The most ridiculous/annoying thing you've had stolen

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We were burgled a couple of months ago, whilst we were petsitting for a friend and our house was empty. They stole the usual (partners PS5, jewellery, a tin of coins we had on the kitchen windowsill, my camera) but also a pillowcase from my favourite, no longer made set, clearly to carry their loot in. Anyway today I've gone looking for a denim bag I have, that I've been sewing flag patches on for each country I've visited, as I wanted to add more to it. It's absolutely not in this house, I've looked everywhere, so they've stolen a cheap bag, with about £75 (25 or so patches at £3 each) flags, in order of when I personally visited those countries-that will be no use to anyone else.

I am cross, not least because spending another £75+ to replace this seems wasteful, but I really did love that bag.

What's the most ridiculous thing you've had stolen?

The frame of my double pram. Left at our back door... The double top bit came off and I had left the dirty wheels outside. Fumed for years about that!

My Wheely bins.

My underwear from my washing line when I still lived at home. I was about 17 and felt so bloody violated! Small in the grand scheme of things as in costs not much to replace but a ridiculous thing to steal. Who wants second hand underwear? I suppose my only hope is that it was nicked by someone who couldn’t afford their own knickers and bras.
still annoyed about it 20 years later 😂

The ‘holder’ that we kept our soap and handcream in at work. Just the holder not the soap and handcream
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so someone came to the dentist , visited the loo and thought ‘that’s nice I’m having that’
it only fits moulton brown stuff so no use otherwise
odd thing to pinch

When I was at infant school I proudly took in a really good ammonite fossil I had found and some little bugger nicked it. 50 years ago and I am still miffed!

Not me but a friend/ unrequited admirer.
A pickpocket took their wallet and dumped it in the nearest bin. The cash was missing and so was my photo. Nothing else.
A children’s keyboard from the back of my car. It cost more to replace the broken window.

Two cigarettes in a pack left in my office desk drawer. Was a proper break in, not a colleague.

I'm sorry but my mind thinks it was stolen by a man to do something.....not quite right with them.

Three wooden pallets, propped up outside our back gate behind the wheelie bins and against the fence, and which were about to be reused with the wood fashioned into a display bench for bonsai trees in the garden.

My bicycle pump when I was a teenager. That was particularly annoying, as it sat in holding clips on the frame of the bike and was an unusual size, so we couldn't buy a replacement for it that would fit.

The brakes off my bike in the city centre.

My bloody lunch from the work fridge today!!

Went out and got another sarnie but I was bloody annoyed. I'd bought it on the way in to save time.

My hat and coat, out of my car!

Our doorknob.
Twice.

Two things that stand out

• a bag off my bike , it was a free one you could save up for with dairylee cheese strips and had cows on , little triangle shape to fit in the frame . Worth about the 99p we sent for postage .
• some one broke into my car . I think they got 50p out of the centre compartment . Had to drive bloody hours home with a bin bag banging in the wind . Why on earth you would choose a 15 year old car to brake into I don’t know. It’s pretty clear that we had no bloody money 🤷‍♀️

On holiday in France we hired bikes and they stole the seat with connector off one bike. Trying to cycle back with no seat was a right pain but they didn't take the rest of the bike bizarre!

ExDP stole my DS pasta bowl when I kicked him out! I only had the 1 and it was used several times a week, including the day before he left. Day after he left I went to use it and nowhere to be seen! I'm still annoyed even though I now own a set of 6!

I’m a geologist and used to give fossil/rock talks at the local primary school. One year a child took a cube of pyrite (fools gold). I only realised when the box of samples I’d circulated was passed back to me as the last child left the class room. Totally worthless but still annoying.

I’m still miffed about it and that year group are now in sixth form!

My bike seat when I left my bike at the bus station for the day. It was only a basic seat.

The plastic storage box I'd left some books out in for people to take on our front wall. Left the books.

My ex would regularly break into my home and take cutlery, and ikea kids plastic stuff

When I was backpacking in Europe an Australian guy in my hostel stole my bath towel, it was a large, light fast drying towel by a wellknown Aussie outdoor/sports brand and it wasnt cheap, I bought it specially for the trip.

Beach bag with a £5 in a pocket towel suncream . But most annoying was a pair of prescription sunglasses that would be no use to anyone else.

We were broken into 12 years ago and I'm still puzzled as to why he took a load of hair bobbles.
Jewellery, laptop, camera, money etc I could understand but hair bobbles?!
A pillowcase was also taken which I was annoyed about as it was new bedding that we had bought with wedding gift money so a bit nicer than the usual. He had also ripped the duvet somehow!

He got his comeuppance when he was sentenced for 3 years. Never got our stuff back though.

Stone bird bath from our rear garden. House had been let out but unoccupied for a few months and there was still a mark of faded grass on the lawn where it stood. Must have taken some effort to lift over 6ft wall.

I got mugged once and they took a side of salmon I had just bought to cook for friends that night. I was fucking furious. All I could say as a nice passer by picked me up off the pavement was 'the bastards took my salmon'!