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?

When I was a child living at my dad's house, burglars broke into our garage. Dad was furious as they stole his v valuable power tools. My step brother was upset as they nicked his bike. I was gutted that they'd taken the shoulder of lamb that was defrosting ready for our roast dinner the next day, plus the pecan pie and all the blue ice pops.

Rear windscreen wiper by a monkey. That cost £190 to fix.

This will be outing but fuck it - my wedding shoes and bouquet, from my wedding reception...

Someone once stole the plants out of their pots in my front garden.

No matter really as I kept killing them anyway, but just annoying.

The rabbit hutch. (Fortunately the rabbit was in a run on the lawn.)

That is a great example of our society today🤣🤣🤣

There was a spate of break in of cars on my road a few years ago. The cars were all parked on the street as we have no off street parking. The police said they had some un-locky thing not the technical term they took what ever bits were in the cars. I was most indignant that they had gone through my cd collection and selected the ones they wanted-leaving me with their rejects like big crosby christmas 😂just having cd's in the car makes me realise it must have been a fair few years ago!!

One of my nice gloves out of my bag at a toddler group (but was an adult as my bag was hung up).

they’d have to unzip the compartment and undo the gloves being balled up to take it. So clearly done to be annoying rather than wanting the gloves.

A Ferrari off my drive.

It was toy one, but not dinky toy size. One of my children had thrown it out of the window, and i forgot to go out and get it. Until I heard a mum say to her child "go and get the car" looked out to see him heading off my drive with said Ferrari. I hope he appreciated more than my kids! I was a bit miffed about a mum telling her child to take stuff off people's property, but not bothered enough to go and demand it back.

All the loo rolls kept in the downstairs loo cupboard, and the hand towel. We had 10+ people over and someone asked for a towel to dry their hands, I was confused and went in to check and noticed it all missing and had to awkwardly ask everyone if they had all our toilet rolls and hand towel. So weird. No one fessed up!

A memory card filled with pictures of a cat I had 15 years ago!

Years ago,I was a skint single mum and my ex would steal money from me
I knew money had gone,but couldn't prove he'd done it until my last tenner disappeared and he was the only person in my house that day
Bastard never paid a penny for his kids either so he doubly owes me

My mother stole my spare key from my father's key ring and would help herself to anything she liked while I was out
She only got caught when some dishcloths went missing and ds owned up to her swiping them as she didn't like them (loads more but that really pissed me off)

A friend of mine
We where both skint single parents,but she'd spend her money on crap and bingo,knowing her family would buy her what she needed for her kids-i didn't have that and had to budget carefully
A mobile phone (that I had saved up ages to buy),a cheap necklace she had admired,some nail polish her dd liked and odd bits of clothing and shoes just vanished
I saw her wearing the necklace and a jumper of mine so I ghosted her (now I'd stand up to her but I had pnd at the time and couldn't face it)
3 years of a hate campaign and harassment later,I finally shook her off by moving house
Took me those 3 years to find she'd stolen loads more but I hadn't noticed
It seems every time she popped round,something of mine would vanish

My friends car was broken into, they left all the loose change and stole a cassette of shaggy it wasn't me

Me and DH stopped at a garage to put some air in our car tyres. As we drove away DH remembered he had left the little screw on dust caps on top of the air machine. Drove straight back round to get them and they had gone.
More than once I had the clip on centre of my alloy wheels stolen off my old car.

A floor sander. Only used for a few days and I intended selling it but lockdown happened. Moved house and it never arrived here. I even asked estate agent to check I’d not left it behind but hadn’t. I reckon the removal men took a liking to it.

Not annoying, but just strange. It was an old plastic window box, covered in mud, spiders webs and the odd snail. It was empty and in my front garden on a frame under my front window. I know it didn't blow away because I have a line of decorative pebbles sitting on the frame and they'd have been moved if it was the wind. They'd have been welcome to it if they'd asked because it was due an upgrade anyway. They didn't steal my ceramic toadstools, which are much nicer 😂

I can’t say the sport as it is a bit niche. But my friend and I had been and done a training session and dropped both gym bags in the back of her car. We paid for parking and walked back to the car to find two blokes running around from the boot with our gym bags. Absolutely no cash, no worth, no resale value just two kits full of sweat. I imagine their looks when they put their hands in 🤣

The bird bath out of my front garden. Noticed it was missing today, when I went to work. They've left the ornamental bird off it behind though!

We had an old beetle. You'd be amazed how many times we had bumpers, headlamp rims, wind mirrors and bumpers nicked.

Probably what they wanted 🤢

There was a small collection of dinosaurs that we kept on our window ledge - raised ground floor with a good drop to the basement. The dinosaurs had belonged to my son - he no longer played with them but I couldn’t quite face getting rid of them so they somehow ended up there and became a rather cute talking point as kids would stop on their way to school or nursery and admire them. They vanished one day! Someone would have had to climb on the rather narrow ledge of the bay window not knowing if it would hold their weight shimmy around to the far side of the bay get to them and then back again - it blows my mind that someone would risk their life for some toy dinosaurs.

My parents had a hanging basket stolen. They also had a car break-in and all they took were some library books!
The caravan awning was opened during the night on holiday once, someone stole the breadknife...

My own one; my baby bath was stolen from my allotment. I was growing carrots in it as i had horrible clay soil. They dumped out the carrots though, and just stole the old plastic baby bath!

Most annoying was my bike seat. It was quick release but I only really used my bike to get to work, so it was either safely in my garage or in my work's secure carpark, so I didn't really think about getting a separate lock for the seat or anything. On this occasion I popped very quickly into Tesco after work, leaving the bike locked right by the entrance... came out five mins later and some dickhead had swiped the seat!

Unfortunately my cycle home was quite bumpy and hilly and I didn't fancy the prospect of cycling in a standing position (and possibly bouncing onto the metal tube that had held the seat...), so I had to push it home. 1.5 hours walk, fuming with every step 🤣

When me and my ex split up he took my plug for my bath, he knew I loved a bath was so bloody annoying oh and my toothbrush 😅🤷🏻‍♀️

My otoscope/ophthalmoscope charger at work. A search drew a blank and I assumed a locum doctor must have had sticky fingers. A couple of years later my DH (who worked in a different role in the same building) found it hidden in a desk drawer in a room vacated by a colleague I believed to be as honest as the day is long.