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05-30-2007, 11:55 PM
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Instant ruin: a lifetime of work down the drain due to 1 bad decision
Yesterday I stopped by what I thought was a hunting/fishing store. When I walked in 90% of the place was empty. There was a 71 year old lady that was supporting herself solely by selling crickets, worms, and other bait supplies. You could tell from looking at the walls and empty glass cases that the place used to be so much more. So I started talking to the lady and it turns out that she was getting ready to retire. She put up 300+ thousand dollars of guns, bows, and outdoor equipment up for auction. The problem was that the auctioneer was shady and sold everything for a mere 14K in a fraction of the time the auction was supposed to last. After a long legal battle and witnesses that wouldn't testify against "one of their own" or due to "conflicts of interest" she gave up and decided to sell crickets. This was 7 years ago.
Not the wisest of women but still a heart wrenching story. And one I spent a reasonable amount of time talking to my father-lawyer about. Apparently in some states you can't stop auctions once they've started. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] It's funny how badly some people can screw you if they know the law a lot better than you do. But this brings me to the topic of this thread. What are some mistakes people have made that ended up costing them a lifetime of work or major hardship at least? A book full of short stories like this one would be interesting to read. Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. - Eleanor Roosevelt 
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05-31-2007, 12:01 AM
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Re: Instant ruin: a lifetime of work down the drain due to 1 bad decis
I think a book of stories like this would be really depressing.
One that comes to mind is enron employees who had their entire retirement accounts in enron stock.
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05-31-2007, 12:03 AM
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Re: Instant ruin: a lifetime of work down the drain due to 1 bad decis
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I think a book of stories like this would be really depressing. [/ QUOTE ] Yes, but it would save so many people so much pain in the long run.
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05-31-2007, 09:57 PM
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Re: Instant ruin: a lifetime of work down the drain due to 1 bad decis
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I think a book of stories like this would be really depressing. One that comes to mind is enron employees who had their entire retirement accounts in enron stock. [/ QUOTE ] No that would not be depressing, that is called stupidity
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05-31-2007, 10:35 PM
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Re: Instant ruin: a lifetime of work down the drain due to 1 bad decis
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[ QUOTE ] I think a book of stories like this would be really depressing. One that comes to mind is enron employees who had their entire retirement accounts in enron stock. [/ QUOTE ] No that would not be depressing, that is called stupidity [/ QUOTE ] "1 bad decision"
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#6
06-01-2007, 01:28 PM
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Re: Instant ruin: a lifetime of work down the drain due to 1 bad decis
So easy to do something stupid and pay the rest of your life ... could happen to anyone here in a heartbeat and you are naive to think otherwise
darwin awards is hardly depressing
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#7
06-01-2007, 02:19 PM
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Re: Instant ruin: a lifetime of work down the drain due to 1 bad decis
Maybe not instant ruin, but...
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05-31-2007, 12:46 AM
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Re: Instant ruin: a lifetime of work down the drain due to 1 bad decis
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I had a nightmare once that someone hacked my 401k... that would really suck. [/ QUOTE ] Speaking of which, could you contribute a higher % please, you're really not adding up here...
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#10
05-31-2007, 01:12 AM
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Re: Instant ruin: a lifetime of work down the drain due to 1 bad decision
There really should be a secret government agency which focuses on the apprehension, torture and execution of the scumbags that do this kind of [censored] to old people.
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