I bought a car I could not really afford
🇪🇸 Spain · 🛒 Purchases · 20-29
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Observations aggregated from 1 mistakes submitted to this archive. Not research — just what people told us it cost them.
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Mistakes
€19,000
Money lost
€19,000
Average when money was lost
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What keeps repeating
cars1financing1budgeting1
The most expensive of them
The lessons
Never judge a purchase by the monthly payment. Ask what it costs in total, then ask what else that money could have been.
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I bought a car I could not really afford
🇪🇸 Spain · 🛒 Purchases · 20-29
What happened
The monthly payment looked manageable so I ignored the total. Insurance, servicing and depreciation added up to nearly double what I had budgeted over four years.
What it cost€19,000Time lost4 yearsEmotional costDraining
What I learned
Never judge a purchase by the monthly payment. Ask what it costs in total, then ask what else that money could have been.
❤️ 1,024 people learned from this