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Whats the worst financial decision you ever made?

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Rodrigocambare Mar 27, 2026 +1243
Buying c**** stuff over and over instead of just buying the good version once.
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SWEET_LIBERTY_MY_LEG Mar 27, 2026 +163
On the other hand, if something is c**** AND well made, it’s a keeper. Example: Casio watches, Toyota Corolla
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JfizzleMshizzle Mar 28, 2026 +73
I recently got a work truck. (Gas is free and everything on the truck is handled by the company) one of my wife’s friends asked if we’d sell them my old car. Absolutely not, it’s an ‘09 Toyota Camry with like 160,000 miles. Basically brand new.
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creatyvechaos Mar 28, 2026 +6
Our Camry's transmission blew....after 600k miles. Thing was a goddamn beast, and it was third-hand when we got it and barely had a maintenance record. We were honestly surprised it lasted as long as it did—I mean, it had at least 11 years of not being well maintained, and then another 4 years of poor people trying their best to maintain it. Neighbor bought it from us for his son so he could teach him maintenance work so he could have a car when he graduated high school. We reminded him twice that the transmission was gone and would be an expensive repair. His response? "Oh, that doesn't matter. Girl will last well beyond anything else on the road if we slap a new one in her. Cheaper than getting any single one of the new cars out and about." I mean yeah as far as I know he still has the car 8 years later so I suppose he was right
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ChronoLegion2 Mar 27, 2026 +28
Sadly, car makers are switching to more expensive cars these days
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caroline_xplr Mar 28, 2026 +8
I am driving an 22 year old Corolla right now. I swear, if there’s a funky noise or glitch with the car, I turn it off and turn it back on like an electronic and the issue disappears.
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PubDefLakersGuy Mar 28, 2026 +11
Toyota and “c****” aren’t real anymore
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Agreeable_Addition48 Mar 28, 2026 +13
Hell it's even better to buy used than new these days, youre better off cycling through $5k corollas than getting a new one 
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JoeBidensOnlyfans_ Mar 27, 2026 +175
My wife when we were dating , would always tell me “ cry now , and you won’t have to worry later “ When buying big products , mathematically it’s cheaper to buy a well made product instead of buying the c**** one constantly when you factor in time spent
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Treanwreck Mar 27, 2026 +80
Buy once, cry once.
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HumbleCoyoteGames Mar 27, 2026 +57
My husbands family says “Buy c****, buy often”
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wankrrr Mar 28, 2026 +14
Buy nice or buy twice
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HallettCove5158 Mar 27, 2026 +18
Shoe theory works well on this one. I was paying $80 for crappy shoes every few months that looked well worn before I replaced them. Paid $650 for a decent pair over 3 years ago and give them a polish and there still looking smart. No more tatty shoes and reckon I’ll get lots more years out of them too. Also when doing home reno work I always by the professional dewalt tools, figure if I’m doing the work I get the tool for free as I’m not paying anyone. They’ve never let me down, they stand up to the most brutal work and I’ll have them for ever. Worst financial decision ever, sold a house, (had a few), to buy a flash car. Lovely drive and really enjoyed having it, eventually wrote it off spinning out on an oil patch, completely not my fault. Setting off from traffic lights I was overtaken by a bin lorry who was my witness to how slow I was driving. Nice to have had it but disappointed with myself at what that house would now be worth, not to mention the rental income I’ve lost.
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Brawndo91 Mar 27, 2026 +18
I'll go for c**** tools when it's something I don't expect to use more than once or twice. I believe that's known as Harbor Freight theory. But that's the nice thing about doing things yourself. If you like tools, it gives you justification to buy more if you need something. Especially if you can work on cars. Outside of simple things like oil changes, considering mechanics' markup and labor rates, you can buy the parts and (within reason) all the tools to do it yourself and still possibly save. And once you have a decent variety of tools, it's just savings. Maybe more tools. I like tools.
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Jrewy Mar 28, 2026 +6
That’s how I treat tools, small kitchen appliances and utensils and such, or gear for new hobbies I’m trying out. If I use it enough that I break the c**** thing, then I replace it with the good thing. Saves me from wasting money on something I don’t wind up using.
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mrsc00b Mar 28, 2026 +5
Same. It's astounding the difference in quality going from a c**** pittsburgh ratchet even to the next tier up like a kobalt or husky, not to mention going up to something like a tekton. I do have my limits, however. I've never bought a snapon tool because my livelihood doesn't depend on my tools.
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Locke_and_Lloyd Mar 27, 2026 +6
High quality doesn't mean immune to loss/ theft/ burning up in lava etc.  I'd rather lose an $80 shoe than an expensive one. 
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Lazy-Vacation7868 Mar 27, 2026 +15
Yup, I try to aim middle of the price range so I avoid c**** trash but also don't pay extra just for the brand. With electronics though feels like nothing is made to last anymore regardless the price
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ChronoLegion2 Mar 27, 2026 +8
It’s not profitable for them to make something that lasts. They want people to keep buying more
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BigRedNutcase Mar 27, 2026 +5
Nah, things are just way more complex than before. More complexity means more points of failure. A wrench will last near forever but it only does 1 thing and only has one point of failure. A computer does near infinite things and does them billions of times per second and nearly perfectly each time. There are literally millions of components that need to work perfectly together in unison. So many points of failure. And it's been engineered to detect failures and recover properly. It's mind blowing that computers work at all.
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ChronoLegion2 Mar 27, 2026 +2
In some ways, more complex than they need to be. Who needs a wifi-enabled microwave with an app?
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Lazy-Vacation7868 Mar 27, 2026 +3
I mean can be profitable but they want more profits. Yeah that's also why things that have no need being a subscription force a subscription to keep getting revenue. Hate it
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GGATHELMIL Mar 27, 2026 +6
That's my dad. One of the stories I always tell people is about the headphones he would buy us. So we used to travel a lot when we were kids. Dad was a naval academy grad and we used to go to the navy football games every weekend they were playing in Annapolis. Well that meant sticking 3 kids in the back seat for 4 to 5 hours twice a weekend. I was usually good cuz I had a gameboy, but my siblings were much younger than me. I was born in 92, and they were 98 and 00. So the best way to entertain them was movies. So my dad jerry rigged a portable dvd player and split the output to a c**** lcd screen so they could both watch whatever a 4 year old and a 6 year old wanted to watch. Sound was an issue so bought these c**** folding headphones from big lots that I think cost him 2 or 3 bucks back in the day. Well, take 2 kids who are super young and c**** ass headphones, and guess what? they broke a lot. Every 3 weeks he was buying a new pair because one got broken. Sometimes our fault, usually just because they were c**** as shit headphones. He refused to buy good headphones because we broke them, but refused to acknowledge they broke simply because they were c****. Its been like 20 years and I still think he was stupid. Actually what pissed me off was he used to get super mad when they broke. Like if you dont want to invest into decent headphones for your kids because theyre gonna break them, then fine, but you have to accept breakage is gonna happen.
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Praetorian314 Mar 28, 2026 +10
4 and 6? They broke because you were 4 and 6. C**** or expensive, they'd have broken. Because little kids break stuff. I also learned that lesson as a broadcasting teacher. I bought c****; the kids broke it. I bought expensive; the kids broke it. Easier to replace c****.
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vl99 Mar 28, 2026 +2
When it comes to small kids, the buy once cry once rule doesn’t apply unless it is a product specifically designed for kids. A nice pair of adult headphones would absolutely not stand up to a standard toddler or kindergartener even if they’re built better.
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uberclocker Mar 27, 2026 +6
AKA the Boots Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
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Jdub42010 Mar 27, 2026 +2
Yeah that’s one of those lessons that costs you *extra* money to learn
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illestprodigy Mar 27, 2026 +2
Buy once, not twice. I tend to stick to that mindset. Bad trait, sometimes.
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Granny_knows_best Mar 27, 2026 +2
Lately, the good expensive ones are c*** as well.
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stunspelledbackwards Mar 27, 2026 +1178
I bought a book online called ‘How to Scam People’ It’s been months and it still hasn’t arrived
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nigel_tufnel_11 Mar 27, 2026 +113
LOL, I heard that in the voice of Steven Wright.
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pimpinaintez18 Mar 27, 2026 +15
That’s a perfect joke for Steven wright
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That_guy_from_1014 Mar 27, 2026 +14
"I spilled spot remover on my dog, now he's gone."
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KoolKat9999 Mar 28, 2026 +8
I’m a peripheral visionary, which means I can see into the future, but only from the side.
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Loggerdon Mar 28, 2026 +5
“I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues in all the other museums”
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StackIsMyCrack Mar 28, 2026 +3
I'm not even sure if I laughed harder when I read the joke, or when I heard it again in Steven Wright's voice in my head.
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Objective_Storage427 Mar 27, 2026 +20
😂
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RodrickJr Mar 27, 2026 +16
Tbh them not sending you anything is scamming themselves cause if you charge back, which you should if you received nothing, they get charged a fee. What they should've done was sent a 1 page that just said step 1 "find guilible people" step 2 "profit".
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DaddyBeanDaddyBean Mar 27, 2026 +6
The rest of the book is blank to save on printing costs.
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DesertWanderlust Mar 27, 2026 +7
Sounds like you learned the lesson it was seeking to teach though, so you got value from it.
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TheCraziestGirlxo Mar 27, 2026 +583
Not saving money when I actually had the chance to
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Weird_War9933 Mar 27, 2026 +138
Man I feel this one hard. Had a solid stretch in my late 20s where I was pulling good overtime at the shop but just blew it all on stupid stuff instead of putting anything away. Still kicking myself over that missed opportunity
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EthicalHypotheticals Mar 27, 2026 +63
I used to beat myself up for the same thing, starting so late / blowing money in my 20’s. But, the more people I talk to about it, especially older people, I realize that starting aggressively at 30 is still way ahead. The percentage of people that are responsible and stuffing cash in a Roth / 401(k) in their 20’s is surprisingly smaller than you think. Look up some 401(k) medians by age range, you’ll feel a little better and some fear for the older generations because the median isn’t anywhere as high as it needs to be for them.
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Charleston2Seattle Mar 27, 2026 +16
Big +1 to this. I'm in my early 50s and have started watching YouTube videos about retirement and how best to save for it and I realize that I'm way ahead of many. And that you can retire on a lot less than what the investment community tries to tell you that you need. People in the US that retire with $250,000 or less are 70% likely to still be happy about the retirement after 10 years of being retired. My mom was retired for 9 years before she passed away in December and had more money at the end of her retirement than she did at the beginning, despite having gone into required minimum distributions. And she's not even the exception.
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MrGraaavy Mar 28, 2026 +3
Where’s the data/article about people being happy when retiring with $250,000k? Thats less that $1,250/month if you’re pulling 6% annual returns. $1,250 doesn’t too far alongside a small(er) social security distribution.
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Negative_Salt_4599 Mar 27, 2026 +5
Buddy don’t beat yourself up. I decided to play the market up into early 2026 🪦 my mental health..
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ChronoLegion2 Mar 27, 2026 +17
Had that, did nothing. Lived with my parents for years after getting a full-time job. Didn’t save anything. Now in my 40s with a wife and two kids and wish I had
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GenericFatGuy Mar 27, 2026 +2
Same. I poorly assumed that my job would always be there to pay the bills. Then one day, it wasn't.
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Who_ate_my_cookie Mar 28, 2026 +2
I did and then I had 8 months of unemployment now I’m back to square one
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Th3_Accountant Mar 27, 2026 +237
Hanging on to my ex girlfriend when she was broke and unemployed. I thought it was just a temporary setback and supported her while she got back on her feet. But after 1.5 year she still showed zero interest to get a job or get back to college.
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Competitive_Doubt363 Mar 27, 2026 +61
I think im entering this stage with my gf…
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No-Mine-3982 Mar 27, 2026 +57
Just leave, you aren’t obligated to burden yourself if you aren’t in a position to burden yourself
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AndyVale Mar 27, 2026 +29
A friend has had an on-off boyfriend like this for 2.5 years. After they broke up for the final time and he finally properly moved out she soon noticed she had about £1000 left over at the end of the month after years of struggling due to subsidising him.
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Th3_Accountant Mar 27, 2026 +11
Better to cut your losses early. Also depends on how long you have been together obviously. And make it known to her that if she doesn't actively try to improve where she is in life that this might lead to the end of your relationship. And of course, make it clear that you are willing to help her in any way necessary.
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Sufficient_You7187 Mar 28, 2026 +8
The biggest financial indicator for life is who you choose as a partner. Choose correctly and you'll win for life
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HouseofTinyDictators Mar 27, 2026 +295
Student loans for a useless degree.
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Stegles Mar 28, 2026 +13
In the off chance you ever decide to live outside of your home country, having a degree, even a completely useless one, can be the difference between getting a visa or not, and more importantly, permanent residency or citizenship.
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BungalowDweller Mar 27, 2026 +60
This. 20 years of student loan debt for a Masters degree just because society convinced me that "higher education" and two letters behind my name was worth the expense.
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bme11 Mar 27, 2026 +57
A master degree in what though…a master degree in poetry would be useless. But a master in engineering can be a who different story. It’s not society’s fault that a person chooses a non marketable degree.
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BungalowDweller Mar 27, 2026 +25
I didn't get a non-marketable degree as you might suggest - I actually got a very marketable and diversely applicable degree. But that's not the issue. The issue is that people in my generation were repeatedly evangelized by family, recruiters, media, and yes, society in general, that advanced degrees were our road to prosperity and that the benefits would far outweigh the costs. And especially pre-internet, financial literacy was much harder to come by. And for those lenders that profited by it, financial illiteracy was by systemic design.
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Fun-Sundae4060 Mar 27, 2026 +15
I mean if you land a career that requires the degree and is well-paid it easily covers the cost of the student loans. The downside is when you don’t manage to get a well-paying career job.
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Fun-Fan-1948 Mar 28, 2026 +2
I doubt MD. It's not MBA, MSc, MEd, M. Eng.. so what, MA?
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forgettable_nonsense Mar 27, 2026 +6
Engineering is flooded , yes better than poetry as a degree but still just alot of people who thought they were smarter than everyone , in the same rat race paying debt. Except for the few that use the degree as intended
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PM_ME_UR_HIP_DIMPLES Mar 27, 2026 +203
I paid for a haircut in 2011 in Santa Monica with two BTC which was $38 at the time
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Charleston2Seattle Mar 27, 2026 +54
$132k haircut? You must have looked REALLY good! 🙂
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One-Stranger-6894 Mar 28, 2026 +12
Hey at least it's not a 250k haircut like it was a year ago!
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antariusz Mar 28, 2026 +2
That’s the nature of bitcoin, maybe 5 years from now he might have gotten his haircut for a $20 dollar bargain.
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thottikuttappan Mar 27, 2026 +17
Thats one costly haircut regardless of what year you are reading this!
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T-MoneyAllDey Mar 28, 2026 +5
I bought weed for 200$ in Bitcoin around the same time
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dunce_charming Mar 27, 2026 +120
I bought a $250,000 RV in California then promptly moved to Oregon. I paid pretty much a civic in taxes
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nilestyle Mar 27, 2026 +45
Holy shit my guy. I didn’t even know they made rv’s that expensive
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dunce_charming Mar 27, 2026 +23
34' Tiffin. I got their cheapest class A. They go up a lot more
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patheticyeti Mar 27, 2026 +33
I was going to say.. they make RVs that cost millions. IIRC the RV John Oliver offered to that Supreme Court judge to retire was worth like 2.5 or something like that.
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rdldr1 Mar 27, 2026 +14
"ITS A MOTORCOACH" --Clarence Thomas
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Natural-Raise-8233 Mar 27, 2026 +127
Taking my last job offer. I was assaulted and harassed. It cost me thousands of dollars in attorneys fees to protect my reputation and I now have been blacklisted for reporting things that some creep did to me. 10/10 do not recommend.
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Fantastic_List3029 Mar 27, 2026 +18
Bro WHAT
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Active-Green6265 Mar 28, 2026 +8
Right! More please...
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gtaslut Mar 28, 2026 +5
This is fucked.
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Tipitina62 Mar 27, 2026 +79
Bought a house I loved, and when I wanted to sell I waited years and took a loss. Good news: I can recoup the loss through tax deductions. Bad news: I can deduct only $3000.00/year. I only have to live to be 130…….. /s
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opsqttt Mar 27, 2026 +29
You lost over 300k on the home? How did it lose that much value in this market?
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T-MoneyAllDey Mar 28, 2026 +14
Probably bought a house in 2007
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IHkumicho Mar 28, 2026 +4
More like 05/06. I bought at the end of '07 and only lost a little bit of theoretical value before it came steadily back (and roared in the 2020s). But my friend who bought in 2005 wasn't above water again until 2015. And a divorce...
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jupitergal23 Mar 27, 2026 +29
Bought a new car when I had a perfectly good not new car.
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neal144 Mar 27, 2026 +131
My brother told me to cash out every credit card that I had, $15k, and buy this one stock. I didn't. That investment would have made me over $2 million in 6 months. 😱😢
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Starbucks__Lovers Mar 27, 2026 +153
It easily could’ve gone the opposite way. Try to not beat yourself up over it
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Designer_Flow_8069 Mar 28, 2026 +14
Depends on if the brother had insider information. The unfortunate truth is that it's easier to talk yourself *out* of doing something than *into* doing something, even if the odds of that thing going well are in your favor.
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Bungeesmom Mar 27, 2026 +31
And your brother’s contact info is?
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accidentalscientist_ Mar 28, 2026 +5
If it makes you feel any better, my current fiance (at the time boyfriend of a few months) told me he invested in game stop and AMC stocks and said I should put some in as well. I told him he’s f****** stupid. Yea, he wasn’t. He didn’t put much into either but he bought and sold at a great time. I could’ve put my rent money in and come out on top! I forget how much he bought and sold for, but it was a decent return.
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Lucky-Ad-2369 Mar 28, 2026 +10
You could have also been evicted
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Jacksomkesoplenty Mar 28, 2026 +8
I took economics as a freshman in highschool and my teacher told us to invest in Qualcomm. This was February 2001. Fml
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pizzaforce3 Mar 27, 2026 +72
Want to know how to make a small fortune by buying a restaurant? Start with a large fortune.
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Regimorito Mar 28, 2026 +2
The wine business is the same... " How do you make a million dollars in the wine? You start with two."
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Rob_LeMatic Mar 27, 2026 +22
I opened a brewery with my "best friend." We didn't set any plan for how to resolve disputes about key aspects of the business, so I just folded to whatever he wanted, and while he had a lot of book knowledge, he did not understand people.
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tyrranus Mar 27, 2026 +13
Excellent profile pic and username.
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smokeypapabear40206 Mar 27, 2026 +21
Getting married In my early 20’s and cashing out my 401K in my mid 30’s to pay for the divorce. 🤦‍♂️
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_Spin_Cycle_ Mar 27, 2026 +38
My wife and I sold our home in 2024 because we felt like we needed a bigger one. We absolutely did not, but by the time we figured this out we had doubled our mortgage payments.
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CuriousObservation11 Mar 27, 2026 +64
Buying crypto at all time high.
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Kimo300 Mar 27, 2026 +16
I doubled my portfolio at one point but stayed in and now lost 90% of my original
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CuriousObservation11 Mar 27, 2026 +9
Us bro us
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tvmdc1 Mar 27, 2026 +17
Buying a reverse mortgage house.
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Apocryph761 Mar 27, 2026 +8
I had to look this up, and as someone who works in finance, *holy shit*. I can see why people do it, but I can also see how and why they're so bad. Also just seen it described as "shorting the elderly", which made me spit out my drink. So, thanks for that!
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Bungeesmom Mar 27, 2026 +4
Explain why please. I’m curious.
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wrtcdevrydy Mar 28, 2026 +2
If I understand it correctly, you're buying on the hope the old person living there dies so you can take the house.
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Jken1998 Mar 27, 2026 +32
Staying at a job too long
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ConditionMobile2688 Mar 27, 2026 +58
When I was 18 I started dating this girl I had just met, a couple months in things were going good and I was always at her place hanging out with her and her roommate. One day she came home crying because she lost her job. I comforted her and told her I would step up and pay her rent and stuff while she found a new job and got back on her feet (mind you I worked as a cashier at a fast food place). WELL 2 F****** YEARS WENT BY WHILE THAT B**** NEVER FOUND A JOB. So id say financially supporting someone because i felt bad about her “situation” was the worst financial decision ive ever made.
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cocosoy Mar 27, 2026 +23
the sex must be insanely good if you kept paying for 2 years.
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SparxPrime Mar 28, 2026 +14
She must've been really hot
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JL9285 Mar 27, 2026 +48
Maxing out credit cards and ending up with a CCJ over materialistic shit. Thankfully was very young at the time and repaired my credit since but that shit stays on your record for a really long time.
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RosyTwirl_ Mar 27, 2026 +10
Taking out high interest payday loans years ago, they trapped me in a cycle I worked so hard to get out of.
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xscott71x Mar 27, 2026 +10
Bought into a Hilton timeshare
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Wam_2020 Mar 28, 2026 +6
100%. My mother “bought” a Worldmark timeshare and I’m already getting my ducks in row on how to disclaim it from her estate in probate court. Just so I’m not reliable for maintenance fees and all that shit for my “inheritance”. SHE.NOT.DEAD.YET.
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dodadoler Mar 27, 2026 +8
I didn’t bet on black
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United_Gift3028 Mar 28, 2026 +9
Getting married, and I'm female.
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Alarmed-Soup-5591 Mar 27, 2026 +18
Getting divorced without a lawyer
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TheRexRider Mar 27, 2026 +17
Letting my parents back into my life.
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ATL28-NE3 Mar 27, 2026 +15
Having kids. Now I love my kids and I don't wish I didn't have them or anything, but they're a huge financial burden
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jtg6387 Mar 27, 2026 +8
I’ve bought not one, not two, but *three* Maserati products. With depreciation curves close to the worst in the auto industry, it’s pretty much objectively a bad financial decision. It’s been great for my soul and life satisfaction though and I do not regret it.
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nomore1124 Mar 28, 2026 +2
I know someone who bought one and it was a fantastic car until one day it just died. Issue after issue and eventually he sold it for like $3k.
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upperplayfield Mar 27, 2026 +7
Being a touring musicians for 8 years.
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Top-Act-2370 Mar 27, 2026 +8
Drinking
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Twoduhzen Mar 27, 2026 +8
Not saving up to buy a house.
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notinsai Mar 28, 2026 +7
Getting married.
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QueenQueerBen Mar 27, 2026 +24
I got some money from a relative when I was like 19-20 and was watching a popular streamer and wanted to be one of those people who gifts a bunch of people a month subscription. It felt great for 15 minutes, and then I realized I had just spent like 1.5k in 30 seconds and refunded it immediately. Sadly I couldn’t refund it all, so still lost like 600 quid. Looking back, not only was it stupid spending that kind of money when it was more than I made in a month, but the fact I was giving it to someone who was already rich…idiot.
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Miserable-Yak-8041 Mar 27, 2026 +12
Taking a loan for $20k USD to buy 4 Bitcoin miners 10 years ago. The cost of running the miners was the same amount I was making in BTC. Had to sell BTC to pay for electricity. I only ran them for 6 months. Not worth it unless you can scale.
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CulturalConstant2773 Mar 27, 2026 +11
Investing in mutual funds with very high front-end loads.
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tyrranus Mar 27, 2026 +8
I have a very high front end load.
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Dull_Abroad_1355 Mar 27, 2026 +4
😆
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PHFreshHeavyHogChef Mar 27, 2026 +12
Literally anything my parents are involved with
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Mr-Goodcatt Mar 27, 2026 +11
My house next to scumbag neighbours who party every night!
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jedberg Mar 27, 2026 +6
Technically wouldn’t the divorce be the bad financial decision.
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LeylandTiger Mar 27, 2026 +20
Used BMW.
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Puzzleheaded-Hat1255 Mar 27, 2026 +11
Getting a credit card. “I’ll use it responsibly,” I thought. Thousands of dollars in debt later… I don’t know which is sadder, that I continue to use it, or that I feel lucky not to be even further in debt.
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illuminatiisnowhere Mar 27, 2026 +5
Selling my bitcoins in 2012.
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ChimpyChompies Mar 27, 2026 +5
Bought a secondhand BMW X3. Was a total loss following an engine blowup after only three months of ownership.
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CARNIesada6 Mar 27, 2026 +6
Opiate addiction So much money.... gone. Made it out alive without losing family/friends, ruining relationships, without any trouble with the law/jail time, or falling into the heroin hole. While the last bit is obviously great, it also means I spent so much more $$$ I reckon. Was getting it around a dollar/mg for instant release percs (blues) over a decade ago and like half that for extended release (called them chewbaccas). Tens of thousands, and could honestly be near $100k wasted in total over those few years. Can't even imagine how much it is now lol
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AJH05004 Mar 27, 2026 +4
Don’t they cost like half of that?
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rigorcorvus Mar 27, 2026 +2
I thought this was a cool sounding yard clearing machine for a second
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Lord_Vader654 Mar 27, 2026 +7
Playing War Thunder. If you think about playing it and you have problems with impulse buying, don’t. I’ve gotten better but the snail still steals some of my money sometimes…
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pollywollydoodad Mar 27, 2026 +7
Getting married to a financially abusive man.
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Princess_Honey-29 Mar 27, 2026 +4
round tripping profits
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Mr-Goodcatt Mar 27, 2026 +5
VHS and DVDS?!?! Had boxes of them in the garage...the mrs tried to flog them on facebook, put them on a free collect in our area page, took them to charity shop and they refused them... in the end i took them to the tip good bye deep impact and hellraiser.
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cocococlash Mar 27, 2026 +7
DVDs are making a comeback since subscription services hold movies hostage now, or even remove original music due to licensing. I've been stocking up on my favs.
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bromatose Mar 27, 2026 +4
Going to bars
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MediocreAssociate466 Mar 28, 2026 +4
Being mentally ill sure has cost me a lot.
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Capt1an_Cl0ck Mar 28, 2026 +4
Getting married to the wrong woman.
4
ActualAvocado Mar 28, 2026 +3
Getting a credit card. Not saving when I had a chance. If I didn’t have my daughter’s id kill myself.
3
jkgoddard Mar 27, 2026 +7
Kicked a roommate out at the exact same time as I lost my most lucrative client, and wasn’t super proactive about getting a new roommate. It’s cost me about $5k over the last six months and a LOT of stress.
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ProduceNo8883 Mar 27, 2026 +6
DUI
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OK_OkayNow Mar 27, 2026 +5
Boyfriends. Mostly. Lending them money, and never seeing it again. Letting them use my credit card for household stuff and then other things appear on the statement.
5
nom_yourmom Mar 27, 2026 +3
I bought a laundromat in my neighborhood with the idea that would be “passive income.” Neither passive nor income. Terrible idea
3
Unicornchick1977 Mar 28, 2026 +3
Had kids
3
Exciting-Brick7944 Mar 28, 2026 +3
Bought a $100,000.00 of Enron stock.
3
Watchmethrowhim Mar 28, 2026 +3
Started sports betting online
3
400Volts Mar 28, 2026 +3
Bought a model y in 2021
3
FullCOYS Mar 28, 2026 +3
I put 60 bucks into a sports gambling account. Took me a decade to admit I need to stop.
3
alliseeisreddit Mar 28, 2026 +3
The ridiculous amount of money my wife and I shelled out for our wedding, all because my parents wanted to invite all their friends. My wife and I would've been happy with an intimate garden wedding with only close friends and family.
3
Huge-Literature2182 Mar 28, 2026 +3
Jumping into hype trends without actually understanding what I was doing.
3
mindgardening Mar 27, 2026 +8
Getting into credit card debt. Cosigning a credit card with a then-boyfriend. Trusting men with my money.
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francois-biker Mar 27, 2026 +5
Buying a virtual card with a cat on it for the price of an iPhone.
5
AlpineVW Mar 27, 2026 +4
3.5 Litecoin LTC at $300 in 2017 or 2018. And 3 GME at $200
4
stgvxn_cpl Mar 27, 2026 +4
Getting married. Totally worth it, but a terrible financial decision.
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accidentalscientist_ Mar 28, 2026 +2
How so? Genuinely asking as a breadwinner female of a fiancé who also works and pays 50/50. I just make more.
2
Accomplished_Yak9765 Mar 27, 2026 +2
Leveraging my crypto accounts. Stupid as hell
2
OnTheEveOfWar Mar 27, 2026 +2
Not buying bitcoin when it was $100 per coin and my good friend was trying to convince me to invest. He retired before he was 40 yrs old.
2
Charming_Garbage_161 Mar 28, 2026 +2
Marrying my ex husband. He was awful with money, I got sick, we filed for bankruptcy bc USA yay, he started hiring hookers while I was recovering from a hysterectomy and excision.
2
ExcitingOpposite7622 Mar 28, 2026 +2
Getting married!
2
iceyhotdragon Mar 28, 2026 +2
Lend money to my ex bf and pay for everything in our entire relationship :/ never got that money back lol, I have learned now
2
LitlThisLitlThat Mar 28, 2026 +2
Marrying my ex. He stole, lied, scammed, mooched, and drained. Then added a divorce on top. Credit took years to repair.
2
Rockals Mar 28, 2026 +2
Marriage
2
Princessy-1 Mar 28, 2026 +2
Getting married
2
outlander779 Mar 28, 2026 +2
I got married.
2
Malodoror Mar 28, 2026 +2
Marriage
2
rockdude625 Mar 28, 2026 +2
Marrying the wrong person
2
Head-Case Mar 28, 2026 +2
Quitting the best job I ever had because of one bad day
2
AleksandrNevsky Mar 28, 2026 +2
College.
2
Exc3lsior Mar 28, 2026 +2
Got married lol
2
Rich_Celebration477 Mar 28, 2026 +2
Every car I have ever bought from a dealership - if you are buying a used car, just buy the cheapest one you can find on Marketplace. There’s a good chance a $1500 car and an $8000 car will probably have the same amount of problems
2
SDLRob Mar 28, 2026 +2
As much as I enjoy the hobby.... That first Lego set 😂
2
Acceptable-Idea9450 Mar 28, 2026 +2
selling stocks when I shouldn't have and not selling stocks when I should have
2
SteliosKantos93 Mar 28, 2026 +2
Going to Europe for 10 days on a credit card…. But holy f*** was it a great time.
2
Soggy_finger1 Mar 28, 2026 +2
Working for private equity HVAC company. I should've known the white shirts were a fuckin run away flag as soon as the first "training" video talked about how to "positively overcome objections"
2
Top-Razzmatazz-2045 Mar 28, 2026 +2
Ignoring saving early and thinking I’ll figure it out later cost way more than I expected.
2
Ok_Explorer604 Mar 28, 2026 +2
Options on heating oil futures, combined with out-of-the-money options bets on various companies’ earnings calls.  When everything goes your way and then you get too drunk with greed and stupidity.  Devastated me for quite a number of years!!!
2
More-Anywhere-4523 Mar 28, 2026 +2
Getting a car
2
KarisumaTaichou Mar 28, 2026 +2
Not selling my stocks and crypto when I should’ve.
2
Titouf26 Mar 28, 2026 +2
Getting married. I don't regret it one bit though.
2
BeepoZbuttbanger Mar 28, 2026 +2
Easily my first wife. Zero ability to set a budget, live within our means, or accept any financial responsibility at all.
2
OkConfection162 Mar 28, 2026 +2
Buying things just to impress people I don’t even talk to anymore.
2
Klutzy-Thing-5723 Mar 28, 2026 +2
Thinking future me would magically be better with money
2
Prestigious_Tax7415 Mar 28, 2026 +2
There’s this stock called SMCI…
2
Tiberius_Jim Mar 28, 2026 +2
Bought a brand new Chevy Silverado with a V8 that got 15 mpg in late 2007. IYKYK.
2
WoodenDoughnut Mar 28, 2026 +2
Bought a house.
2
garbagetruc Mar 28, 2026 +2
Traded in a shit ton of old games and spent $75 to buy a PSP. Never played that thing, and I really missed those games I traded in
2
TheFutureIsAFriend Mar 28, 2026 +2
Getting married to a liar.
2
Select-Hearing-9298 Mar 27, 2026 +4
$25,000 on Austrian Philharmonic silver round at $110 each. Tanked twenty minutes after I bought and wallowing around $78 each today. Thanks Trump!
4
FoldJumpy2091 Mar 27, 2026 +5
Getting married to a financially stable man .    He changed me room and board for the privilege of taking care of the home and yard.  Prenuptial agreement .   Sex was unpleasant.   I didn't have an o***** with him during the marriage     A poor man that wanted to be my partner and equal I would not have been as likely to divorce 
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Warp-10-Lizard Mar 27, 2026 +4
Driving to Wisconsin to celebrate New Year's of 2020 with the only friend available to go out dressed like flappers, instead of just taking myself to one of the 1920s themed events here in Minneapolis and making some friends here. (She couldn't come to me as she cannot drive.) I love that friend to be clear, but that's one of the biggest regrets of my life. I screwed myself both socially and financially, both for the wasted gas money and a stupid accident driving home that cost me a lot.
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