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      03-02-2021, 08:45 AM   #1
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What has been your biggest financial loss?

in your lifetime so far. Doesn't have to be the physical number if you don't want to share that
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All the BMWs I bought lol
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Divorce.
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Add up how much I've spent on cars, subtract how much I sold them for and the loss is pretty impressive. Especially the one's I blew up motors with multiple times.
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Taxes, I never seem to quite get what I expect in return.
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Getting divorced...Ouch. My house and everything in it, half my 401K and a chunk of change one time payout to avoid lifetime alimony.
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College loans didnt receive enough money to finish school and had to drop out after 2yrs now where i work has absolutely nothing to do with what i was going to school for. Huge waste of money
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Getting divorced...Ouch. My house and everything in it, half my 401K and a chunk of change one time payout to avoid lifetime alimony.
Luckily we were pretty young, so we didn't have much, but I did walk away from the equity in the house, all the contents except for my clothing, etc. I kept my 401K and she kept hers. Happily no children were involved.
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I went commercial fishing in Alaska one summer when I was 18. I then smartly flew to Vegas to "double my money" on black jack. We all know how the story ends, I never gambled again lol.
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I went commercial fishing in Alaska one summer when I was 18. I then smartly flew to Vegas to "double my money" on black jack. We all know how the story ends, I never gambled again lol.
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Hurricane Katrina... House and contents (for the most part) lost. Had flood insurance but still multiple six figure hit.
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First marriage, then kids, then divorce, then marriage, then divorce. Sprinkle a few lost jobs(/careers) in there.....yep, that'll do it.

Funny how when the kids moved out, I started keeping women at arms length and both of the ex-wives disappeared, suddenly I could afford nice things and to save money again.
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COVID plain and simple.

Second to that was the housing crisis of 2008ish as we needed to sell our home that year and it was less than ideal.
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A tie between a car habit and divorce.

In the divorce I let her keep the house because I wanted to try to move out of the state, unfortunately I wasn't able to pull that off. But then the week after it was finalized I was laid off.
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All the BMWs I bought lol
And the ones you keep getting repaired...
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Luckily we were pretty young, so we didn't have much, but I did walk away from the equity in the house, all the contents except for my clothing, etc. I kept my 401K and she kept hers. Happily no children were involved.
Yet another thing we have in common. I kept my cars, as well and the things in the office. I still make the house payment.
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I trusted a longtime friend with a five figure investment, did I mention he's now a former friend? After several attempts to reconnect, he never told me exactly what happened.
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I trusted a longtime friend with a five figure investment, did I mention he's now a former friend? After several attempts to reconnect, he never told me exactly what happened.
That's easy - hookers and blow.

He's just reticent to share this with you because you weren't invited to the festivities and now he feels a little bad.
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