73% of Americans have financial regrets

By Matthew Frankel, Motley Fool

Only one-fifth of American adults say they have no financial regrets whatsoever, and 73 percent say that they regret making one of six specific financial mistakes, according to a new survey. Here’s what money mistakes Americans regret, and how to prevent the regrets of other Americans from becoming your own.

Just 20 percent of American adults said they have no financial regrets at all, in a recent survey by Bankrate, and 73 percent say that they’ve made a specific mistake that they wish they hadn’t.

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