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What's the best (and worst) investment you've ever made?

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Could be a purchase - like a home or a Mac - or a stock, could be a trip you took or a class you enrolled in.

What do you consider your best investment and what do you consider your worst?
 
Best Investment: Educating myself / Helping my Godchilds education.

Worst Investment: That "Volcano Taco" I ate at Taco Bell a couple nights ago.
Eruption is right, and neither majestic nor pretty.
 
Best: Education. In total debt but the framed degrees will double as plates when I am out of work.

Worst: TBD
 
Best investment so far has been my first mac, it helped me get 2 distinctions and a merit in college, and subsequently because of those grades, helped me get into uni.

Worst investment has to be a puffer jacket thing I got when I was young, they were all the rage in the towns, but out in the sticks no-body had heard of them and I was just laughed at, I wore it once, took me 3 weeks to save up enough money to buy it 😱
 
Thanks for the explanation,it's always helpful to use names rather than acronyms especially for such localised things and places.

(whilst B.A. is probably know by most english speaking people BFA is only used in the US and somewhat in Australia.)
 
Best: TBD (My new MBP next month?)

Worst: Several PC games that I only played for a month and never played again.
 
a BFA is an arts degree based around studio classes. a BA is an arts degree with mostly non-studio classes. a BFA is usually considered to be a "fuller" education in the arts as it has a large amount of "making" instead of just "discussing".
 
shecky said:
a BFA is an arts degree based around studio classes. a BA is an arts degree with mostly non-studio classes. a BFA is usually considered to be a "fuller" education in the arts as it has a large amount of "making" instead of just "discussing".
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I do see that a Bachelor of Fine Arts is more a vocational thing,my original point was that it is only awarded in the US and for something slightly different in Australia, being a international board it's always best to avoid acronyms that are only known locally.
 
Best? Getting my iMac from a student loan. Installing XP and working on a game that could make me lotsa moneys.

Worst? Going to university. Of course hindsight is perfect vision and that, but it turns out I didn't need to go for my career and that it simply added an extra 3 years onto waiting for my career to kick off.

But that said I do love being in education and plan to go back for my MA in due time.
 
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You must be joking. Right?!
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I wish I were.....

EDIT: I guess I should clarify slightly, I didn't buy on margin or anything, so I'm not going to get my thumbs repossessed, but certainly isn't helping me with my future "freedom from work" plans 😛
 
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