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I don’t know who came up with this topic, but it produced a good number of stories from you all about where you wasted your money. It’s encouraging to see that as many women throw good money after bad as men do.

My money pit has cars in it. I always end up paying too much to buy and maintain a car, and after I sell it, I still owe money on it somehow. A friend of mine and I were having lunch locally one day and we saw the two mechanics who maintained a car of mine that I eventually traded in, and my friend asked them how they stayed in business after I moved to another shop.

Thanks to everyone who sent in stories.

— Michael E.C. Gery, editor