Topic: Do you have any financial regrets ? - page 5. (Read 858 times)

I think almost everyone has regrets at some point in their life, especially when it comes to finances. Not buying or selling here or there or investing here or not investing there. Something like that just happens in life and you have to learn to deal with it. As the saying goes, you're always smarter afterwards.

As in your case with the apartment. You may regret your decision today, but who knows what might have happened if you had bought it. Maybe then something bad would have happened and you would regret the purchase.

Therefore, you have to see everything a little more relaxed and should not regret such decisions. 

I don't have any big regrets. There are small situational things, such as wasting a few hours on something you knew wouldn't work out or not walking away from a conversation you know isn't leading anywhere productive earlier. Those are the small things I regret, but not for long because I simply try to learn from them for the future and move on. As for big things, I thankfully have nothing to regret. I am sorry you didn't get that apartment, but not borrowing money when you're young and when it might not work out, as well as not borrowing from people with whom you have a complicated relationship which is boung to get harder because them giving you money will change the power dynamics is a reasonable decision. Also, you now know that an area can become well-developed and an apartment can rise in price pretty fast. Lessons learned, moving on is what I think is productive here. People similarly often regret they didn't invest in Bitcoin when they heard of it and it was way cheaper than it currently is. It's a typical regret, but since we can't change the past, dwelling on regrets is merely spoiling the present.

I do not have many regrets when comes to money, mostly because I am just getting to save a little bit of money.
The only thing I can think of right now is the fact I had the chance to learn about Bitcoin back in 2014 and eventually buy some coins, but I did not. I guess it was because I was too young to worry about learning of mining or cryptography, hopefully I won't accumulate more regrets as years continue to pass.

-snip- It's not easy to talk about life regrets in general because we are/were in quite different situations. To make this thread easier, we just focus on the regrets in finances. I believe many of them can be lessons to learn from. -snip-

Today, that apartment I missed is worth at least $1.2 million. Oh my... I hate myself for not buying that apartment every time I think about it.

We must have had or experienced financial regret before but if we can't change, we will only regret it without being able to turn things around for the better. And if we talk about past youth, most young people always put their ego first without thinking about what will happen to them and in the end they only regret it in the future. Maybe if someone, in this case, his parents, could guide him to think far into the future, he would be able to think that the future would change drastically and he should prepare for his future from now on.

And now, the future hasn't happened so we can still try to achieve our goals and get something we want. By working hard, our current life will change in the future.

Today, that apartment I missed is worth at least $1.2 million. Oh my... I hate myself for not buying that apartment every time I think about it.

In life, there are many things to regret thousands of times, not only financially. If we were going to only talk about finance, we just need to talk about investing in Bitcoin, I believe we have hundreds of regrets about our decision, so we do not need to go any further. We are just a mortal that is not a god, so we cannot be perfect and remember the past, and the wrong decisions will only make us more regretful. Instead of thinking about it, try not to make mistakes in the future.

Life is about choices and we all are on the path led by our choices. It's not easy to talk about life regrets in general because we are/were in quite different situations. To make this thread easier, we just focus on the regrets in finances. I believe many of them can be lessons to learn from. I'll start first. Over a decade ago, I was living in a mega city of my country. At the time, the city was already a metropolitan place where you can meet all people over the world. Of course, the land was scarce and the price of housing was pretty high, nomal people could not afford to buy an apartment, let alone a house. However, one friend of mine was taking to a suburban area for an apartment, super nice but the neighborhood was not fully developed yet. The total cost of that departemtn was about $100,000. Well, I did not have that much money at that time but if I borrowed some from my parents and it was not a problem. Maybe because I was too young and did not get along with my parents at the time, I did not ask for that so I refused the offer and let go of that apartment. A few years later, the suburban area became part of the CBD and the housing price was going up insanely. Today, that apartment I missed is worth at least $1.2 million. Oh my... I hate myself for not buying that apartment every time I think about it.

Life is about choices and we all are on the path led by our choices. It's not easy to talk about life regrets in general because we are/were in quite different situations. To make this thread easier, we just focus on the regrets in finances. I believe many of them can be lessons to learn from. I'll start first. Over a decade ago, I was living in a mega city of my country. At the time, the city was already a metropolitan place where you can meet all people over the world. Of course, the land was scarce and the price of housing was pretty high, nomal people could not afford to buy an apartment, let alone a house. However, one friend of mine was taking to a suburban area for an apartment, super nice but the neighborhood was not fully developed yet. The total cost of that departemtn was about $100,000. Well, I did not have that much money at that time but if I borrowed some from my parents and it was not a problem. Maybe because I was too young and did not get along with my parents at the time, I did not ask for that so I refused the offer and let go of that apartment. A few years later, the suburban area became part of the CBD and the housing price was going up insanely. Today, that apartment I missed is worth at least $1.2 million. Oh my... I hate myself for not buying that apartment every time I think about it.

Life is about choices and we all are on the path led by our choices. It's not easy to talk about life regrets in general because we are/were in quite different situations. To make this thread easier, we just focus on the regrets in finances. I believe many of them can be lessons to learn from. I'll start first. Over a decade ago, I was living in a mega city of my country. At the time, the city was already a metropolitan place where you can meet all people over the world. Of course, the land was scarce and the price of housing was pretty high, nomal people could not afford to buy an apartment, let alone a house. However, one friend of mine was taking to a suburban area for an apartment, super nice but the neighborhood was not fully developed yet. The total cost of that departemtn was about $100,000. Well, I did not have that much money at that time but if I borrowed some from my parents and it was not a problem. Maybe because I was too young and did not get along with my parents at the time, I did not ask for that so I refused the offer and let go of that apartment. A few years later, the suburban area became part of the CBD and the housing price was going up insanely. Today, that apartment I missed is worth at least $1.2 million. Oh my... I hate myself for not buying that apartment every time I think about it.

The total cost of that departemtn was about $100,000. Well, I did not have that much money at that time but if I borrowed some from my parents and it was not a problem. Maybe because I was too young and did not get along with my parents at the time, I did not ask for that so I refused the offer and let go of that apartment.

I don't have any real regrets.

Many of my choices were suboptimal. I had more than 37,000 doge coins from faucets. At peak that could be near to $18,000. But I managed to dump all my DOGE before they were worth anything. I did crypto exchange arbitrage during its golden age but didn't put enough effort into it to translate into any real gains. I had many alt coins that I dumped, which became worth something later. There are many investment opportunities I thought long and hard about but did not pull the trigger on, which would have been big winners.

It'll always be a case of "if I had been smarter and put more effort into it, it would have been profitable".

There might always be good opportunities and good buy ins. Just as there was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, 10 months ago, 10 weeks ago. There are good opportunities right now.

Its good motivation to try to be smarter and put more motivation and effort into whatever you're doing atm.

I might only regret if I was being as complacent today, as I was being complacent when I missed out on all of these good opportunities in the past.