The most EXPENSIVE mistakes EVER! - r/AskReddit

what is the most expensive mistake you have ever made getting a DUI on top of it being incredibly stupid reckless and dangerous it ended up costing me $20 zero zero zero all said and done if there's a silver lining it's that first and foremost nobody was hurt I was simply pulled over by an observant police officer and second it woke me up to the fact that I'm the kind of person who just shouldn't drink alcohol things are much better now bought a 40-year old house on three acres that was three feet above flood line of the century four years later we had a 1000 year flood one hundred and sixty dollars zero zero zero so far to remodel in cash course didn't have flood insurance there was a leak from my bathroom upstairs to the kitchen right underneath it every time someone would shower water would slowly begin to drip into the kitchen I thought there was a leak somewhere in the drainpipe and I took the kitchen ceiling down looking for it and this was an old home so there was this cement type of plaster with metal lattice rock threw it on top of wood slats it took forever to expose the drain pipe only to find out that the little knob thing on the shower faucet that you pull up to turn on the shower had broken and I just needed to replace that that piece costs me $7 then I had to completely replace my kitchen ceiling I once trusted a person who said they needed cash to go to Boston to see a sick relative I gave him 80 bucks for a bus there and back he shows up driving with a friend of his I then realized he was scamming me confirmed the next day when his girlfriend called and said he was arrested and she needed money to go see him she said that he said I was his only friend blah blah blah and she asked for $100 to be money ordered to her blocked numbers I only lost $80 but I learned a huge lesson in trust I had no idea it was even an option to take classes at community college for the first year or two and then transfer into a four-year university had good grades and standardized test scores so I was under the impression that my only real choice was which University I wanted to attend the next year meanwhile my girlfriend went to Community College for two years transferred to the same University and got a degree that looks exactly like mine for somewhere in the ballpark of ten dollars 20 kg per I ignored the oil light in my car until I blew a rod now I changed my oil a little too often I once bought two pizzas because they were two-for-one but when I checked the receipt I realized they had charged me full price for both I have a sheltered life when I built my first gaming PC back in 2005 I spent dollar-sign 800 plus on the cpu alone it was probably something meant for workstations and serious multitasking and I stupidly thought more expensive equals better I could have had the same performance for gaming with something in the $200 300 range most likely about a year later I also spent ro ug h ly dollar-sign 500 on a second video card to get Slee which was at the ground around this cam router alle novelty at the time the performance increase was super negligible and a giant waste of money I will say though seeing some of the other responses and here makes me feel slightly better about my mistake when I was still in elementary school I ripped my braces off with pliers they then refused to treat me and my almost straight teeth went back to being crooked I owned a few academic scholarships out of high school but didn't know how to use them I figured they would have been automatically applied but I didn't start college right away so my lack of understanding preparation and willingness to ask people in the know resulted in me losing a couple thousand dollars to award my education rented a u-haul to move from apartment to condo same town and bumped one of the balconies in the alley behind the condos put a very small dent in the canopy part of the truck and when we returned the truck they told us since we didn't get the insurance we would have to pay for the fix within 48 hours they said that it would cost four thousand eight hundred dollars to fix and they refused to let me take it to a third-party mechanic for a quote then they said that if we didn't pay within 48 hours it would go to court where it would be doubles I wasn't too well off then financially and maybe too naive but we decided to pay to avoid having it doubled my wife was in tears at the counter as she gave them her credit card freak u-haul they'll never get another penny from me the rest of my life so far an advanced degree in the u.s. still hoping it pays off I once stole ugr cards from Walmart well tried to steal obviously I was caught it cost my parents $800 in legal fees I felt bad about it and so I got a job I paid my parents back twelve hundred plus dollars an extra four hundred just for the trouble spent $6,000 on App Store purchases when I was young not rearranging my room enough to play gone and punching my $900 TV happened like five hours ago took a turn so quickly lost control and wrecked a 50k luxury car still gotta pay around ten came lawyer fees I took out a loan and almost ruined my credit to buy an engagement ring for a girl who had apparently already replaced me I made a killing in the crypto market when it spiked back in December after I paid off debts I reinvested about dollar signs for K back into the market as it began to drop of the dollar sign for K I invested it's worth around $1400 now I plan on keeping it though maybe it will go back up maybe it won't I'm okay with losing that money this is one of those not me but comments but it fits perfectly here my fiance and i lives with his uncle when we were first starting out and this dude was paranoid like no other few friends cash only no banks that whole mindset he had a business partner of his male in $10 zero zero zero cash wants to avoid having to pay to have acquired or having to explain anything to the eyes they'd done it before by vacuum-sealing it to make flat as possible and hiding it in clothes I whatever in a box this time his partner got lazy and just vacuum-sealed it then slid the thing into a big cardboard envelope thing some slick postal employee must have known what to look for because what got delivered was a cardboard envelope slid open up the side with a few blank paper stuffed inside $10 zero zero zero untraceable dollars gone forever I still wonder what the postal employee did with that hopefully took their partner out for a nice dinner and gave their kids a good Christmas not doing my taxes correctly dollar sign 25k in repayment slash penalties slash fees plus the amount we are paying for an attorney to get it all straightened out ugh the most expensive mistake was buying a 1920s money pit house it was architectural II interesting and loaded with attractive features but the house was also constantly in need of expensive repairs and significant upkeep there was always something going wrong or several things at the same time it was a relentless money drain and we are thankful to have sold it I converted a van into a Ravi so that my girlfriend and I could drive from Canada through the u.s. to South America I spent $15 zero zero zero and three years of my time she broke up w / me last week I don't think I want to travel alone getting married at 23 then divorced 13 years later it's been 12 years since the divorce and I still have not recovered financially to be fair I also had my mom nearly die from a heart attack in there and I got cancer at the same time life is tough but you soldier on right my first job out of college I worked as a developer at a small retail companies in Department my team only consisted of myself a lead developer and my boss who also chipped in with the coding given our small size and flexibility requirements I guess my manager didn't feel the need to burden us with strict protocols or safety procedures for testing and production deployment as he trusted we were wise and responsible enough to do the right thing one day when I had a small back to fix on the website checkout page I thought I could save some time cutting corners it was an obvious fix and only a single line JavaScript update so rather than go through the typical flow of testing locally committing changes to the repository then deploying to the production server and finally testing again on the live website I figured I could get away with updating the live production code first thing just to get the fix out there because thoroughly testing would be a waste of time well it turns out that even a single line update is not immune to the possibility of introducing a typo that typo ended up breaking the JavaScript on the page thus rendering the check out button non-functional it wasn't until almost noon the next day that one of the sales representatives noticed we hadn't received any online orders for almost 24 hours if only one of the customers had called the problem in sooner by the time I discovered the checker button wasn't working and corrected the error the estimated loss of sales was placed at approximately $40 0 0 0 in the end I got a rittle slash warning and my boss finally decided to implement a formal deployment procedure that involved management approval before any production server updates evaluated as a crucial lesson learned there's no change too small to warrant testing because even the simplest thing I do is vulnerable to bun Bluff recurring got married to a manipulative mutant reached as much as he could he is now blocked and long gone glad I got out when I did trading in a car that had low miles and was paid for for a Porsche 944 piece of crap doesn't even begin to describe this thing and every part for it was 3-4 times more expensive than a normal car part playing league of legends I'm not sure why I did this but I suppose it's because I was pretty lovely at the time I started talking to a guy online who was in a nearby city Mel born 400 kilometers away the closest city around my area mind you got along well but then he told me he's from North Queensland which is like 2,000 kilometers away from where I live he was down in Melbourne with his family and was driving back up to his hometown in a week or two we talked the whole time he traveled up north I think it took around three days before he got to Brisbane which is a few 100 kilometer south of his town by this point I was falling pretty hard for him and out if the blue he asked me if I wanted to fire up to Brisbane and stay in the hotel he was staying at once his family had left I gave it a lot of thought stalked every little detail of his fastball convinced her account to make sure he was legit and eventually agreed to fire up and stay with him for a week it cost around 350 dollars for the flights which was surprisingly cheap for the distance but here's the thing I was I on student welfare at the time so only had dollar sign 100-ish left and didn't get paid for another two weeks I thought alright I can do with $100 I'm sure he'll buy me dinner since I've made the effort to come see him I should also mention that I lied to him early on and said I have a job on a fishing boat with my brother which I have worked on a few times but it's nothing stable so not really a job ended up missing my plane due to waiting for my phone to charge in a shopping centre so I could transfer some money over to get a Sky bus to the airport $20 there was a traffic jam on the freeway in Melbourne so I had to pay an extra $50 to get the next flight in the morning great when I finally got to Brisbane Arijit had around $50.00 left after having to catch a $20.00 train from the airport to the city and the first night I was there he asked me to pay for dinner I said no he can since I came up here long I didn't want to lose my pride about being poor and ended up calling dad to borrow me some money he put $50 in my account which I was sooo grateful for as at this point in time I was seriously beginning to stretch out I ended up running out of money on the third day and made a lie up about how I was waiting for my employer to transfer my paycheck into my accounts I don't think he was very happy having to pay for Neels but he did say something along the lines of if I didn't care about you I wouldn't be paying for you after I made a fuss over it anyway of the last day I had to get up early to go to the airport which was a three hour walk away and there was no way I was going to ask for money for an uber or make it in time by walking somehow I managed to use PayPal to go into the negatives and order and uber to the train station and a train ticket to the airport when I arrived in Melbourne I couldn't afford a sky bus so I walked to the closest suburb near the airport and caught a city bus and then trained to the train station using my my key card which somehow still had money on it from a few years back TL DR don't travel across the country to meet up with a guy you've never met especially when you have no money and live off welfare I bought a Saab 9-3 I paid dollar sign to K for it from my lab partner it was a high mileage car but my god it was fun to drive for the first five or six weeks I owned it then it blew a coil pack at the time I didn't know that was what happened but the mechanic figured out what I should have known to check they wanted to charge me $800 for the part I found one on eBay had it shipped overnight for a total of 196 dollars then installed it for $200 found out later the install process involved a grand total of unscrewing four bolts snapping the part into place and screwing them back in doctor of motors in Chico can eat crap slimeball business with predatory service advisors then it blew another coil pack then it blew a crankshaft sensor then another coil pack then another add another Miceli ascension components along the way plus brakes and a few ruptured brake lines I don't remember what it was at this point but I remember spending all day removing a manifold to change some tiny cheap little part that was essential to operations except for the first instance I did all the work myself no way I could afford the prices of a European car repair shop each time I bought a coil pack they were more expensive last one was about $300 all-in-all in two years I dumped about $2,500 3,000 into a $2,000 car lesson learned though I wouldn't say all the money was a complete waste some of that $2.50 3k weather tools I still own now and have come in handy since children I work as a graphic designer my main job during the year is getting product catalogs ready for print slash mailing we usually print just shy of 100 zero zero zero catalogs a year which comes out to dollar sign a TKO so every year without fail with as much preparation and come through I always make at least one mistake which haunts me the entire year grew up with too much HGTV water fixer-upper estimating I could Ref initially entire house for dollar sign 15k if I did everything myself it's a 100 years old house and I'm afraid of sores let's all laugh for a minute my first car at gas guzzler maybe $22.00 rest rate I thought four hundred dollars a month was affordable but I was not counting insurance and gas those three factors altogether totaled up to over $800 I feel like that bad purchase informed my financial situation for years but I now a less than three thousand dollars on it and it will be paid off in about a year dad passed away I was given his house two plus hours away wild wife and I had a newborn and were working full time that lifelong friend move in for monthly rent and he actually helped fix up the house and keep it in good condition his GF started staying the night once in a while at the house then more often him and GF had falling out he left and stopped paying rent as we discussed I sent family over to check on the house someone's living there I check on house that weekend it's my friends now xgf living there she asks for one week to move all her stuff out that I didn't even know was there I had my new family in the car with me and was not prepared for having to remove someone in all Stav so I said okay I was to come back the following weekend when my shed you allowed and she would be gone well this final week let her have a full 30 days living at my house and she had proof so she was now residents and needed a full legal eviction to get her out of my house when you're involved in an eviction there's all sorts of help and organizations and websites for the person living at the house to get answers for the landlord evicting the tenant I found almost nil had to pay a crap ton of money and had to drive to the County Courthouse two plus hours away like six eight times over the next two months to get her out of my dad's house during this time I was not allowed to enter the house I set up cameras on the neighbors property with their permission attempting record damage to the house parties theft of my property still at the residence didn't get jack squat she did about 40k damage to the home still a lot of my dad's belongings that were hidden in the Attic and cost me an insane amount of time well really I did this to myself by letting my friend move in took almost two full years of going across the state every weekend to work on the house I guess I can pay more money to go after her for the damages to the house but she was living off illegal means and state aid during this whole process and would never be able to pay me back one final kicker the house was heated var fuel oil in Michigan and we have cold winters this fish ran out of fuel oil in late December and she didn't have 150 dollars needed to get a fuel oil delivery you have to order a minimum amount to get them to drive out to your house and put fuel oil in your tank she used electric heaters and had several of them running all when to to compensate because she was on state aid or some crab the company couldn't shut off a power in middle of winter so she racked up an average of $1 700 a month in electric bills over the winter when I went to put the power back in my name I was told that have to pay her $6 300 balance before the power could be restored this was because I didn't set up some landlord program with the power company in the first place this took another three months or so and a couple hundred to a lawyer to get straightened out who I feel better I think I made this long as hell so no one actually weeds it it's like I'm mad at her and myself all over again anyways house is fixed up and sold now for less than half the profit we originally anticipated Jesus I lost so much money I read it as most expensive milkshakes and was so excited dated a guy who seemed great moved in together he then decided his job was boring so he quit I spent years paying almost all the rent paying his car insurance buying the groceries paying the majority of the bills et Cie while he did whatever he wanted I don't even want to know how much I wasted on him I'm just glad to be rid of him and because everyone asks I paid his car insurance and bills so he wouldn't have an excuse to not look for work I paid for groceries because I still had to eat he was responsible for anything he wanted that I didn't eat and I paid the rent because my landlady was so sweet and kind and I didn't want her or her family to suffer because my crappy ex didn't feel like paying his half that month start smoking cut in a three years now but was smoking for five years marrying my ex-husband he controlled all our finances my paycheck went into one part so of course that meant he could span how we were doing any which way he wanted on top of that all the stupid cars he kept by him losing the house not getting my full half because he kept it all the expensive electronics giving his family money every month not investing in my own 401 K and not getting half of his losing out on the supposed mutual fund that existed still not sure it did but I don't know where that money went and of course the divorce expenses and cost of therapy after not to mention the money I gave him to help him during the liver I didn't properly secure a b2 after it landed and a freak not quite a tornado but close enough smashed it into the side of a b-52 Stratofortress essentially clipping one of the wings of a b-52 and totaling the b2 civil union with my alcoholic ex in fact the whole goddamn septic cluster freak of a relationship cost me well over $100,000 and Counting at least I'm in a far better place with a wonderful partner now still recovering financially my cow Walker and I were offered six hundred dollars each to take a later flight we talked about it and decided it would be too disruptive to the business trip an hour later standing in line to board the first flight we got texts saying our second flight was delayed five hours got a Discover card at 21 and told myself I'll only use it for emergencies and then I don't think I quite properly defined what emergencies were to myself it was my second try to get my driving license back in Spain everything went well apparently I was asked to park the car so I parked it in a huge space it was in front of a garage door so I thought I'll move it backwards a bit little by little I suddenly heard a huge thud I hit the back funniest thing that garage door was unused and I cold left the car there and that was the end of the test but of course I failed now I don't know about other countries but in Spain at least my region there's no tests in August and this was right before that so I had to keep going to driving lessons for a month failed the third time until I passed at the fourth try and in total I spent like 1,000 euros more than what I should I'll always remember this buying another bag of heroine the guy who shot me up missed the vein so I thought I'd go get another bag well that bag caused me to overdose it's really expensive to ride in an ambulance stay in the iQue for five days go to detox and then rehab but I'm still alive and coming up on a year clean law school I misread a blueprint and ordered $90 zero zero zero worth of material the wrong size once we were able to use it later but I was crapping my pants for a little while took a buyer at a large corporation at her word when she claimed she needed a bunch of parts a SAP and she would get us a P o as soon as possible we ordered a one hundred and fifty dollars zero zero zero Miller on a stainless steel that material is still sitting in our parking lot almost two years later we don't take buyers of their word anymore I got into a car accident when driving for like eight hours I was tailgating and got brake-checked I had to pay over two thousand dollars for the front bump in my car and insurance paid for their damages I had to call my mother about the accident and got disowned for like month or two swore I wanted to go to a film school out of high school applied to full sale in Orlando Florida they require half of the tuition upfront $22 zero zero zero I went for a tour of the school and was dazzled by the cool neon lights and film sets I look out alone with Sally me and began school after the second semester I realized it wasn't for me a bachelor's degree it's not like you can change your major and readjust your newly realized interests I ended up miserable and dropping out in the first days of the second semester I still owed $22 zero zero zero regardless if I dropped out or not I decided to drop now and save myself from spending another $22 zero zero zero in the second year to rub salt in the wound absolutely none of the credits earned at full sail were eligible to transfer to other universities $22 zero zero zero and nothing to show for it that was ten years ago and I finished paying off the loan thank God I joined the military and works hard to pay off that loan I took advantage of education benefits and worked on an actual bachelor's degree graduated and then completed a master's program from a great University in Florida near where I was stationed I've got a great job now doing something I love I've redeemed myself but it was certainly a learning experience financially high stakes poker I estimate in the dollar-sign 300k range emotionally losing my girlfriend of four years because I wasn't driven enough to keep her interest financial losses are very hard to get over but losing someone you imagined would be there forever is the absolute hardest thing I have ever / continue to go through when I was in high school my boyfriend from a different school and I made an agreement to go to each other's proms we'd each pay for everything for our own prom then figure the difference out after my dumbass thought it was a great idea until he broke up with me after my prom which was a few weeks before his I'm still out one hundred and forty dollars that he said he'd pay me back Frick you Dakota 123 k to a company that hacked the NL's of a customer I work with a lot and changed the bank information on the invoice baingan I got addicted to drugs to date I estimate I have spent over dollar-sign 100k on substances not to mention the insane cost of four Stimson inpatient rehab sand a multitude of psychiatric hospitals well at least I don't have all that much money tied up in student loans silver linings sold my 16 bitcoins a few years ago SM H in the fourth grade another student wanted to buy my gamma Boy Advance off of me for $100 I had an extra one since my sister had one never used it and give it to me thinking sweet I can make an easy $100 I took his offer the next day I bring the gamma boy and he says hey let me test it out first I want to make sure it works I'll play it in class we had different classes naive me give him the gamma boy without taking any collateral that friken ever paid me and still my gamma boy in my first job out of university i was lucky to be part of a successful startup and became rich on paper my dad told me to cash out and buy an apartment for myself I refused because I was oh so amazingly clever and soon lost six million dollars when the company crashed on the stock market I was left with nothing I should have listened to my dad [Music] [Music]

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Published: Fri Jul 10 2020