What is the one thing you own, you wish you didn't?

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I wish I didn't own this apartment. I wish I owned a small house, or even a trailer with land somewhere else. While I'm wishing, I need a car for that.

Despite that, I am so grateful to have a roof over my head and I really have nothing to complain about.
 
I've been kind of stupid when buying stuff. Like a waterbed and having three cats. But the thing I regret was buying a large lot- 1 .3 acres. I wanted my own "empire". I'm proud that I cleared it by myself. But I also bought it when I was 40 and fit. Now, I'm 76, and disabled, it's difficult to keep that much property up. Plus, it was in the sticks, where I didn't mind driving a half hour -hour to go to the store. But, now, it limits the services I can get that most 'towners' have. At least, I ensured my home was all on one floor. As a nurse, I saw too many elderly living in their kitchen, because their bedroom was upstairs.
 
Alligatorob said:
Just one?? Can't come even close to narrowing it down that far. Probably 90% of what I own I don't need, and at least half I don't want.

I am well insured, what I need is a good fire!
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Be careful what you wish for. I've cleaned up after two, one a devastating one 50 yrs. ago, another less damaging 12 yrs later. Yes, insured but money never covers the pain unless it is planned for in which case it is a criminal offense.
 
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helenbacque said:
Be careful what you wish for. I've cleaned up after two, one a devastating one 50 yrs. ago, another less damaging 12 yrs later. Yes, insured but money never covers the pain unless it is planned for in which case it is a criminal offense.
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You are right, never had a fire but cleaned up after a couple of floods, it is painful.

Planned for... we used to call that "selling to the yankees". Most insurance companies are based in the north.
 
My Greenworks 10 inch battery chainsaw. HAD TO HAVE IT last fall. After reading all its warnings in its manual, got too scared to use it. And now that I'm going to sell the property and the real estate agent says there is no need to do maintenance (due to 'seller's market'), I will probably never use it.
 
I wish I didn't own the leather sleigh style storage beds I have...

The one in the guest bedroom the gas-lift hydraulics have stopped working, so the frame is far too heavy for me to hold up with one hand while trying to retrieve anything out from the storage area.. ( bedding mainly) so I've had to empty the bed.. and now I can't dismantle the bed myself, it weighs a ton,..( although the bed is perfectly good except for the hydraulics) ..but I bought it for the storage , and now it's not fit for the purpose, so I want it out of the house.. but I have no one who can take it apart...
 
A mattress that is too firm, paid big bucks for it, bought a foam topper which helps some but I should just replace it.

I have a couple expensive guitars that I wish I could sell but am too lazy to advertise them or sell them too cheaply. I could use the storage room in the closet.

That is about it, we purged most everything else when we moved three years ago.
 
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