Thrown away: The stuff you loved and lost.Smash Wogan writes, "we all love our Mums, but we all know that Mums can be cunts, throwing out our carefully hoarded crap that we know is going to be worth millions some day."
What priceless junk have you lost because someone just threw it out?
Zero points for "all my porn". Unless it was particularly good porn...
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chthonic, Thu 14 Aug 2008, 16:32)
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My grandmother collected stamps, you see.....instead of investing money in mining and petroleum shares, she bought me stamps.
Anyway, she bought a lot of them. A complete collection of Australian stamps, all of them. Even the rose-and-black kangaroos... the *really* expensive ones.
Cut to.... March, this year. The collection is kept at my parents house, on account of they have better security out in the country rather than in minimally secure city flats.
Mum decided to get it valued for me. Without asking me. Took it to a stamp dealer she heard about. Without asking me. Got it back from stamp dealer, who reported it was worth about $700, as it wasn't a complete collection.
WHAT THE FUCK?
The 'kangaroos' were missing. All of them. The stamp dealer claimed they weren't there, then claimed he lost them, then claimed the weren't there, then claimed they 'fell apart', then claimed the weren't there, then offered mum $200 for the loss.... WHICH SHE TOOK 'WITHOUT PREJUDICE'.
This upset me at the time, but I got over it. Until I heard how much a complete Australian collection sold for in New York about 2 weeks ago.
$5.5 FUCKING MILLION FUCKING US FUCKING DOLLARS
Thanks, mum. Just... thanks.
(, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 4:51, 3 replies)
Oh my.Chin up...... money can't buy you happiness. Especially if someone else has pinched it.
*click*
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baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 4:56,
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People will pay a lot for some stupid shit.(
Digeridude Lord Wellington's Beef Trapeze, Fri 15 Aug 2008, 5:56,
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Surely that's a major theft?Perhaps you should call the police?
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