I guess that's highly subjective and depends on everyone's priority and sources of enjoyment in life.

I find spending money on clothes (for the sake of being "fashionable") or cars (as long as it's not yet broken or dangerous) stupid... I'm also puzzled at people buying crown crates, or selling crowns in ESO...
I consider people paying for software doing something that they could very easily do in Excel also pretty stupid.
Or pre-ordering a game... which equals to lending cash to a company for free.

As to ruining relationships... for small matters I can just ignore it (after all I have my own stupid habits myself); but for important things it's different. I certainly couldn't live with someone who spends money on cars, for instance. But this is such a splitting topic that the question wouldn't even occur in the first place. I woudln't even date someone who's into cars.

In my eye it's fine if someone is spending their own - hard earned money - on things that make him/her happy. For example for hobbies or just consumption. Food is a good example of happiness (especially chocolate, mjam mjam).

It's just a waste of money if you buy crates/loot boxes in my eyes. There are so many shiny items that make you wanting it, but no matter how much money you would spend, there is a good chance that you could blow 2.000 €/$/etc. away for nothing, because the dropchance of the items you want are maybe so utopic (0,01% or less for apex mounts for example) that it's just wasted. It's like a lottery, you feel you can win 126 millions and in the end you are just paying for the tickets that'll never win. In my eyes this is gambling and there should be a better way to get crate-items/loot boxes (e.g. with crown gems), because then you would have a realistic chance to get it at some point (even if that means to spend an amount of X, but at least you know with X gems you could buy it).

Subjective was kinda what i was going for since we all have different likes and dislikes such as i find buying clothes period to be a waste of money when i only wear a few items if any. Holidays i find stupid especially when the person going on holiday complains about not having money to pay bills or feed the kids but they can afford to go to cyprus 5 times a year an as mentioned buying s new car or just a flashy car even though the banger you have under a tarp still gets you from a-b without any issues.

Another area although i've been guilty of it is buying every single iteration of a game for every platform it's on and i have regretted it and for me it was destiny 2 i 1st got it on ps4 to play with my brother but then my friends i played destiny with nagged and nagged me to get it on xbox one so i did and to cut a long whiny story short i fracking despise that game and everything it stands for and it ruined friendships online even to this day i won't talk to half the people who stabbed me in the back. Playing with them reminded me of my old WoW clan and how dungeon raiding used to end badly.

Collectibles or that is figures or statues whatever you wanna call them but people who buy a game just because it comes with a figure even though they won't play the game. I've known people who would buy the funko pop figures even for games and films they don't like just because they had an addiction to the damn things it was weird i can understand buying them for things you love but for things you hate is just beyond stupid it's insane.

I do also wanna apologise for the numerous grammar and punctuation problems that exist in all that drivel i just typed.

anitajoneb17_ESO wrote: »

Chufu wrote: »

It's like a lottery, you feel you can win 126 millions and in the end you are just paying for the tickets that'll never win.

Well, to be honest, I don't think that buying a lottery ticket is THAT stupid. The amounts at stake are quite huge (at least on national or EU level lotteries such as Euromillions). I buy a ticket myself every now and then and consider it like "buying dream time". I thoroughly and delightfully dream about everything I'll do with the money once I've won it. That's better than any movie. Of course I throw way the ticket a couple of days later because I didn't win, but the dream was there and it was worth it.
(For those who'd be tempted to follow this strategy, be aware that it only works if you buy a ticket every now and then. If you do it all the time, your wallet suffers severely and the dream fades away).

But crown crates ? An APX mount is not a dream ! :-)

True, you're right, if it's just every there and then... okay! But do it all the time... well the money is just *puff* away!

P.s: Although the horselizard from Xanmeer-crates was a dream But I didn't spend any money for it, because the chances are just too low to get it.

Anytime I buy anything for my cat other than food and litter, I am being stupid and wasteful. I have bought him so many toys, beds, cubbyholes to hide in, and all he cares about is brown packing paper and cardboard boxes.

On a more serious note........most things that humans buy are wasteful. Anything beyond what we need is wasteful.

Nothing is stupid spending to the player doing the buying. It's simply what an individual wants to spend his own gold/crowns on. That is his choice and nobody else's.

Anybody else may think what they like but do not have the right to pass judgement, although they can express an opinion.

SatansPegasus wrote: »

maybe you are someone who will or maybe has spent 100s on a small 3 inch toy

o.0 *bites tongue*

But seriously. You're an adult? Spend your money how you want.

This is very subjective. You spend your money how you want.
Some of us might also consider stupid the things you spend money on even if it seems money well spent to you...

Pre broken spaghetti. Really you can't break your own noodles?
Bugs the hell out of me. 😛