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Buyer's Remorse

Right after I graduated law school and started my career, I bought a big-ass 36" tube TV. Within a year, the flat screen plasmas started blowing up and becoming affordable. So now I have this massive, insanely heavy tube TV that I never watch and will never be able to get rid of.
 
Milhouse said:
knowing shoo it's a piece of shit

:D
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I have no idea what kind it was. It was a $200 guitar I bought right out of college with aspirations that had no basis in reality. I think I gave it away or just lost it about 8 years ago. Likely a piece of shit.
 
Baconwfu said:
the one big thing that I've purchased that I regret is that I wish I didn't buy my house 4 years ago.....oh well.
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Yep, I love my house and thankfully I bought it in Dec '05 instead of '08, but according to zillow it decreased in value $85k from '08 until now (and $45 since I bought it) - pretty significant decrease since my house was <$200k to start out.
 
Say Hey Deac said:
Right after I graduated law school and started my career, I bought a big-ass 36" tube TV. Within a year, the flat screen plasmas started blowing up and becoming affordable. So now I have this massive, insanely heavy tube TV that I never watch and will never be able to get rid of.
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IamThunderbolt said:
Yep, I love my house and thankfully I bought it in Dec '05 instead of '08, but according to zillow it decreased in value $85k from '08 until now (and $45 since I bought it) - pretty significant decrease since my house was <$200k to start out.
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I think mine was probably priced similarly to yours when I bought it. I'd probably have to take about a $30K hit to sell it. (I'd have to sell it for about 10K less than I paid and I put 15-20K into it). Luckily I don't have to sell it. I'm contemplating renting it out for a year or so, move downtown or something like that (until I get tired of living downtown) and then think about selling if the market improves or move back in.
 
Say Hey Deac said:
Right after I graduated law school and started my career, I bought a big-ass 36" tube TV. Within a year, the flat screen plasmas started blowing up and becoming affordable. So now I have this massive, insanely heavy tube TV that I never watch and will never be able to get rid of.
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Ha I have a friend who did the exact same thing when he got out of law school. But in an exhibit of further fail, he also built a custom entertainment center around the clunker so I don't think he'll be able to mothball it anytime soon.
 
I love my dogs and we view them as members of our family, but there are days that I would trade them for a kick in the nuts.
 
Ouch..

RollTheQuad06 said:
huge buyer's remorse: buying a house with my (now ex-) boyfriend. :rulz:
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I was going to say: Selling a house in Charlotte at the start of the housing crash and buying a house in FL thinking it couldn't go lower before the first house sold. Also purchased a lake lot on in the foothills of NC west of hickory in a development that is now bankrupt. Lesson: unless I am telling you not to buy real estate, don't listen to me....
 
Purchasing 4 new, tailored suits immediately after returning from my last deployment because I was getting out of the military and needed to start interviewing. Only planned to buy two but apparently I was a salesman's wet dream that day. I also didn't think about the fact that during the deployment I worked out 6 days a week and the food was so horrible I was eating considerably less than normal. Now my idea of working out is walking to the mailbox. So now I have 4 suits I've never worn hanging in my closet that aren't even close to fitting me anymore.
 
DeacAlum2001 said:
Purchasing 4 new, tailored suits immediately after returning from my last deployment because I was getting out of the military and needed to start interviewing. Only planned to buy two but apparently I was a salesman's wet dream that day. I also didn't think about the fact that during the deployment I worked out 6 days a week and the food was so horrible I was eating considerably less than normal. Now my idea of working out is walking to the mailbox. So now I have 4 suits I've never worn hanging in my closet that aren't even close to fitting me anymore.
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unless you've put on like a zillion pounds, then you can get that shit altered, right?
 
Baconwfu said:
unless you've put on like a zillion pounds, then you can get that shit altered, right?
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I've put on about 35 pounds since I bought them so not sure. I ended up getting a job without having to interview, but in a year or two I'll need to interview again once I finish my master's. I keep telling myself I'm going to lose the weight so I shouldn't get them altered yet. Of course, this is all in my head which does not tend to use reality as a basis.
 
buckets said:
I could be wrong, but I doubt they are making fun of the dude for you specifically.
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you're not wrong.

Has nothing to do with you, RTQ. You would make fun of anybody who bought a house with someone and then broke up with them a year later.
 
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