What item have you discarded that you wish you had kept?

Mine is a vintage Sansui receiver. It’s a beautiful piece of equipment.

I bought it new around 40 years ago or so and let it go in a garage sale around ten years ago during clutter purge.

I see one on ebay now being sold as is for parts; bidding is up to $470 for one that doesn’t even work.

It makes me ill to think about it.
mmm

Sorry to rub it in, but I’ve got one of these:

driving some of these:

Never gonna give them up!

I really wish I kept my 1980 Dodge Colt RS. That was a great car!

Not discarded, but I sold a man’s beaver top hat in its original Dobbs Fifth Avenue hat box. I had bought them at an estate sale years earlier, because the hat and the box were in wonderful condition. I think it dated to perhaps the early 1920’s.

I was trying to accumulate money for a down payment on a house.

I sold all my Beatle LPs right after I married in the late 70s…hate I did it. I hated it as soon as the guy was backing out of my drive.

My soul, dignity, dreams…

all my video games… I physically owned almost every video game system except 4 (vectrex odyssey tg 16 and Atari 5200) up to the ps 2 …

My rapier.

I was reading a thread about Bitcoin, a guy back in 2013 was delighted he’d raised the deposit for a house in Belfast by selling his collection of 650.

I used to have a Smith & Wesson Model 64. Sold it during some hard times. Wish I still had it, it was a great pistol.

Also, I gave the first guitar I ever owned to my niece. I wish I hadn’t.

Both of these are vehicles, so I have to temper my statements by realizing that they would have needed a lot of mechanical work and attention over the years. Also, I obviously sold them and did not just discard them.

First, my 1984 Olds Cutlass Supreme. It was blue over gray and beautiful. It had every option available except the T-tops, and that was because I got the moon roof. It was…perfect. The gauges were all in the right place, it had a great ride and comfy seats, and it was just…perfect.

Second, my 1984 Honda V65 Magna. I added 4 into 1 pipes, a jet kit, and slightly longer handlebars. I foolishly sold it to help make a down payment on a house. Then I went to an H-D. I would pay three times what I sold it for to have it back.

My first car. Black '91 Volvo 240. Great car. Wasn’t really anything wrong with it, it had been my mother’s commuter and became mine when I went to college. After college I wanted a Crown Victoria and bought one. Gave the Volvo back to my father who had no use for it and sold it.

I’ve looked for another one over the years but they just don’t come up for sale that often. Anyone who owns one still running tends to hold on to it with both fists (like I should have). On cars.com there are only 11 for sale in the entire USA. Autotrader only had 20 for sale in the entire country. By contrast, on a European site I found almost 200 up for sale.

A Crayola crayon collection. Over 30 years of collecting and sold almost all of it. I was single and met a gal that was not into collecting anything. She thought my collections were childish. Besides the crayons, also sold off an extensive Monopoly token collection and a cribbage board collection. I am over the tokens and cribbage boards but the crayons still cause an ache. I had some really rare pieces and haven’t found any to buy to replace them.

A $2500 Tri-Star vacuum cleaner. Left it with an old boyfriend when we broke up. One of the worst decisions of my life.

…also my entire childhood was left in an attic when I was 12 and my dad moved out of that apartment. I had so many “cards” - baseball, hockey, Star Wars and other 80’s movies, Fisher-Price toys, Red Rose tea figurines, etc. All discarded. The worst feeling is I know I had 3 Wayne Gretzky rookie cards.

I sold a beautiful electronic drum kit because I needed cash.

Sold it cheap, too. :frowning:

I sold off most of my record collection (900+ albums) in 1996. I had moved 3 times in 2 years and I just got tired of schlepping all those crates around. (Plus the fact that my new apartment was pretty small and I didn’t have enough room for an entire wall of records).

I don’t miss the records themselves, it’s the full-sized album art, liner notes and inserts I wish I hadn’t gotten rid of.

Oh, man! The 64 is a great item to keep in your car console. I wish I had one. No problems with corrosion, the sights don’t get bumped out of alignment, the round is effective, no hot brass being ejected, you don’t have to rotate magazines, there’s no worry about whether a round is chambered, no safety to worry about, great accuracy…

Not that I’ve ever given it any thought.

When I moved to California, I went on an absolute tear to reduce the amount of stuff we’d have to ship and store. There were some items, like my Linotype and my printing press that could not have been affordably moved, but I badly regret giving away my like-new late '50 Crown Graphic Pacemaker 4x5 press camera. Stupid.

I’m tempted to find the guy I gave it to and ask him if he’ll sell it back. A new public darkroom with 4x5 capability just opened up downtown.

Good grief! I have a Sansui 5000a sitting in the bookshelf behind me as I type. I bought it in Hong Kong in 1970. I had to replace the on/off switch about 20 years ago because it wore out and the FM doesn’t work any more, but it has so many input/output plugs on the back that I just use it as an amp for a plethora or other equipment.

Not necessarily discarded (I never throw anything away) but sold:
53 Chevy Bel Aire
53 Chevy 1/2 ton pickup (5-window)
57 Triumph TR3
56 Triumph TR2
64 Triumph TR4A

Belgian made Browning Hi-Power

a Lionel train set from the 50s

Everything I left at my parents house when I went into the Navy that they threw away while I was gone.

I’m sure there’s more, but I forget.

I had two copies of Superman Annual #1, which I understand is worth a lot now.
Even worse, I had a lot of early Marvel superhero comics (and some pre-Spiderman ones).
All tossed by my parents.
Plus I had the entire set of Invaders from Mars cards (the source of the Burton movie) which was worth a lot when the movie came out. Most of them didn’t make it across the country, but they did make it from Brooklyn to Queens.