“The Whole Concept Is Idiotic”: 35 Dumb Things People Continue To Waste Their Money On

I don't understand how people are so blind to the private jets and mansions and cars when the church is supposed to be poor and humble.

Scammers. They are just scammers. But since the masses can vote politicans will never put in laws to stop these kinds of cults. They bring votes!

When my mom was a little girl, she thought that the minister took the offering, put it in a bucket, and sent it to God via a pulley.

Megachurches are one of the greatest evils of the last 100 years

I'd pay 'em to stop preaching

What???? People pay them?? Just to watch them live fake human lives????? I thought they made money from product placement etc.,

It's a career!! they actually make a career out of doing dumb stuff on social media!! I can't get over that either

Influencers/Streamers is a large pit of varying quality. Many actually deserves it. People are not great to be objective about the content quality when they have no interest in it.

That they cant even walk in yet?

I refuse to wear a company name on my clothes. They want advertising, they should pay me!

When my daughter was born, one of her aunts (my ex sister in law who I still adore) gifted her/us some pastel purple hi-top Converse, the size was for like 3-6 months or something like that, ANYhoo yes we did put them on her when she was able to fit them but when she inevitably grew out of them, we declared them keepsakes and put them in this little wooden chest we have that has her baby book, a few Christmas dresses, the outfit we brought her home from the hospital in etc. But to continually buy stuff like that, at least for my broke @$$, is just unrealistic and about as much point as a plot in a p0rno movie

I saw some brand selling heeled shoes for little girls who weren't old enough to walk

Between ages 4-7 my stepson had growth spurts that drove us crazy. First he would get a bit pudgy, then he'd suddenly get taller and thinner. Happened over and over. We switched to elastic band pants/sweatpants until he settled into just getting taller. And taller!

Anything any celebrity sells! They just attach their name to a product that already exists in plenty in the market and rip off their innocent fans. If it’s a product that doesn’t already exist in the market, I can understand it being justifiable but why would one ever really need some $100 perfume bottle with just two sprays worth of content when you can buy pretty much the same scent elsewhere?!

If you are stupid enough to buy psychic vampire repellent, sex dust, or a jade egg to shove up your hoo-ha, you deserve to be parted from your money.

For sure the beauty products not working

I try to rationalize my smoking addiction with thoughts like "everyone has some kind of crutch/baby blanket type thing/relief they do to survive this spinning ball of rock and dirt" or "I've been smoking for about 22 years already, the damage is done, pointless to stop now" and I mean that healthwise, I know that financially it would not be pointless lol but frankly, it all boils down to the fact that I've just lost my give a damn.

I started at 17. Quit at 50. Cold turkey. Never looked back.

Great grandmother smoked two packs a day, unfiltered no less, for 80 years. Died at 104....from ya know being 104. Dad and uncle both started when they 8 years old, dad smoked for 60 years, uncle for 66 years. I started on my 14th birthday. On my 30th birthday i woke up and decided "i'm done" due in no small part simply because i wanted to be able to say i quit as arbitrarily as i started (and because my wife loathed it) that was almost 11 years ago, and i still miss it EVERY F*****G DAY. But i refuse to pay $10 for smokes.

16 years smoke free. Amazing what hearing "you have cancer" can motivate you to do. Still took 3 months of nicotine patches for it to stick and it was years before I stopped dreaming about smoking.

Smoked for a few years, was one of the lucky ones who could quit in a couple of days. But I still vape with nicotine so if that`s any better is up for debate. I figured I can go a whole day without it. the withdrawal doesn`t seem so bad as with tobacco

it's like buying a car. Don't buy a Mercedes if you can only afford a Kia.

The last wedding I attended was in a public park (which had really nice scenery for wedding photos). The bride and groom wore nice clothes they already owned and had spent a couple hundred dollars on rings. Instead of bringing gifts, the guests brought food for a pitch-in lunch. After the ceremony and lunch, we all played fun games. It was the only wedding I really enjoyed attending - and the only one where I noticed that children were obviously having a good time.

Exactly! Small ceremony...big investment into vacation or house or anything for the couple.

Weddings and wedding planning can be stressful. Why have an over the top ceremony that 1. You probably won't enjoy due to stress. 2. Have to worry about paying for it 3. It only lasts for a few hours. I knew a girl who paid for her wedding with her student loans. One year later she was divorced.

You don't have to have the huge reception and try to outdo other people. Don't have a rich b***h wedding if you're not a rich b***h. This didn't start until sometime in the 90's and if you had money you had the reception at a hotel or some other place. People have just gone nuts since then. People used to get married and have their reception at the church and it wasn't some crazy overpriced dinner. It's not the wedding and reception that makes the marriage it's the he people.

This Canadian was confused for a second there.

They're stupid. No good colors or patterns. Huge gap at the top so when it falls over it leaks like crazy. Too big, making it super heavy to carry around. I like s/m cups better. More reasonable size. Better patterns. Don't leak when they fall over. Keeps things hot or cold forever.

Much less expensive alternatives, just as good, are available.

What's so special about them?

Stanley knives on the other hand can be for life.

Corporations and billionaires can always afford to buy more politicians than you can.

"We need to raise $100 million!" "What are you going to do with it?" "Mostly give it to media companies."

Sending money to a millionaire who is not going to do anything to improve your life no matter how much they scream that they are looking out for "the common folk". As Michael Jackson said "All I wanna say is that, they don't really care about us."