What is the costliest mistake you made in your life?

Hi bala! My mistake is not haunting me and as I cannot put the clock back I live with the consequences. It wasn't really all my own mistake either. I married the wrong person but then so did he We have a fantastic son who would not be around if we had not made that mistake and we have all come to terms with what went wrong and are all now living happily ever after with no ill feelings. C'est la vie!

I once sent an email to one of my daughters, telling her off about something. She didn't speak to me for THREE YEARS. Things are fine now, but I'm really sad I missed three years of her life - particularly as she had a new baby in that time, and her other daughter lost touch with us as well. It's too easy to press the 'send' button on emails - I hope anyone reading this takes note, and thinks twice before running off at the mouth. It was indeed a costly mistake.

Hello my friend, well I can clearly remember the costly mistake I made, I paid out £1500 to start a home computer course to learn how to build websites etc, the saleman came round and sold it to me and I was full of enthusiasm but they didn't deliver the goods and kept mucking me around and I lost all the money and got absolutely no where it left a sour taste in my mind but you learn the hard way don't you! It looked so good and I visualized myself with a good job and at the time I was on a 'low' never mind, it doesn't haunt me, I've accepted it, look forward not back.

I have made a very costly mistake .It si not something thta can be replaced by money, but as Alok pointed out there is no point letting it haunt you.So I have tried to get over it.But this feeling would always be at the back of my mind.

I made a grave mistake that cost me a lot of money and caused me a lot of heartache. I was dating my ex and decided to travel overseas with him because although we met in Australia he was from the U.K. on a working visa which had run out so he had to travel back to his home town and silly me followed him! He was a user and an opportunist and he took me to Thailand, Singapore etc while on our way to England pretty much at my expense! I ended up 'temporarily insane' and married him in a registry office without my family there so he could come back to Australia and be allowed to stay. It was awful, he treated me very badly and in now in retrospect I cringe whenever I think about it! How could I think so little of myself! It was a costly mistake that changed my life forever!

I had made a big mistake, before 5 to 6 years. Once me and my family were decided to go for an excursion... They decided to go by car...but, I took my bike and went before them... after half an hour, I rang up to my parents to come and pick me up in the car... because, myself was met with an accident and my bike was in a terrible condition.. it took nearly 1 month to repair my bike... and thats cost around nearly Rs.20,000/- ($500)

There have been a few in the past Bala and haunt me they did for a very long time. Now i've realised that it's better to accept, admit and learn from those mistakes. We cannot let the unpleasent memories,questions and hauntings get the better of us now can we ?

i think it is of no use worrying about my past mistakes,when my conscience p*icks me or rather when i start feeling guilty,i resolve in my mind to do good,once i backanswered to my dad,i regretted it and asked for his forgiveness.

That would have been the costliest mistake of my life and I believe I am really lucky that it didn't happen! A simple number could change a whole thing! I was making angiogram report and a simple number difference changed the whole report. The normal report was being changed with a triple vessel one! The surgeon came to see the person and ordered for the routine pre surgical tests. Luckily the patient was still in the hospital. I realized the mistake and felt so bad that I couldn't sleep for days. That could have been a fatal mistake! Another, more recently, I spilled ink on my newfound dress, very special one and pretty much expensive as well. I had worn it the first time ever. That was the last time also.

Borrowing money from various quarters in order to satisfy personal as well as the needs of the family members have been my biggest mistake.I am neck deep in debt because of this .

Using my credit card to pay for things that I could not afford to pay back. Well, I learned my lesson.

quitting a job that I really, really needed. It was full time and made lots of $. Monetarily, it is still haunting me, but I just couldn't keep working over night and putting up with crazy stuff.

Thinking I had enough time within which to do for my parents everything that I could to make them happy. It turned out I did not have enough time and they passed on before I could do everything I wanted to do for them.

Hey balasri! Oh, I have a really big one! I ran up a credit card debt that is still going on and will never be paid! I got myself into some trouble by using my credit card. They gave me a $26,000 credit line, which was not too smart on their part and I told them that! I lost my job and started to borrow money on the card to pay my rent and then to pay the credit card! Well, you don't borrow money from the credit card to pay the credit card! I know, I'm stupid! But, I was desperite! So, then I went on Termporary Public Assistance and couldn't pay the card. Now the debt is up to $46,000! Now I will never be able to pay it! So that is the biggest stupidest mistake I have ever made in my life, so far!

well... it concerns my decision to enroll myself for telecommunication engineering. i am in the third year of this program and have put a lot into it, and it's just one year to graduation, so there is no turning back. i found the studies really dry but the real issue is that now there is a shortage of jobs in telecommunication field... it is saturated. and there isn't much hope in the coming future as well. what kills me is that i had options when i opted for this... i had the option for going to a mechanical engineering degree in another city, i am actually more interested in the mechanical field but i based my final decision by following other people's advice that i shouldn't leave the city and that telecom has a wide scope ahead. i am really worried these days regarding the future but i am doing my best to graduate with a good score...