Financial Mistakes

[bjl584]

Here are some of the biggest financial mistakes that people have admitted to:

• Marrying the wrong person
• Leasing/buying a new car when not needed
• Not starting to save/invest until later in life
• Excessive gambling/lottery
• Taking on too much debt when young
• Chasing stocks/options
• Lifestyle creep
• Keeping up with the Joneses

[LivingAlmostLarge]

constantly paying CC interest

[kork13]

Oh, this is a fun game, I want in.

- "Substances" ... Whether legal or illegal. Oodles of money wasted on giving themselves cancer, liver cirrhosis, addictions, and broken relationships.
- Excess spending in food & restaurants
- Ignoring health issues until they're inescapable
- Enabling family/friends' bad choices, and/or failing to cut them off from support
- Not taking care of things leading to damage, early failure, and a wide variety of creative-sounding deaths ... Car, house, appliances, physical health, relationships, etc.

I could go at this list for days ... Just depends on how high my "cynical" meter is pegged. (Higher day today, it's moving day #2 of 2 .... Packers are 80% through emptying my house, ahead of my family's move to the Tokyo area.)