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What is the best thing you ever bought.

And what is the one thing you wish you had bought?

 

I could say the engagement ring for my beautifu wiife  of 30 years but my motorbike is amazing!!!

 

Last January I sold a house in the UK and realesed GB 100K. If  had bought Bitcoin I would be sitting on abought GBP 500K profit - <deleted> !!!

 

Over to you.....

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1 hour ago, MarkT63 said:

What is the best thing you ever bought.

And what is the one thing you wish you had bought?

My retirement in Thailand.

Don't wish anymore I'm grateful for what I have already. 

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Best thing I ever bought?

 

That was my early retirement courtesy of some advice from an aquiantance/friend in Oz - Bob ....He retired in his early 50's & sold orchid's out of his home as a past time to keep busy....

 

He took me aside & asked if I was retired....I said no.....He advised me to find a way if I could as they spent too much time watching old work mates keel over & die before they could retire.....

I studied up and found out he was "dead" accurate.....

Within 2 years I retired - and I never looked back.....

I'd say buying myself MY TIME (left) to enjoy and extend the few last chapters was the best value/purchase I could have made.....

I've had a lot of material things things/toys/horses/art/RVs/properties/etc through hard work - but always on somebody else's schedule/demand....

 

Of any of those, the one thing I wish I'd held onto was a 31' Airstream which I made good use of, sunshine & snow with weekends overlooking an "alpine" lake.....Me, my daughter, (and a lady of choice) = many happy times....I liked that funny shaped aluminium can....

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8 minutes ago, Andyfez said:

Vibrator.

Is that the best thing you ever bought or the thing you wished you bought? Actually bought would imply you partner needed it and stuck around. Wished you had bought would mean your partner left you...

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2 minutes ago, simon43 said:

After 3 divorces, the best thing that I ever bought was my sex-doll....????

 

Why not buy a live sex toy for a couple of hours. You don't have to marry every woman you have sex with.....

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9 minutes ago, KarenBravo said:

 

Why not buy a live sex toy for a couple of hours. You don't have to marry every woman you have sex with.....

A 'live' sex toy can land you in jail in Laos....  Besides, my sex-doll doesn't have a mobile phone and never uses Facebook.....

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17 minutes ago, jesimps said:

A small electronic tuner which clips to the headstock of my guitar. Being completely tone deap, I wish it had been invented sixty years ago. 

How stupid can you get...me I mean....played for years tuning by ear....must have sounded awful.....then, like you, bought a tuner....doh!!!

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Not wealthy.......but bought two Range Rover SVR's...5 liter, V8, twin super chargers..... one for me, one for the wife......and yes I have a small one.

 

Bought tax free and sold a year later for a ridiculous profit.......could not afford to buy these in the real world.

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My house would have to be the best thing I bought. It is not a particularly great house and I was in two minds on whether to buy it or not - but it has turned out to be far and away the best thing I ever bought. It has soared in value and will essentially allow me to retire in Thailand 10 years earlier than I had expected.

 

As for a smaller item, my MacBook Pro. Still going strong after 7 years and has given me zero problems (which I cannot say for every Windows computer I owned the previous 20+ years).

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     The best thing I ever bought was my first  condo in Reston, Virginia, where I was working as a very lowly-paid state worker and renting an apartment--which weren't cheap to rent in that area.  I borrowed the money for the down payment from my Dad.  I fixed the condo up, sold it at a profit, paid off Dad, and bought another. Did the same thing a few times.

    Hit the jackpot (for me) with maybe my fifth Reston condo.  The rich people next door wanted to put two condos together so they bought mine and I made a $70,000 profit.  Not a lot of money, I know, for many but for me, making about $25,000 a year at the time and living in a very expensive part of the country, it was a godsend.  Suddenly I wasn't living paycheck to paycheck, hoping nothing expensive broke.  Had I kept renting rather than buying that first condo, I doubt I'd have ever gotten ahead.

    As to what I wish I had bought, back in 2003 I bought a new VW Beetle and it came with an Apple Ipod as part of a promotion between VW and Apple.  At the time I didn't know much about what an Ipod was and didn't really see a need for it in my life so I sold it to one of my colleagues at work.  Pity I didn't say at the time, instead, hey what a great invention, let's buy some Apple stock.   As an aside, I am using a 2009 Ipod in my car to play music since the car didn't come with a CD player.  Still works perfectly.

     

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2 hours ago, jesimps said:

A small electronic tuner which clips to the headstock of my guitar. Being completely tone deap, I wish it had been invented sixty years ago. 

If you are tone deaf, why does it matter if the guitar is out of tune.   LOL

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2 hours ago, KarenBravo said:

 

 You don't have to marry every woman you have sex with.....

Wish you had told me that back in 1981 ...... and again in 1994 ...... and again in 2007 .... and again in 2015 ................

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On 2/26/2021 at 10:05 PM, MarkT63 said:

What is the best thing you ever bought.

And what is the one thing you wish you had bought?

1) My Thai wife, best 100,000bht I ever spent.

2) 10,000 pounds of Microsoft shares in 1990 (would be worth 1,000,000+ now).

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