What's the biggest waste of money you've spent your money on?

[nextcar]

I'd sum up my biggest waste of money in one word: "youth".

Seemed like a good idea at the time though!

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by strat61caster

^So glad I'm satisfied with two watches for <$250 total and that addiction got filled before I spent much more. It's a fun hobby but not for me. Maybe someday I'll get a nice German flieger (there's one with a bronze case that I almost bought, but at ~$800 I'm glad I didn't) or a nifty chronograph that's vintage inspired, there's a couple Rolex's that look super nice (I dig the arctic explorer ii a lot) but I get so much more enjoyment out of other hobbies.


I'd say about half my car mods have been worth it, I've gotten an incredible amount of satisfaction and enjoyment from my car so that's money well spent, but there's a few thousand bucks I do regret, they come with lessons though so it wasn't a total waste. None of them were pointless though (like an antenna or intake)


No if there's anything I regret it's wasted time, time I could have spent working out instead of laying on the couch getting fat, or looking for a higher paying job, or learning about car setup so I can be at least semi-competitive autocrossing, or writing, or playing/writing music. You need some time to decompress every day, but not 2-3 hours of nothing, I really need to cut down on that wasted time.

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Oh the irony! Although this can be time well spent as well.

[strat61caster]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

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Oh the irony! Although this can be time well spent as well.

80% of my time on here is while waiting for slow computers to finish processing my work. The other 20% has been rather educational. The forum moves slow enough that I don't need to spend hours checking it every night as you well know, maybe an hour spent looking at it throughout the day max.

[ScoobsMcGee]

That damn Nigerian prince who won't reply to any of my emails now.

[86 South Africa]

Originally Posted by Darth Khan

My wedding, should have eloped and used the money to buy a new car.

Your wife doesn't read this forum does she :-)

[JD001]

Originally Posted by Slammillionaire

Weed and beer and ex girlfriends

I am now going to make a big assumption that you are spending on 'ex girlfriends' when stoned on beer and weed.




My biggest cash wasters has been cars, cars, stocks and shares!! Oh and my pension fund!!

[humfrz]

How about 30 years worth of whisky .......


humfrz

[bcj]

I bought a Lenovo Ultrabook ideapad Intel i7 core laptop so I would have an HDMI output for my 23 inch monitor that I could read forums on.
After about a year (no more factory support) the HDMI port quit working. FML.

Still it has a 15 inch screen, but wtf. <trump>Sad</trump>

[mrg666]

I wish I had wasted more money instead of time to save money. Money kept coming but time will never come back.

[Yardjass]

A POS Miata that keeps breaking faster than I can fix it. I bought it to enjoy at autocross a year and a half ago. Haven't been to one yet because of it being a piece of crap or some other conflict like work or other commitments. I could have had a much nicer one by now that actually works if I had just spent a grand or two more up front. It will still serve its purpose of being a cheap and disposable toy to learn on but after about a season, I'm ditching it in favor of the 86, and losing my ass on it in the process.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by mrg666

I wish I had wasted more money instead of time to save money. Money kept coming but time will never come back.

This is the wisest statement on this forum!

[finch1750]

Originally Posted by humfrz

How about 30 years worth of whisky .......


humfrz

Only if it was cheap whiskey. Otherwise that's never a waste

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by finch1750

Only if it was cheap whiskey. Otherwise that's never a waste

Even cheap stuff isn't a waste at the time you are consuming it.

[Borchert97]

Video games and card games, just like a ton of people on here apparently.