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Have You Ever Made a Bad Purchase That You Regret Making?

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Everybody has made bad purchases before that they regret making.

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Spendster.org was started as a safe haven for people to clear the air about what's cluttering their lives and draining their wallets.

Spendster is a program developed by the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE). On the site you will find video and photo uploads of people's bad purchases, as well as a calculator that determines the actual cost of your items if you paid for them using a credit card.

What items do you tend to waste the most money on? Eating out? Tech gadgets? For me, I would say it is clothing. Apparently I am not the only one. Americans spend about four percent of their income on apparel and the ratio of spending on women's versus men's clothing is about two to one. Please share your answer with us as a comment.

Cross-posted with Simple Living Family

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midnightbliss 7 pts

usually its also clothing, i can be an impulsive buyer sometimes that's why i always ask other peoples opinion when its something expensive.

Karla Elaine 5 pts

midnightbliss That is very smart. It's easy to convince ourselves of anything we want to believe, isn't it?

Karla Elaine 5 pts

I am sorry to hear your health is not good. In retrospect, I think a lot of us are regreting buying our house. We're kicking ourselves for buying at the wrong time or for buying a bigger house than what we really needed just because the mortgage company would approve us. I think that is what Spendster.org is really all about. Instead of being ashamed of it, let's put it all out there. We all make mistakes, so let's not beat ourselves up. It's time to move on. If we learn from those mistakes, that is what really matters.

fibro_witch 5 pts

Well in retrospect, and with a health dose of reverse 20/20 vision. I think I should not have bought my house. I had it for six years until it became impossible to pay a mortgage and medication. My health won out, so to speak and I let the bank take the house. I'm in an assisted living facility now.