I once set an S3 lifecycle setting that accidentally affected 3 years worth of logs to Glacier. The next morning I woke up to a billing alert and an AWS bill with an extra $250k in charges (our normal run rate was $30k/month at the time). Basically I spent my entire add annual cloud budget for the year overnight.
Thankfully after an email to our account rep and a bunch of back and forth I was able to get the charges reduced to $4,300.
Never let the car run out of gas. I was on the highway and the destination gas station was in sight. Well, even after putting more gas in from a Jerry can it wouldn't start because debris clogged the fuel filter. Getting it towed + repaired was like $1000 when I could have just stopped at a gas station earlier.
Before buying your fitst home:
- bring someone with more experience than you to have a look at it, maybe even a professional
- scout out the area (on foot) during the day, evening and night
- visit local businesses like cafés, restaurants, bakeries etc.
- look at statistics like crime and air quality
- have a talk with the neighbors, get a sense of the community if you can, otherwise just observe while taking walks
- if applicable, call the home owner's representative (or whatever the equivalent is where you live), ask them about the home, neighborhood, community, expenses, plans for the future etc.
- have a set budget of how much you want to spend on it before you move in, don't overstep that amount
Not all landscapers can "landscape". Hired a guy to build a pad for a shed which included a small retaining wall. The guy doesn't own a level, and the end result is visibly not level. I showed him with my laser level what was going on, and he didn't believe me. He started adding MORE material to the high spot.
He was aggressive about needing to be paid. Very aggressive. I paid him since he knows where we live. Unless we sue him and win, we're out $4800, and to have it done correctly (with a fancier wall) will be $6500.
TLDR: Don't hire a lawn service company to build anything.
I wanted a newer car, so I rolled my existing auto loan into the newer vehicles loan. So easy right?
I was upside down on it for years and years. It's so disheartening to drive a vehicle that's falling apart and stranding you everywhere but still owe $10k on it. It was an awful decision that took years of pain but that was my lesson on buying things I can afford.
Don't invest in crypto.
When I was a student I kept my books beside my bed on the floor. Got hammered one night, went to bed, felt sick and ended up being sick on all of my books on the floor. Probably about £500 worth of books which is a lot when you’re a broke ass student.
As an IT-worker, it's not uncommon to test technology and scrap it due to bad results or unfit implementation. Usually this isn't considered a waste, since there are a lot of things to learn in the process.
However, this one system which was designed for testing applications was a bit different. From the day we were told about it, basically every developer knew that this would be unfit. However the customers were firm on that it should be implemented. I'm not sure if it was because of the looks of the sales person or if it was a genuine incompetense that the decission was landed, but I felt a bit too junior to stand up against it. So about a month of work with 2 developers went down on something that every other developer knew would be scrapped. 2 devs at ~$100/hour, 4 weeks of 40 hours, so roughly $32,000.
The lesson was that I need to be more direct and firm when things like that is decided.
Don't buy salvaged vehicles unless you are dead sure you gonna keep it for life. And don't cotumise it if you intend not loosing that money. I've bought my Harely salvaged 10 years ago, put a lot of work and money on that. Now I want to sell it and I just can't, even taking a 20% loss on the market price. And that is without adding the parts money I've spent. Bike original goes for 40K. I've put around 12K on parts and upgrades. I'm asking 32K and can't sell it. Furthermore, the dealership don't accept that bike on a trade cause of the salvage mark it has.
Not a massive expense. Turned 500 € into 250€. Learned a lesson nonetheless.
I followed the GameStop (GME) hype to late and halfed my money in 4 easy steps. Follow and don't repeat.
- invest (feel like robin hood ... hehe)
- panic (notice why I shouldn't daytrade and why I was in therapy
- withdraw my money at an awesome 2:1 ratio
- not fall for internet hype that quicky again and delete my invest account
As Eisenhower said,
beware the engagement-wedding-genderreveal-kids-mortgage-divorce-childsupport-legal-industrial complex.
I may be mis-remembering exactly what he said. but I think that was the gist.
First car. I had no idea about anything or how to cars or anyone providing good advice.
I put e10 once as the only other option was 98 and too expensive.
About a month later I get a rattling sound from under the car. Replacing the catalytic converter was really expensive.
Our mortgage brokers, we had a broker that told us it would be best to go with variable because you always end up paying less. We had a choice between 1.35% variable or 2.05% fixed. We had 1.35% for 2 months and it is 6.1% now. We could be putting so much against our principal but instead we are paying 3k+ in interest and 1200 in principal.
Don't go with the low bid.
College isn't for everyone.
College.
Education? I guess I learned a lot from it?
Dining out isn't a substitute for therapy.
College, probably
Wear a condom.
Practice/passion/skill > gear in music
And Gear Acquisition Syndrome is a real disorder
Don't get into modular synths unless you have serious $$$
Don't take 4 pills of molly in one night. And don't make that mistake more than once.
I should never have been born
Don't know if it is that expensive for others or not but just sharing cuz it might help someone.
You don't need to be a dad in order to make dad jokes.
Don't bomb it down a slope you don't know (snowboarding). Someone pointed me to a "hospital" which turned out to be a private clinic and my insurance didn't cover the ridiculously overpriced CT scan.
Be aware of your own finances and don't blindly trust your family.
@TheImpressiveX I will die one day.
Monitor the temp gauge in your car. Overheated my civic's engine when radiator leaked :( had no warnings until it's too late (2008 one). had to replace it, now always trying to have an eye on it
