The worst thing you've thrown away by accident

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I still get a cold sweat thinking about a necklace I think I put in my jewellery box and then never saw again.

Or my white gold and diamond ring I took off because it needed repairing and then it feel out of a box and I couldn't find where it had fallen.

And the whole bottle of perfume I must have put in the bin. 🙈

Anyone else as idiotic or forgetful as me?

In the 90s I gave my friend a bag I never used. She didn't end up using it and asked me If it was ok if she let her friend have it. I didn't mind as I gave it to her. Her friend then found a bent gold earring stuck in the lining. When she showed it to me I was so chuffed. It was the lost earring of a pair my dad made my mum in the 70s. They were a sight to behold and very much of their time (hideous) but I cherished them as my dad was a jeweller and he died when I was 9. (He made bespoke items and his moment of glory was seeing one of his creations on Pat Phoenix. )
DD now wears the earrings as they are very trendy at the moment and loves that her grandad made them. One of them was missing for 15 years presumed as thrown out.

OMG these are awful. My worst is the locking wheel nut key!

£100 from an atm in Brighton, git down the road having taken it out and couldn't find it. Absolutely raging. Blamed it on the seagulls.

I have thrown out quite a few things, tickets, cheques, receipts needed, rings but always found them again in time. I hate losing things and hunt them down. As a child I remember bawling my eyes out after leaving a lunch box on the train.
The worst was when I was at uni though. I used to store stuff in lockers. One day without warning they were all removed and taken to some far away dump. Inside was all my third year work...stuff that needed to be submitted. Also equipment (cameras, technical equipment, cables) and other quite expensive stuff. I nearly fainted when I realised. Frantic phoning to any company who may have come and collected these lockers. Chasing down person after person, local dumps etc. No joy. Gone. Spoke to course leader and given exceptional circumstances and a cheque for £200. Value was far far more than that. I costed it all at £800+. The person who organised getting rid of the lockers didn't even apologise to me. They knew I used them every day as my work was heavy and I cycled. 20 years ago and I still often think of all the stuff I had in there and how it was crushed. I came out with a first class degree and I don't know if it was because of, or in spite of the trauma of having to start from scratch!

yougotredonyou what a lovely find!

For me, diamond earrings. Which I didn't throw away but I hid somewhere when I went on holiday and then could not remember where I'd hidden. Searched everywhere. They were eventually replaced and I never take the new ones off now.

Part of a doctor dressing up costume which ds loved wearing, and which we searched every crevice for for days and I then realised I must have hoovered it up.

Had two pairs of the same ugg boots as the first got a hole and they replaced it free of charge. Moved abroad and packed up the whole house. Went to find the boots six months later and discovered I'd packed left boots and had binned both the rights

MIL lived in America. She came home each Christmas, and one year brought us a lovely hand made Mexican nativity set. Each year it had pride of place on the mantel piece and I loved it. One year DH did an after Christmas trip to the local rubbish tip, and the following Christmas the nativity set had vanished. He admitted he had probably taken it to the tip by mistake with lots of empty boxes. Still miss it, and still remind him of it from time to time!

Mine was my wedding shoes, they were beautiful and I loved them. Must have gone in charity one day when u went a bit clean mad?!
My dh on the hand lost my engagement ring, could gave cried, in fact I did. It meant a lot to me, I don't own loads of jewellery, so was so hurt. I then went and lost a bracelet, which he gave me as a present totally by accident.

Nice bit of defamation there.

My passport and degree certificate

Indeed Thunder. Very presumptious and inflammatory.

Entire bag of Christmas presents
DH had put them in a bin bag to keep them from prying eyes (DD at the time was militant at looking for presents).
They were in our under stairs cupboard. Decided to have our pre-christmas clear out of the house, including the cupboard, so a few bin bags were around. Of course, the bag of presents got mixed in with it.
That was an expensive cock up!

There’s always 1 do-gooder on here isn’t there! Ooo ooo a builder has cash in the house, must be illegal.....

I live in a block of flats with a rubbish chute. I’ve managed to also throw my house or car keys down it accidentally on several occasions whilst lobbing my bin bag in. Cue panic and having to contact remote concierge to let me get into the bin store and rummage through the dumpster (not envy)

My mums house and car keys. Three them in the sofa and they must have slipped off into a pile of papers I was throwing away. She was not impressed.

Reading these makes me feel much better about my own stupidity. I threw out £100 of vouchers for John Lewis one. Plus I must have thrown out the silver charm bracelet my grandma gave m for my 21st when I left uni. Still gutted about that.

I get paid cash in hand for my work sometimes (older clients mainly who prefer to deal with cash) and have been using a chip and pin machine so I try to show them how it's just like taking money out (if they use a debit card) and paying me. They seem to think they are doing me a favour but they're not. I'm definitely going to start turning down cash payments as it stops people wrongfully assuming it doesn't get declared. It does and it's a fucking pain in the arse. Trust me. My eyes don't light up in glee when I'm paid in cash.

A pair of solid gold nipple clamps.

We up and moved quickly a week before Xmas. Didn't have time to pack properly so threw everything in black bags.
We put rubbish in one room and clothing in another so we wouldn't get mixed up.
Went to work & left hubby to it, Came home from work to find all the Black bags of mine and DCs clothes upstairs, only to open them and find that he mixed them up and kept all the rubbish and threw all of our clothes.
Wasn't impressed, also 6months pregnant.
We all had new clothes for Christmas though, everyone rallied around for us.
Will never make that mistake again, silly me! 

*black bags upstairs in new House

A whole set of photographs in a packet which were all I had of my pregnant bump and newborn baby up to 2 weeks old.

I'd been to get them processed (16 years ago before camera phones) and left them in the carrier bag. There was a newspaper in the bag too and for some reason my dick fuck husband threw the bag out without looking inside and not only that, it was collected by the bin men that day :((

It's taken me years to forgive him for that. Idiot. 

StarbucksSmarterSister that’s so sad 🙁

We weren't registered for VAT at the time so there was nothing to declare. If you mean income tax Adrop then yes we did declare it and the tax was duly paid. I guess that makes us a "nice" family then?

A letter giving me permission to have two passports - I can’t replace it and means that with no proof I have lost my citizenship ...