What precious item have you accidentally thrown out.....

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In today's papers there's a story about a pensioner who thought the ring she bought at a Boot sale ( flea market) years before, and was about to throw out.. was junk jewellery, until she was convinced to have it valued, and it turns out to be a 32 carat Diamond worth £2 million...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-threw-BIN-34-CARAT-stone-worth-2MILLION.html


So, have you ever lost or thrown something out accidentally...or come close to it .... that was valuable to you in any way ? ( no people please)...:LOL:
 

Yeah, when I was a kid. At the public library, there had a stamp box. It was kind of like a stamp exchange, you put in a stamp, you could select one and take it. I had a bunch of San Moreno stamps. San Moreno is a small state in Italy, which issues thousands of stamps a year-it their main state income. I took out this American stamp. If you bought a US stamp album, this stamp was always the very first one shown in the album. It was the first US of A stamp ever issued. I knew it was old, but I didn't realize what stamp it really was., until I got home. I lost it in my house. It was on my desk, and then it wasn't. I don't know if it's worth million, but at least a brand new car , or two worth.
Years later, I always wondered who put that stamp in the library box. Just from the font, you knew it was an extremely old stamp. Two of us lost a big chunk of cash with that missing stamp.
 

I can't think of anything I accidentally threw away.

Two items seem to have "disappeared" however, quite some time ago.

My couch recently ate one of my credit cards. The harder I try to dig for it, the more I'm sure I'm shoving it into oblivion.

I only use this one online, and have the number so it's OK.
 
I accidentally threw out all my Wedding photos... This was my first wedding when I was 21 , he was 19. We had them all in a big folder loose in a Large packet.. and we'd had them out looking over them when dd was about 8 years old... . Instead of putting them away immediately, I just placed the Folder into the magazine/newspaper rack we had at the side of an armchair at the time.. exactly like this.. and forgot all about them.

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The o/h emptied the magazine rack some days later , just upended it into the bin with the old mags etc... not realising the photos were in there , and it wasn't until after the bin had been emptied that I remembered...:eek:
 
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An old satchel containing a vast and exquisite baseball card collection, with some cards dating back to the beginning of production, the first series of stats cards, and several rare rookie cards.

Actually, I didn't throw it out. A gal that I was dating at the time did. She was helping me pack for a move. She didn't do it out of malice, she just didn't know what was in it, though I have no idea why she didn't ask me before she unceremoniously chucked it into a huge garbage bag like it was just another piece of junk.
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My mom let me wear a pretty filigree necklace with a purple stone that was from my great great grandma. I had gym class and took it off in the locker room. The metal shelf in my locker had an opening around the edges. I'm sure it slid into the opening. The lockers were one on top of each other and another set on the opposite side. They weren't going to demolish so many lockers to get it out. I don't think it was worth much but the sentimental value made it priceless.
I also forgot a handmade checker set that my grandpa carved when we moved from our first home to the home we are in now.
 
The only problem I have with disappearing things is that my dog hides one of each pair of shoes left laying around, and grooming tools. I don't leave shoes lying around and the grooming tools have since been located and put where he can't get to them.
 
An entire drawer of what I thought was junk. I simply pulled it out of my desk, took it out and emptied it into the trash without going through it. Too late, I discovered my family's coat of arms ring, several other rings, some good jewelry, a baseball I had signed by the entire NY Yankees team one year, my wallet with all my ID and some other items. Well, I could have jumped in a river for being so stupid. Never could recover one item. Needless to say, I check everything at least 3 times before discarding it.
 
Me, nothing of any real value. Lost an old picture of my Grandparents in swimming suits on Huntington Beach ~1920, they were young and good looking. Though the suits and hair were a bit dated. Sure wish I could find that picture.

About 15 years ago I had a big box of Christmas presents I was collecting. Went to wrap them on Christmas eve only to find out my wife had mistaken the box for trash and it was long gone. Not a happy thing, but we made it through. Maybe a few hundred dollars worth, not the money that bothered me.
 
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