I’m glad I was wrong, but I like to be right–I’m conflicted.
Yea, MSFT was one of mine too, I’d forgotten about that. Until now.
Dammit.
The textbook for my Advertising class last semester.
A 1957 Chevy Bel Air that I could have had for $3K. There’s more, but I’ve blocked them all out.
Tony Kornheiser says he’s the only man in America to lose money on Intel stock (well, in a column from a couple years ago, anyway)–he bought it at $14 and panicked when it dropped to like $10 in a day.
But anway, I use this fear to rationalize a lot of my non-essential purchases. I like to tell myself “When am I going to see this again” or “When will I be able to get this price again”.
A beautiful Betsey Johnson dress on eBay. I showed it to my friends, my family, my boyfriend, my boyfriend’s family, and everyone loved it. My boyfriend gave it five stars (he likes to rate my clothing - and damn is he picky) and I loved the dress so very much. I woke up an hour before the auction ended, intent on sniping it, but my internet service provider was down, and stayed down for the next three hours. I saved the photo of that dress and still look at it sadly from time to time. 
Us too. We even had the cash. My husband had sold his old Harley before going overseas and put the money in a 3 year CD to buy a new one when he got back to the US. He had $8,000 and really considered buying HD shares with that money instead of a bike. We were newly married, I was pregnant, and he was coming to an important place career-wise. He figured – rightly – that he’d be too busy to do much riding and he did own a fairly new Suzuki in very good condition, so it’s not like he’d be rideless or anything. Then he saw the 1986 Heritage Softail (first year they built it) and fell in love. So we bought the bike instead of the stock.
Four years ago I found the perfect deep red satin dress. It was comfortable, beautiful, and I looked beyond sexy in it. I visited it once a week for two months, and then decided to buy it. Got to the store and they were all sold, and the company that made them had closed. Sigh.
Also the Holt Renfrew brand-new mink coat I saw at Value Village six years ago, for $80. I could have resold it for at least $400, probably.
An lithograph signed by Jimmy Doolittle. I saw it at a yeard sale for $25.00. He died the next week and it would be worth a lot today.
About four million different comics over the years that instantly skyrocketed in value shortly after I decided they weren’t worth it.
I was at a thrift store a few months ago and saw the weirdest chair. It was really low to the ground and had a really, really high back. It looked like something from the Addams Family or something. It was comfortable as hell and the upholstry was in fairly respectable condition, although a somewhat strange shade of yellow. I didn’t buy it because we are at critical mass for furniture in our house to begin with, and the tag was the wrong color to be half off that week. (Duh! It was only like $25 or something to begin with.) I decided to come back the next week and see if it was marked down but I never got around to it. It’s gone forever now.
I worked at the hospital in the early 90’s that did a lot of the clinical research, and caught wind of the FDA’s approval of their ‘wonder drug’ neupogen early on. Yes, after they approved it.
Just didn’t have the money, and didn’t have the foresight to beg borrow and steal enough to buy a stake. That was the one stock I could have gotten in on the ground floor.:smack:
Ca. 1983 I was in Tower Records on the Ave in Seattle and noticed, in the dollar bin: Donny Osmond’s Disco Train. (Note, please, the proportion of hem to shoe.) It’s still horrifying some 20 years later.
As is a line from Billboard’s 1976 review:
Dealers: This is a validly genuine disco record and can be merchandised as such.
A big infalteable Godzilla that the used to have in the malls in the late 80’s. I can’t find one of those damned things anywhere now!
You can have your choice on eBay. Ranging from four to 18 (!) feet tall!
The CD “Julian Lloyd Webber plays Benjamin Britten Folk Songs.” Saw it once; didn’t have the money; went back next week; someone else bought it. I’ve since gone nuts looking for it.
Was it a prayer chair? These are made for kneeling. You put your hands on the “headrest”, hence the high back.
A 1958 Cadillac that sold at a local auction for $1000 about 4 years ago. I was born in 1958 so it would have been cool to have. The car was in pretty good shape. It had a little rust but all the power options worked, the engine ran great and the upholstery was fine. I think everyone bidding had $1000 as their top price and they all held to it. I’m pretty sure that I could have had the car for $1100 or maybe a little more. The problem with me buying it was that my wife would have killed me as she thought that we already had too many cars as it was (4, including a 1950 Plymouth). In spite of the risk, I still wish I had bought it.
A diamond ring for my last girlfriend.
Hi Alyson, if you’re reading this.
I saw a t-shirt several year ago in some catalog that showed a photo of two little boys with their arms slung around each other’s neck. One was black, one was white, and the caption was “No One is Born a Bigot.” I’ve wanted one for my son for sooooo long. I can’t find it now.
P.S. I bought that Dr. Laura game as a crank gift for a Doper Secret Santa one time.