Last week we talked about making unintentional mistakes. But some mistakes we make have an associated cost. I remember one fine summer evening in Houston, and I was weed trimming around the house and I ran my weed-eater and sliced right through one of the sprinkler system pipes. All of a sudden I have a water geyser shooting 20 feet up in the air and now I’m soaked, and I’m mad, and so then I had to call a plumber to fix my mistake. And of course you don’t do yard work in Houston during “normal” business hours, you do it in the evening when it cools off, so now I have to pay even more expensive “after hours” call. Some mistakes will affect your pocket book. Another time, I thought I would get ahead and do some preventative maintenance and change out the brakes on one of my cars. The front disc brakes went smooth, but the rears were drum brakes, and I was, needless to say, way in over my head. After managing to crack a brake line, spill out all the brake fluid on the driveway and royally messing up the brakes , I had to call a tow truck to tow it to a garage and have them fix the mess I had made. So much for prevention, so much for maintenance. It was just a flat out screw up that was expensive. Dave Ramsey likes to call these mistakes stupid tax. And over the years I have certainly paid my fair share of stupid tax. All of this to say that sometimes when we make mistakes, there is a price to be paid.