About this glorious nonsense

Dumb Ways to Spend Money is a curated catalog of the most ridiculous, indulgent, and wildly unnecessary things money can buy. Part shopping guide, part comedy, part cautionary tale.

We scour the internet for the gloriously overpriced and the inexplicably real, then rate each one on our official Dumbness Scale (1–5 dollar signs) and hand down a single honest verdict: Surprisingly Worth It, Your Call, or Absolutely Not.

Is it satire? Is it a real shopping guide? Yes. Some of these things are genuinely great. Most are not. All of them are fun to look at.

How we make money

When you click a link and buy something, we may earn a small commission — at no extra cost to you. That's it. We don't get paid to praise anything, and our verdicts stay honest precisely because the jokes only land if they're true. See our full disclosure.