Believe it or not, a 1970 Plymouth Roadrunner. I paid $600 for it back in '79, then traded it for something more resposible after high school. I’ve been looking to replace it for the past few years, but any of 'em out there are priced through the roof.
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Ooooh, DESK, my dad had a Maverick, too! Jerk sold it before us kids got old enough to drive. I have a suspicion that’s why he sold it, too. It was way cool–I can’t remember the model year (something in the late 70’s, I’d guess), but it was white with orange highlighting and had great orange fake leather seats!
I regret having to prune my stuffed animal collection. I’m not a crazy collector or anything, but I had a lot of teddy bears at one time, and was commanded to get rid of some when we moved. Come to think of it, I’m still not sure where a good bit of my stuff is…stupid do-it-yourself moving. I’m also really gonna kick myself if my Bluebeary is gone, though I’m not sure if it is. I earned that teddy bear by selling over 100 boxes of Girl Scout cookies when I was in Brownies! 
My store-bought video tapes of the first 3 “Star Wars” movies before all that ‘special edition’ crap. I just found out that Lucas refuses to release the original on DVD. jerk. at least my friend has the Laserdisc letterbox and a working player at his studio.
I regret selling an almost complete collection of Firesign Theater records. That still stings.
My old Atari systems and all the games. I had all the good ones, too, Pac-Man, Pole Position, Pong, Asteroids, Donkey Kong, Frogger, a whole bunch. Plus a bunch of really obscure ones, like the Kool-Aid man game.
Sold it all in a garage sale, and now I wish I had them back.
My virginity.
Oh, wait. I liked getting rid of that 
My 1963 Chysler Newport. Pushbutton transmission. Gawd I loved that car.
Mark down another for Mad magazine collection.
A girl named Sagit’s phone number. Talk about regret.
Life on Wry - I hope this makes you feel better… I did a little checking and my figure of $900,000.00 was wrong… if you still had Action Comic #1 (1938) it would only be worth $350,000.00 but you should also take into account that this comic’s value has been increasing steadily at about 17% per year.
I once had the opportunity to purchase the first Spider Man for $200.00 but didn’t have the cash at the time. It is now worth $50,000.
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Life on Wry - I hope this makes you feel better… I did a little checking and my figure of $900,000.00 was wrong… if you still had Action Comic #1 (1938) it would only be worth $350,000.00 but you should also take into account that this comic’s value has been increasing steadily at about 17% per year.
Back in 1977 a kid named Chuck found a complete collection of almost every comic book published between 1938 and 1950 sitting in someone’s closet. They were all in mint condition.
The value of those books is now estimated to be $50,000,000.
Wow, DESK and Magickly Delicious, the Maverick I was going to buy for $400 bucks when I was fourteen is my “Things I should have gone ahead and bought but didn’t” story. It was for sale in a neighbor’s yard after being in storage for ten years; it was his mother’s and she had put only like 25,000 miles on it. Ran great, just maybe needed some new paint. Two years later my dad bought me a little sporty red car, but now I can’t help but wonder why we didn’t just get that little yellow Maverick…
Anyway, back on topic…
Couple of years ago we sold our ORIGINAL Tolkien box set at a yard sale for a dollar. It had the Hobbit and the LOTR Trilogy, and it was in fine condition, but there wasn’t the hype that there was today. Now that same box set is over twenty bucks and is plastered with stills from the movie. The kicker? I never read the books when we had them, and had no desire to until the movie came out… :smack:
My #2 childhood pillow (I still have the other one). It was made of chopped up foam rubber and was totally gross but since I tossed it several years ago my neck just hasn’t felt quite right.
Feynn
I am a member of the if we only knew club(concerning comics anyway) also.
I sell books and comics online and I was pricing things at an online price guide and getting bored so I was looking at old covers of comics. I get to the Fantastic Four #1 and I just about crapped I remember buying that comic new at a drug store 5 miles away.
However my cousin came to visit 6 months later and my mom made me sell him a paper garbage bag of comics for $5(being the bright boy I was I filled it with all the older comics i had) not wanting him to have any of the new ones I had just bought.
I used to hit garage sales and auctions back then and had what are now VERY old comics I bought for 25 cents a box.
Until now I have never sold nor given away ANY and I don’t have that FF #1 now so I know it was in that sack.
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stevephillips- The only problem with that is that I live in California, where the state is trying hard to completely strip the state of legal guns. Ah well… I’ll check out the link though. Thanks!
Comics- When I was a kid, I had acquired a huge box of old comics. Richie Rich, Kid Colt, Jeb Stuart and his Ghost Tank. Dr. Who comics. A bunch of those old horror comics.
Most of them were in the .5 to .15 range. We’re talking OLD…
I read them to tatters, then threw them away when we moved.
regret…
A set of Tarot cards put out with a calendar by Scholastic Books. They were all tied in with current hit songs; i.e. the Fool was “Fool on the Hill,” the Magician "Pinball Wizard, etc. I’ve thought about those cards many times in my life, and I wish I still had them.
I hope to do a set using Andrew Lloyd Webber songs some day.
*still sobbing to this day
1967 Pontiac GTO with a custom 455 Olds… ratchet shifter… line lock… perfect orig interior…
Sold it… needed the money… I drive a KIA now. I think I am going to to jump of a building now. Thanks for the reminder.
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On a better note, I regretted for years getting rid of the man who is now my husband. I broke his heart a looong time ago and 7 years later we got back together.
Let’s see. Most regretable was my 1973 Buick Skylark Convertable. It needed some work, and wouldn’t pass Virginia inspection. In hindsight, I should have just stored it until I could have the work done. I loved that car.
All the old Hardy boys and Tom Swift Jr. books I had as a kid. I’m in the process of buying them again, so that my children can read them, but it would have been easier if I had just kept them in the first place.
There is a game for PS2 called Activision Anthology with all the Atari Activision games, like Megamania, Stampede, etc., which is pretty good. Same clunky graphics, same clunky sound effects. There is also an Atari arcade game anthology for PC with Pong, Asteroids, Centipede, and a bunch more. I got that for $10. Alas, I don’t know if they are selling real Atari Atari games. (I know about the emulators.)
–My dad’s guns. Deer hunting was one of his pastimes, although purely as an excuse to get outdoors and socialize; his actual success rate earned him the nickname, “Ol’ Buckless.” One of the rifles, in particular, had belonged to my grandfather (although I didn’t know it at the time). When my uncle called up some time after Dad’s death, I happened to mention that the guns were gone. He was devastated that I had allowed them to be sold, and I’ve always been afraid to bring up the subject and apologize more thoroughly, for fear of finding out that he’s still angry with me.