[Closed] Stuff you've accidentally thrown away?

We threw all of our work Ipads in the recycling after an event. By pure blind luck we got them back but still. A colleague called it right immediately, everyone else was like naaaah, no way, they'll be in someone's car or something...

Tell you, it's worse when things just go absent but you don't know why, at least the moment of clarity when you realise you've binned it stops you tearing the place apart looking.

A few years back I sold an MTB with Crank Brother Triple Ti pedals. I took the pedals off and taped them to the inside of the box. A few weeks later the buyer emails me to ask where the pedals are. He'd since thrown out the packaging....

A set of Yamaha NS10 studio monitors, ended up in the boot of my wife's car a couple of days before a car boot sale. I failed to notice.

Teaspoons - hundreds of them - at least that's where I "think" they have gone over the years.......

If you contact Amazon and tell them you've been an idiot, there's a good chance they'll send you another for free

My wife bought me a really nice "man bracelet" for my last birthday, so I put it on and went surfing and off it came..

"Apparently" it cost a few quid..

Who'da known...

I'd stopped at a garage/filling station to get a cup of coffee and a bite to eat. I'd been biking so my "wallet" was a small ziplock bag. I thought I'd get rid of the bits of rubbish in the car while I was there.

Yep, I spent the next five minutes on the forecourt rifling through the bin to get my cash and debit card back.

You are the biggest idiot in the world.....

Not me, but somebody I know threw away a forum which worked perfectly well...

Every car I've ever sold has gone off into the sunset with a tape or cd still in the player.

My education

lolz

Arcteryx jacket in a bag of old stuff for charity. Some tramp is sleeping snugly, anyway 🙁

Mostly the 10 years between 18 and 28............

My wife bought me a really nice “man bracelet” for my last birthday, so I put it on and went surfing and off it came..

“Apparently” it cost a few quid..

Years ago on the dance floor in a night club, someone asked where the toilets were.  I went "over there" and pointed.  At that self same moment my watch strap took it upon itself to snap, and £200 worth of watch sailed into the crowd never to be seen again.

Also, +1 on contacting Amazon.  They'll probably replace it, it's worth it to them in book sales / PR for you to actually have a free Kindle.

Amateurs ...

I got a couple of bags mixed up and dumped £1500 worth of manual Nikon lenses in the wheelie bin.

Ouch.

Way beyond the stage of angry.

Eye, you win.

I "lost" my iPad and car keys keys in my house so only thing is they must have been binned... Came home with both couldnt find them in the morning so used to spare thinking they will turn up bit they never did even when I moved!

The kitchen bin lid while taking the rubbish out to the wheelie bin and then forgetting to go back down to retrieve it . 😳

My (now) wife accidentally threw away her engagement ring in a kebab wrapper.

After frantically searching for it at home to no avail, I was just dropping off to sleep, when she had a revelation that that's what may of happened?

Being the dutiful fiance, I drove back to the kebab shop in the middle of the night to rummage through the bin, and found her wrapper containing lots of lettuce, chilli sauce and one engagement ring.

Her name's Louise, so not sure if finding it was a good thing or not?

Oh, and the lovely Louise also threw a perfectly good Onkyo surround sound amp in our skip whilst keeping an air freshener that the same person had also given her.

Bitcoin codes in a PS2 game I flogged on eBay.

My mate left some builders to clear out all the crap in his cellar... including a Yeti Ultimate frame which was never seen again... makes me cry just thinking about it.

When I was little my Dad lent me a copy of most of the daily papers which were printed the day after Lennon was shot. I’m not sure what happened to them... 😬

My uncle’s ex wife had a massive block of hash which she’d put on the hearth in front of the fire to soften a bit before cutting into smaller pieces. In her stoned haze she forgot about it and then later during a quick tidy of the house she thought it was a piece of coal and chucked it onto the fire.

Gallowayboy there is a recording of massive attack in the Albert hall on YouTube

[b]wysiwyg[/b] :

[size=12]Bitcoin codes in a PS2 game I flogged on eBay.[/size]

Isn't there a mate of somebody on here who put a HD with bitcoins on in landfill - which would now be worth hundreds of thousands?

The bitcoins in the landfill are worth about £74 million !!

Yeah he lived around here somewhere (Newport) was worth millions at some point apparently 😮 .

My mate came home from a weekend riding once and had all his dirty kit in a black back, several shorts jerseys pair of 5.10s etc and his Mrs threw it away thinking it was rubbish...

My niece inadvertently chucked out a one off JK Rolling murder mystery script...

Nothing near the level of the above.

Gloves mostly, I bought a really nice pair of winter gloves last winter, before I ever wore them on the bike I used them moving house as they were thing / warm compared to everything else I had - left them in the rental van.

Also a single 100% summer glove, I’m 99% sure it went into the wheelie bin in work along with a load of crap from my boot. I’ve still got the other one... it’s been 3 years now, but I know that the moment I give up and throw out the one I have, the missing one will turn up. Yes, I’m quite mad.

I lost a Troy Lee glove bought another pair and quickly proceeded to lose another one...

Worst thing was I lost 2 right ones! I feel your pain

<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px; background-color: #eeeeee;">My wife bought me a really nice “man bracelet” for my last birthday, so I put it on and went surfing and off it came..</span>

Oh, well played

While packing for our honeymoon, Mrs CFH managed to bin a box of goodies from Agent Provocateur. Quite a bit of money, not a lot of fabric.

£74m in bitcoin?

Buy a lot of real coins with that..

I accidentally buried my wedding ring in a 35*2ft flower border while weeding/breaking the soil/turning it.

Took me a lot of digging, a metal detector (no help) and a soil sieve to find it!

Lots of my stuff goes missing, but my Wife always claims it didn't get binned... 🤔

I threw away my old cassette collection - classics,  obviously - because I didn't have a tape player and wasn't going to buy one. Was quite gutted.

Next week bought a car which has a cassette deck. Was very gutted. Lost hours of bangin toons from my youth which would have filled many a drive north and south.

@ Jonah tonto - cheers bud! that's made my day.. the version of safe from harm is brilliant! I thought i'd searched youtube - maybe not.

><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 15.360000610351563px; background-color: #fbfbfb;">£74m in bitcoin?</span>

Supposedly something like 20% is lost or in wallets no one has the key for....

I threw this photo of me sitting under my private jet, along with other photos. Luckily I twigged before the bin men came.

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When I was a lot younger I had my parents house to myself one weekend. Ended up having a couple of mates around and, well one thing lead to another, we hit my dads wine collection. Started off with a nice white and swiftly moved onto a peculiar tasting red in a very dusty, strangely shaped bottle. Tasted rank so we throw it away.. Dad came back from a weekend away and noticed almost immediately that his prized 1765 bottle of Madeiran port had disappeared! We didn't speak for a while after that.

One of my first jobs was helping build a public sculpture in a school. In the era before mobile phones the school had given us a pager so they could get hold of us while we were out on the grounds.

We kept dropping it and losing, searching for it, getting them to page it so we could find it, repeat for 3 weeks.

On the last day we'd been asked to bury a time capsule in the foundations of the sculpture. At some point in the morning we dropped the pager in a bucket of yacht varnish. Fished it out and left it to drain  - seemingly still working.

While it was draining it got knocked into a bucket of gold pigment. Fished it out  - the pager was now gilded as the pigment had stuck to the drying varnish... and still working.

It then got knocked into some mud - making it now look like an ancient golden holy electronic relic.... and still working.

After the time-capsule burying ceremony we decided we better fess up to school and tell them we'd ruined their pager... not to be found anywhere - buried with the time capsule ready to confuse future archaeologists.

Passport......realised without doubt at midnight my password had gone in the then collected bin, flight to Florida at 10am following morning with wife and two very excitable young daughters aged 4 and 7. Couldn't even drive to airport to wave them off as it was during petrol strike and we had a nearly empty tank (they used taxi). Respect to Liverpool passport office as i had a new passport by 9.30am that morning.......but couldn't get replacement flight until the tuesday. Knew the staff at airline office by first name as i was phoning them so much to check flight availability (needed to transfer ticket as opposed to buy new ticket as couldn't afford new one) that when i finally got a flight they upgraded me to business class, sweet of them!

The cold feeling of grim realisation i felt that midnight will never be repeated, ever!! Worst feeling was thinking about wife and two kids alone in florida villa unable to drive and just waiting to see if / when i would be arriving, not the feeling that i wasn't there (airline co advised wife and kids to still get plane as finding 4 seats a lot harder than finding one for me). Oh how we laugh about it now!!

I was playing golf at Strathpeffer and the third hole was a par three with a lake between the tee and the green so if you came up short you were in the lake. We had played the hole and were on the fourth tee and as we were teeing off there was a man teeing off on the third hole . He hit about five consecutive tee shots into the lake and then picked his golf bag and clubs up over his head and threw the whole lot into the lake . A while later we saw him waist deep in the same lake in the spot where he had thrown his equipment so shouted to see if he was ok . His reply " my f*ing car keys were in the fing bag .

My wife's mum got once managed to chuck two kittens out with the recycling. Some village lads turned up with one a couple days later saying they'd found it at the tip. My wife was told that the other one had gone on holiday and liked it so much she'd decided to stay...

A brand new Selle SLR Carbonio Saddle.  I/someone thought must’ve thought they were throwing away the delivery box, but the sodding thing was so light it must’ve been still inside and no one noticed.

Not me throwing out specifically, but postie left a delivery box containing a set off carbon SRAM XX cranks in recycling bin (which normally was a very handy thing). We were on holiday. Had asked neighbour to take out bins while we were away. Oh merde...

Managed to get a replacement set as hadn’t been signed for. Hope the postie didn’t get into trouble as we normally really appreciated that stiff got left. We. Ok have a playhouse so not such an issue

The girlfriends 3 hour old engagement ring, never found it. Still in the bad books.

Such bad books she reverted back to girlfriend?

A brand new Revo in its box was my worst cock up. Still niggles me as i cant believe I was that stupid.

A quarter of white widow once too, although that could have been a lucky escape seeing the effect on friends!!!

In my twenties I was very self conscious about wearing glasses. Collected a new pair of Oakleys on a Friday, about £320 with my prescription. Went to visit my girlfriend in Cheshire on the Saturday. Got off the train and realised, as I watched the train glide away, I’d left the glasses on the table with a copy of the Metro

£800 in cash ended up in the recycling bin.  We noticed a few hours after the bin men had been around.

Cue phoning the council who told us which lorry emptied our bins and put us in touch with someone who told us where the lorry emptied.  We beat the lorry to the depot where they kindly emptied the whole lorry load on the ground for us to sift through and retrieve our money.  A bullet well and truly dodged.

Not so much stuff I have thrown "accidentally" away but I do seem to have a lot of stuff go "missing" for which Mrs. C denies all responsibility...

A friends aunt threw away the will of a relative who'd left the house to her and my my friend.

Fortunately a copy was finally accepted and no other family members challenged it but it took some time to get sorted.

My wife used to manage a (large-ish) hotel and they had planned to renew half of the matresses one year as part of a refurb.  She duly gave the order to throw the matresses out and only realised what a mistake it was when they ran out of new ones to put back... 😐 She'd disposed of every mattress.

This was 10+ years ago and she still doesn't really like talking about it.

Spent a couple of months wondering where a lapel mic had gone. It was in a small tin, which I found in the bottom of the woodburner a few weeks back after burning a load of cardboard 🙁

Cleared out car for sale; the central locking had been playing up for a while; you'd come back and it'd be unlocked.

I cleared the car and it resulted in two carrier bags: one bag of rubbish & one bag with First aid kit/ spork/ window cloths/ ice scraper etc etc: the things to keep.

I realised sometime later that I didn't have the CDs and my satnav. Either I chucked them or they'd been nicked in the fortnight before. I genuinely don't know.

"...<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #444444; font-size: 12px;">£200 worth of watch sailed into the crowd never to be seen again."

I spent a happy morning "making space" in my filing cabinet.  Saw all my old watch boxes and thought, "No point in keeping all that crap".  Into the bin they went and a few days later (after collection day) realised that my Tissot* had been snuggled up in its box.  I may have called myself a few names.

*Awaits flaming from watch snobs...  ;-)</span>

As a teenager my folks visited Canada while leaving me at home. I of course abused the privilege and had parties most nights. I realised the house was a complete state so I thought I'd compensate by getting a big job done in the garden. There was a diseased tree that needed felling. A mate's dad had just bought a chainsaw and I invited them to come and do us a favour.

My folks arrived at Gatwick exhausted from their time away. I picked them up after a few hour's confusion which saw tempers fray. Then apparently my driving home was dangerous. At home they discovered their son had obviously fixed his bike in the lounge and had various bbqs which stunk the place out. In the garden my mates had hidden empty beer bottles in the trees etc that were still being found months later. The pièce de résistance was my mate and his dad still half way through the job. Saw dust and logs completely covered the finely manicured lawn and it emerged that I had authorised the taking down of their favourite willow tree and that the diseased one still needed dealing with!

Over twenty years later they still cannot laugh about it!

My dignaty and self respect

My dignaty and self respect

And spelling skills?

A friend sold his car just before a big night on the sauce. He got paid in cash, £11k - ish and had it in a plastic asda bag.

Night out was grand, led to having a load of randoms back to his place, general mess was created. Next day we tidied all up while home owner recovered in bed. He got up, and now began a frantic search. W<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">e'd assumed some of the randoms who'd arrived for the party had found the bag and left. Que 2 hours of phone calls, accusations and regret. </span>

Next move was calling the police, but someone suggested checking the bin for the asda bag, and sure enough £11k of booze stained cash laying at the very bottom of the bin.

Went to Bristol one Saturday afternoon years ago to buy a down jacket from a shop up Park Street. Arrived at the shop took jacket off hanger, then discovered the £100 in cash I’d taken with me was missing...
That was a lot of money thirty years ago. ☹️

I was convinced that my toddler had thrown away my Kindle last year.  Replaced it a few months later only to discover that he had only hidden the original in the bottom of my bedside cabinet while moving house 🙂

Cheers, Rich

Hope my wife never reads this.... We had lots of large cardboard boxes in the shed (of bikes) which were hanging about from house moves, bike/wheel and MrsW's shoe purchases. I mean loads of boxes. Deciding to sling them I trot off to the tip to dispose of them. I do roughly check and retrieved a couple of things but two were obviously full of other cardboard debris. Some weeks later I have difficulty locating two sets of wheels. One a never ridden lightweight road set (£350ish) and the other some I had built for my 1980 Eddy Merckx from NOS Campag hubs and rims sourced in Holland and Belgium.

Fitted a new radio to my car including wiring though the firewall and the following morning realised I'd lost my wedding ring. Turned the house and bed upside down until I remembered about the wiring. It must have come off when I pushed the cables through the bulkhead.

Queue looking up and down the road in case it had come off and then dropped out of the bottom of the car when I drove off.. Nope, nothing.

Wife was really upset, and eventually bought me a new one, this time out of titanium.

Fast forward 4 years and the washing machine broke down. I thought Id have a go at fixing it and realised the main drum bearings had gone. Looked at the price of bearings and thought sod that.

On gumtee that day, local was exactly the same washing machine for spares as the door catch was faulty. £20. Bargain.

Went and got it, and stripped the whole drum assembly out of the "new",one. To drain all the water I checked the lint filter and there was a front door key, and £2.16 in change. Bargain. New drum for 17.84!

Thought id have a look in the "old" one to see if there was anything. £2.15 and an old 15mm olive. Except it wasn't an olive. It was my wedding ring. Wife was in tears for about 2 hours! I must have taken it off and put it in my jeans when working on the car.

Best thing is (sort of), is that since I've been married I've lost weight and the new titanium ring is fractionally smaller and holds the gold ring on my finger perfectly!

Always check the fluff/lint filter before disposing of a washing machine!.

Not strictly thrown in the bin, but a couple of years ago after a works black tie dinner thing I headed back to my hotel room. It was a twin room so as I stripped off I chucked my shirt on to the unused bed. Unfortunately it was a white shirt on to a completely white duvet cover. Obviously, in my hungover haze the next morning I didn't even see it there and left it on the bed. I wasn't bothered about the shirt, but I had my favourite pair of Pantone cuff-links in the cuffs. I rang the hotel when I realised, they rang housekeeping but no-one had found anything, which probably means they disappeared in to an industrial washing machine somewhere in Glasgow.