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'What’s a financial mistake that can take years to recover from, even if you earn a decent salary?': People discuss what the biggest financial mistake they ever committed was

María Cetra

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Girlfriend uses his boyfriend's card to order food, even though he told her to delete the card from her phone, she orders $30 worth of food almost every day: 'She’s saying I’m being unreasonable and that I can just pay the minimum payment'

María Cetra

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Mom finds an undeposited check for $500 addressed to her daughter, sobs and berates her daughter for not giving her the money: 'She said she could have used that $500 if I didn’t want it.'

Emmy Pratt

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Family has changed their job, making their financial situation different, now they can't afford travelling for Christmas with the rest of the family: 'I communicated this clearly to my in-laws, however, this was not received well.

María Cetra

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Bride wants to uninvite her sister's boyfriend after he asked her parents for an $8000 loan from the money they had set aside for her wedding, then he asked for $5000 from her fiancé: '[The sister] said if Chris wasn't invited, she wasn't coming either'

María Cetra

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Woman refuses to lend anymore money to unemployed friend after discovering he spends all of it on video games: ‘He couldn’t manage his own money’

Melissa Knudson

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Sister's husband wants to flex his promotion by inviting breakfast but then gets upset about paying for what the brother ordered, even though he always eats the same thing: 'I would have happily paid the bill, like I usually do'

María Cetra

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Freelancer gets tired of being paid late by accountant Connie, when he complained, Connie said to ask the CEO for the expenses money, he complied: 'This left poor little Connie out of the loop, and she wasn't too happy about it'

María Cetra

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Brother-in-law tries to “flex” promotion by insisting on paying for family breakfast, only to immediately complain about the bill: 'It's the 2nd most expensive thing on the breakfast menu'

Melissa Knudson

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Parents spend $30k of daughter's tuition money on kitchen renovation after she takes a year off from school: 'She thought we were bluffing'

JR Atkinson

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18-year-old roommate wants to stop sharing dinners with his flatmates as he is now spending $100 a week on just dinner food when he knew he could eat for less: 'I even suggested that I could buy my own food and still cook with them once a week'

María Cetra

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Friend agrees to dog sit for 2 weeks for $500, friend sends her $170 and then ghosts her ahead of her wedding: 'She could afford to pay you - she just chose not to'

JR Atkinson

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Father chooses to leave his son out of his will for no specific reason, without telling him, asks his sibling not to say anything: ‘I feel uncomfortable knowing this’

Giuliana Tiscioni

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College student waitress pays for her older coworker's $20 Uber to get home from work; coworker keeps asking her for more money: 'She's a young single parent and shares a car with her boyfriend.'

Emmy Pratt

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Struggling sister-in-law chastises brother for suggesting she sell her $60k engagement ring: 'Our family has given them over $150,000 combined to help keep them afloat'

JR Atkinson

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Two friends were planning an international trip, but one of them had to cancel 3 weeks before it started and is now demanding to get her accommodation money back: 'I’m not giving her money back since I’m not cancelling anything'.

María Cetra

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