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The absolute worst waste of money, what is your list?
Top of my bucket list was my first Corvette. Got the car and everything on Covid shutdown ever since. Don't even want to check the value of really low mile-age car.
Green font LOL wife and kids yes I love them dearly and would not part with them but early in life had older fellows tell me .. should have just rented one .. so many conveniences now ( I ) we take for granted besides the cable and phone service as a kid a few examples I never seen a paper towel or cans of pet food in the house ( or neighbors ) fast food was unheard of two later on three TV channels and dial up l phone worked no one spent the day calling about every detail in the day like posting now ( oopps LOL ) we had one car for the family for years much later on two added one for mom . one TV , one phone , one bathroom , th elist is endless if you think about what we could get by with vs what we want to have to make life easier
as for cable or dish if they would allow me to pick and choose the networks I might go back in place of a package deal with 90% BS I never watched any way
my list is long also hard to pick from so many over my life of wasted and foolish things money was spent on .. all I can say for sure is ,, it started with my fist real pay check when I was 16 yrs old and continues today .. some people just never learn hind sight is so much better LOL
Totally agree D\R! If I could get back all the money spent on cable bills over my lifetime, I'd be sipping drinks with umbrella's lying on a palm tree lined beach!
Oh! Wait! Umbrella drinks would be another big waste of moola!
Motorcycle can be I expensive, if you worry about fitting in with the dress like a pirate crowd, and need a new HD at 25 thousand. I buy used Triumphs with a couple thousand miles on them for a fourth of the new models and have just as much enjoyment.
I'd buy when it snowed, sell in the spring. Restoring the old ones was not very profitable but it's what I loved doing. Only one new HD here 1979 FXE-F. IIRC $3500 in a snowstorm. Trouble is I bought her 4 houses so far. Anyone paying $25K plus with all the used low mileage HD's out there must have money to waste. This 1975 500 H1 ate stock HD's for breakfast when they were new and she was 35+ years old.
Anything that would prolong my life on this dirt ball.
Some will die in hot pursuit
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Green font LOL wife and kids yes I love them dearly and would not part with them but early in life had older fellows tell me .. should have just rented one ..
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Giving out personal information to incoming phone calls
Paying credit card interest
Trading in a used vehicle you still owe lots of money on just to save a few bucks on the monthly payments. (This is a true "bend over" moment)
but early in life had older fellows tell me .. should have just rented one ..
so many conveniences now ( I ) we take for granted besides the cable and phone service
as a kid a few examples I never seen a paper towel or cans of pet food in the house ( or neighbors ) fast food was unheard of
two later on three TV channels and dial up l phone worked no one spent the day calling about every detail in the day like posting now ( oopps LOL )
we had one car for the family for years much later on two added one for mom . one TV , one phone , one bathroom , th elist is endless if you think about what we could get by with vs what we want to have to make life easier
as for cable or dish if they would allow me to pick and choose the networks I might go back in place of a package deal with 90% BS I never watched any way
all I can say for sure is ,, it started with my fist real pay check when I was 16 yrs old and continues today ..
some people just never learn
hind sight is so much better LOL
Oh! Wait! Umbrella drinks would be another big waste of moola!
Only one new HD here 1979 FXE-F. IIRC $3500 in a snowstorm. Trouble is I bought her 4 houses so far.
Anyone paying $25K plus with all the used low mileage HD's out there must have money to waste.
This 1975 500 H1 ate stock HD's for breakfast when they were new and she was 35+ years old.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain