Expensive mistakes you've made because of stupidity

Bought Intel Extreme Processor about 7 or 8 years ago. Nice and shinny black box.

Cost? £928. Yes, that was ******* stupid.
 
My friend bought a second hand Audi TT. Took it back 2 days later as he realised he didn't really need it. They offered to buy it back for £4k less than what he bought it for. Eventually they paid him £2k less than what he bought it for so long as he bought an A3 they had. A couple of months later he realised he didn't want the A3, so sold it on one of those webuyanycar.com sites for about £5k less than he would have made on Auto Trader. So that is about £7k lost, plus whatever he was paying on finance in a matter of months.

The guy runs his own successful business. Buying cars, it would appear however, is not his strong point.
 
ThaReaperGuy said:
however then laughed when they saw my 16k quote for insurance, so no car 3 years on
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Wow!! They could buy you a brand new car for less than that! And in fact should have considered doing so, because you can sometimes get cars with a year's free insurance, sometimes (but rarely) even two years. By which time you've been driving that length of time and hopefully have a No Claims Discount built up.
 
Ceryndrion said:
I came up with a great idea to move to canadadia once, after six months there and one harsh winter, I decided that it wasn't the place for me, so came back.. In the end, probably cost me 10k or so..
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Could be a richer country then usa in a few years. I got relatives there but the company handled everything for moving.

My mistake maybe what I didnt do, goto uni and get a degree of some kind. I know people who got job, visa to China just because they got a degree and so them bring them over to teach english. Anyhow degree helps a fair bit in tech I think
 
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Bought an expensive bow and arrow off ebay thinking, yeah a bit of archery, well up for that. When I got the bow I realised I had to buy another several hundred pounds worth of gear just to use it, so go all that too. Never fired a single arrow off it, still in the shed.
 
Agreeing to my wife's plea to sell the house without completing on the next so we didn't lose it. After moving in with her mum for a while we got gazumped on the property and ended up living with the outlaw for 4 years while the housing market skyrocketed.

I would be mortgage free by now if we had not done that, instead of owing £££££££££££££.
 
I suppose everyone does it at some point. No matter how much sage advice you are given.

Mine's been expensive cars bought on whims that I've not even really liked after about a week behind the wheel. Lost thousands and thousands on them over the years, doesn't bear even thinking about.

Also the Apple IMac I bought 4 years ago for £1500, couldn't get away with it, sat unused on my desk for about 3 months then sold it for £1000.

If you're into expensive guitars as I am then there's yet another minefield of whimsical decisions and disappointment.

There are many other examples but I'm loathe to remind myself of my stupidity. I'm a lot more careful these days.
 
HecFam said:
I had a mare putting a new iphone screen on for my mum. I took everything apart unscrewed all the stupidly small and tight screws, disconnected all the ribbon cables, fitted the new screen and put it all back together again as i was putting the screen back into the casing i managed to put a bit too hard at the top and crack the screen worse than it was before i took it apart. I spent hours getting all the fiddly crap out, i felt like someone had died in front of me. Not that expensive, only 20 quid for a new screen, just a real pain in the arse.
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Takes me 15 mins to replace that screen ;)
 
Steve2000 said:
If you're into expensive guitars as I am then there's yet another minefield of whimsical decisions and disappointment.
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I can honestly say in 44 years of gigging I've never bought a guitar I haven't used on stage and I've got my moneys worth out of it. Other music gear have been my major loss.
 
Sunbed said:
Didn't clean bird crap off car quick enough. It hardened. Used plastic scouring pad to scrape off. Now left with many small paint scratches all over my car.

Not necessarily expensive because I can probably get away with not fixing those on the roof, but retarded all the same.
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Claybar may well restore the finish somewhat. Claybar then super resin polish to fill in the micro gashes then seal it up with some long lasting wax like Colinite 476S. All for less than the cost of a computer game.
 
Not paying attention when putting a new PC together a few years ago - screwdriver slipped as I was levering the heatsink and fan into place and scored a deep gouge into the motherboard, taking out capacitors left, right and centre.

I've also hit the 110v switch on a psu as well as I was just curious to see what would happen. It goes bang :)
 
An american work colleague slept with a temp at an office party, total bill was over $500,000 for the child he didn't want.
 
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