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Have you ever made a really expensive mistake you have to live with for years?
Yeah, SUV and $5.00 gas. I wish I had gotten a small sedan. Sad face.
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Re: Have you ever made a really expensive mistake you have to live with for years?
*weeps silently in corner*
I feel your pain OP. It cost me $63 to fill up yesterday and gas is still around 3.90 for regular around here. I don't even want to think about it hitting $5. We can't get rid of our car though bc we're having our third kid soon and need the extra room. Is trading your SUV in for something smaller a possibility for you?
Ditto IIOY and Doctorwho....
combined kids and law school are costing me thousands every month.
Last night I spent $450 on SD's hair.
Above Us Only Sky
Grad School.
hoodywhat? Holy crap!
Word.
Buying our apartment in 2006 thinking we had to buy RIGHT NOW or else we would never be able to afford buying a home, ever. *cries*
We love our car but we were forced to buy just a couple months before our wedding, so all our money was being put away for wedding costs. We put no money down and our loan terms are, um, not ideal. The MM board would rake me over the coals. Needless to say, DH will be driving this car until it is entirely run into the ground before we buy a new one.
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DOur house. I LOVE it and it is perfect in every way except now it is huge and being empty nesters soon it makes little sense.
We have decided to put a second master bedroom downstairs and shut the upstairs off in the winter.
I feel like I can't. It is the first car the Mrs. and I have had in our adult lives. We bought it because I just got my license. Turns out, driving is hard! and NYC driving is the suck, and gas costs a LOT!
You all knew this before me. I don't know about how to trade in a car. I think we'll keep it until it doesn't work anymore (which will be forever with how little we drive) and then get a nice practical car in time for any kids we may have to go to college.
Truth.
ETA: well, the expensive part anyway.
Yup.
Also, buying a condo instead of a single family home. I was single at the time and didn't want to deal with external maintenance but I should have just sucked it up and bought a sfh.
We were thisclose to buying the condo that we were renting when G was born. It was tiny and two bedrooms but we weren't planning another kid for a while so it would have been fine, right? I'm so glad we didn't do that, lol.
Over a year ago she started dying her hair. The last incarnation was black with pink tips. She's decided that coloring her hair is an expensive habit and wants to go back to her natural blonde. The process of getting back to blonde is rather expensive since she won't just shave her head :-)
Above Us Only Sky
The house we are currently trying to sell. Bought in Nov 2005 (although we thought we were getting a deal with pre-construction pricing!) and now looking at coming to the table with an ungodly sum of money or trying to rent it out for a few years at a monthly loss. It's the choice b/w a big gaping amputation and a slow trickle of blood... If I could go back in time I would definitely have never bought where we did and probably would have told self to just rent for awhile (as preposterous as that would have sounded back in 2005 after already buying/selling 2 houses in the span of 5 years).
ETA the year we bought, how could I forget that
We also bought our house before the housing downturn here, though not nearly as severe as some places. We could probably get about $25K less for our house than when we bought. Thankfully, we aren't underwater its just annoying. I'd like to point out I wasn't a realtor when we bought
On the flip side, we've purchased a condo in FL when things were bad there, and we are just about to close on a second one; so we've 'made up' for that mistake if thats possible??
And holy crap $450 on hair!!
{clutches chest and staggers backward}
*cries some more*
<a href="http://www.thenest.com/?utm_source=ticker&utm_medium=HTML&utm_campaign=tickers" title="Home DWe bought a fixer-upper 9 years ago at the height of the market. It ended up needing a lot more work than expected, and our 5 year fix and flip plan didn't work out so well. We'll be staying put for a looong time. (On the other had, we got a nice little house for way less than market value in a HCOL area. When DH was laid off for a year it was nice to not have to worry about paying a McMansion payment).
Our crew cab pick-up..cost me $85 to fill that sucker up yesterday. At least it's paid for and should last another 8 years.
I turned down a job last fall that would have almost doubled my income. I don't regret it (various family reasons), but I still think about how that money would have really made a difference for us.
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Law school.
Marrying a grad student while I was unemployed and had $300 in the bank.
That second one is working out, though.
My rental property. I used to live there, and when I got divorced I *had* to have it because my friends were the tenants. That was 2007. Because it is a rental property, lenders want to see 40% equity, which I nearly had before the market crashed. The nearly identical house next door went into foreclosure and sold for about $30K less than what I currently owe (!!!) so selling just isn't an option now.
At least my guys pay rent. For now.
DD #1 passed away in January 2011 at 14 days old due to congenital heart disease
DD#2 lost in January 2012 at 23 weeks due to anhydramnios caused by a placental abruption
yeah, that condo purchase that I am not extremely underwater on and rent out at a huge loss each month because I moved out of state.
That mistake will probably cost me $75-$100K. Maybe more. I don't like to think about it.
Trains Across America
Would you like to buy my condo in Salem?
Hands down, law school.
My loans are low and manageable, but it'd be nice to not have to make those payments each month on top of the other expenses we have.
My kids are expensive too, but more than the expense, I regret the effect they have had on my body, lol. MY RIBS DON'T CURVE IN, THEY CURVE OUT. It's bizarre and sad. I'm blaming my rib issue on Jackson. He was ~10lbs and people thought I looked 5-6m pregnant when I was 41w b/c of how he was curled up under my ribs.