrown away at the end of the night when I asked about it once I was told by one of the staff that a lot of catering companies are trained to prepare enough of every menu option so that if everyone orders the same thing they have enough what happens in reality is they tipping off food to feed the wedding party often of 200 plus people another two times over particularly annoying when the band are served cold chips as their evening meal because we couldn't stretch the budget sorry on a more positive note one of the funniest things I've ever seen was a drummer successfully sneaked out of a catering tent having liberated a whole wheel of cheese that night once I was at this cheap looking casino with a friend of mine in this casino there was a round roulette table with six seats to sit and play on as we only my friend and I were sitting at this particular table some guy took three seats for himself and kept gambling the maximum amount of money on these three seats every game this guy lost everything off course and went complete berserk after a while security had to drag his ass out of the casino because he was fighting the machine while screaming like a maniac poor guy probably lost everything that day still sometimes wonder how he's doing nowadays I spent $200 on a taxidermy scarole wearing a top hat and holding a gun for my brother's birthday the PS 35 K tiny Trump balloon flying in London I thought it was supposed to be a lot bigger some rich dude in the Hamptons buying a pallet of Fiji bottled water for his hot tub I'm doing a course at university that covers specific contracts relating mostly to banking insurance credit agreements and other financial contracts and agreements my lecturer has practical experience as a senior compliance officer at some big banks and told us about one of his clients spending the equivalent of in today's terms 68 million dollars buying adjusting and rolling out software and hardware for their national banking system the problem was that the software wasn't developed locally an as a result included functionality that served absolutely no purpose locally and further to that omitted functionality that was a baseline requirement in terms of what the bank needed locally my lecturer attributed this to the fact that it happened around 2001 / 2002 which is why nobody was absolutely certain about what was going on I didn't experience it firsthand with my own eyes but I can feel the pain of the higher-ups who had to admit to making that mistake last he spoke of it he said they ended up abandoning the upgrade losing out on the sum total of 68 million dollars plus the seven hundred and fifty three dollars zero zero zero fine that was levied every six months for their lack of compliance with standard banking practices he stepped down as their compliance officer when one of the execs told him that the fines will cost less than restructuring for a new upgrade I had a friend that thought a good way to save money would be to buy gift cards for places he didn't like when he actually needed cash he would transfer them for about 60% value idiot at a festival while walking back to my campsite I passed the girl who was probably 1820 years old was buying a wire-wrap drug spoon for $100 for those of you who are like WTF even is that it's a 2 inch long metal spoon probably worth $3 with wha decoratively wrapped around the end turning it into a necklace and you use it to spoon drugs into your nose I work at a car dealership as an apprentice mechanic now I've seen many examples of people wasting their money v8 car parts dumb accessories whatever the list goes on but there was this one guy that would spend literally $75 on a car freshener and bragged about it constantly he'd call himself a leech because he bought these $75 pieces of scented cardboard I don't know what went through his mind every time he'd buy one of them I've broken away from Magic the Gathering a couple times but now I'm back and I'm playing an fnm tonight I've totally fallen off the wagon and the cardboard crack has me again I know a guy who purchased a second car his first car is a Mustang his second is inaudi he is a single father his payment arrangement is 400 per month he didn't try to talk it down the car is 10 years old his Mustang hasn't paid off he works on my team in the same position as I have my wife and I together can barely afford our 250 per month single car payment and the best part he can't drive a stick his new car is istic he hasn't learned to drive a stick it's been three years he's been doing all of this and struggling for three years for a lawn ornament was at the Bellagio in Vegas and walked in the high-roller room there was a guy walking around playing baccarat on four or five different tables at a time he'd tell the dealer 25 Bank 5 car 25 Bank 5 tie while rotating around basically he was betting $25 0 zero zero on the bank and $5.00 he was the son of the LG CEO and was down about 5 million so far that weekend does it count if some people live like this I know a small firewood business owner losing money every month taking deposits or advances to pay for bills months ago then never delivering and his fiancee is a realtor she must live near New York City near her clients rented their one-bedroom in Weehawken one parking spot they have two cars $3,200 a month maximum out their credit cards for a $500 repair on their car get engaged a week later rented a penthouse and make videographer violinist photographer 12k ring and left for Mexico for a week come back find the monster venue in New York leave a non-refundable 10k deposit on it for New Year's Eve for 350 freaking people throws engagement party for 100 people finds out mom and dad are only cooking in 25k for this blowout so what is the reasonable thing to do take out a personal loan to pay for the wedding party doesn't stop until 2 a.m. fireworks at midnight I can't freakin wait for this crap show if it even happens I wonder what it's like living in their world my boyfriend's dad owns seven different Apple watches because he didn't want to change the band's out I once witnessed had gone on to luxury car into space when he had the option of using just any old thing that weighed a lot my boss bought a $30 0 0 0 Boulder to put in his front yard saw an acquaintance let pride get the better of him and he spent $300 on a carnival game that he never ended up being able to win I think I had something to do with it cause I won the game free throw moments before and he was watching for some reason in middle to high school I would win that game every single time I saw it can't for the life of me anymore he got a consolation doll though high school some senior won a Tim Hortons roll up the rim to win thing he bought a ton of cigarettes loose and drugs weddings a girl who bought her boyfriend of three months an $800 watch for his birthday my roommate is a rich international student his parents own a very successful business in Beijing he spent $1 300 Canadian dollars on a brand new iPad pro mind you he already owned one so that he can have one iPad plugged into our speaker and he can use the other wry pad as a remote to change the music a company won a contract in an area of the world they never operated in but thought they could do it purely because they had the hubris of working in other tough areas of the world in fact they were so confident they quickly scaled up to several contracts in this new area turns out the equipment couldn't act the new environment company proceeds to blow well over 100 million dollars in a year repairing prematurely failing equipment surprise surprise there was no Christmas party that year but I'm sure the management team enjoyed their bonuses at a steak house with all kinds of cuts and prices of beef saw a guy asked for the most expensive fairly cut then requested very well done and asked the thing in ketchup before he ate it my friend owns two watches totaling $40 zero zero zero he can't tell the time a bonus querido any apostrophe s carrot ro ma a nun numerals carrot a and D carrot a TR can't I read carrot th e mo either out with a billionaire friend of my parents he had them wake up the hotel restaurants chef to rush over and make us food chef was in a great mood too my brother graduated from law school we were having a lunch before the graduation event my grandpa rode at a 500 dollar bottle of champagne for him and his wife at lunch the waiter mistakenly thought he meant for the entire table of nine the waiter brings out of four dollars zero zero zero dollar Magnum bottle of champagne my grandpa not wanting to be embarrassed opened and accepted it we all drank what we could and he had the rest sent up to his room it was about a $6 200 lunch I bought a 1992 NBA Jam arcade machine don't get me wrong I love me some classic Jam but my friends told me it was a waste and I haven't dodon in over a year a family friend became very successful and celebrated by buying $12 zero-zero-zero of matching wooden hangers make sure to LIKE and subscribe so we can watch together you

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Published: Sun Jun 21 2020