What's your BIGGEST MISTAKE??

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  • Spokez70
    Spokez70 Posts: 548 Member
    I inherited some Best Buy stock in the early 90's and sold it for around $15K (I'd never heard of it then and the broker told me the store was "like a Radio Shack out west" and nothing worth hanging on to. Fast forward 5-6 years later and suddenly Best Buy's start popping up all over the place- remembering the stock I sold I checked the then current price and the stock had exploded and would have been worth over $100K if I'd just hung on to it. That sucked.
  • chasingpavements24
    chasingpavements24 Posts: 107 Member
    1. Going on a trip to India with my mom and brother when i was 11, leaving my recovering alcoholic dad alone (had to stay for business, was planning to fly there in two weeks) . It took him 1 week to drink himself to death.
    2. Picking a major that I hated because my family wanted me to.
  • mandasimba
    mandasimba Posts: 782 Member
    Waiting several years until I went to college. Everybody my age with a teaching degree has a teaching job. I, having just graduated, have a teaching degree, with a low paying data entry job living in a state where they just cut $200 million from the education budget.

    Regret #2... getting a history degree. 50k in debt and my only useful skills are writing term papers. I won't even be able to go back and get a masters any time soon because I'm too poor paying off the bachelors degree!!

    Bitter? No...
  • dollipop
    dollipop Posts: 379 Member
    Getting married.
    Thinking I could cruise thru uni as I did at school.
    Being too afraid of confrontation!
  • myfitnessval
    myfitnessval Posts: 687 Member
    all the in n out cheeseburgers and animal fries. no joke. lol
  • AlayshaJ
    AlayshaJ Posts: 703 Member
    Letting myself hate myself, so much, for so long.

    That **** wasn't worth it. There was no reason for it.
  • zaithyr
    zaithyr Posts: 482 Member
    Working at McDonald's for 3 years. I put on almost 30 lbs! It did look good on my employment record that I had stuck out a job for that long that most people quit within months so I ended up getting a good job after that lol
  • _Bob_
    _Bob_ Posts: 1,487 Member
    I volunteered for a special training detail that ended in a job offer that I refused. but the job was to do horrible things for a government agency that I cannot mention. the things I was put through during training still haunt me
  • gpstrucker
    gpstrucker Posts: 930 Member
    I made the mistake of getting married, but thankfully it was cured (albeit the cure was very expensive).
  • Jani2416
    Jani2416 Posts: 275 Member
    So many to choose from. I would have to say breaking my husband's heart before we got married. I left hIm when I got pregnant with our first child for 9 months. He reminds me every chance he gets. Oh and gaining 56 pounds.
  • twiztid_princess
    twiztid_princess Posts: 89
    Mine is that I didn't take school seriously in high school and I'm now 27 and in my freshmen year of college.
  • wftiger
    wftiger Posts: 1,283 Member
    Not taking the blue pill.

    I know what you're thinking, 'cause right now I'm thinking the same thing. Actually, I've been thinking it ever since I got here: Why oh why didn't I take the BLUE pill?

    In seriousness, mine are too many to list. But weight is the biggest and what it has done to my health.
  • RobynMWilson
    RobynMWilson Posts: 1,540 Member
    I woulda finished college!!
  • running_mom
    running_mom Posts: 204 Member
    Staying with my ex husband for 9 years when he was physically abusive and cheating on me the whole time. I thought he would change or maybe i thought he would want to change. But without him i wouldnt know how strong i am or have the most amazing kids!
  • jessicajoy87
    jessicajoy87 Posts: 905
    Giving up...
  • bschultz0
    bschultz0 Posts: 3 Member
    I brought along a non-criminal friend to a hold up, and he ratted me out first chance he got.
    I spent 2 years in Juvenile Prison.
    Anyway, know your associates before trusting them with the things in life that could get you popped with a felony.
    Lesson Learned!:drinker:

    Or just don't do felony acts in the first place.
  • love22step
    love22step Posts: 1,103 Member
    I don't really regret any of my mistakes because they make me who I am today.

    I feel that way, too. I'm not proud of some of the things I did, but I wouldn't change a thing, because that would change where I am today. "All things work together for good to those who love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." (Rom 8:28) God is so clever, he can even use our mistakes for his glory and our benefit.
  • Cmandy67
    Cmandy67 Posts: 108 Member
    Partying my way right out of university. I had a full ride that I basically gave away for booze and drugs. :frown:

    I'm right there with you minus the full ride. I basically had a very expensive party going on for a few years.

    :( me too i had a little too much fun in University, and it was expensive - very!!
  • Jonahyona
    Jonahyona Posts: 108 Member
    I stole my dad's credit cards and spent 500 dollars on online things when I was 13 years old or so. I refused to tell him the truth and it kind of damaged his trust for me.
  • stephross88
    stephross88 Posts: 846 Member
    Not taking care of myself and letting myself go the way I have.
  • Cmandy67
    Cmandy67 Posts: 108 Member
    Not listening to my mother, as to what my gifts were
    Not believing in myself
    Being a crappy friend
  • bekah_ann13
    bekah_ann13 Posts: 62
    ooooohhh choosing Psychology for my career, oh that and choosing to go to a Private University! Wasted many years of my life in school for something I hate! And spending 16 grand a semester is bizarre!
  • seanson4774
    seanson4774 Posts: 56
    Getting married, but as a result I have the most beautiful daughter a father could wish for. If only I could go back in time
  • Kitten2629
    Kitten2629 Posts: 1,358 Member
    I should have stayed in college at 18. Instead I'm starting over at 29. Would have made finding jobs and reasonable pay with two children easier when you move from state to state to have a higher education other than high school.
  • Debbe2
    Debbe2 Posts: 2,071 Member
    Thinking I should strive to be perfect when all I can do is to be the very best version of me!
  • warmachinejt
    warmachinejt Posts: 2,162 Member
    reading this post...so depressing
  • GoGoSuku
    GoGoSuku Posts: 63
    Doing college, because I hated school and I equally hated college for turning me into a stressed out binging machine who had no life. Thankfully I know what's best for me and try not to please my family at such an extent. Now I've got confidence and depression is gone, so with my anxiety!
  • Chairless
    Chairless Posts: 583 Member
    Easy, judging others by my own standards. Has directly and indirectly led to much grief in my life.
  • jenny95662
    jenny95662 Posts: 997 Member
    the only thing i really regret is after i had my son I lost 30 pounds, then my dad died and I did not care. Now I realize i am at my heaviest i have ever been and I it did nothing to help heal my pain of my father passing. Now I am just having to work even harder to lose more weight.

    oh and i should have never went part time to college in order to work and make more money because i would have been done when i met my husband and had to move away.
  • LouiseRose92
    LouiseRose92 Posts: 112
    Starting drinking. About 90% of my problems wouldn't exist.

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