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Regrets I have a few….

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Usedtobeblonde Wed 08-Jul-26 21:02:47

I have given away 10’s and 10’s of thousands of £’s and wish I hadn’t.
Do you have similar regrets?

Cossy Wed 08-Jul-26 21:05:55

Yes, similar to yours!

However, I take the view that though I wish I hadn’t, I did and I have to live with it and move on.

Oreo Wed 08-Jul-26 21:12:13

Not money regrets, but yes haven’t we all got a few?

Oreo Wed 08-Jul-26 21:12:57

Presumably you mean you wish you hadn’t given money to relatives?

FriedGreenTomatoes2 Wed 08-Jul-26 21:15:46

Financially yes uttb.

In 2007 I was still very impulsive and in my hubris managed to convince myself and Himself that All Would Be Well and we would be fine and dandy.

It wasn’t and we weren’t.

I even ignored a gypsy’s warning much to my eternal shame.

We lost £60k here in Málaga.
My poor husband.

He’d worked so hard for that money. We hadn’t (still not) inherited any money. I remember him saying “All those hours and hard work. I might as well have put that money in a grate and set a match to it. I wish I’d never touched Spain with a bluddy barge pole”.

It was very hard, financially and as a couple to get over that for a long time….

We did, eventually.
What doesn’t kill you and all that.

Usedtobeblonde Wed 08-Jul-26 21:30:59

Yes to family who have taken it all for granted.
I wish I had made them stand on their own feet and become responsible for their own lifestyle,, but too late now and I live with the consequences and regrets.

Grandmadinosaur Wed 08-Jul-26 22:07:44

Yes I regret not travelling more in my younger,single days. Went straight from school in to a job and that was it. It never entered my head to try working abroad. Maybe I should try a Gap year now.