'I transferred $500k to the wrong vendor': 25 Expensive mistakes that people will never live down

We all have that one financial choice we made that haunts us forever… and usually, there's nothing to be done about it. You're just left with a smaller amount of cash in your bank account and sadness in your heart. 

In a workplace setting, a costly mistake can put your job on the line. However, some people consider their biggest financial mistakes to be going to college for the wrong major, or investing time in a relationship that didn't work out. It's all about the timing of things… just tell that to the people who sold their properties for too little money, only to watch their (former) property value skyrocket a year or two later! Check out a bunch of interesting things that people consider to be their biggest and most expensive mistakes down below. 

Next, read about the 14-year-old stepsisters who can't agree on a basement renovation project, leading one of the girls to ruin it: 'My stepdaughter can't return home until she pays my daughter back.'

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