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Home › Money

Question of the Day | 03/28/2008 7:30 am

What are the three dumbest things you spend money on?

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Diana Marrero
Coffee! let me tell you, Sheila, Dunkin Donuts is waaay up there already with Starbucks…The prices have gone up 2x already this year alone! It’s crazy. I think that’s about the dumbest thing I spend money on…daily!!!!!!!!
By Diana Marrero on 03/28/2008 11:53 am
Kathi O'Donohue
-art supplies for projects I never get to do. -bowling sidepots now that my average sucks. -almost any yard sale item that duplicates what I already have or what I really don’t need but I find comes in useful for theatre props. Now, if I could only collect a rental on the stuff I’ve bought (mannequins for example, what home is complete without 8 or 9 mannequins)?
By Kathi O'Donohue on 03/28/2008 12:01 pm
MB is me
healthclub membership that Im a slacker at going to! Halloween costumes for kids where they use for one day!!! (I so wish I learned to sew) , endless weightloss pills, shakes,etc, oh THe EPILADY WHO THOUGHT OF THAT ONE??
By MB is me on 03/28/2008 12:16 pm
Buh-Bye Hillary Hillary Buh-Bye
Organics, vitamins, my serious lifelong addiction to orange juice. Makeup….Shelia’s right. Just spent $33 for a bottle of make-up remover when Ponds is just as good. Live nicely but not materialistic as a freak on order and dislike clutter. What I waste (lately, and mostly due to shattered foot) is time, not $. And that makes me very irked with myself as usually extremely efficient and accomplishment oriented.
By Buh-Bye Hillary Hillary Buh-Bye on 03/28/2008 12:41 pm
Sharon Belko
Rose - I’m with you on the wasted veggies. Everytime I start a new healthful “regime” I stock up totally on the veggies first and I last about 2 days on the program (and THE man won’t eat most veggies). Most expensive is probably skin care and makeup-that I never seem to get rid of and of course online supplements that promise INSTANT whatever!
By Sharon Belko on 03/28/2008 1:16 pm
Buh-Bye Hillary Hillary Buh-Bye
Sharon, I’ve tried lots of dif supplements for 30 years (“Prescription for Nutritional Healing” is a favorite book) if you’ve never tried it, can honestly say feel immediate benefit from “Alive Protein Powder” it has all the fruit/vegs in it…I put in blender w/OJ and lots of either strawberries, banana, papaya etc, for breakfast. http://www.herbalremedies.com/alive-shake1.html Had no symptoms whatsoever from menopause when taking this. But I realize things work differently with different people. When run out and don’t get over to Whole Foods to restock, feel a difference. You can also put it in V8 juice with vegtables and into the blender.
By Buh-Bye Hillary Hillary Buh-Bye on 03/28/2008 8:32 pm
Mugsy Peabody
Just a minute now, let me check my closet! No, wait! Telephone calls, for god’s sake. Let’s see if we look at at least $100 a month for 12 months is $1200 times 40 years…. Um-um-um…. (Insert pause to blanch in embarrassment.) UNDEREARNING!!!!! And, oh, yes, credit cards and other debt service. Growing up financially has its rewards. Just bought a very very nice Honda Accord paid cash no payments thank you very much. I particularly like the no payments part. Did I mention that? No interest, either. Can we have more than 3???
By Mugsy Peabody on 03/28/2008 1:24 pm
Claire MacKenzie
Molton Brown bath products. Good towels and linen… lunch I could make for a 5th of the price myself. Travel to see my friends who seem to drift further and further across country every year.
By Claire MacKenzie on 03/28/2008 1:28 pm
Sick of Politics Ugh
Infospace stock; two of anything I don’t need even one of; all of the varieties of insurance….stupid, stupid, stupid!
By Sick of Politics Ugh on 03/28/2008 1:38 pm
Xandra Homes
Movies, lots and lots of old movie my mother doesn’t understand but I watch them and I learn o and that also goes for TV shows on DVDs but I love them
By Xandra Homes on 03/28/2008 2:27 pm
Xandra Homes
o and lots of tea come on it’s tasty
By Xandra Homes on 03/28/2008 2:28 pm
Mugsy Peabody
Oh, they’ve got a website for you! www.lamyx.com, totally great teas!
By Mugsy Peabody on 03/28/2008 7:39 pm
Sugar B
Oh I spend ALOT on Magazine subscriptions (of course this is not dumb in my book). Now archiving them the way I do…. that may be another story! :) Also, if I am anywhere in the vicinity (far and few between) CHOCOLATE MALT PLEASE! Soooo yummy! Hmmmm…. am I up for a 20 mile drive now?
By Sugar B on 03/28/2008 2:39 pm
Sugar B
YIKES… I left off where the malt comes from DAIRY QUEEN!
By Sugar B on 03/28/2008 2:40 pm
CAROLINE MuLVEY
Our biggest cost would be smokes, next would be food that is delivered,and last would be during Christmas I, My Grandson always gets 10 to 15 toys.
By CAROLINE MuLVEY on 03/28/2008 2:49 pm
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