How much money have you wasted here?

grum thought this was worth mentioning said Sun, Feb 1st 2015 at 1:52pm ET

I was curious, so I calculated how much I have spent on Meh since I discovered it in August... And I feel very, very bad now.

$1096.00

And that doesn't include VMP. So... Who's wasted more money than me on mediocre crap??

If you want a quick way to get that total, go to your orders page and open Chrome's JavaScript console (ctrl+alt+j or command+alt+j) and paste the following in there (if you don't have Chrome, then meh. You're on your own.):

var total = 0;
$('td.order-total').each(function() {
    total += parseInt($(this).text().substring(1));
});
alert("$" + total);

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narfcake said Sun, Feb 1st 2015 at 2:09pm ET:

I thought it was ctrl-shift-j ...

Not that I want to know anyways ...

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- @narfcake My bad. XD Don't have a Windows machine to check with and too lazy to Google.
  
  grum said Sun, Feb 1st 2015 at 2:21pm ET
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unixrab said Sun, Feb 1st 2015 at 2:16pm ET:

CTRL-Shift-J

$20 ;-)

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kdemo said Sun, Feb 1st 2015 at 2:21pm ET:

This was a recent thread: https://meh.com/forum/topics/how-much-have-you-spent-on-meh

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- @KDemo face to wall
  
  grum said Sun, Feb 1st 2015 at 2:22pm ET
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- @grum - Now I'm sorry.
  
  kdemo said Sun, Feb 1st 2015 at 2:24pm ET
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- @grum Don't be sorry, blame Barney. Baaaa!
  
  Barney said Sun, Feb 1st 2015 at 11:49pm ET
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- @Barney - It's partly your fault, anyway. Make @grum stop facing the wall. Anyway, that tech-y trick was pretty fun.
  
  kdemo said Mon, Feb 2nd 2015 at 1:01am ET
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giroro said Sun, Feb 1st 2015 at 11:37pm ET:

I haven't wasted a cent. Every purchase I made has been worth it, probably

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brhfl said Sun, Feb 1st 2015 at 11:54pm ET:

I have spent precisely $oneSpeakerDock and… shockingly, I think it was worth it.

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- @brhfl I bought 3 minis... totally worth it.
  
  thismyusername said Mon, Feb 2nd 2015 at 12:28am ET
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sohmageek said Tue, Jun 9th 2015 at 1:13pm ET:

$1038 as of today.

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ACraigL said Tue, Jun 9th 2015 at 2:24pm ET:

Neat trick. $170.00 and not surprised by that. I shudder, absolutely shudder to think about how much I spend at Woot. I do not want to know

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- @ACraigL Even with many of my Woot shirts bought on the secondary market, I don't want to know either.
  
  narfcake said Tue, Jun 9th 2015 at 2:30pm ET
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- @narfcake Gosh, the shirts ALONE would have me crying in the corner. That's it -- going to find out. I got this same (slightly modified) script to work on woot, but they page their results. I need a way to get it to a single page or get a feed of my orders or something.
  
  ACraigL said Tue, Jun 9th 2015 at 2:36pm ET
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- @ACraigL I figured out my Woot spend: $4,606.26. Amazon on the other hand...
  
  ACraigL said Thu, Jun 11th 2015 at 2:15pm ET
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kadagan said Tue, Jun 9th 2015 at 4:54pm ET:

$1399 after my purchases yesterday, on 72 orders (although I place multiple orders on the same day way too often!). To be fair, one order for $14 was actually for my sister and she repaid me ;).

Crap! I just read the entirety of the first post and realized I could have saved 10 minutes with a calculator if I had just used your script! lol.. Oh well!

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kadagan said Tue, Jun 9th 2015 at 5:06pm ET:
@grum I modified your javascript a little, so it tells how many purchases as well as a dollar value..
```
var total = 0;
var qty = 0;
$('td.order-total').each(function() {
    total += parseInt($(this).text().substring(1));
    qty += 1;
});
alert("You spent $" + total + " on " + qty + " orders");
```
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- @kadagan Over $900, supposedly. I refuse to believe it.
  
  medz said Tue, Jun 9th 2015 at 5:13pm ET
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- @kadagan That works, thanks! $359 on 38 orders. Ouch.
  Well, maybe not so bad, it's been almost a year.
  
  kdemo said Tue, Jun 9th 2015 at 7:17pm ET
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- @kadagan $789 on 49 orders.
  
  Saffer49 said Tue, Jun 9th 2015 at 11:09pm ET
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- @kadagan Maybe Meh can just add it to the orders page automatically, but that might scare some members into realizing just how much money they've wasted.
  
  kuoh said Thu, Jun 11th 2015 at 9:46pm ET
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PurplePawprints said Tue, Jun 9th 2015 at 5:58pm ET:

Between my account and my husband's, we've spent $939 on 60 orders. I actually thought it would be higher at this point.

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lisaviolet said Tue, Jun 9th 2015 at 6:39pm ET:

$301! I thought it was way more, I'm glad it isn't. And then there's the VMP membership. Which is kind of cancels itself out if I bought anything during a particular month because I saved on shipping, so never mind....

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Thumperchick said Tue, Jun 9th 2015 at 8:03pm ET:

$777. I can't buy anything. I might never see that perfect of a number again.

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- @Thumperchick Your VIP fee will clear that up ;-)
  
  Veloslave said Sun, Jun 14th 2015 at 12:26am ET
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StrangerDanger said Thu, Jun 11th 2015 at 2:13pm ET:

$861... that's scary!

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Veloslave said Sun, Jun 14th 2015 at 12:26am ET:

$363

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somf69 said Sun, Jun 14th 2015 at 12:29am ET:

over the past month and a half.......Zero. Some real crappy stuff lately

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troy said Sun, Jun 14th 2015 at 2:59pm ET:

$1973! What am I doing with my life...

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- @troy Employee discount?
  
  sammydog01 said Sun, Jun 14th 2015 at 7:39pm ET
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- @sammydog01 Free VMP! You'd think it would take more to entice me to spend that much, but I guess I'm just a natural-born sucker.
  
  troy said Sun, Jun 14th 2015 at 7:55pm ET
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- @troy Maybe they'll give a year end bonus to the employee who spends the most.
  
  sammydog01 said Sun, Jun 14th 2015 at 10:09pm ET
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- @troy Free VMP? Can't you just take it home with you rather than have it shipped? Or rather ship to MEH HQ especially the ones that aren't shipped from Meh HQ.
  
  sohmageek said Mon, Jun 15th 2015 at 8:34pm ET
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stardate820926 said Mon, Jun 15th 2015 at 6:10pm ET:

$533 on 26 orders. Not nearly as bad as I thought

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