07-13-2011, 12:14 PM
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Farm Team Player
Join Date: May 2010
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Most difficult bill you've ever paid..
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.
Last edited by Glorious #1; 07-13-2011 at 01:13 PM.
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07-13-2011, 12:18 PM
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#2
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: I'm right behind you
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Buying my first condo was the hardest thing I've ever paid for. Handing someone a cheque for $40,000 is unsettling.
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07-13-2011, 12:18 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Calgary.
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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.
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07-13-2011, 12:19 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Barthelona
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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.
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07-13-2011, 12:20 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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The Visa bill after I went on a cruise, and lost $7000 in the ship casino in a drunken stupor.
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07-13-2011, 12:22 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: In my office, at the Ministry of Awesome!
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I have been known on occasion to write a few checks my body couldn't cash.
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07-13-2011, 12:22 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Calgary.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by pylon
The Visa bill after I went on a cruise, and lost $7000 in the ship casino in a drunken stupor.
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And a winner is crowned. Wowzers.
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07-13-2011, 12:22 PM
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That Crazy Guy at the Bus Stop
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Springfield Penitentiary
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$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.
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07-13-2011, 12:23 PM
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Franchise Player
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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.
Last edited by MoneyGuy; 07-13-2011 at 12:27 PM.
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07-13-2011, 12:26 PM
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Farm Team Player
Join Date: May 2010
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hesla
$37000 for taxes.
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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 )
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07-13-2011, 12:29 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hesla
$37000 for taxes.
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Good god
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07-13-2011, 12:30 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: NYYC
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$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.
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07-13-2011, 12:33 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: In my office, at the Ministry of Awesome!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hesla
$37000 for taxes.
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Quote:
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.
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And Table's **** is officially longer than Hesla's.
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07-13-2011, 12:33 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Silicon Valley
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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.
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07-13-2011, 12:35 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by WilsonFourTwo
And a winner is crowned. Wowzers.
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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.
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07-13-2011, 12:37 PM
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wins 10 internets
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: slightly to the left
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Quote:
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)
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don't worry, you'll find it the second you bring the new one home
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07-13-2011, 12:38 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Silicon Valley
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
don't worry, you'll find it the second you bring the new one home
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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.
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07-13-2011, 12:39 PM
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Nostradamus
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: London Ont.
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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.
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07-13-2011, 12:40 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Yah condo downpayment and the first big tax bill so far.
An ill faited engagement ring purchase is right up there though
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