Blew $260 on a 3 month gym membership in February as a gift, partner went 4 times. Do you call that a loss or just a sunk cost to shrug off?

Quinn Johnson · 2026-09-29T19:20:09.090537+00:00

Bought my partner a 3 month gym membership at a place near our apartment in Columbus for $260 back in February. Thought it'd be a good way to get us both moving after a rough winter. Turns out they went 4 times total. I went maybe a dozen times myself since it was a shared deal. Side A says I wasted $260 on something nobody stuck with, and I should've just bought a single month pass to test the water before going all in. Side B says the money's spent either way, and turning it into a fight over 'wasted' cash just makes it worse, so let it go and treat the 4 visits as 4 visits. I lean toward side A but I also hate feeling like a sucker. Where do you all land? And did the bad day actually get better for you once you stopped doing the math on it?

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