# What's the most money you lost in the dumbest way?

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> [@zimaane](#):
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> And timeshares. I have to wonder if anyone has ever had a good experience buying a timeshare.

It happens. My gf bought a timeshare in St Martin back when timeshares were a new thing, maybe 30 years ago. I’ve gone there with her the past 13 years, it is our “second home”.

Although the various maintenance fees and such mean that it wasn’t the best _financial_ choice, we do not mind putting money into their economy. When the opportunity has arisen to unload the timeshare, she has chosen not to.

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