My two copies of Superman annual #1 (25 cents!). My early Spiderman and Fantastic Four comics, as well as a bunch of pre-superhero Marvel comics.
And my complete set of Invasion from Mars cards, which were worth a mint when the Tim Burton movie came out. sob
Wow, that was really harsh of your mom. My sympathies.
I tend to be a packrat and keep too much, but once in a fit of pique I threw out a ton of childhood drawings, writings, school notebooks, and such. Wish I hadn’t done that.
If I can volunteer my brother for this thread – he threw out all of my grandmother’s recipes that my mom had been holding onto for years, because he thought they were taking up unnecessary room in one of the cupboards. My brother also threw out my father’s diaries that he had kept from childhood into young adulthood, because my brother thought they were taking up unnecessary room in the basement. It still makes me furious to think of it.
I sold a nearly complete set of G1 Transformers at a yard sale to help pay for the 5th-grade safety patrol field trip.
They wouldn’t be worth all THAT much right now, since they were all well-used, but I’d still love to have at least the main ones.
I sold my Colt AR-15 for $250 back in the early 80s.
I’ve replaced it since then though.
My Leicas
Two M3 bodies, a DS and SS
50 DR
35 Summicron with eyes
Visoflex 3
90 Elmarit
65mm viso only Elmar macro lens
Meter MR (never used it, trusted my Minolta Auto Meter III)
135 Hektor
I kept the DS body permanently matched with the Visoflex and 65mm, using the SS body with the other lenses as my walk around camera. I used the outfits both in pro work and for fun. I was also using several different 35mm SLRs and a Med Format for most of my pro work.
I was moving to another state (1989) and needed some extra cash. Out of all my working cameras, the Leica was the most expendable in regards to my job. So, I sold it. Got some pretty nice scratch for it.
I have missed using it over the years, simply for the fun of it. In the mid 00s, the prices of some of these classic items went absolutely thru the roof. If I had sold the system in 2004 or so, I could made 6 or 7 times what I did in 1989.
Oh well, I needed the money in '89, not '04.
Same here I sold a huge pile of cards including some mana batteries, ancestral recall, a black lotus, a bunch of rares just wanting to get rid of the stuff because I had a tiny apt. I was thinking I was getting a good deal at $400 for everything.
R2-D2 toy box. Sold it at a flea market for eight bucks when I was eight years old. It’s worth a lot more than eight bucks now!
Sad story about the baseball cards my brother & I collected religiously one year. It was the 1987 Topps baseball cards with a wood-grain pattern. We carefully cataloged and preserved them in plastic sheets. We got the entire set (and enough extras for a third set, probably). If only Mom hadn’t thrown away those 25-year-old cards, we’d be zillionaires right now.
Or not.
You can find the complete set of 792 cards on eBay for less than $10!
Here’s the kicker: Each card pack from 7-Eleven was 25 cents. If we somehow got 17 different cards in each pack, those minimum 46 card packs would be $18.40 (in 1987 dollars).
Oh well, we at least got plenty of bubble gum.
I’m nearly 62 now and at one time I had practically every Superman, Lois Lane, Superboy, Jimmy Olsen and Action comics from 1959-1966 or so, in nearly mint condition will all the covers intact. Sold boxes of them around 1967 or '68 to a second had book store for $20 and thought I’d made a small fortune.
I shudder to think what they might be worth today!:smack:
Many many things. I’m an intelligent intuitive introvert who seldomly likes to leave the house to interact with the masses. I used to have a lot of junk in my house until my mother made me get rid of it. I’d say what I missed most was my plushies.
Nintendo DS Lite.
I pretty much regret ever selling it. It’s a bastion of great roleplaying games, but I didn’t know it at the time.
Once I can get my health back on track, I’ll buy a good used 3DS.
When it comes to material things it would be the quilt tops my grandmother made and that I didn’t value at the time, Thinking we would have her with us forever. The girls used it as a room divider when they decided to move to the basement.
One huge regret again when it comes to material things is not anything I sold or tossed but an item I didn’t buy. I was at a yard sale once where there was a Navajo cradle board for sale for 5 bucks. The head piece was separated from the board but some glue would have taken care of that. I didn’t have the 5 bucks, and DH was in the car waiting for me, so instead of asking him for the money I just got in and off we went. I have kicked myself ever since and that has been 25 years ago at lest.
'65 Mustang Convertible, I had no idea what I had. Sold it in 1971.
Biggest not-buying regret: '64 Cadillac convertible. Had the opportunity to get it for a song in '88.
'92 Volvo 240. It was black. I had upgraded the sound system. I replaced the “Volvo” grill badge with a metal skull. That thing was a fucking tank.
I remembered another one. When I was around 12, my mother gave me a dress she had made herself that no longer fit her – it was a beautiful floor-length red velvet gown in the style of the empire-waist revival of the 1970s. I loved playing dress-up in that gown.
Then for some stupid reason I gave it to a friend of mine, and then we had a falling out and never spoke again. I wish I still had that dress, even if I could no longer fit in it.
Well, seeing as we’re on the “now regret not buying” concept, in 1974 I had a chance to buy a 25,000 mile mint original '68 Z28 for $2500! Thought it was too much for a 6 year old car. I had a near mint '69 Grand Prix with a 428 engine and said I would trade straight across and but the car lot wanted $500 difference and I wouldn’t do it because I was getting the “older car”!!
Of course, the Grand Prix got sold too eventually.
A '73 Riviera with a 455, it was the model with the snocone rear window. I used to bury the speedometer past 140 so far in the housing you couldn’t see it anymore. Course back then not selling wasn’t an option when you needed something else. Your car was your bank.
Same thing with a gold '78 Datsun 280 Z. The damn thing was perfect but I needed something for Alaskan winters. Oh but to have been able to just put that in a garage somewhere.