What's the best investment you've ever made?
 

i bought an iguana..its now my soul mate.

im lonely

Athletic Sports Cup. And ear plugs aka nagging mufflers

my house, bought 380k, and even after the crash still worth 600k

Libidinal investments ...

BP @ $28
now $46

http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/qui...eq=2&time =13

I'll predict a slight pullback and another leg up soon.

Good job.

Buying a computer to try out this new fad called the Internet.

Same here.

Sorry, but I'm not feeling like I'm gonna tell you. Best investments are always kept in secret. :)
Hey, at least I'm not bullshitting you like guys above and below me.

best investment...$1200 to produce my 1st comicbook back in 1992. that book made $35k
I went on from there to be a publisher... 1992-99 generated 5 million..then went to internet worked for ABEN 1st porn job.. learned alot to make a few more mil in this industry,..now I'm not great with keeping the money...but Im fantastic making it..got the tax bills to prove it. :( ugh

and recently this butt shaking profile http://roxy.shakinit.com

cost $10 and 5 minutes per month...profits $1600 per month.. going on year 2

Apple (AAPL)

Got it at $26 haven't looked back =) Great company great investment.

bought my first ibm thinkpad in 2000 for $50 from a co-worker

buying my first camera.

my domain. $2k

My husband and my 4 kids are my best and most important investments. Some count investments as a monetary thing, I count mine in a much more important way.... to me. :)

I can relate to that, Whoda thunk it?
Mid 80's, paying almost $500 per month to the phone company for a "clean" data line.
jeezus!

Don't remember...

buying Salesforce.com licenses as my CRM .... made a TON of bank using that over the last 5 years. :thumbsup

My best investment decision is also my worst investment decision. I worked at a start-up VERY early and got a ton of stock options. I exercised about $10,000 in shares at about $0.10 a pop about 10 years ago. The start-up is now a nicely sized company that prints money. I've received about $450K in dividends. Though the company is still private, shares I own are probably worth about $2.00/share. I'm praying they sell the company soon.

On the downside, I had the opportunity to buy many more shares. If I had bought more, I'd be a millionaire. But when I bought the shares for $10K over 10 years ago, I was like, "damn...that's a lot of fucking money....I'm not spending $30K on this..."

So on one hand I'm happy, but on the other hand I'm like "daaaaaamn, I should have bought more!"

In 1978, I bought an old mexican bar with real estate for $5,000 down in the center of what 5 years later became 6th Street in Austin, Texas. I sold the building in about 2000 for almost $500,000.

http://www.nashvillescene.com/images...reet_whore.jpg

http://brettandthecity.com/wp-conten...es-200x300.jpg

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What part of SD are you in?

Domains. Too many to mention.

So out of the millions you've made the only specific example is one that made you $1600 per month. That's what sticks out in your mind?

Sounds like you're lying brah.

50 seeds and a big bag of miracle grow :1orglaugh

I know how you feel. Several years ago I bought some land in the southern part of my state. It was one of those deals where you get it really cheap, but it is very undeveloped. I bought it as something that maybe I would use in the future, if nothing else put a small cabin on it and have a little place to get away from it all.

About five years after I bought it a development company bought it from me (and they bought all the land around my parcel as well) to put up a hotel/resort. They offered me 5 times what I paid for it which was far more than it was worth so I sold and was happy with my profit.

3 years later the resort is being built and another company puts a golf course in. It turns out that course is made by a big name designer and when it is done is one of the best courses in north american. So this place turns into a real hotbed for affluent golfers to travel to. That piece of land would have then been worth about 100times or more what I paid for it. So I made a nice profit, just not an obscene one.

i payed for dialup internet :)

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Domain backorders - these have been really good for me. I setup the custom search to monitor keywords Im looking for and then the site emails me a list of domains with those keyword combinations so I can see what is available at a glance. I backorder the names I like and then I wait. I picked up some great one name domains and some keyword domains that are perfect for existing sites.

A kidnapping van ...

I bought my first property when I was 18 at the start of the UK boom, in 1.5 years I made £80k, being 19 i didn't really know what to do with it so I had one kickass entertainment centre!! :)

...switching to gieko... saved me 15% on my car insurance...

First mobile phone.

$4 and a few words ... gained me a long night with an ebony cutie

Beer & Booze

Made me fuck, made me happy, helped me forget, only 2 euro.

no that's my latest EASIEST dollar value vs. High return.. I've built 3 affiliate programs for under $10k since 06

sold one for mid xxx,xxx
sold the 2nd for low xxx,xxx
sold last one for mid $xx,xxx- ( keeping all content as nonexclusive resale rights) which have generated well over another lower end xxx,xxx since '08

I was throwing a one of my simple tasks out there.

and you can ask anyone that knows me personally, knows Im not lying...this is "ok" money..not fantastic in my book

I also count my TIME as an investment..my time is MONEY..honestly, I'm probably the ONLY guy on GFY that make money for being myself..sitting and either writing, drawing or signing my name on one of my products ( it all takes time) but..the cost is $0 and can make profit


so my biggest investment would have to be.....being me

and here's some advice for any investors...you treat $1 like you would $1000

because that $1 is a seed that can grow into $1000...if you throw it away...you fucked up all the potential seeds

1000 shares of Apple at around $8.. Still have 500 of them left, was a pig and held it till $220, and I'm gonna sit on these for a while longer.


My previous partner bought 10,000 shares at the same time, but he sold it after it went up $1.50 a few months later... he could have been set lol.

Sandridge Energy NYSE:SD

Bought in around $4, and have been adding all the way up. Expect this to hit $30+ within 2 years.

same here :)

40x bagger, congrats.
IF i werent stupid and still had all stocks i bought during feb-march 09 bottom my portfolio would be over 1 milion dollars worth today. Of course i was stupid, sold most of my equities in the summer of 09 and lost a shirt while shorting the market. Sitting tight and doing nothing would be best thing. now some of those companies are 10-20x baggers as they were priced for a BK (incorrectly) during the bottom. such a fuck-up of once in a lifetime opportunity.

My house in Phoenix. Average house, doubled in value in two years. Can't beat that.

Martial Arts classes :)

BP.

Bought it at 27$-28$ ish.

Bought almost 50% of all I own.

Turned out great :-)

bought a piece of land in Naples, Florida for $12K sold it for many, many, many times that

Marrying Eva and buying my place in Ilford. Bought for $30k sold for $220k