Anyone lost any money?

I've lost money in far worse ways. For you, at least buisness was involved. Before I got some help with my BP I used to spend all the money I had when I was manic. I would buy all kinds of shit... And I couldn't buy just one of anything I had to have many. I bought stuff I didn't even really want. And I would buy food and never eat it, rent movies and never watch them (or return them). Overall, I estimated that I lost about $70,000 over four years. Might not sound that huge, but I was only making about 30,000 a year.

Great point, Gecko - Then its a goodtime to add to the original question -

How much money have you just manicly spent? Allot?

I lost quite a bit last year, and all because i was out of control with spending sprees. I'm divorced since February, and currently being disabled, I don't have very much money at all. Well, when I got my back pay for over seven thousand dollars, rather than saving it for hard times, i blew it ALL Now I'm paying a Dell bill that I will be indebted to for life. I could have paid cash for my computer...both of them!

right now i owe an electrib bill and water bill i can't pay. i can pay the water bill and be broke, and let the electriv go till next month, but next month I will owe for two months auto insurance so that my car will be insured again.

I FEEL I AM DOOMED!!!!

Jill jill - PLease keep the faith. Please - I wish i had money to send to you. I feel for you, hun.

I've probably wasted over 100,000 pounds in my life. Alot of it was credit card debt,holidays, cars ect. The majority of it was paid off by my first husband or my long suffering parents.
However now I don't over spend. Steve controls all our finances but regularly talks me through our financial position by showing me spread charts and stuff on his laptop. I'm afaid I just yawn and nod.
I could still spend if I had the means. My Mum sends us 3000 pounds every April which works out to 6000 SWF. I usually get 1000 of that so I can have a little splurge and don't feel too deprived. I have a weekly allowance from Steve which I can never save. There is always something to spend it on...lol! I'll never change where money is concerned.

Money slips threw my hands like sand, my hubby controls all the money and puts funds in my bank account and credit card :((

I've easily lost thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars because of having bipolar and letting it go untreated

and to me thats a LOT of money..i've never really had much money i always waste it when im depressed

l spent 10,000 on nothin whn l was manic..and nw lm strugglin,could use the money,its lost 4 goooood.

I have "lost" $30,000 to my son. It was easier to pay his way through his shit than deal with it while I was sick.W e are now inn the space of me disowning him so this shouldnt happen again.

I am about 200,000 in debt, that is why I am filing bankruptsy on the 15th. Fuck it all.

i spent $100,000 in one year, i don't have any debt now but that was only a small part of it, i can't look in the past just move on........i am saving now....it is just me to take care of......

Uhmmm.I lost $150 cause my car was towed at the apt complex

I don't know a sum but I have always bought what I wanted when I wanted, it's almost like it fills a void in me and buying something fills that whole for awhile, like some of the other comments I have relinquished all financial obligations to him, things run a lot smoother that way, plus I get an allowance and I fell it makes it fair! If I blow my allowance its my own fault, it's actually helping learn to save for things I really want and not just impulse purchases!

Right now we are behind in some of our bills but holding on by a hair. Holding on enough that we have managed to pay off the vehicle loan finally despite the repossession TWICE of the same vehicle, my husband's WORK vehicle of which he can't work WITHOUT at the tune of more than a couple grand in fees to recover it because I forgot to pay or spent the money somewhere else on who knows what and the TWICE venturing into foreclosure on our house also costing us about $5000 in fees that we couldn't afford and should have been easily avoided. Had I had my head on straight, the money was in the bank both times. We owe the government over $20,000 in back income taxes, over $30,000 between credit cards that I maxed out and a business loan that I had paid off initially but had to put the first years taxes on bumping it back up to the full amount we opened it with and there are some bills like medical that will probably be ignored as long as I can. There is less money coming in now, less people not tightening their belts to indulge in having flooring installed. The economy is NOT improving any time soon and it would be nice if the wealthy morons running our government could look beyond their own pockets to see the big picture. We are so financially unstable that one tiny thing going wrong or one unexpected expense or repair is devastating. Health insurance doesn't exist for us because we have "too much" income on paper to qualify for anything even remotely in our budget. I just want to cry. All was MY doing because I was in charge of the money so that my husband could relieve himself of some of the stress he was under working over sixty hours a week...that's a joke...I caused more stress. I only managed it well for the first six months and then hid my complete mismanagement for as long as I could behind an illusion of competence. Sometimes I started to get it under control and then it all fell apart again. I was afraid to admit failure even when it was obvious. When he deserved to know the whole picture. I wanted so badly to be able to handle it all responsibly, to succeed. Scrambling to try to repair the damage but never fully recovering our situation. Hoping for some miracle where I could fix it all before I realized I had to confess it all...the hole became far too deep. His practically spotless credit is now shot to hell. Lie and deny before hoping it couldn't possibly be as bad as I thought. I am always the first to the mailbox but I tend to throw it all in a pile and ignore it. I messed it up badly to say the least. My husband is a saint, has to be. Wow, that was long...sorry.