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?

My little girl’s scuttlebug while we went for a wild wee (small girl, small bladder!). She is still gutted 4 years later!

A travel bag at Paddington station many years ago- had all my make up in it, plus my favourite to and favourite jacket - the make up was a right pain to replace and costly to do so too

@OP I read the title and was coming on to say a pillow case as well . We were burgled and my wedding ring and engagement ring was taken but the most annoying thing that couldn't be replaced was my pillow case.
I don't want to make light of being burgled though, it was devastating at the time.

My son was at Reading Festival a few maybe 10 years ago.
It was a hideous rainy swamp.
They went to McDonalds and were made to leave their shoes/wellies in the vestibule.
When he came out his were gone. A pretty big size-uk13 so not easily replaced and were labelled with initials that could have ben seen from the moon.

Just mean and he had to walk back in all the mud in his socks.
I hope karma got the wellie thief.

@Rogerstreasures ah yes, I had an engagement ring nicked in a Spanish hospital when I had to hand valuables in 'pre op' ( it was an emergency gall bladder one) - got the plastic bag back post op and it was missing - wasn't a hugely expensive one - and was from my previous marriage- but really upsetting - your post reminded me

@thelittlestbird wow that is shit!!

Our house sign has been stolen. It was wrought iron, so I guess someone might have got a few quid for it as scrap metal, but it will cost us far more than that to replace it, plus delivery people need to see the name of the house so they can deliver to us.

A pair of cheap flip flops from a beach in Mexico. I left them next to a rock and went for a barefoot walk, and when I came back they had gone. I replaced them, and a couple of days later exactly the same thing happened to the replacement pair!

It was a pretty poor area, and if they needed them they were welcome to them, frankly.

My dildo, flat was broken into a few years ago and everything was thrown about, they got my dildo and few jewellery bits as well as £20 that was for the window cleaner.
As a child my bike 😔

The number 2 from the front wall of my house, we’re in the absolute middle of the road, so there were multiple other 2s they could have taken and they must have had a screwdriver. And it was Christmas evening.

Also someone stole my garmin watch which I'd left on the beach in my shoe under a towel in the beach, whilst I swam. Even worse I could see on the app that someone was wearing it as it was showing their heart rate. I was marching up and down the beach trying to find it / them, cheeky twats.

Last time we moved house we had packers to pack up everything. I collect perfume and had packaged up my collection myself, but hadn’t sealed the box. One of them must have been a connoisseur as they stole two of my rarest perfumes! Both of them not made any more, I had to spend a lot of time and money on eBay to replace them - hope I didn’t end up buying them back from the thief! Still annoys me.

All 4 hubcaps from my car, last year. It was only 3 months old!

Not quite stolen bit I mist have left my car unlocked overnight. Next morning someone had had a good rifle through and left on the passenger seat: my CD's, my sunglasses, wet wipes, the contents of the glove box and all the passenger door cubbies.

Clearly nothing in my car was worth nicking!

We had this as a child, a very distinctive bench stolen. Dad spotted it halfway down the street, newly outside someone's house. Went that night and got it back

Gas meter! British Gas had to be told firmly it wasn't a wind-up and to come out and investigate and replace it.

An old fashioned enamel communist party star badge, off my jacket, while I was at a party.

I am not now, nor have I ever been a communist.

But during the war my Mum (also very far from being a communist) was part of the British delegation to the Yalta conference & they all got given badges by Stalin. In my late teens she gave it to me.

Like a twit I wore it.

And someone half-inched it! And would never know the history, just that it was a moderately cool bit of stuff.

I feel your car pain... this was about 22 years ago... they could see I had taken the cassette player with me (it was one of those where the whole unit popped out, not just the fascia) but they broke the window and went into the glove compartment... and took a packet of Quavers. £250 to replace the window (it was semi-tinted to deal with UV light) and they stole a packet of crisps that cost less than 50p, and like you I had to drive around with a bin bag until I could get the window fixed. I am still angry about it today and in my darker moments hope that they scratched up their belly pretty good on the shards of glass that remained in the window frame.

A relative proudly put her new illuminated nativity scene outside on the front lawn in a small town in USA. Someone stole Baby Jesus ...

A pair of jeans from the staff changing room; very annoying as I had to go home on the bus in uniform trousers 😳
And the wheel trims from my car (years ago)
The wheels looked looked naked without them

£1 flip flops from primark off the beach- I had to buy another very expensive and very uncomfortable pair from the beach shop to walk home- it really annoyed me!

A gym bag I accidentally left in my front yard, full of tatty, oversized gear.

Some CDs and things when I was living in a house share and somebody broke in. But the weird thing was when I went to get into bed that night and found they had left a plastic spider in the bed.

I was burgled overnight while I was in the house, among other stuff they took my bag which had my hairbrush in, coukdn't even brush my hair before going to work next morning. It was years ago and they took the house phone so I had to use a call box to call the police on my way to work, had to use 999 as I didn't even have 10p for the phone, my purse was in my bag 🙄

Not ridiculous, but a 'friend' who stole a furry purse with some money from my bedroom 50+ years ago (Carole Hos** - you know who you are). Spoilt girl, whose daddy gave her anything she wanted.