What is a valuable thing to you that you've lost?

[woodworkingboy]

I had an old US army knife that I loved. The blade had some kind of treatment done to it, so that it was darkened (won't reflect moonlight), but it still could be polished up to beautiful. It wasn't like the ones that just have a darkened coating on the blade, and I've never seen one like it.

I was messing with it in the garage and set it on the trunk of my mother's car. I forgot, and she drove to the supermarket. I hunted the street for that knife for two days....no luck. I was sure busted up about it.

 

[Burnham]

My youth seems to have gone missing.

 

[rumination]

My mind.

 

[Burnham]

My mind.

Leon, it doesn't count if you never had it in the first place.

 

[rumination]

Thanks Burnham, you're probably right. I'm not sure if I should find that comforting or disturbing.

 

[sawinredneck]

I left a Surefire L1 flashlight ($85 used) in the door of a car when I changed out the window glass!

My mind, my back, and the nympho that I used to date years ago! I miss them all

 

[Che]

Back in 1973, my ex and I lived in a big old farm house, it was a kind of 'communal' thing....we took over Prudence Johnson's room when she was moving out.

When WE moved out, I remember losing one of my favorite earrings down a crack in the old wood floor right behind the bed. I bought them with my first tax refund check a few years prior, right before the price of gold went nuts. They were only about $20. Solid 14K gold loops, simple, but never saw any like it since.

I still have the other one.

When I left my husband seven years later, I took only what I could check on a plane. I 'lost' all my childhood Christmas ornaments. Not something that was high on my list at the time, but wish I had now.

 

[pantheraba]

I lost my first knife, a Barlow, in a haybarn...I was probably 8 or 9 at the time. It must have been traumatic because I still remember it.

 

[Dave Shepard]

I, too, lost my first knife. A Swiss Army knife my grandfather had given me. I lost another knife that he gave me that was even more important. It was a Zippo with "GE" on it. Probably got it at a tag sale in the '80s when GE turned Pittsfield into a ghost town. From the moment he gave me the knife, it was never more than a couple of feet from me, and that included every school day until I graduated. I used to wear a hole in my pants pocket with the handle on the brushcutter. It slipped out. My coworker found it the next summer when we did the job the next time. It's stayed in my bedroom ever since.

 

[Mr. Sir]

I lost my wedding ring a few months after my wife died. Spent a long time looking for it and finally resigned myself to the fact that it was gone. About a month later, I was doing a cabling job in a back yard. My dad and I were sitting on the grass getting the gear ready, wrapping cable ends, etc. when I noticed something shiny right in front of me. I picked it up and it was my wedding ring. Apparently, it had somehow slipped off of my finger while doing the bid a month before. Weird, huh?

 

[Jonseredbred]

My virginity.

 

[Newfie]

My schmeckel. I suppose it might be where I left it, I just can't see it anymore.

 

[Hobby Climber]

My first Pellet Gun!

Like in the movie, "A Christmas Story", I wanted a pellet gun,(Not a Red Rider BB gun). My mother didn't know my dad had bought it for me & it was the last present I opened. It was just a cheap & basic detartment store break barrel pellet gun but it was my first.

A few year later my younger brother borrowed it without my permission. I had it locked up with a bike cable going through the trigger guard. The little buggar unscrewed the trigger guard & bypassed the cable.

I was away for the weekend & on my return, I learned he & his palls went out & one of them shot at some kids on thier bikes flattenign a tire. Kids folks called the police, police rounded up my brother & his palls and seized all the pellet & BB guns. ...including mine!

My brother did give me money to replace it but will never replace my first Pellet Gun!


HC

 

[MasterBlaster]

I'm still looking for my round tuit. I don't wanna have to get another one...

 

[woodworkingboy]

My schmeckel. I suppose it might be where I left it, I just can't see it anymore.

Time to lose a little weight.

Hobby climber...that reminds me, I lost a much favored BB gun. It was taken by a park director one night, who caught me taking out Christmas lights from the edge of the park that overlooked some houses. The sight were spot on, I could hit anything.

 

[wiley_p]

Trust in my fellow countrymen.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I have lost so many things.....
My knife. Sheffield Steel from Sheffield no less... Dear horn handle. Stolen. My bio dad brought it back from England with him for me...
My train set given to me by my God father... Garage fire...
My grandpa's fishing gear... Garage fire...
Old restored radios from my family that I restored... Garage fire...
Theme getting familiar? Had more than one at a families home I stored stuff in....
Vintage clothing collection lost to my ex GF in MA...
I have given up collecting.... it either gets burned or stolen
I still have my original GI Joe though... but my hot wheels are all gone....

Crossman pellet gun that was my dad's... CO2 powered 22 cal...
1914 22 pump action that was my Great GF.... Both stolen...

 

[Strikermike]

maybe not the most valuable, but the one I miss the most. My 1963 Sheridan blue streak pellet rifle. Was lost when my parents moved to North Carolina while I was in college.

 

[Ryan]

The most valuable thing I've lost is my hairline. The hair on my head seems to be migrating to my shoulders, arms and back which should eventually save me money on sweaters.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I miss my hair, too.

 

[hmm]

I'm still looking for my round tuit. I don't wanna have to get another one...

I HAVE one of those

I lost the love of my life, my sister and a baby.

BUT other then that replacable type things - there is an earring, A celtic cross - a russian orthodox cross all with great memoried and sorrow that i do not have them.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Crikey.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

 

[NeTree]

What is a valuable thing to you that you've lost?

My innocence.

 

[No_Bivy]

free time