Biggest waste of money you've witnessed?

My parents blew around 1,000-3,000 (can't remember how much) on trimming, plus the cost of getting it painted and installed.

My dad also drives an electric wheelchair 80% of the time because walking is too hard (in his defense, he's had like 8 heart attacks in his life).

It's been about 2 and a half years, and in that he's managed to knock the trimming off of a wall entirely, and gouge it almost all the way through in another part. There isn't a time I can remember where I've swept and hadn't swept up splinters and whittlings from his ventures into the kitchen.

And that's not counting the door that he's all but wrecked, and the bathroom cupboard doors he's ripped off, and the front door he's scratched. I don't think I need to go on anymore.

We now call him the human wrecking ball.

Jam it back in, in the dark.