Most difficult bill you've ever paid..

[Glorious #1]

Hey CP, just got back from the bank. Picked up a money draft to pay for my residence and tuition for school this upcoming year. Though it's an investment in my own future it was still super hard to take such a large amount of money I've worked so hard for (took nearly two years off school to save up) with the intent of giving it all to one institution.

So I ask you guys and girls, what was the bill you had the hardest time paying for? Even if it was for something worthy.

[Reaper]

Buying my first condo was the hardest thing I've ever paid for. Handing someone a cheque for $40,000 is unsettling.

[WilsonFourTwo]

I'm going to guess that "Marriage Certificate" shows up numerous times.....

As for me, the first time you pay a Realtor is a pretty crappy moment.

[Mass_nerder]

First was $730 runs some tests on my cat, only to have to put her down that same night.
Second was putting a $18,000 down payment on my condo.

[pylon]

The Visa bill after I went on a cruise, and lost $7000 in the ship casino in a drunken stupor.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

I have been known on occasion to write a few checks my body couldn't cash.

[WilsonFourTwo]

Originally Posted by pylon

The Visa bill after I went on a cruise, and lost $7000 in the ship casino in a drunken stupor.

And a winner is crowned. Wowzers.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

$400 ambulance bill.

I didn't need to go to the hospital but the jackass of an EMS guy threatened me if I wouldn't get in the ambulance. I ended up getting 4 stiches but I think the would have been fine with a friggin band aid. And all that was because the incompetant CPS said they don't carry 1st aid kits with them.

[Knut]

$37000 for taxes.

[MoneyGuy]

I once signed a cheque for over a million dollars but it wasn't my money. Well, a wee bit of it was. I remember signing a cheque for 10 grand for my first mortgage. It was in 1975 when that was a lot of money. That was my biggest fear. I also remember writing a cheque for $24,000 for taxes, over and above my installments. It was a good year.

[Glorious #1]

Originally Posted by Hesla

$37000 for taxes.

Wow.

I'm hoping you make enough to justify paying that much in taxes. ( I guess you would have to unless you skipped a few years of paying the government )

[flamesfan55]

Originally Posted by Hesla

$37000 for taxes.

Good god

[Table 5]

$2,000 for a new laptop, after I accidentally spilled coke all over my last one and heard it start to fry from the inside. This was in college when $2k was basically my entire savings...so more than a little hard to swallow.

That and having to pay 50k in taxes this year (especially since the previous year i paid 5)....that was a little soul crushing to say the least.

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Hesla

$37000 for taxes.

Originally Posted by Table 5

$2,000 for a new laptop, after I accidentally spilled coke all over my last one and heard it start to fry from the inside. This was in college when $2k was basically my entire savings...so more than a little hard to swallow.

That and having to pay 50k in taxes this year (especially since the previous year i paid 5)....that was a little soul crushing to say the least.

And Table's **** is officially longer than Hesla's.

[Phanuthier]

A book I just bought a month ago, but I can't find it now and I'm about to buy it again.

(ok maybe not the most difficult, but one thats pissing me off trying to find the past 2 days)

Other ones I can think of, having to pay for 2 different health insurance because the USA university wouldn't accept my other one which is more comprehensive. Buyers remorse from my first car, which wasn't even a nice car.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by WilsonFourTwo

And a winner is crowned. Wowzers.

That was a rough one, as it was a free cruise I won through the company.So the only way I kinda justified it, was the full retail value of the cruise without any sort of discount and flights was about $6000, (which of course could be had for about $3000 if you shopped around.)

So I convinced myself it was really only a $1000 loss, until the bill showed up that logic changed.

Now any time I go anywhere wiuth the intent of gambling, I stick $1000 cash in my pocket, and walk if I double it or lose it. The good news is, using that logic, I am up $5000 since the incident, I have actually tracked the losses/winnings on a spreadsheet for the last 10 years since. Once I get back my $7000, I will never gamble again.

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by Phanuthier

A book I just bought a month ago, but I can't find it now and I'm about to buy it again.

(ok maybe not the most difficult, but one thats pissing me off trying to find the past 2 days)

don't worry, you'll find it the second you bring the new one home

[Phanuthier]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

don't worry, you'll find it the second you bring the new one home

Yeah I know

I tore my house, office and car apart looking for it. I even found the packaging the book came in (which I guess I didn't throw out) but no book.

[zukes]

Student loans, paid off remainder in one large chunk, over $20,000. For a guy who never finished University, that one hurt. I could have likely gotten where I am today without any University schooling. Oh well, live and learn.

I have made bigger payments, but those were worth it, house, car, cummulative bar tabs, etc.

[mykalberta]

Yah condo downpayment and the first big tax bill so far.

An ill faited engagement ring purchase is right up there though