<p>What things do you really wish you hadn’t thrown away? I wish I’d kept old Broadway Playbills from when I was little, and the autographed pictures of the Kennedy family from their white house years (I wrote to the White House and they actually send the pics! I had them on my dresser for years and years whe I was young)! I know my brother still cringes severely when anyone mentions his complete set of Topp’s baseball cards from 1955-65 that were in shoeboxes in the attic! So, what do you wish you really hadn’t parted with??</p>
<p>My old comic books. If I still had them I could put them in plastic jackets and sell them for a tidy profit to collectors.</p>
<p>How about stuff you wish other people HAD thrown away?</p>
<p>My mother-in-law gave us a box with my husband’s baby teeth in it. What in the world are we supposed to do with them? But she saved them all these years, so I feel guilty throwing them away. </p>
<p>I wish I kept the locks of hair from my kids first haircuts. I thought I did, but now I can’t find them.</p>
<p>My 60’s hippie clothes. As soon as I let them go, my D came asking for them.
H was wiser and passed down his Nehru jacket to the sons, who trade off wearing it.</p>
<p>Some of my platform shoes from the late 70’s/early 80’s. I could wear them now! Otherwise, there aren’t any things I wish I hadn’t thrown away…because I rarely get rid of anything. Unfortunately my husband is the same way, which explains the state of all our closets, garage, crawl space, storage room, and attic!!!</p>
<p>I wish I hadn’t thrown away (actually sold dirt cheap at a garage sale) all my kids’ Halloween costumes, which I had painstakingly sewed. The clown, the raggedy andy, the pirate, the robot, the t. rex… :(</p>
<p>My Barbie and Ken. I always kept them in their original boxes too…Do any of you remember a doll called Francie? I recall having one, but none of my friends remember there being one by that name.</p>
<p>Absolutely! I still have a Francie. She was my favorite. Has a few dog bite gashes, but she is still the cutest barbie doll from that time. Francies clothes were for a teenager, not a working woman. I wanted her red plaid two piece bathing suit for me. (She and Mulan had the most normal figures of any barbies).</p>
<p>Oh, Weenie, I can’t believe you sold the costumes! Ours are still in the costume box. H even fit into the Obie Wan outfit to go to a party as a light saber salesman. (8 light sabers tucked into his belt).</p>
<p>I know, nobody in the house can fit into the teletubby or batman costume, but maybe someday, someone might need them.</p>
<p>Oh, I wish my mom didn’t give my Dr. Seuss books to my nephews. I never saw them again and started rebuilding the collection at garage sales when I was 17.</p>
<p>My friend gave away her husband’s Brio train. I was speechless when she told me, and nearly disowned her on the spot.</p>
<p>I did save baseball cards, but S never interested in them, and I never pursued pricing and selling them on my own.</p>
<p>I’m with coureur on the comic books. I use to have total collection of wonder woman, hulk, archie’s.</p>
<p>I still have my first watch–a pink Tinkerbell.</p>
<p>Only 3 things…all from my childhood and all dolls. A tiny tears with a ceramic head, an original Barbie doll, and a 2 Ginny Dolls (one brunette, one blond) with at least a dozen different clothing outfits all in the boxes. Geez if I had kept those I could have pawned at least some to help fund the college bills.</p>
<p>I loved Francie! I loved all Barbies and still do. I even had a Julia doll (sold by Barbie, and played by Dianne Carol). I wished I would have kept my Archie Comic Books, (includes comic books for Betty/Veronica, and Jughead). My original View Master (or was it Vue Master???). I once had a Micky Mouse record player. I would love to see it now.</p>
<p>Well, I don’t have this “problem” as we don’t throw anything away and we also have a very large basement :D. I have all the things you guys are talking about pretty much such as the lost teeth, first haircuts, Halloween costumes, school papers and projects, artwork, toys, blocks, dolls, books, clothing, sports equipment, Playbills, etc. etc. I even have stuff my in laws saved and had us take. </p>
<p>Coureur, my husband had an enormous comic book collection. His parents made us take it and it was all catalogued in boxes that filled an entire shelving system in our basement. My husband did decide to sell a majority of it but kept certain ones. He used the profits to buy a second guitar he wanted. I could have a humongous garage sale one day as we have EVERYTHING.</p>
<p>DH still can’t believe his parents threw out his baseball cards and saved his term paper from 8th grade!</p>
<p>I wish I still had the wooden LLBean sled for children (Oaklandmom won one on TPIR). I gave it away when the garage got too full of other stuff. It’s on it’s 3rd or 4th family in the neighborhood.</p>
<p>Soozievt, your story really resonated with me! Kind of a variation on the theme of this thread. I too was an avid comic book collector. One summer when was I was away at camp, my parents decided to clear out “junk”, including many of my comic books. Among those tossed was Spiderman issue #1. When I returned home, I managed to save the rest of my collection and to this day it resides in crates in my basement.</p>
<p>I also regret to this day getting rid of a guitar I had. When I was in high school, I was a serious guitar player. I decided I wanted a Martin D-28. I saved my snow shoveling money until I had $300 only to discover the guitar was still way out of my reach. My father (perhaps to atone for my comic books 
), arranged through a connection in the local musicians’ union, for me to go to Zapf’s Music Store in Phila where I was given the run of their entire inventory of D-28’s. 30 guitars later, I had narrowed my selection down to 2 that sounded just gorgeous and then chose the 1 that had the prettier wood grain of the 2. The store sold me the guitar at cost with a hardshell case, which was well below my $300 limit. Flash forward several years. I had stopped playing for a while and decided to sell the guitar. Flash forward to now. Not a week goes by that I don’t beat my head against the wall for being an idiot. I will never again have the opportunity to own or play such an exquisite guitar. And to boot, I probably used the proceeds of selling the guitar for something really worthwhile - yeah, right!</p>
<p>Michael:
My husband, also named Michael, is an avid guitar player. I would say his most prized possession (more than me!) is his Martin 00028 (I’m not sure if that is how it is written…he says it is a “triple 0 28”). He has had it since I have known him which is a very long time. When he sold a bunch of his comic book collection, in more recent years, it was to get a Collings guitar (not sure that model) and so he has two guitars and less comics now.</p>
<p>I was an avid comic book reader too. Everything from Superman, Ritchie Rich, Little Lulu, Dennis the Menace to not so popular ones like Sugar and Spice.
The Archies is relatively new in my eyes. When did those come out? I gave away some pristine condition Action comic books when I was in high school, to a boy I had a crush on. How stupido.</p>
<p>^^Archie comic books are not new. They have been around at least since the 1940s. I had them all though my childhood and teen years.</p>
<p>Wish I hadn’t thrown away my POGS</p>
<p>coureur, 1940’s…really? Wow. I didn’t know about them when I was into comic books, and I’m not THAT old.</p>