What did you throw away long ago that you most regret now?

[Frank Cannon]

When I was in high school, I owned EVERY copy of Popular Mechanics from 1962 to 1975. Every single one. Night after night, I would pore over those old articles about how to build everything from a 16" refracting telescope to a two-man submarine. I always fantasized that if civilization ever crumbled, I could rebuild it from the vast knowledge found in those precious pages.

Then one night, my mother got off on some weird tear about dust mites. She made me carry my entire collection to the trash. I remember the tearful night that I carted the boxes of those precious mags to the trash. I knew my mom was right to be concerned (my little brother had asthma), but it just killed me to have to get rid of those magazines. I think about them all the time.

[NewWaveChick1981]

1. My childhood toy monkey.

:cry: I'd had it since birth, and it was threadbare and in terrible shape when Mom told me at age nine that it was time to be a "big girl" and get rid of it. :( I cried for days when it was gone. However, I still loved it to death, and I wish I still had it.

[Nikia]

2. The stuff in my locker that was thrown away for me

At my high school, the seniors graduated before classes officially ended. I had left several personal items in my locker including a folder with most of my writings for the year, thinking that nothing would happen to any of it until classes officially ended. When I came to get my stuff the afternoon on the first school day after graduation, I was informed that the janitorial staff had cleaned out (thrown away everything) the senior's lockers that morning.

[Wapsie B]

3. Besides my youth?

Well my high school diploma. Didn't throw it away but I have no idea where it is. :shrug:

[femmocrat]

4. A box of old letters. I wish I had them now to look back on.

[PassingFair]

5. Nothing.

Not. A. Thing.

I have so much CRAP, who'd miss it?