I still have the real estate flyer on the house we should have jumped on. sigh…
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Sounds like housing “misses” tops the list!
My husband likes to share the story of the house “we should have bought” (on a hill, overlooking a beautiful park and out farther, the local river) on a beautiful piece of property. Sure, we came upon the opportunity before it was listed. Could we afford it at the time ? (40 years ago). Nope! And he was the most frugal in all of our house searches!
Guess it worked out ok in the end. We now live on a small hill above that same river with a yard that makes us feel like we are in a park! (Husband had a career as a park ranger so “parks” have always been a part of our lives!)
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This isn’t quite mine, but if it had gone through, my life would have turned out differently. I’m pretty sure I’ve shared it somewhere before.
My Mom was underpaid for a couple of years by her school system in the mid 80s. She fought to make it right and was given a check of $5000 or so. She told my Dad she wanted she wanted to invest it in a new computer/tech company she thought would be good. My Dad convinced her to put it in bonds.
The company was Microsoft…
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My stock misses were Amazon and Apple.
When we thought about buying a house, we first looked at nice house in the suburbs. We decided to buy in the city and avoid a long commute. Property values in that suburban neighborhood appreciated a lot faster than our house.
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I bought a stock at a very low, introductory price decades ago. Broker convinced me to sell it when it went over a certain price b/c the employees could buy it for less so the price wouldn’t go up a lot. So I did. It was Home Depot.
My dad missed an early buy in on McDonalds, and my grandmother on Weight Watchers. She was friends with Jean Nidetch’s mother or some relative).
I’ve been going to an annual sci-fi and fantasy convention locally almost every year since 2002. (Missed the year my preemie twins were born, lol.)
Around 2005, I considered buying an eternal membership, which was $500 at the time. Decided against it. But man, I really should have. The cost for the whole weekend now (it’s 4.5 days over Labor Day weekend) is $180.
Last year the eternal memberships hit $4,500 – and then they discontinued selling them because too many people were buying them every year. I certainly couldn’t justify it at that price.
But I could have bought one for $500 in 2005. I would have been able to afford it – bigger sell would have been convincing my husband, who is not a geek and does not attend with me, that it was worth it.
Now the kids are grown and launched, and I still LOVE going to this thing every year and never miss it. I’m not going to calculate what it costs vs. what it would have cost had I just bought the eternal membership years ago because what’s the point? But…dude.
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My husband had a job offer that was perfect for him.
It was in a different city than the one we live in. We couldn’t really afford to keep this house and rent an apartment for him. We had 2 college tuition payments. The offer was more than he was making but not enough to do two houses.
He knows he should have taken that job. I guess that’s the one that got away.
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Did y’all see those Esprit sweatshirts that Costco had a month ago? So cute. Totally appealing to the GenX crowd.
My husband drove to three different Costos looking for a white one in my size, but no luck. He snagged me a blue one, which I do like, but I really wanted the white with the colorful letters.
It was $16.99 at Costco. I’m seeing it for $50 on Ebay. Which is stupid, and I don’t need this sweatshirt, but will I regret not buying it? 
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I would have bought one if I saw it!
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for what it’s worth, Costco often has more stock online. Free shipping.
Since I am very much into getting rid of stuff instead of acquiring, I laugh whenever I see “limited time only.” Spotify, Lyft, any cellphone company or streaming service, I’m talking about you.
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Costco marks up the price of their items that are being delivered in order to cover the cost of shipping. They are less expensive in the store.
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Still worth it, at least for me. And much better stock online. I bought a couple of shirts and a dress online this week (none of it in the store). No piece cost more than $10. I am returning most and have forever to do so.
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Love Costco. Just pointing out that shipped items are usually $2-3 more, so shipping isn’t really “free”.
For some reason , I seem to get lost every time I drive to my nearest Costco. It’s like my own “ Bermuda Triangle “. Much less trouble to order non perishable items on line or ask D to pick things up for me.
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Consider it a blessing, although I may be the only person on earth who dislikes shopping at Costco. (Yet, I enjoy shopping at Super Walmarts.)
The food & the pharmacy are fine, but many of the other products are not the best quality.
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more than 20 years ago we were staying in Urbino for a few nites and driving around to explore during the day. Driving along the coast around noon, we passed by Pesaro and thought it looked interesting so stopped and had lunch. We then walked around to look in the shop windows. In rural Italy many smaller shops are closed from 1pm until 3pm or later, but in the window of one shop I saw a beautiful leather jacket. The color, the styling, it was a jacket I didn’t know I needed before I saw it! We thought about waiting, but I figured there would be similar jackets everywhere in Italy. Never saw a similar jacket.
And as a postscript, the following year we were back in Italy and this time stayed a few nites in Pesaro itself. The shop, unfortunately, had gone out of business. Learned my lesson; if you see something like that, don’t pass it up!
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We try to go there at a less busy time, if there is such a thing. Its not only crowded with long check out lines, but parking can be a mess. We have ordered some things that are to be shipped/delivered elsewhere, and my kids use their delivery service to avoid dragging the kids along (and its just more convenient for them), but we sometimes like to see what they have when something in their sale flyer catches my eye.
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Does Costco have a “scan and go” on their app? Sam’s does and I very rarely use a check out lane at all. Doesn’t matter to me how long the lines are because I’m not in them.
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Not here, but they have self-checkout. The one in Brooklyn has helpers (including workers who scan your cart while you wait on line) and self-checkout–although here employees do the scanning and put the stuff back in the gigantic cart.
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