What’s the dumbest thing you EVER bought....besides the diamond ring for your ex, we all hate her too.
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Oh, and I bought a gun years ago. If I had all of the money that I’ve turned into smoke and noise, buried into berms behind target racks, and left on range floors... Well I wouldnt be hanging with the likes of y’all...
no you would have spent that and more on therapy, and still be going for it.
A Honda 3 wheeler. Many drunk young lads got hurt on that one. Guy I worked with was a long time Harley rider. A Mongol. Wanted to ride it. I started to tell him how to handle it. He waved me off. Took off down the dirt road. Lost control and drove it off into a pond.
Seems like boats and hot rods are a sure way to lose money. I can't say I know of anyone who has built a hot rod and made money at the end. Same way with a boat, but we all know about boats.
A boat. Hands down. Somehow buying that leisure item pissed off the powers that be and I have had zero time to use it. But when I find 3 seconds to go out with it the motor won’t run so I pay to get it running . Then it sits again. What sucks about is that it’s only a jonboat (I’m cheap), but damn the motors are still expensive.
And hiring a marketing firm. I have never seen so little get done with so much money. Not to mention the mismatched life views and personality types between us. I could have used all that money on a new boat. If anyone knows of a good marketing firm keep it to yourselves. If anyone knows of a marketing firm full of no bullshit type A types, that charge a fair price for actual work that is effective let me know. I don’t expect an avalanche of PMs.
And hiring a marketing firm. I have never seen so little get done with so much money. Not to mention the mismatched life views and personality types between us. I could have used all that money on a new boat. If anyone knows of a good marketing firm keep it to yourselves. If anyone knows of a marketing firm full of no bullshit type A types, that charge a fair price for actual work that is effective let me know. I don’t expect an avalanche of PMs.
Probably going to date myself here. But back when vacations weren’t so easily available on travel websites and the internet, my wife and I got bamboozled into buying one of those vacation timeshares, only to find out what a piece of crap that was.... fees up the wazoo even when you are not using it. Took us years to get rid of it, cancel fees, annual fees, etc... what a scam.
Hmmm... aside from all the money I spent on various guns and cheapo optics when I first got into the hobby before figuring out what was actually worth getting, my biggest mistake was trading in a paid off, good running, 6 year old vehicle to get a bright, shiny new truck and a 400/month payment to go with it (72 months of course). All on a whim because I saw the truck and decided I had to have it. Still kick myself for that.
Yep. Some car decisions I have made still haunt me.
As does selling my nice 5 bedroom house when I got divorced. It was to be rid of anything in common with her besides my kiddo.
now that house is worth 180k more than I would have to refi for to buy her half out.
and was darn nice, but not crazy huge or rediculous
As does selling my nice 5 bedroom house when I got divorced. It was to be rid of anything in common with her besides my kiddo.
now that house is worth 180k more than I would have to refi for to buy her half out.
and was darn nice, but not crazy huge or rediculous
Co-signed a car loan for a nephew because he’s pos parents credit was horrible. Should of known better. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree. Give you one guess who ended up paying for it.
Lately? A new camper, used it three times and it broke the three times we used it. Oh well we'll see if the "Hurricane Hilton" holds up in the next day or two?
I guess I got lucky with the boat I bought. Got a 31' Hallberg-Rassy sailboat (made in Sweden). Berthed at South Beach Harbor in SF. Just small enough to single hand. Used to sail all over the bay and gulf of farallones.
Had to sell it after my second kid. Sold it in a week for 15k over what I paid. So with mooring and annual maintenance, it was probably a push, but I got to use it 5 years for free.
Sorry, doesn't qualify for worst thing I ever bought...
Had to sell it after my second kid. Sold it in a week for 15k over what I paid. So with mooring and annual maintenance, it was probably a push, but I got to use it 5 years for free.
Sorry, doesn't qualify for worst thing I ever bought...
I bought into a handful of company stocks in the dot com boom that literally went boom and I lost somewhere around $20k total on all of them. That is about when I stopped taking wild risks like that 
I don't buy anything on a whim, so most things I have spent money on I am good with
I don't buy anything on a whim, so most things I have spent money on I am good with
That was my first house. Closed escrow April 2006. Then the bubble burst... yeah.
3x 50 foot sailboats and one 32 footer we bought in one package deal, to use in the charter business, was great for a couple of years, but pain in the ass later on (brokers are the ones making easy money with no risk), only worked out because we got a great price on the whole lot when we bought from the factory, as i worked for the design office that designed these boats and knew these in and out and a being a boatbuilder myself ,we bought the boats with only options that are best built in the factory,but retrofitted the rest ourselves easily saving 50K $ per boat just on the outfitting.
Without all the effort to negotiate a great price and to save $ outfitting, the whole project would have been a massive dud. So far sold 2 of the boats and 2 are still at work but you can imagine this year the charter business took a major hit ,will sell the 2 remaining boats sooner or later.
A pro tip : Avoid owning boats & planes like the plague, biggest waste of $$$ you can imagine
Without all the effort to negotiate a great price and to save $ outfitting, the whole project would have been a massive dud. So far sold 2 of the boats and 2 are still at work but you can imagine this year the charter business took a major hit ,will sell the 2 remaining boats sooner or later.
A pro tip : Avoid owning boats & planes like the plague, biggest waste of $$$ you can imagine
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Bought into my government actually represented me and my vote made a difference.
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Vehicles are a diminishing return. That said I did buy a Volvo XC90. Great vehicle to drive, not so great to wrench on or get parts for either. Sent it to the crusher with about 150K on it, which was SMART.
Heh, never ran long enough to eat one! It now has a built 4l80e.
It’s a lot simpler to explain to the wife that you’re saving money by doing it tho
I think I will have to second the Mil-dot master. It resides in my data book as a bookmark. I have yet to use it after all these years, but hang on to it "just in case". I am not sure if it really is the "dumbest" thing I ever bought though. when I was a kid I saved up for one of those fancy survival knives like in the film Rambo. All excited for a compass in the handle, fishing line, a wire saw, etc. If i recall it lasted about a day after being turning into a spear point on the end of stick and thrown at a tree. Good news is it stuck, bad news is it bent to shit.
Depends on what your goals are. I cranked out thousands of rounds of .357 and .38 spl with say 150 bucks invested. Considering that .38/.357 was running good money at the time the gear paid for its self then a lot more. The rabbit hole is the time/money equation you do. All of a sudden you've got a Mark 7 sitting in your reloading room and you're a few grand lighter in the wallet.
Now then, precision is a rich man's game no doubt. Precision at any sort of scale is even more so.
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