re: have you ever gotten rid off /thrown out something of value by mistake?

I threw an 8 ball out of the window of my truck one time because I thought I was getting pulled over. Cop drove past me

I was shoveling a small drainage ditch in my pasture and took my wedding band off because it was pinching my finger against the shovel handle. I took it off and dropped it into my pocket.
The next day I couldnt find it anywhere. I went back to that area and searched for hours.
I then purchased a metal detector for around 150 bucks. The metal detector arrives and I begin searching for the ring, by this time it was 3 weeks later.
In 5 min the unit triggers and identifies as potential gold. I dig a huge chunk out the ground and scan it. No beep. I dig another chunk up, it signals. I break that piece in two, one half signals. I break it again and there in the black clay is a shiny object, it was my wedding band dug from about 8" under the mud and cowshit.
If someone saw me at that moment they would have thought I was renacting the raising of Simba in the Lion King.
I then sold the metal detector back on Ebay for 10 bucks less than I paid.

In my earlier "not so cool" days, I was pretty big into Magic:the Gathering. Say what you want about the game but there were some cards that were rather valuable and I had quite a few. As I grew up, the cards found their place in a box in the closet and I forgot about them for a long time. When my wife and I were purging before a house move, the box ended up in the trash of course.

Then, later on I was talking with a guy and we got on the subject of MtG and told him about my card collection. I figured the popularity of the game fell off so the cards weren't as valuable any more but he ensured me the value was still very high and he would buy them from me. He just wanted to know what I had so he could give me a price. My heart sunk when I discovered I no longer had them. After looking up the current value of the cards I had, I stopped when I got up to $7500 because I got too depressed about it and I was only about a third of the way through my collection. If I had to guess, in all, my cards were between 17-20k. My wife was NOT happy when I told her that.

My wife nearly threw out a letter addressed to me from the Prince of Wales because she thought it was junk mail. True story.

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accidentally threw away a $500 dollar gift card. I was poor and in college too. I dug through enough trash to last me a life time.

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did your roommate at least let you play his new xbox?

I buy and sell a lot of toys from the 70s and 80s. I bought a big collection at an estate sale, and in the process ended up with a lot of various parts and accessories that I wasn't able to match with any particular toyline.

I was able to eventually identify most of them. A few were worth five bucks, a few were worth 10, and some were worth a bit more. The bulk of them were not worth much, and I put all of those into a lot and sold it for $25.
In that lot there was a ladder that I could never id. A few months later I found out what it was.

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Four balcony tickets for Cats Meow on Sunday night before Marie Gras. We're in my back pocket when the jeans went in the washing machine.

When I was a kid we moved and in the move we lost a James Audubon original my grandfather bought.