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What's the dumbest thing you've ever done with money?

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What's the dumbest thing you've ever done with money?

The "Given Money" thread inspired me.. If you or someone you know ever received a sum of money, what's the dumbest thing you did with it?
 
My ex got a nearly-$10K sum from a famous uncle and spent the entire amount on music equipment... while he was being evicted from the home we had shared... and had to call me or his friends from around town to get rides, because he didn't have a car.
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Anonymous
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Re: What's the dumbest thing you've ever done with money?

I got mad and set 700 dollars on fire. I had a customer who bought a ticket for me when I worked as a teller at the horse races and it won. My then idiot husband said the man more than likely gave it to me for umm really bad reasons. He was so jealous and I was fuming mad. I burned it so he would shut up about it. Stupid I know. Any tips or winnings after that, I sent home with my mom to hoard for me. I knew that marriage wasn't going anywhere.
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demi
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Bought a big screen TV....around 1989. Realize at the time I had no car. My best friend teased me so much about how it was on wheels and I could roll on it too work. But, it was a great TV !

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_andClimbing
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Got married.

I wish I had just eloped and put the money towards a down payment on a home instead. Or not gotten married in the first place.

/not bitter
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WhirledPeasPlease
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_andClimbing wrote:
Got married.

I wish I had just eloped and put the money towards a down payment on a home instead. Or not gotten married in the first place.

/not bitter


And along those lines..  I paid for a wedding that didn't happen (my choice).  I really wish I'd tried to get my honeymoon plane ticket changed to something I could actually USE at a later date.  At the time money just didn't seem important when I was trying to avoid getting whacked by the crazy ex-fiance.
 
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atlastontheroad
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Packed my life up lock, stock and barrel and moved across the country for "love."
 
 
Fortunately, while he turned out to be less than stellar, I do love my little corner of the world Smiley Happy
 
atlast....a midwestern girl doing a partial life-sentence on lovely, lush, Lawn Guy Land
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_andClimbing
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Better to have loved and lost (at any cost), than to have mated with crazy.

Chalk one up in the blessings category, eh? Smiley Wink
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atlastontheroad
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_andClimbing wrote:
Better to have loved and lost (at any cost), than to have mated with crazy.

Chalk one up in the blessings category, eh? Smiley Wink


Amen!
 
atlast....counting my blessings
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Ficos 2/12/09 TU 695 EQ 715 EX 715
Fico...4/15/10....drumroll.....EQ 743
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fishbjc
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Re: What's the dumbest thing you've ever done with money?

pay cc interest comes to mind.
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WhirledPeasPlease
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Re: What's the dumbest thing you've ever done with money?



atlastontheroad wrote:


_andClimbing wrote:
Better to have loved and lost (at any cost), than to have mated with crazy.

Chalk one up in the blessings category, eh? Smiley Wink


Amen!
 
atlast....counting my blessings



I'll second that.  Smiley Happy
 
The 'guy' in the saga is on wedding #3.  After every divorce he contacts me.  Uh, no ty.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
From 700 in 2008 to 498 in 2012...
4/23/12 -- BK 13 date of filing EQ = 505
4/18/12 -- EQ 498
12/5/13 -- EQ 669
Here we go.... back on track.
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