Your Most Ridiculous Purchase
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She's a beauty!$16k for my German Shepherd would probably top my list. She was trained in Slovakia for 15 months to be in either law enforcement or personal protection before being moved here for another 9 months of training.
She is pretty badass and I spend 24 hours a day with her, but still, definitely my biggest wtf purchase.
I was able to write off everything as a business expense though since she is my "security system" so over her life it might work out ok as far as price.
I wish. It was strictly zoned- don't know if we could have- great idea though. We did get 20K to put a utility tower. It was beautiful horse property. Had to sell during the divorce. :music07:
I got a good deal on a pair of Demonia 10-S combat boots. They were $100, and, while it seems like a dumb purchase, they've lasted through about 5 years, they get me through snow and over ice. And they look bad ass too.
I also bought a shit-ton of Ken Griffey, Jr. rookie cards the summer of 1998 when he was on pace to shatter Hank Aaron's home run record.
I have multiple 1989 Upper Deck #1 Griffey cards, each costing me at least $120 at the time.
The fucker got injured and now each card is worth probably around $15 each.
I was 15 years old at the time, spent all my work money on fucking baseball cards. Oh well.
I have multiple 1989 Upper Deck #1 Griffey cards, each costing me at least $120 at the time.
The fucker got injured and now each card is worth probably around $15 each.
I was 15 years old at the time, spent all my work money on fucking baseball cards. Oh well.
^ are cards worth anything now days? I have 10,000's of them from when I was a kid. My mom had card vending machines that she put in stores and we have boxes full of cards left over.
Yes, many are still valuable. Depending on the years you have, chances are there are some gems (so long as they are in mint to near-mint condition)
I heard Volk wrote an ebook on selling old cards, $27... You should check it out
Ya cant just say that and not tell us who you saw, it's important. I want to know who you shelled out 5K to see. Your answer could very well determine whether you get laughed at or patted on the back.
e.g. if you say Barbara Streisand or Pink, that's important info for my files!
re: Cuban Cigars, I know of at least 2 WF'ers who can get them for ya dirt cheap, if they're reading this, hopefully they'll PM you.
- Most of my 3am "awesome idea brah!" domain names over the years. Resulted in $100k's in purchases and 'shit I forgot to cancel it!' renewal fees. I still get the emails to this day and can never figure out where some of these are, in which sub-account. GAH!!!!
- Chartered helicopter rides all over the Northeast when I was too young to drink and gamble, but had the cash and figured "they won't care". Well, they cared.
- Not sure if its a real purchase.. but leaving AdWords campaigns running by mistake for very expensive kw's pointing to domains that had expired. More than a few times unfortunately. Those really hurt too, because you know the only imbecile to blame for that fuck up is yourself.
- Chartered helicopter rides all over the Northeast when I was too young to drink and gamble, but had the cash and figured "they won't care". Well, they cared.
- Not sure if its a real purchase.. but leaving AdWords campaigns running by mistake for very expensive kw's pointing to domains that had expired. More than a few times unfortunately. Those really hurt too, because you know the only imbecile to blame for that fuck up is yourself.
Dunno, outing girlfriends for the crazies they are is priceless.
I'm pretty outdoorsy, so naturally girls I date will come camping with friends and me. It's outed six crazy bitches so far and counting. Current girlfriend made it past phase 1. Something about not having everything go 100% right and not being able to bring your wardrobe/cosmetic kit unravels girls' sanity.
My dumbest purchase yet has been my university education. It's locked up years 18-22 of the prime of my life and I didn't realize until it was too late that "business school" is just a machine that funnels you into mid-level management positions in Fortune 500 companies. I thought it had something to do with entrepreneurship and ambition, and I feel like it's drilled both out of me.
One year to go.
I was doing a ton of volume on pops so was running a crap load of audio serves. Of course thinking it would go on a signed a yearly contract for an edge cast cdn. 4k a month for 12 months. Of course the campaign tanked a few days later. And I was stuck paying $48k. Don't sign big long term contracts to save a couple bucks.
I almost signed one of those contracts too for a similar campaign and it died within a week.
Bought $1500 worth of golf balls with my company logo on it.
Bought a nice rolex drunk that I hardly wear.
Bought a tanning bed that is sitting in my basement and has never been hooked up.
Probably many other things, I am very impulsive.