What has been your biggest financial loss?

Tommy-G · 03-02-2021, 09:45 AM

in your lifetime so far. Doesn't have to be the physical number if you don't want to share that

ShopVac · 03-02-2021, 09:46 AM

Getting married. Lost my ability to do any banking...

ASAP · 03-02-2021, 09:46 AM

All the BMWs I bought lol

hooligan_G01 · 03-02-2021, 09:52 AM

Divorce.

dtox9 · 03-02-2021, 09:54 AM

D-I-V-O-R-C-E
Nothing else even compares on any scale.

DocL · 03-02-2021, 09:55 AM

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.

CTinline-six · 03-02-2021, 10:13 AM

Taxes, I never seem to quite get what I expect in return.

cmyx6go · 03-02-2021, 10:19 AM

Getting divorced...Ouch. My house and everything in it, half my 401K and a chunk of change one time payout to avoid lifetime alimony.

Smgs1992 · 03-02-2021, 10:40 AM

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

hooligan_G01 · 03-02-2021, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by cmyx6go

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.

Mardio · 03-02-2021, 10:54 AM

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.

Tommy-G · 03-02-2021, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Mardio

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.

No Regerts

kscarrol · 03-02-2021, 11:26 AM

Hurricane Katrina... House and contents (for the most part) lost. Had flood insurance but still multiple six figure hit.

King Rudi · 03-02-2021, 11:34 AM

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.

GOLFFRR · 03-02-2021, 11:37 AM

Mods

fiveohwblow · 03-02-2021, 11:39 AM

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.

OkieSnuffBox · 03-02-2021, 11:44 AM

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.

MKSixer · 03-02-2021, 11:55 AM

A few...

$300K on a biz deal when I was 33 and got stabbed in the back by my alleged partner to the president of the company we worked for. It would be about $1.2 million in todays dollars.

$450K/2 by an investor who was to cover part of a research project. He was brought up on charges about more fraud later. My partner and I covered the loss to the company.

Not buying 10000 shares of Tesla at 25/share with a bonus payment because I chickened out. That's about $28,000,000 in at today's trading rate.

Where is that bottle of tequila I keep?!?!!

UncleWede, did you move it again?!?!!

MKSixer · 03-02-2021, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by ASAP

All the BMWs I bought lol

And the ones you keep getting repaired...

MKSixer · 03-02-2021, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by hooligan_E84

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.

tcphoto · 03-02-2021, 12:01 PM

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.

Joekerr · 03-02-2021, 12:12 PM

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Originally Posted by tcphoto

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.

03-02-2021, 09:45 AM	#1
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