Biggest Ever Financial Errors

[Beach Hut]

Been thinking about this for a while and own up to two:

Cashing in endowment and re-starting mortgage so basically added 6 years to my mortgage paying life.

Failure to buy Orange shares at £2 each when the went up to about £18 during the dot com boom - didn't think they were good value

Confess yours please.......................

 

[1066gull]

Failure to invest in Google when it was worthless in 1997.

Pity, I never had a computer back then!

 

[Marc]

eeerrr....my youth...biggest financial error of my life

Coupld with crap paid jobs and high cost of living/socialising around these parts! Sorting it all out now thank god!

 

[Pevenseagull]

Micky Thomas' wages

 

[southstandandy]

Buying this years season ticket !

 

[Gwylan]

Wonder if anyone will put following one of Gareth's tips.

I think I've been all right on major things ... I can think of some bets that I should have risked more though.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

My ex girlfriend

 

[Gwylan]

Failure to invest in Google when it was worthless in 1997.

Pity, I never had a computer back then!

Er....Google didn't go public until two years ago; you couldn't have bought shares in them.

Do you always talk bollocks?

 

[Starry]

Not selling some land in Ireland to a foolish English person who offered us a lot of money for a quick cash sale. We wanted to keep the land but then changed our minds and when we had it valued it was worth a quarter of the offer we had from that English guy. I still kick myself about that now.

The land has sheep on it but we're going to build I think.

 

[The Large One]

Er....Google didn't go public until two years ago; you couldn't have bought shares in them.

Do you always talk bollocks?

Yes, yes he does.

 

[Gully]

Choosing to invest in a company in the services sector and putting my money on Jarvis instead of WS Atkins.

 

[Beach Hut]

Choosing to invest in a company in the services sector and putting my money on Jarvis instead of WS Atkins.

Ouch, Jarvis collapsed badly after several railway accidents

 

[Gully]

I know, both shares were roughly the same price at the time I staked my money, couldn't get out of Jarvis in time and lost the lot, Atkins are now 7 or 8 times what they were back then.

 

[Beach Hut]

WS Aitkins is a pretty good set up from what I've heard from those that work there.

Still I have cocked up a few times on shares as well, all part and parcel of investing

 

[pishhead]

Nick leeson made a notable error or two.

 

[El Presidente]

Applying under 14 different names for shares in lastminute.com

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Nick leeson made a notable error or two.

My thoughts exactly when I read the thread title.

 

[Easy 10]

WS Aitkins is a pretty good set up from what I've heard from those that work there.

Still I have cocked up a few times on shares as well, all part and parcel of investing

Ahhh, so Mr "repent ye sins all ye gamblers" likes a bit of a punt on the old STOCKMARKET does he ?

well well well

 

[Beach Hut]

Ahhh, so Mr "repent ye sins all ye gamblers" likes a bit of a punt on the old STOCKMARKET does he ?

well well well

All strategy not some aimless punt on an internet casino or a nag

 

[Easy 10]

All strategy not some aimless punt on an internet casino or a nag

Hey, less of the aimless punt !
Anyway, cards is also strategy.