re: Financial blunder stories

i inherited $100k 10 years ago. I started a company with the money that eventually failed during the housing crisis. The good news is that the failed business led me to the current business that I started and is quite successful, but I had a couple of really down years being hard on myself for squandering the money on a failed business.

Looking back on it, I made some bad decisions that contributed to the failure. I may have been able to ride them out without the housing market falling apart.....but couldn't make it. Now that I'm doing what I'm doing, I'm glad I didn't spend the rest of my life doing the first business. I'm much happier now.