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Finally, after 3 weeks, decided to erect yon gogglebox.
TV? Check
TV tabletop stand? Check
5 x screws to affix stand to TV? Er, I think I put them in the toolbox. Or maybe taped to the stand. No? Er..maybe in another box...there were a few rushed packs at the end...all labeled, I think...
Cock. No worries, shouldn't cost much:
[url] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-258060801-Screw-M5X16-Warranty/dp/B001DEESMI [/url]
A snip under £600! At least we only need five, and there is free delivery, and a 6 month warranty...
The entire deposit - 3 years of scrimping and overtime - that I lost selling my first place in 1996.
Brake caliper mounting bolts had the same thread as my TV when I DIY wall mounted mine using a wooden baton (french cleat). If you've got some spares give it a whirl. I think I have loads if you need some.
Found a box recently labelled '3rd bedroom'. Only been in 12 years...
When I graduated, and moved out of student squalour, I left a whole rucksack full of t-shirts accumulated over 2 years woking behind the bar at the Hacienda. An array of designs, some never been worn, from some serious designers, all emblazoned with FAC51 STAFF. I dread to think what they'd all be worth now. But its the sentimental value and happy memeories. I also left all the massive posters I'd collected too from all the classic Hacienda nights like ....
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Wife and two children.
Double garage.
The joys of divorce. 🙂
£20,000 loss on my first house thanks to Fred West
and that was just on the original purchase price, never mind the time & money we had spent doing the place up.
Still I'm happy where I live now so that's all that matters
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The bolts that held my son's cotbed together. Helpfully unpacked by my Aunty Jean on moving day.
Turned up about a week later in a box of dishwasher tablets.
Photos. All my best photos I had on my wall through Uni and beyond. *whooompf* gone.
My shooting medals including an England gold medal national comp and another for the Inter-services long range competition in 1994. As well as several years worth of Queen's Prize and other competition bars from Bisley. My dad had made a wall mounted case to put them in, and I never got round to hanging them on the wall of my flat so they sat in the boiler cupboard and were forgotten about.
And I miss the wet room I built in the old house.
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I've lost my 2 million scoville chilli extract bottle/dropper.
I loved a few drops on my eggs in the morning.
I only had about 10 drops from it as we moved soon after the Chilli festival....
It's going to be a loooong year 'till that comes round again 🙁
DrP
A box of documents including a pile of pay slips. The company went bankrupt years ago so I have no way of proving I paid pension contributions in a foreign country. Getting that period recognised by the powers that be is going to be complicated.
How did Fred West cost you money?
One foot out of the 4 needed for a roof rack!
How did Fred West cost you money?
Opened a tuna packing plant next door?
How did Fred West cost you money?
Built him a patio?
A good pair of jeans and my No.1 Dress hat. Spent ages looking for everything that I knew was in that box, only to find the box and the items in the garage; the last one in a huge pile left over from our move.
The reason? The previous people to use the boxes had labelled the box "Garage", so when we used the box and labelled it "Spare room" the movers read the wrong one and stashed it outside.
And I miss the wet room I built in the old house.
I errm wait what? what is that toilet doing in your shower?
I don't know yet - everything is still in boxes...
but my new garage arrives tomorrow! so currently I'm like a dog with two whatsits..
[i]I errm wait what? what is that toilet doing in your shower?[/i]
that's nothing, it was in the basement, apparently you couldn't be heard from the street....
I lost a John Smiths bottle opener that I got from my dad it must have dated to the 50s and come strapped to the beer bottle free it was a small ergonomic thing of beauty and a memory of him. I would quite happily have lost many more valuable things if I could have kept that.
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ha isn't google fab I am off on ebay thanks for the thread made my day
About 20Mbps. 🙁
I lost the instructions & nuts & bolts to my daughters cot bed, which I discovered a few months after we moved. I swear I put it inside her toy chest for safe keeping.
Its being held together with some DIY replacements, and a few weeks ago she fell out of bed with a thump - from downstairs I genuinely thought the whole lot had collapsed.
Soon approaches the time where I'll need to sell it in, in several pieces which [s]can't[/s] could possibly be joined together...
A brand-new Paella dish, lost for a whole year post move, and finally found in the loft last week.
Its not summer anymore, but I am having a giant Paella dammit.
When we sold our flat ,I had to leave a really ace workbench and chest that I'd inherited from the previous Irish builder owners. The transfers were late in the afternoon,it was pissing down ,and the new owners were parked round the corner, wanting in. In a fit of pique I let them keep them.buggery.
And I forgot the ironing board,a fact which I am constantly reminded of.
About two grand over the last two weeks, because our solicitors didn't ask the right questions, didn't tell us they hadn't asked the right questions, and allowed us to exchange on the sale of our old house before letting us know we couldn't complete on the purchase of the new one. A fortnight camping with family, costs for storage, doubled removals, etc. ****ing lawyers.
Got the keys today though, finally. Hooray!
Binners - am gutted just reading it.
A photo album.
One. Photo. Album.
The truth is, I loaned my ex wife the album & she 'lost' it when she moved.
Had a fantastic photo of me riding up a waterfall in a motorcycle trial in it.
& she says, 'I don't remember you lending me that'
Grrr......
I lost all kinds of things that were annoying
One of the four rubber feet from the leg of the ironing board so now it wobbles
One of four little plastic end stops from my bed frame so that squeaks every time you think about moving
The blade part from my hand blender so that is now useless
The charger for my expensive bike light
There are others too
I've no idea where any of these things got to or why they were separated from the rest of the stuff
Frustrating
We were packing up to move, walked into the kitchen to find a wallet on the work top. It was the wallet I'd lost 18 months earlier, complete with cash, bank cards (now cancelled), driving licence (now replaced) etc.
The most infuriating thing is my wife picked it up somewhere assuming it was my current wallet & just put it in the kitchen, but she can't remember where she found it. WHERE THE HELL HAD IT BEEN FOR 18 MONTHS??? IN A 2 BEDROOM HOUSE. WHICH I'D TURNED UPSIDE DOWN. SEARCHING FOR IT!!
In answer to how Fred West cost me money.
I bought No 6 Cromwell Street in 1988, Fred lived at No 25.
The ensuing shit storm that followed his & Roses arrest in 1994 wiped a fair chunk off the value of all house's in the street. In a way I was lucky as relocation with work had the added benefit of them buying the house off me & a loan to cover the shortfall.
They sold the property a year later for another £20,000 loss!
OP: Bet they're a standard thread. A thread gauge will be a few quid, then once you know the thread pitch and size, some decent steel machine screws will only be a few quid more.
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A box of difficult to replace sewing machine spares that belonged to my aunt. Took about £100 and a year of looking to replace them. Live in landlord at the time: "No, I didn't touch them". He was busy storing stuff in the loft at the time, I looked up there several times but couldn't find them.
Landlord three years later: "Were you looking for some sewing machine bits once? I just found these in a box of my stuff in the loft". After I'd turned the air blue, he said "I don't see how this is my fault".
I left behind a bottle of Stoli in the freezer. Got off lightly ...
my oakley frogskins 2 sunglasses. rootbeer frames with gold lenses, still look for a pair like them on ebay every now and again but no joy yet 😐
Photos, too. Left them on the wall, they were so much part of the view we must have walked past them a thousand times while packing and moving and just didn't notice. New people threw them out, fair enough. Not happy.
My Dad gave me two original posters from a Pink floyd & Hendrix gigs in London from late 60s. One was signed by the experience. I had them in a tube ready to frame.
Torminalis - Member
About 20Mbps. 🙁
Off, that's a tough one isn't it? I'll see your 20 and raise it another 77.5 or so 🙁
Battery recharger .
Not that annoying I suppose.
In answer to how Fred West cost me money.
I bought No 6 Cromwell Street in 1988, Fred lived at No 25.
That must have been pretty traumatic, finding out your next door (ish) neighbour was a serial killer...
Remote control for the telly. Absolutely devastating, used to love telly.
I've bought a cot on eBay that came with the wrong bolts. Looked right but wrong
Seller went quiet, one of you lot?
^ yep, I *lost* the remote too.
Turned up in a cardboard box just before the second move. By that time better half had bought replacement. So - kept find all to self, hid it until all was forgotten. And then - after biding my time finally retrieved it from shed two nights back then sneaked it down side of cushion for some stealthy channel-switching prank fun. And how she swore.
As for the stand-screws - TV seems to work well without them, so if it aint broke..etc...
Is stuff "lost" if I know it's in one of the boxes, somewhere...just not which box?