What's the largest amount of money you have lost?

$750 I took a distance freelance writing course and never did the second assignment… I asked for help and they ignored me.

My best friend stole 11,000 dollars worth of things from my house to buy drugs

My boss used to have a good answer for this:

“Yesterday I lost a million dollars,” he told me once. “Boeing stock went up a dollar, and I did not own a million shares.”

But I have lost many thousands of actual dollars in various stock market drops from stocks that I did own. Fortunately, I have offset that with “many thousands plus a couple of thousand here and there” on upswings. And from time to time that has been a very significant percentage of my overall wealth. It’s one of the reasons that I plan to work for most of the next ten years. The other reason is that I like my job, but still … it would be nice to retire without ‘having to’ work, too.

Some piece of shit stole a $600 bike from me.

I once burned up beyond redemption five $20 bills in a clothes dryer.

I had about 500 shares of a stock in my retirement account. It did nothing for years. Suddenly, it quadrupled, and everyone in my company was sitting on a lot of cash.
My company then announced it had sold everyones interest in the stock a few weeks earlier.
Total scam. Nothing we could do about it. Probably cost me about $40,000.

10p, I was a kid with a friend & we saw this blackbird fighting a dove, I bet on the dove, harsh lesson…always bet on black.
I also discovered what it sounds like when doves cry, “dig if you will the picture…”

$6000 to defend myself in court for trimming a 4 inch in diameter branch from a tree and threrefore causing it “harm”. I also paid a certified arborist to testify that I caused no harm to the tree. It was total madness.

I had $3–500 invested in the car company that took the government bailout and dissolved. I think I had about the same in Ford, and that’s now worth more than enough to off-set the loss.

The woman I took breaks with at work pretty well new my financial strength. One day the phone rang, and it was her. “If I don’t have $10,000 by tomorrow, I’ll lose my house and everything. Will you loan it too me?” I did, and then she stopped mentioning it. For weeks. I started to freak. I mentioned it, and she sort of blew it off. One day she paid me back, and let me tell you, I was sweating it.

I bought multiple Honda/Acuras because of their superior design and build quality.

Also, like most great corporations Honda is the result if a single individuals vision.

The federal government decided for me that I should invest in General Motors with no choice of my own.

I already have a car, yet I was forced to help you pay for your stupid Volt.

You are welcome.

@SecondHandStoke I feel your pain.

^Or the Ampera as it is known in other markets.

So very clever…

(Hurls).