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What’s the largest amount of money you have ever lost in one instance, and how did it happen?


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Posted - December 29, 2019

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  • 46117
    Fifty grand when my mother willed half the house to my brother.  I would have been happy to share had it been anyone besides my brother.  Honestly. 


      December 29, 2019 10:27 AM MST
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  • 53503

      Wow, that must have been difficult to take. 

    :[
      December 29, 2019 10:30 AM MST
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  • 6988
    I have the exact same problem, except the value of the house is much less.
      December 29, 2019 12:48 PM MST
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  • 44602
    About half a million when I remarried. Fool me once, shame on you etc.
      December 29, 2019 11:40 AM MST
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  • 53503

      The truth is the truth. 


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      December 29, 2019 11:49 AM MST
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  • 10026
    :( :(
      December 29, 2019 1:58 PM MST
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  • 2128
     270 dollars when I went to the bathroom in an old dump with other losers and got up and left it by the toilet by accident and when I realize it 30 seconds later I turn back and it was mollycoddled by the person who wouldn't open the locked bathroom door and I gave up.
    This post was edited by CosmicWunderkind at January 1, 2020 8:18 AM MST
      December 29, 2019 12:53 PM MST
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  • 10026
    I am not sure if it counts because it wasn't just flat out cash.  I did receive a product from the cash I gave.
    I bought a pair of shoes to wear to a funeral.  I was late to the funeral already and didn't have time to try them on.
    Why I thought it was important to buy this certain pair of shoes to honor a person who was already dead and didn't care what shoes I wore, I don't know.
    But, for some reason, I did.  I made it to the funeral, late, but made it and wore those shoes.  I couldn't walk but I could stand.  I couldn't return the shoes because I wore them. 
    I lost 127 dollars plus some change.
    I gave the shoes to goodwill and didn't claim them on my taxes.  I figured it was my punishment for being late to the funeral in the first place.
      December 29, 2019 2:02 PM MST
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  • 53503


      It counts, it counts. 

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      December 29, 2019 4:49 PM MST
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  • 16763
    $6k. The car was a lemon, when it finally broke down for the last time a junkyard only gave me $200 for it.
      December 31, 2019 1:45 AM MST
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  • 5808
    Maybe a million.
    Step dad left everything to me
    when I got out of the Navy, returned home
    to find step mom had taken everything.
    She gave me a check for $10,000.00
    and said that was not my home anymore.
    ...It's ok though
    I would have been trapped there forever
    and would never had made it to India
    to study with my Spiritual Teachers.
    Sometimes blessings come that we 
    don't see at first...
      January 1, 2020 8:17 AM MST
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  • 10026
    Yet another wonderful wonder about you, Baba.
    What a nice way to see the silver lining.
    It was important for you to learn your guidance.
    You are all the wiser.
    Happy New Year, my friend.
    :) :)
      January 2, 2020 11:02 AM MST
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  • 1893
    Maybe $100K on some stock.  Early on in my investing life I bought was once a good stack and at the time was.  A New York Hedge Fund came and gutted the company I sold what was lest of my stock for around $10K.

    Never trust any New Yorker is the lesson I learned, especially the Hedge Fund Types.  These folks are greedy and morally brankrupt
      January 2, 2020 12:27 PM MST
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