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What really important things have you thrown away with the rubbish?

123 replies

Meadowflowers · 30/12/2017 15:13

I am actually a complete idiot. This week I've managed to bin 3 iTunes vouchers to the value of £75 and my marriage certificate! I've been putting so much rubbish out and I think I binned them by accident with everything else. I'm so angry at myself. What stupid things have you all done like this? I just need to know I'm not alone in my idiocy!

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Baubletrouble43 · 30/12/2017 15:15

I threw away £50 cash DF had popped in dps card Blush had to root through vile bin bag to find it

mumzuki · 30/12/2017 15:18

I threw away a (good - i.e. expensive) knife in a pizza box once, if that helps.

HarrietKettleWasHere · 30/12/2017 15:19

Is it too late? Have the bin men come?

I had to go into the recycling to get the £25 book voucher that'd gone out with the empty wrapping but wasn't too bad....

contortionist · 30/12/2017 15:19

Car tax disc.

Whitecovers · 30/12/2017 15:20

I once put dhs and all his friends Glastonbury tickets in the dustbin. Searched the entire house then he emptied the dustbin in frustation in the back garden and there they were. I was sweating!

Loadedllama · 30/12/2017 15:25

It’s such a shit feeling :( if it makes you feel any better DP lost £700 that he had in an envelope. He is still understandably furious with himself 2years on. We have searched his flat and mine from top to bottom at least twice but it’s never turned up. Only explanation is he binned it by mistake.

thecolonelbumminganugget · 30/12/2017 15:34

Threw away a tatty old handbag that I realised as we were packing to go on holiday about 6 months later had my passport in it. There followed a day off work and a 10 hour drive to the first available appointment in the country but i managed to get new one within 3 days - Durham passport office are absolute legends!! I actually hugged the courier as he appeared through the mist on the morning we were due to go.

BitOutOfPractice · 30/12/2017 15:36

My friend's husband once took a bag of my DDs' Christmas presents to the tip with a load of Christmas wrapping rubbish and put it in the crusher!!

Maelstrop · 30/12/2017 15:39

The neighbour who pops in to let out the dog found some chewed post and binned the lot. It was his pedigree. I only noticed when I went to bin something later. I managed to salvage the relevant bit.

Natsku · 30/12/2017 15:40

300 euros inside an old medicine bottle (non-see through) that OH had hidden away for a rainy day

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Meadowflowers · 30/12/2017 15:46

Oh my god Whitecovers that was so lucky!!!!
Yes it's way too late. The paper bin went out the very next day! I could kick myself!!!! My marriage certificate and birth certificate where folded inside each other so I can't understand why one has gone and not the other. I've had to send them all off recently for a new job. Perhaps we have borrowers! I have been so forgetful just lately with the stress of Christmas and working a lot more than normal.

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Meadowflowers · 30/12/2017 15:48

It's a very frustrating feeling. I feel for all of you. I really do.

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BornInSydneyy · 30/12/2017 15:51

I did a massive clear out of my bedroom as a teenager and my mobile slipped into one of the bin bag. Long gone by the time I realised.

veiledsentiments · 30/12/2017 15:53

My passport. Actually I don't think I threw it out, and blame OH to this day. He had 'cleared' the table of rubbish. Only discovered it was missing the night before we were flying back to England from the Middle East for our January break. He took the kids, I stayed and got absolutely wrecked, then flew out on Monday night, having had a nightmare of a Sunday/Monday waiting for a replacement.

Winegumaddict · 30/12/2017 15:54

I've also binned my marriage certificate by accident. It's never turned up so I assume I binned it!

Desmondo2016 · 30/12/2017 15:56

A Nintendo ds 😓

BillyWilliamTheThird · 30/12/2017 15:57

Two lots of Amazon vouchers the year before last, totalling £50. Then I did the exact same thing again last year. Dickhead.

MyBrilliantDisguise · 30/12/2017 15:57

Not me, but my daughter threw out all the Christmas lights a couple of years ago. They were in two or three bin bags in the living room as I was taking decorations down. It's the only time in her life she's done something without being asked to do it Grin and now she's forbidden from 'helping' ever again. Job done as far as she's concerned!

ElizaBenson · 30/12/2017 16:00

Ive thrown away my marriage certificate as well and only a few months after getting married! I had to get a replacement. My DH threw my train tickets away the night before we were due to go to london but I realysed in time and he had to rescue them

My DH is also very good atnputting things round the washing machine, money, his wallet, passport, electronic car key etc

Crumbs1 · 30/12/2017 16:03

My husband threw away my wedding dress thinking it was old curtains. Our son ‘posted’ £180 in the bin when he was tiny - e didn’t discover this until it was too late.

Shockers · 30/12/2017 16:05

I think I gave my engagement ring to the charity shop in the pocket of a bag.

I threw away a good pair of glasses when clearing my classroom at the end of term.

I’ve also binned several debit cards.

Namechange16 · 30/12/2017 16:08

I got married abroad so I can't get replacements. I better not ever lose my certificate or we'll have to go to Gretna Green!!

FireflyGirl · 30/12/2017 16:08

Not binned, but DH was partway through burning a load of old papers when I realised one of them was our marriage certificate. We saved half of it...

The responses in here show the adage is correct - it really is just a piece of paper Grin

Eyesshut · 30/12/2017 16:09

Nothing expensive but quite funny:

DH, on the loo, stood up and while flushing knocked down a nice bottle of hair product into the loo, which promptly disappeared.

Oh well!

pigeondujour · 30/12/2017 16:11

My DP threw out a really-quite-considerable to us (four figures and the first wasn't a 1) amount of cash that was vital for something urgent into a communal bin before we went away for the weekend - luckily a drivable distance. He remembered it in a weird flash on the Sunday morning and we managed to drive back like maniacs and retrieve it. I really thought he was going to need medical attention.

I've managed to accidentally throw away my cash cards this week, actually- although it's surprising how little of a problem that is if you have a smartphone these days. If anything it's been a good money saving strategy.