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AIBU?

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

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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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Stabbytheunicorn · 30/12/2017 23:50

Not all at once, but I've chucked out...
A passport, a bottle of (expensive) perfume, and a £20 voucher.

Probably more but these are the ones that come to mind.

berwickswan · 30/12/2017 23:55

My mother in law's false teeth

justilou1 · 30/12/2017 23:56

I have just cleared out my cupboard of doom and realised just before I put the rubbish bag in the bin that I hadn't seen the wee plastic baggie containing the diamonds from my first engagement ring. (I am going to make stacking rings and give one diamond to each of my kids eventually) Thankfully it was near the top of the rubbish bag and hadn't gone into the wheelie bin!

pallisers · 31/12/2017 00:07

My mother in law's false teeth grin

Crikey, that's awful. I hope she had a spare set.

berwickswan · 31/12/2017 00:16

No, she didn't. Anyway, who carries a spare set around with them just in case? Serves her right for screwing them up in a bathroom tissue and leaving it on her bedside table. I just thought it was, well, a screwed up tissue. It was only the bottom set, btw. And she'd previously made a point of declaring that she had perfect teeth. Well, in a way she did. Perfect false teeth, as it turned out

GColdtimer · 31/12/2017 00:38

My crown . Can't find it anywhere. Going to be costly.

GColdtimer · 31/12/2017 00:38

Dental that is.

pallisers · 31/12/2017 00:41

tbh Berwick you don't sound very nice at all.

Lots of people are ashamed of having false teeth and don't admit it to everyone (and I can certainly see why she didn't admit it to you)

You can't actually eat properly if you are missing your false teeth (my parents had them) it isn't just a cosmetic thing. When my dad was very ill his false teeth no longer fitted him and it exacerbated his dietary problems enormously - luckily we knew an orthodontist who came in and fitted him with an emergency set in hospital.

This isn't one I'd laugh about.

Nitrobetty1 · 31/12/2017 00:43

My very expensive Mercedes car key & rather lovely key ring. Was devastated. 😥

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Meadowflowers · 31/12/2017 01:22

Some of these have really made me cringe. I guess money, passports and birth/marriage certificates can be replaced but sentimental items from the past can just never ever be replaced especially if it's all we've got left of someone and those stories do make me feel sad.

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berwickswan · 31/12/2017 02:12

pallisers my mil was a horrible woman, I later found out (from my husband) tho I didn't know that at the time I invited her to stay with us and paid her air fare over. And I certainly had no idea her bloody teeth were in that tissue,.

LyannaStarktheWolfMaid · 31/12/2017 02:20

Have not RTFT but my step mum threw away a pair of diamond earrings one Christmas when I was a child - I thing £500 +

LifeofClimb · 31/12/2017 02:45

Once lost a diamond earring.

I recently found a gold hoop earring in Milford in Sea if anyone is missing / looking for a lost earring... (think it may have been bought in turkey). If it rings a bell please PM me!

Beakyplinders · 31/12/2017 02:47

A diamond and sapphire ring my parents gave me for my 18th. I'm still gutted about it now.

LineysRunner · 31/12/2017 02:56

Sadly I think in the midst of these many sad stories are a couple of really despicable thefts (as Miss Marple might say).

But possibly not of the dental crown...

Peachypie83 · 31/12/2017 05:30

I threw out the kids Xmas vouchers one-year, they were gutted. Got out the Xmas decorations the following year and they were in the decoration box. God knows what I was thinking, luckily they were still valid. Got out the decoration box again this year and found a voucher my OH has been looking for since last year. Oops

Vitalogy · 31/12/2017 05:58

My mums wedding and eternity rings.

SheGotOffThePlane · 31/12/2017 05:58

Oh god where do I start?
When I was 25 I moved out of my flat to go travelling and left all my boxed up belongings at my parents. 15 massive boxes that they were going to store in the spare room/ loft for me. I came back a year later for a month and there were only 2 left. My parents are adamant that someone picked them up two weeks after I left, on my instruction. I did no such thing - They bloody gave away all of my belongings and can't remember who to!!

When we were moving house, dh was fed up and threw the last couple of bags worth of things lying around into black bags. Which he then promptly took to the local tip. To this day i don't know exactly what was in them but I do know my prescription sunglasses and a couple of handbags and coats were in them.

BillyDaveysDaughter · 31/12/2017 07:23

I managed to throw away a brand new, unworn pair of £300 varifocals. I must have bundled up the case with my lunch rubbish at work, I'm still mystified as to how I didn't notice.

DH once lost a pay cheque (in the days where you could be paid by cheque) - we upended the recycling bin in the garden in the dark and went through the scattered contents with a torch. He found it.

marcopront · 31/12/2017 08:10

My guide blanket. It had all my brownie and guide badges sewn on it and was lovely and soft. Took it on a camp in a bin bag and you can guess the rest.

NoCanoe · 31/12/2017 08:24

Original marriage certificate. Torn up in the bin . Not me.

Littlegoth · 31/12/2017 12:16

My ex husband threw away 700 dollars. I’m untidy and he was fed up of asking me to move some post I’d left lying around so threw it out to teach me a lesson - he didn’t realise the money was there. It was our honeymoon money and had been a wedding present. I never got over the fact he was ‘teaching me a lesson’ - left him 6 months later!

HickDead · 31/12/2017 12:33

DD1 got hold of our passports and put them in the bin! We’d just got back from visiting family and I’d left them on the sideboard to lock away. Went to work, came home and they weren’t there. Thanked DH for putting them away and I got a blank look! It was bin day. Cost us a fortune as we needed them for our holiday in 10 days time and had to pay for the expedited service!

My DM decided my room at uni was a tip and went on a radical cleaning spree. Chucked my folder out with my GCSE and A-Level certs and my birth certificate in! Completely denied all knowledge and refused to help pay towards replacing them as if it was her then it served me right for being so messy! She gets annoyed when I order her to stop cleaning any part of my house now, don’t trust her at all!

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