26 of People’s Most Expensive Mistakes
No one likes to make a mistake, but if you’re lucky, a quick laugh and an apology will fix it. Less fortunate mistakes hit you where it truly hurts: your wallet. Not only do you have to dwell with the emotional cost of your error, you also have hard numbers informing you just how severely you fucked up.
Even worse, sometimes the initial bank account debit isn’t where the pain ends. Bad financial decisions have a habit of inviting friends over to feast on your available checking balance, leaving you destitute and dejected, remembering the extra zeroes that once were.
To hammer home some financial responsibility, here are tales of woe from people that have accidentally set fire to a fat stack of greenbacks in their life. Before you buy that fixer-upper, or throw your Hancock on a loan without reading the paperwork, learn what kind of nightmare you might be opting into.
It’s a lot more pleasant to learn from the following mistakes than make your own, I promise you that.
