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@DesertDreams88: DH and I have both done worse. I trashed my credit while we were bidding on houses. I closed a credit card about a year before we were ready to purchase because I hadn’t used it in forever and I was certain nothing was still tied to the card. Then my every two year magazine subscription billed to the no longer in existence card. I only got one notice in a totally non-urgent looking white envelope with no return address (which I found later). So I didn’t discover the $15 problem until I was in collections and my 725+ score was at about 525. I was devastated and horribly embarrassed that we had to put the house hunt on hold while I cleaned up the mess. DH was pretty nice about it but I was secretly (almost) relieved when he forgot to submit our documentation for $5k of dependent care FSA. I got the turn to be the forgiving one.

And as a kid my brother and I ran up a $1k phone bill with our dial up Internet by using a long distance number to connect. The phone company cut it in half and then my brother and I had to split it.

A couple years ago, I claimed on our taxes that I’d put money into my IRA account but I had actually forgotten to do so... that was a big mistake!

Right after I had my second and I was in the newborn haze, I managed to buckle all my kids in the car and then backed straight out of my garage as the garage door was going up. My husband had changed out the lightbulb of the garage door and it seemed brighter making me think that the door was fully open. Thankfully the car had very minimal damage (can’t really see anything) bc it was a brand new minivan. But the garage door had come off it’s hinges and bent outward. We had to replace the whole door. It was also a brand new house that we moved into about a year prior.

My husband said it was my birthday, anniversary, push present for the whole year

I booked a non-refundable hotel room (3 nights!) in the wrong city once. So we were out like $600 and still had to pay for the hotel in the correct city. So maddening!!

I’ve done the same thing booking the wrong flight, and I’ve done it multiple times 🤦‍♀️

Ugh I feel you, I hate making financial mistakes especially bc I pride myself on being very financially responsible.

Last week we were unexpectedly away for my MIL’s funeral and we overdrafted our account (we don’t keep much extra cash in checking) and I forgot to pay our water bill so there’s a fee for that. Then my DH got a ticket for his inspection sticker being expired - he has work he needs done to pass inspection and just hasn’t had an opportunity to do it yet.

Probably the biggest mistake Ive made was giving my mom a check to pay a (less than $100) credit card bill when I was en route to studying abroad and not checking up with her. She never sent the check (which is typical for her) and by the time I came home it was in collections. That mistake nagged me for 7 years but thankfully didn’t have any real consequences in the end.

Going to grad school out of state. Very expensive mistake.

He also had a traffic infraction (let's leave it at that...) that went to collections and cost him hundreds...and hundreds on his credit score.

Don't beat yourself up too bad. Especially about the airplane thing. Those companies are ruthlessly unforgiving!

I have definitely booked flights for the wrong day before. One time I got to the gate a day early, the gate staff was shocked I made it that far (checked bag and all) they let me on the plane. But another time I needed to buy a new ticket.

Kicking out our renters to sell our starter house to my inlaws in a low market. I would not be surprised if we have lost out on 100k equity.

I think the past 2 tickets I've gotten the last decade were all no turn on red ones. 1 was because I forgot I wasn't local anymore, and the other I didn't come to a full stop.

Not a mistake, but I wish I didn't waste my parent's money going to private college! With what I do now I feel like I would've been fine going to a state school.

This is so stupid, I hate to even admit it... We recently started potty training our 2 year old and in the process, we flushed many many baby wipes down the toilet. Huge clog and $500 to a plumber later, my husband and I feel like idiots. It's one of those things where you know you're not supposed to do it, but you do anyway thinking, "what could really happen?" Take it from me - don't flush wipes.

ETA - we haven't admitted this to ANYONE we know in real life lol.

When my husband and I were first dating, I borrowed his small SUV to pick up my pushmower I had loaned to a friend because I had a small 2 door car. I loaded it up and pointed the handle back towards the hatch. Stopped at a stop sign and when I hit the gas, it rolled back and the handle went straight through the back glass.

It wasn't super expensive in the grand scheme of things, but when you're making $7.75 an hour, everything is expensive. I called him bawling and said I would get it fixed, then I called my mom & dad bawling begging them to help me take care of it. My parents ended up paying the couple hundred dollars for it (my dad is a body man and has industry discounts thankfully). The worst part was I knew better than to load it like that, but my friend's kid was annoying the crap out of me asking a million questions and I was trying to get it loaded up and out of there ASAP.

I once carried duplicate car insurance policies for 2 years. I don’t know how I signed up for 2 different policies but they both billed annually and whenever I saw a charge it was like ‘ok’. Thankfully I was able to get one of them refunded for 12 months by proving I’d been double insured. Not hugely expensive because we carry the minimum required by law, but still.

I’ve also messed up flight bookings 100 different ways (wrong day, wrong time, wrong airport, wrong month) but thankfully I was always able to make it work out. The wrong month was the worst, but it snowed and the flight I thought I was on got cancelled anyway. I drove.

I just discovered one. I found a first edition of a well known and controversial children's book. I thought it was pretty cool and put it in storage since we are between places. Pulled it out to find a corner is now damaged. Discovered undamaged copies of the first edition of this book (which it was) go for thousands of dollars.

Yeaaa...the winter our twins were born, we (more DH) skipped winterizing our boat. A new engine cost us approx. 6k.