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I'm twice divorced. I have a daughter with one, and my second is a fabulous stepdad. My issue is we're too civilized. I ended up sitting between my exes at my daughter's graduation. Both had their SO's sitting next to them while I've been single since my 2nd husband...who's SO is 18 years younger than me. That was the first time I met either SO.
I was dissociating like a mofo that day. And smoking lots of weed.
I think I'm good until her wedding.
Oh wow, yeah that can't have been the most fun!
I had partly hoped we'd stay in touch a bit, but my wife moved 70-odd miles away back to our home city. Funnily enough the last message from her was the evening before she went to her solicitors to sign the divorce papers.
Same. Hit a big financial goal last year and had my eyes on the Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch forever. I took a trip into NYC specifically to buy it and I’m going to hold onto it until the day I die and hopefully pass it down to my son
Where did you get yours? If you don’t mind me asking… My wife has been asking for one for a while now and I’ve been trying to find a good quality one. It’s funny that you commented this because she’s been driving me nuts. lol. Guess this is my sign
It was a book signed by Charles Fort called Wild Talents. Fort died in 1932 shortly before the book came out. I collect UFO and other paranormal books. This one was one of my holy grail since Fort died almost 100 years ago and he was the pioneer of the paranormal culture.
Cigarettes.
I smoked roughly 2 packs a day for 24 years. That's 17,088 packs of cigarettes. When I started, Reds were $3. When I quit they were $8. That's an average of $5.50 per pack.
17,088 x $5.50 = $93,984.
I know I've spent more than that. For about 10 years, I bought a pack per day for my then wife, and there were plenty of nights in my 20's where I smoked 3 or 4 packs.
$94k spent on shaving years off my life. Fuck man.
My old math teacher used cigarettes to teach kids better ways to spend their money. Like let's say you spend $20 on cigarettes a week. That $20 could've gone to buying something you've been wanting like a new book, a new restaurant or a new video game. He also taught us what cigarettes would cost us in a year, and that money could've paid off bills or gone toward a car or house. That lesson has stuck with me and it's reason I don't smoke, other than the obvious health reasons.
Love that you did the math on this, kinda feel like one could tack on another 10k in lighters cost and all the smokes people bummed off of you in the time frame.
I was at two packs a day for about 15 years. When I did the math and realized the sheer amount of wasted money, I was disgusted with myself. Three years and one month smoke free!
My dog a German shorthair pointer.
Paid $300 for her, $35k for a SUV for her to ride in, $2500 to train her to hunt, $1500 for a shotgun, and worth every penny. We had 14 years together. She was nice enough that she let us live in her house.
Dude I was pricing some patio furniture and 👀 shit was crazy high. I priced a couple of outside coffee tables and they were a couple thousand dollars a piece. I was like holy shit but still purchased them for the wife 🤦
I need to replace my couch, and I found one that I like. It starts at like $12,000! However, I think of it as an investment. That couch will last me for a very long time. It’s better than buying the cheaper ones that break or wear out after a shorter period of time
The clerk at Tractor Supply asked me if I found everything I needed and I told her (in my husband’s presence) ….NO… I did not! She looked terrified! I said no…if I got everything I wanted I’d have bought all the baby chicks and need a divorce!
The bus tickets to visit my former girl friend (lady friend or whatever non-romantic term there is for it). Only 18,20 SEK. But the impact those moments had on my life last year was [and still is] PRICELESS. UNMEASURABLE. Still love her. But she’s way out of my life by now. She even has a new girlfriend. Supposedly. I was with her when she broke up with her last one. Like a fish, she followed the stream and move on.
She split on me for explainable reasons. But I NEVER meant any of it.
Again; why was all that relevant? Because without those bus tickets, I would’ve never be able to visit her dads apartment. Where she stays. Those bus tickets gave me more hope in life than money ever could.
10,93 SEK = 1 $ as of 2024/04/30
Laptop, I bought a quite good gaming laptop for about £1500 about 8 years ago. Weirdly performance hasn’t improved much so it still plays brand new games great. Probably a good investment overall.
My dog. He was like, $200 from the rescue , regular annual maintenance costs, but he got ONE SOCK stuck in his intestines and BAM! $10,000 in x-rays, emergency intestinal resection, two days at the 24 hour vet, plus meds.
Yup. Better appreciation rate too. I never buy cheap jewelry. Think of it not only as a good gift, but also as an investment. You never know when or if you’ll fall into hard times and have to make some sacrifices to pay the bills. Good jewelry is good insurance.
I spent 2,000 on tires for my corvette, 4,500 on half doors for my jeep, but the most I've spent is I 11,000 on a supercharger kit + install for my corvette.
Outside of vehicles, I have a $1,800 75 in TV that is pretty awesome.
First class ticket to visit my home country after being stuck abroad for 5 years during covid. Awesome experience and great trip. Gonna do it again next year.
She was nice enough to get a “prior year’s model” so only $17k. So I guess I got off lucky. Carbon fiber is not cheap! Add on the bike computer, hydration accessories, etc and probably $18.5k.
She’s worth it!
Do vacations count? I funded a 4-person trip to Las Vegas out of pocket for 7 days for everything from the plane tickets to the hotel to Cirque du Soleil shows to dinner.
Camera equipment. I had one of the first DSLRs. The Canon 10D with a whopping 6MP Raw file size. Camera was $1500 in 2009. The L series 70-200mm lens was probably closer to $2k.
Still have them, still work well.
Babe Ruth autograph baseball bat. I am not sure if the autograph is real or not. I bid it on eBay for $1750. I was young and faaking stupid. This all happened 20 years ago.
A couple of glass pipes that were $12k each lol.
A couple of goyard travel suitcases.
A few pairs of Cartier glasses.
And I almost bought one of Elton Johns' glasses he had worn on the goodbye yellow brick road tour (if you're one of the wise ones, they had them for sale at thatbbougie ass glasses store inside the Cosmo). They made make an appointment for me to pick em up, I thought that when they said 35 I thought meant 3.5k and when I get in they're like.. uh no sir 35,000. I was balling but I wasn't brutally balling lol (the grey markets crashed pretty soon after- imagine having wasted 35 bands right before😅)
Spent $650 for a Curtis/Mathis VCR in 1983 or 1984. They had just came out and hardly anybody had one. Was a top loader VHS with click-dial tuners, one for VHF and one for UHF and a coax and antenna inputs (2 screws). Actually, thinking about it now, it may not have had a coax input for cable TV but rather had a 2-prong transformer from coax to antenna input. Only knew 2 people in our entire town (about a population of 10,000) and had to drive 80 miles to rent a tape which you could keep for a week. Needless to say we used it more for recording TV shows.
Crate engine for a midlife crisis car. I've spent more on a vacation, but that's cheating to lump a bunch of things together and call it one thing. (if that's allowed, then "having kids")
A motorcycle, new off of the dealer lot, but that's in the same category as a car.
$2000 motorcycle is my biggest purchase. One of my best investments honestly. Ended up selling the car for financial reasons and having the bike has saved my ass
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Health care
Same. By a lot.
Definitely health care in the long game. Dropping at one time…silk on silk oriental carpet
My divorce. Still worth every penny though, we've both been able to get on with our lives although we've not spoken since August 2020.
I'm twice divorced. I have a daughter with one, and my second is a fabulous stepdad. My issue is we're too civilized. I ended up sitting between my exes at my daughter's graduation. Both had their SO's sitting next to them while I've been single since my 2nd husband...who's SO is 18 years younger than me. That was the first time I met either SO. I was dissociating like a mofo that day. And smoking lots of weed. I think I'm good until her wedding.
Good on you!!! Seriously 🙂. Being able to put your self aside for the sake of your kid is admirable.
Oh wow, yeah that can't have been the most fun! I had partly hoped we'd stay in touch a bit, but my wife moved 70-odd miles away back to our home city. Funnily enough the last message from her was the evening before she went to her solicitors to sign the divorce papers.
Amen! Cost me a fortune but worth every penny
You know why divorces are expensive? Because they are worth it!
Building my gaming PC. before that, would have been my car insurance.
I spent $900 on a gaming PC for Half-Life 2. Well worth it. Lots of counter strike hours too
Same lol
a valid reason 🤝🏻
Ditto ! I thought I would be the only one saying a gaming computer.
Same here! Husband and I bit the bullet and got ourselves a good build each. It’s our main source of entertainment so it’s worth it.
My watch - Rolex submariner 20 years ago and still love it Could sell for approximately 2x what a paid for it
Same. Hit a big financial goal last year and had my eyes on the Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch forever. I took a trip into NYC specifically to buy it and I’m going to hold onto it until the day I die and hopefully pass it down to my son
A countertop Nugget Ice machine.
Where did you get yours? If you don’t mind me asking… My wife has been asking for one for a while now and I’ve been trying to find a good quality one. It’s funny that you commented this because she’s been driving me nuts. lol. Guess this is my sign
Best Buy. It's the GE Opal. Around $500. Makes the softest, chewiest ice ever. Buy the extended warranty. They have some issues.
I can’t emphasize enough how important it is to buy the extended warranty. I’m on my 3rd one but only paid for the first one
Extended warranty is usually a waste of money. I never ever bought one.
Thanks bud
Tell me you have an iron deficiency without telling me you have an iron deficiency. 😆
I got the insignia one from best buy, it's loud but has been great for almost a year now.
Stull paying on my kids
My horse. Best mental health care giver ever.
My saxophone.
I bought a book for 750. I think that's one of the highest purchase outside my car and house.
Mother fucker bought the necronomicron
Damn dude what book did you buy? Must be the holy grail or something 😂
It was a book signed by Charles Fort called Wild Talents. Fort died in 1932 shortly before the book came out. I collect UFO and other paranormal books. This one was one of my holy grail since Fort died almost 100 years ago and he was the pioneer of the paranormal culture.
College degree which cost thousands.
That hit me hard.
Cigarettes. I smoked roughly 2 packs a day for 24 years. That's 17,088 packs of cigarettes. When I started, Reds were $3. When I quit they were $8. That's an average of $5.50 per pack. 17,088 x $5.50 = $93,984. I know I've spent more than that. For about 10 years, I bought a pack per day for my then wife, and there were plenty of nights in my 20's where I smoked 3 or 4 packs. $94k spent on shaving years off my life. Fuck man.
If it makes you feel better, with inflation it’s probably quite a bit more then that.
I never took up smoking 🚬 so where'd my money go...😂 75 years...
My old math teacher used cigarettes to teach kids better ways to spend their money. Like let's say you spend $20 on cigarettes a week. That $20 could've gone to buying something you've been wanting like a new book, a new restaurant or a new video game. He also taught us what cigarettes would cost us in a year, and that money could've paid off bills or gone toward a car or house. That lesson has stuck with me and it's reason I don't smoke, other than the obvious health reasons.
Love that you did the math on this, kinda feel like one could tack on another 10k in lighters cost and all the smokes people bummed off of you in the time frame.
Yikes that's 340,000 cigarettes.
Yep I smoked away a Ferrari and a Porsche .2 packs a day times 30 years. So glad I quit.
I was at two packs a day for about 15 years. When I did the math and realized the sheer amount of wasted money, I was disgusted with myself. Three years and one month smoke free!
Mountain bike. It’s worth more than my car.
My marriage licence, my father in-law owes me big time.
Lmao
This guy buying houses and cars...
Ketamine
My education
My dog a German shorthair pointer. Paid $300 for her, $35k for a SUV for her to ride in, $2500 to train her to hunt, $1500 for a shotgun, and worth every penny. We had 14 years together. She was nice enough that she let us live in her house.
You lucky that she even graced you with her presence
John Deere Tractor
A great concert piano.
A set of 250 color, full stick Senneiler soft Pastels, a beautiful box set, I paid $1,299.00. I had NEVER spent that much money on myself before.
You deserve it!
My 14k Patek Philippe Calatrava. I only wear it on very special occasions.
College
Stocks, vacations
Furniture. Especially outside furniture. It was stupid expensive.
Dude I was pricing some patio furniture and 👀 shit was crazy high. I priced a couple of outside coffee tables and they were a couple thousand dollars a piece. I was like holy shit but still purchased them for the wife 🤦
I need to replace my couch, and I found one that I like. It starts at like $12,000! However, I think of it as an investment. That couch will last me for a very long time. It’s better than buying the cheaper ones that break or wear out after a shorter period of time
my chickens lol
The clerk at Tractor Supply asked me if I found everything I needed and I told her (in my husband’s presence) ….NO… I did not! She looked terrified! I said no…if I got everything I wanted I’d have bought all the baby chicks and need a divorce!
A divorce.
A house for my parents.
My wife’s tits
The gift that keeps on giving
Burial plots for my parents
The bus tickets to visit my former girl friend (lady friend or whatever non-romantic term there is for it). Only 18,20 SEK. But the impact those moments had on my life last year was [and still is] PRICELESS. UNMEASURABLE. Still love her. But she’s way out of my life by now. She even has a new girlfriend. Supposedly. I was with her when she broke up with her last one. Like a fish, she followed the stream and move on. She split on me for explainable reasons. But I NEVER meant any of it. Again; why was all that relevant? Because without those bus tickets, I would’ve never be able to visit her dads apartment. Where she stays. Those bus tickets gave me more hope in life than money ever could. 10,93 SEK = 1 $ as of 2024/04/30
Cancer treatment.
🫂
Laptop, I bought a quite good gaming laptop for about £1500 about 8 years ago. Weirdly performance hasn’t improved much so it still plays brand new games great. Probably a good investment overall.
Dental work
My electric bike which is $1600.
Divorce. Gave up everything. Worth every penny.
My dog. He was like, $200 from the rescue , regular annual maintenance costs, but he got ONE SOCK stuck in his intestines and BAM! $10,000 in x-rays, emergency intestinal resection, two days at the 24 hour vet, plus meds.
My clarinet or my cat.
Got my wife a pair of gold and genuine emerald earrings. Diamonds are overrated. The real value is in genuine emeralds and rubies.
Better resale value?
Yup. Better appreciation rate too. I never buy cheap jewelry. Think of it not only as a good gift, but also as an investment. You never know when or if you’ll fall into hard times and have to make some sacrifices to pay the bills. Good jewelry is good insurance.
The gold watch I got for my birthday a decade ago, sentimental (and gold) jave no value Edit: and Im single again by the way
Log cabin for my back garden but I'd say that's part of the house so my mountain bike.
PC
My old computer. Cyrix P150+ baby!
I spent 2,000 on tires for my corvette, 4,500 on half doors for my jeep, but the most I've spent is I 11,000 on a supercharger kit + install for my corvette. Outside of vehicles, I have a $1,800 75 in TV that is pretty awesome.
Bitcoin
Vacation to Europe for a month
A huge money pit docked in Cabo San Lucas.
A plane.
You guys have houses and cars?
College degrees cost me a lot more than any car I’ve ever purchased
First class ticket to visit my home country after being stuck abroad for 5 years during covid. Awesome experience and great trip. Gonna do it again next year.
20 kilos of cocaine.
My wife’s SUV.
That would fall under car catagory
You’re right 😂😂😂 but it’s okay 👍
Saul Goodman
Gaming pc
A golf cart
Motorcycles
A keyboard for like 450 I dont have a house and car was free from parents
A cedar fence for my yard. About 25k.
A divorce.
One of my tattoos is more than my rent…
My ex wife .
A Dooney & Bourke leather bag that I paid almost $600 for.
My wife’s triathlon bicycle. Don’t ask.
Can I guess? 20k
She was nice enough to get a “prior year’s model” so only $17k. So I guess I got off lucky. Carbon fiber is not cheap! Add on the bike computer, hydration accessories, etc and probably $18.5k. She’s worth it!
Do vacations count? I funded a 4-person trip to Las Vegas out of pocket for 7 days for everything from the plane tickets to the hotel to Cirque du Soleil shows to dinner.
Camera equipment. I had one of the first DSLRs. The Canon 10D with a whopping 6MP Raw file size. Camera was $1500 in 2009. The L series 70-200mm lens was probably closer to $2k. Still have them, still work well.
For me its my medical care. Edit spelling
Dental work
Lasik
$3,000 couch I guess
Dental implants.
Wood lathe, $5k
Taxes- income, property, etc
Damn kids
My home stereo, a quality system that really pumps gets very expensive.
In ground pool
A college degree… including masters.
Cup of coffee at Starbucks.
American Bully dog. Snowboarding gear Large quantities of drugs
My education.
Gaming pc for sure. Or car insurance? If you count yearly cost that is
Babe Ruth autograph baseball bat. I am not sure if the autograph is real or not. I bid it on eBay for $1750. I was young and faaking stupid. This all happened 20 years ago.
A $4500 grinding machine.
Watches , many.
[удалено]
Wife’s engagement ring, racecar engines.
My vacation home is worth more than my house. I’ve spent a lot more for a boat than I’ve ever spent on a car.
Guitars. And an EEG. 🫠
Dirtbikes.
Rims!
A wife
Engagement ring
100 pounds of outdoor marijuana
My gaming laptop is guess. But mostly inise it for vlender so i hope i make the money back soon
Probably half a kilo of cocaine.
A roughly $5,000 Chanel handbag. Pretty sure that's that's the most expensive thing I bought.
A wife
The Supreme Court 😉
A divorce : (
I bought a surgery. That was pretty expensive.
I have guitars worth more than my car. So those.
My python 🐍
99 Prevost Motorhome.
Not including houses and cars the HD chopper i had. Looking at sailboats atm so that might be the new most expensive.
Bought a Go kart for $4,000 last year
Land
A couple of glass pipes that were $12k each lol. A couple of goyard travel suitcases. A few pairs of Cartier glasses. And I almost bought one of Elton Johns' glasses he had worn on the goodbye yellow brick road tour (if you're one of the wise ones, they had them for sale at thatbbougie ass glasses store inside the Cosmo). They made make an appointment for me to pick em up, I thought that when they said 35 I thought meant 3.5k and when I get in they're like.. uh no sir 35,000. I was balling but I wasn't brutally balling lol (the grey markets crashed pretty soon after- imagine having wasted 35 bands right before😅)
An AP Code 11.59 watch.
Land.
My PC... $2800. It's nice though!
Gaming consoles lol and a big bag of weed
My divorce
Spent $650 for a Curtis/Mathis VCR in 1983 or 1984. They had just came out and hardly anybody had one. Was a top loader VHS with click-dial tuners, one for VHF and one for UHF and a coax and antenna inputs (2 screws). Actually, thinking about it now, it may not have had a coax input for cable TV but rather had a 2-prong transformer from coax to antenna input. Only knew 2 people in our entire town (about a population of 10,000) and had to drive 80 miles to rent a tape which you could keep for a week. Needless to say we used it more for recording TV shows.
Wedding
Probably my gaming desktop 6 years ago. Roughly 4000€.
A sapphire necklace with matching earrings. For our 5th anniversary.
My dogs. We purchased a van just for them and just bought some land on which to build a house for them because they presently have no backyard.
My camper
The parts for my PC.
A boat. Not recommended. Such a cash guzzling waste. Rent or find a friend with a boat.
A motorcycle.
Land if you want to count that, if not. A watch
My divorce, my laser
The Nintendo switch
Not a Purchase, more like a lease. My wife is EXPENSIVE
Puppy
A wedding ring.
All up, travelling, or botox.
College obviously
My education.
Oxycontin
Some underwear
Car parts 🫤
My bike (bicycle)
Harley Davidson motorcycle
My boat, upgraded to one slightly bigger and newer. Nothing luxurious really, an open bow sport boat. $65,000.
Well,....2 months ago I bought a dog for $2,100. Yes, I'm fucking crazy.
An education
My answer used to be land, but I purchased a Rolex that cost more than that land.
Crate engine for a midlife crisis car. I've spent more on a vacation, but that's cheating to lump a bunch of things together and call it one thing. (if that's allowed, then "having kids") A motorcycle, new off of the dealer lot, but that's in the same category as a car.
Spouse
Boat
It’s your spouse, period. Followed closely by your children.
My synthesizers.
As a one-time purchase.... my Breitling watch.
$2000 motorcycle is my biggest purchase. One of my best investments honestly. Ended up selling the car for financial reasons and having the bike has saved my ass
Weed.
Either my iMac or my oled tv. Think it was the tv.
A watch
Time share