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Oct 15, 2021
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FallingRock
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Did your brother buy it and become rich? That would sting twice as much
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FallingRock
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What is your biggest financial regret? Mine is that we were given a fairly large
cougcoug3
10/15/21 10:51am
pick any of 1 of a dozen or so investing what ifs.
Baron
10/15/21 10:53am
Yes, yes, and yes!
AFewThoughts
10/15/21 10:53am
My dad offered to give us the cash if we skipped the reception.
85fan
10/15/21 10:54am
Not selling at the high.
TeeKaa
10/15/21 10:56am
Not buying a 1.2 acre dream lot 5 years ago. Waited too long
SlantRoute
10/15/21 10:56am
Wow, this makes me sad.
FallingRock
10/15/21 10:57am
Similar for me.
RebelScum
10/16/21 1:27am
I sold a townhouse that I should have kept as a rental property.
justAnotherCoug
10/15/21 10:57am
The wedding in Steve Martin's Father of the Bride cost $100k
Florwood
10/15/21 10:57am
Not shorting Enron in Aug 2000
fan_byu
10/15/21 10:57am
Sold a lot in Chandler, AZ for $100K (what I paid for it)
AZ Coug
10/15/21 10:58am
Investing in building a spec house in EM a few months before the real estate
Florwood
10/15/21 10:59am
Not keeping our first home as a rental.
gww687
10/15/21 11:00am
Not buying any Bitcoin in 2010
jdub
10/15/21 11:01am
That is cool that you heard about it in 2010 I was exposed to it in 2016 and
cougcoug3
10/15/21 11:02am
Cool, but a little painful
jdub
10/15/21 11:03am
I love how much fbguru hates bitcoin
JollyGreenGiant
10/15/21 11:12am
Want to hear an even sadder bitcoin story?
LosAlcoug
10/15/21 11:18am
Wow, that sucks
jdub
10/15/21 11:20am
at the height of bitcoin, like right now? 🙂
BYUFootballisBack
10/15/21 11:29am
It's still a bit below it's all-time high. Believe it got pretty close to $70k.
LosAlcoug
10/15/21 11:32am
Yeah, your comment just made it sound like it was way down, been on a tear
BYUFootballisBack
10/15/21 11:33am
My brother’s story is as bad (and much more missed)
insanobueno
10/15/21 9:31pm
Me too. He had a miner. He used btc to buy Thai food for lunch.
ForzaPuma
10/15/21 11:18am
This. My brother told me about it. Sounded crazy. He really missed out because he actually understood what it was and he
vegasnative
10/15/21 11:20am
Same. I had been home from my mission for a little bit and one of my classmates
LeonMarek
10/15/21 12:28pm
Nice try FBI
Zaphod
10/15/21 11:02am
Very long list, mostly involving RE purchases and not buying Apple and Bitcoin.
85fan
10/15/21 11:02am
My BIL is into a lot of things when they are new and he claims he had $150m
85fan
10/15/21 11:23am
Paying money to sell my house after the 2008 crash
HiLife
10/15/21 11:05am
Not starting to invest in my 401(k) for 2 years out of college. We were saving
Walt Longmire
10/15/21 11:05am
Not going to college right after my mission
cougarblue
10/15/21 11:06am
Law school & having kids so young
Odysseus
10/15/21 11:09am
A former boss got married in his 30s. They basically blew his savings on
Mister P
10/15/21 11:13am
Bought a townhome that was a foreclosure in 2005 for 52k
whoneedscorners?
10/15/21 11:16am
Why wouldn't the wife let you?
TNT
10/15/21 11:26am
Because we were moving to Provo for her to get her graduate degree
whoneedscorners?
10/15/21 11:54am
Selling RMBS 1000 shares one week before it really went nuts in the late 90's
docrick
10/15/21 11:20am
I sold $5000 of a penny stock to buy my wife's ring. The stock is now in 40s
Sandy Lyle
10/15/21 11:34am
Nice humble brag. $5,000 for a ring 🙂
Walt Longmire
10/15/21 11:47am
That it took me till I was 26 to find my way where I could’ve been when I was 22 if I wasn’t a dummy
JollyGreenGiant
10/15/21 11:42am
Not buying bitcoin at $300 when I first heard about it
Gente_Boa
10/15/21 11:43am
Not buying a short sale home in Palm Springs for $165k in 2010, just sold for $1.2 mil recently...
Burton162
10/15/21 11:46am
I have made so many mistakes, some of which are very embarrassing. But
Acorn
10/15/21 11:46am
Staying too long in school
HawkeyeCoug
10/15/21 11:52am
buying my house in Kentucky. bought high, sold low, partially due to the market crashing and partly to the house itself
byujag
10/15/21 11:57am
I had the chance to invest proceedings from an injury settlement in Microsoft stock back in about 1987.
Zenoch
10/15/21 11:58am
Not buying Apple and Microsoft stock in 1983, when I had the money and listened
Nat Gas Man
10/15/21 12:17pm
Not buying into Bitcoin when my brother told me about it 6 months after it became available.
byuluvr
10/15/21 3:13pm
Did your brother buy it and become rich? That would sting twice as much
FallingRock
10/15/21 3:37pm
Worse. He bought it and sold it a few months later. He'd be well off if he'd have kept it.
byuluvr
10/15/21 7:11pm
Sold $10k worth of PayPal stock when it was $38 dollars a share.
Zilog
10/15/21 6:56pm
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