I knew one time that I had a few dollars and could not find them. Then I realized, maybe I accidentally threw it out. When I went to check, sure enough, it got mixed in with some papers I was tearing up. Phew!
2007-10-21 07:12:38 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Oh my, silky, her hearing aid! Yikes
2007-10-21 07:31:50 · update #1
American - I know you were sweating bullets! What an ordeal!
2007-10-21 15:47:39 · update #2
Gracie - No I probably wouldn't tell either
2007-10-21 15:48:36 · update #3
Wally Y - Oh Wally I am so sorry you got so stinky. Bet you never want to do that again.
2007-10-21 15:52:02 · update #4
My wife accidentally threw away her engagement ring into the bin and in those days we had an industrial sized bin.After going through masses of stuff which we had to tip out on the ground and sift through, we never found it, until that is we went back indoors are there it was on the side of the washbasin.Once though after returning from a bike ride I leant my bike up against the rubbish bin, and the dustmen took it away thinking I had put it there to be trashed.Never saw it again.
2007-10-21 08:08:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I once found a quarter, silver, it was worth after I checked about $700. I left it on the counter and went into the other room to get a special container for it. Phone rang, people came to the door. Had to clean up for others that were coming over. Later that afternoon I reached into my pocket and found the container. No coin on the counter. I searched everywhere. Then thought about the trash. I used to live next to a restaurant and we had one of those giant trash bins. I spent about 6 hours combing through the whole thing. Finally found the quarter, but I smelled really bad. I swear it took three showers before I felt clean again.
2007-10-21 08:20:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
In 1993 my mom bought me a TY Beanie Baby named Brownie. I took the tag off and threw it away. In the year 1998 when the beanie baby craze hit, I found out that this plush toy would be worth 5000 dollars if it had it's tag. But since it didn't have a tag it was worth about 2000 dollars. Now this beanie baby is worthless, dollar wise because nobody collects these anymore. But it has a sentimental value because my mom bought it for me.
2016-05-24 00:54:02 · answer #3 · answered by noemi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try a BIGGER place. Years ago I was working at a shipyard handling all the government furnished material for U.S. Navy ships. When things were removed, I had to inventory them and decide if they were scrap or if I had to report them to the government. One item I reported was a solid steel wheel with a shaft run through it. I reported it instead of taking directly to the shipyard scrap yard. The government gave me a document for it to turn in to the Defense Reutilization Management Office...fancy scrap yard where things are either scrapped or auctioned off. I dropped it off one day and a few days later my gov't rep came by and asked if I still had the part. Seems it wasn't scrap but a Mandatory Turn-in Repairable worth about $25,000! Well, he had given me a document to 'buy' it back from DRMO. I went out and was told it was in the scrap pile. OH NO! I had to wait until the crane moved out of the way so I could go digging. Fortunately, there it was lying on the edge of the scrap pile on the ground!
(USN, retired)
2007-10-21 09:45:29 · answer #4 · answered by AmericanPatriot 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Years ago when I was broke and pregnant with my second child, I had to rummage thought the dumpster in my apartment complex looking for a twelve dollar check I accidentally threw in the trash. It was dark and I hunted for at least forty-five minutes and never found it. I just cried. This was in 1964 when twelve dollars would buy quite a lot of food!
2007-10-21 11:20:56 · answer #5 · answered by curious connie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I threw out my wallet by mistake then had to go through the coffee grounds, cigarette butts, egg shells and stuff to get it back. My mother in law through out her hearing aids when she was cleaning up, unfortunately she lived in a high rise with an incinerator
Her hearing aids were $1800 each, and she didn't insure them either!
2007-10-21 07:18:46 · answer #6 · answered by slk29406 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The handset to our new portable phone. Pushed the locate button and checked every room, but nothing. Finally went outside, and yup, the trash can was just beeping away! (To this day I've never told my husband and have no plans to, either!)
2007-10-21 07:34:00 · answer #7 · answered by night-owl gracie 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
More times than I care to admit. I use my debit card alot and I usually put the receipt in my wallet and enter it in the check book later ....but there's those times where they put it in the bag and I automatically toss it when I get home and then have to go digging through the garbage to get it.
2007-10-21 08:18:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I threw out this part of a filter to my turtle tank. I had to go to the dumpster and start rooting through the trash. ewwwwww. I found it but the filter didn't even work. ugh.
2007-10-21 07:26:39 · answer #9 · answered by muggle :( 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
we always keep newspapers on the kitchen and my keys after I use the car. Well one of us cleaned off the table and my keys,including my house keys, my work keys, my husbands car my sons car,and my car keys,all got thrown out, I did not realize until after the rubbish got picked up,we went thru every bag of trash we had accumulated after the rubbish was gone,but it was too late, never found them.
2007-10-21 09:32:30 · answer #10 · answered by lonepinesusan 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋