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Post by pjaye on Jul 24, 2016 22:55:34 GMT
Yesterday I did some shopping and bought a few things that seemed to have endless (unneeded) packaging, so after I'd unboxed and looked at all my goodies I did a whip round with a garbage bag and made sure everything was tidy before I went to bed.
One of the things I bought was a wireless Bluetooth headset so I can listen to my audiobooks while out and about. I put them on to charge last night. This morning I was reading the instructions and it mentioned putting on the correct earbud covers for best fit...of course I couldn't find them and suddenly realised I must have thrown them out when I was cleaning up the previous night. So I donned the latex gloves and went through the trash piece by piece and yes, I found them, luckily they weren't under anything too gross like the left over cat food or old food scraps.
Another time I accidentally threw out some earrings a friend gave me as a part of a Christmas present...I thought it was just wrapping paper attached to the bigger present, that time the trash was already outside in the communal bin, but I managed to find the earrings too.
A few years ago a friend too her 13yo son to McDonalds and while he was eating he took his $800 dental plate out and put it on the tray...and then left it there. After they realised it was missing she drove him back to McDs and made him go through the trash, but they didn't find it.
So have you ever thrown out anything accidentally - did you dig through the trash?
and did you find it or not?
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Post by padresfan619 on Jul 24, 2016 22:57:37 GMT
I'm pretty sure I threw out a necklace my husband gave me for Christmas last year. I never found it, but luckily I was able to replace it before he noticed it was gone.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2016 22:59:02 GMT
Yes, we have dug through trash for many things.
Especially when are son was a toddler, he would throw our keys away.
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Post by caro on Jul 24, 2016 23:05:16 GMT
DD threw her retainer in the trash at the mall. I had cautioned her several times about it and being careful with the retainer. I was so exasperated with her I gave her a choice, go through the trash or spend her money to replace it immediately. Guess what her 15 year old self chose??
She used her babysitting money and replaced it. Lesson learned
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Post by Restless Spirit on Jul 24, 2016 23:15:52 GMT
I threw my car keys in the bottom of my daughters yucky big garbage containers on Friday. I have a "Tile" key tracker on the key chain, so I was able to find the keys with the app on my phone.
After I fished them out of the trash I had to wash them off because they were icky gross. ( my son-in-law really needs to clean that dumpster out it's a gross mess ). I'm guess the Tile tracker is toast from getting wet. I really need to order another one.
Funny you should mention the Bluetooth earphones. I recently ordered a pair, too. I charged them up this morning and when I tried them on I realized the earpieces seemed a bit large. I'm guessing they came with a couple other sizes, too. Luckily the packaging for those are still in the waste basket in my bedroom. I should go and check. Ha
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Post by M in Carolina on Jul 24, 2016 23:16:54 GMT
I threw out a ruby stud earring that dh had given me for our 2nd Christmas together. I had to take them out for an MRI, and the only place to put them was in a tissue.
I threw it out in a trash can at the shopping center. One of them had slid out of the tissue and was still in my pocket, so I was able to set the ruby into a pendant that I still have, 23 years later.
My dh once threw out his retainer in the school cafeteria trash. He had to dig through the worst horrible cafeteria school food to find it.
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Post by pjaye on Jul 24, 2016 23:18:23 GMT
I'm guessing they came with a couple other sizes, too. Luckily the packaging for those are still in the waste basket in my bedroom. I should go and check. Ha Glad I posted then...I saved someone else from making the same mistake! |
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Jul 24, 2016 23:32:51 GMT
My hubby has thrown out gift cards that we received as gifts!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2016 23:38:42 GMT
I once threw out some loose green sapphires my dad had sent me, and DH and I dug through a whole stinky garbage can to find them. I'm beginning to think we may have thrown out our little camera since we cannot find that sucker anywhere.
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Post by quinmm14 on Jul 24, 2016 23:45:03 GMT
We grilled out today, when I was cleaning dishes I asked dh where my leftover chicken was. Yep, in the trash. Needless to say, I left it there.  |
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Post by deekaye on Jul 25, 2016 0:08:54 GMT
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Post by mollycoddle on Jul 25, 2016 0:09:54 GMT
Sadly, it has happened several times.
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Post by Spongemom Scrappants on Jul 25, 2016 0:27:10 GMT
This summer we rented a beach hose in Florida with my husband's aunt and uncle. His aunt alerted me the second morning at the house that she was missing her lower dentures/plates. She had taken them out after dinner the night before as food had become embedded underneath them(?). Unfortunately, I had to tell her the kitchen trash had already been emptied and the trash service had picked up the cans at curbside just about an hour earlier! What timing. She managed without them the whole rest of the week thinking the whole time she had inadvertently thrown them away.
We'd been home almost two weeks when he sheepishly called me one day to admit she'd had them all along. They were in a deep pocket inside her handbag that she thought she'd checked... but obviously not. She had an appointment coming up the very next day to replace them.
So, I suppose that's a tale of something we "thought" was thrown out with the trash, but it was not. Does that count?
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Post by scorpeao on Jul 25, 2016 0:30:23 GMT
My dd was home on leave for two weeks. Before she left her last duty station she was promoted, and she accidentally left the paperwork at home while on leave. I cleaned her room after she left, and when she asked for the paperwork to be sent to her I couldn't find it. She convinced that I threw it out even though I KNEW I didn't. I went through every piece of paper in our FOUL, and I mean FOUL, smelling trash can. Guess where I found the paperwork??? On the scanner.....WHERE SHE LEFT IT!!!!
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Post by Eddie-n-Harley on Jul 25, 2016 0:47:32 GMT
Like your friend's son, I once left my retainer (actually, palate expander) on the tray at McDonald's and it ended up in the trash. Fortunately, we realized it right away and they let us pull the bin out of the cabinet to search, and we found it quickly.
To be fair, though, I was six. My mother probably should have kept a better eye on it.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jul 25, 2016 0:54:12 GMT
I bought an expensive wet and dry electric razor last year. I didn't have room in the bathroom cupboard for the box so I left it on the bathroom floor. DSO thought it was just the empty box so he threw it out. Unfortunately the travel pouch and the bikini trimming attachment were still in the box. By the time I realised, the rubbish had long since been picked up and taken to the tip.
So it's DSO's fault that the lady garden is overgrown.
(I can't really blame DSO because I shouldn't have left the box on the floor.)
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Post by ellen on Jul 25, 2016 0:57:07 GMT
My dogs would agree with your subject header. Yesterday we woke up to coffee grinds and peanut shells all over the kitchen floor. What a mess!
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Post by buddysmom on Jul 25, 2016 1:04:56 GMT
Way long ago we had a pair of binoculars setting on the end of a peninsula in our kitchen.
Directly under it was our waste basket--the kind with a "flipper" lid--it swings back and forth.
Well, one of our cats knocked it over--into the waste basket.
Trash was taken out and it was gone forever.
We realized it after the trash was gone.
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Post by gracieplusthree on Jul 25, 2016 1:38:33 GMT
yep tossed the souvenir my daughter brought me back from Brazil  still heartsick over it.. i went through our trash, went through the bag we had tied up here, and went to the dumpster at the barn in attempt to retrieve other bags that were ours,but the dumpster was empty. it was wrapped in paper and in a little plastic shopping bag on the coffee table. Im thinking it got grabbed up with fast food bags and such and tossed.. |
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Post by pjaye on Jul 25, 2016 1:49:36 GMT
So, I suppose that's a tale of something we "thought" was thrown out with the trash, but it was not. Does that count? Yep - all gross/funny/dumb stories count  |
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Post by scrappysurfer on Jul 25, 2016 1:55:58 GMT
I do the same as deekaye and clean my car while gas is pumping. Once I threw out the prescription medications I had just picked up, including a fresh bottle of painkillers! I drove halfway down the block when I realized my mistake and immediately turned around. Fortunately they were sitting on top of the full garbage can so they were still there. In college I had a Keychain wallet full of ID cards, credit cards, my social security card, cash and all my keys to my dorm, home and car. One night I left it on the cafeteria tray. I realized it within 10 minutes and immediately went back to get it, thinking it should be sitting on the top of the trash can at the end of the conveyer belt. When I asked the cafeteria workers if anyone had seen it, they all said no one had seen it. The trash cans were all still full so there's no way it could have already made it to the dumpster outside, and I dug through the trash in the kitchen and it wasn't there. I'm pretty sure someone stole it right off my tray and lied to my face when I asked for it. Short of searching all the employees, there was nothing I could do. |
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Post by originalvanillabean on Jul 25, 2016 1:56:20 GMT
I don't remember any specific examples, but I can relate to getting out the yellow gloves to fish through the trash, so yes...I've done it too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2016 2:33:44 GMT
Lots of times. Once for my paycheck.
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Post by peasapie on Jul 25, 2016 2:44:12 GMT
Yeah, I did. I threw out an important paper for one of my kids, many years ago. It had all the test prep for a final exam. I went through a week's worth of garbage in the trash can, and of course it was on the bottom. To make matters worse, I got bitten by some kind of worm crawling around rotting meat, and someone later told me that was probably a maggot. Disgusting.
I've thrown out those spare ear buds just like you did. Fortunately I didn't have to comb the trash for them -- but I would have.
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Post by deekaye on Jul 25, 2016 2:49:06 GMT
By the time I realised, the rubbish had long since been picked up and taken to the tip. Little sidetrack here but I love the word "rubbish".... so much classier than "garbage"! But, uh, what is a "tip"? Is that what we call the transfer station? |
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Post by shelby on Jul 25, 2016 3:20:25 GMT
my dh had just got a new pair of glasses. The next day was trash day. WE could hear the garbage truck on the next street over and dh realized we still had some trash that needed to go out. He took his glasses off, stuck them in his pocket and ran out to the curb and bent over to put the trash in the can. The truck pulled up and dh watched them collect the trash. A little while later he reached into his pocket to put his glasses on and they weren't there. He went outside to look for them but was unable to find them and then he knew that they has slipped out of his pocket and into the trash can as he bent over. That was $400 for a one night of wearing.
Our next door neighbors mother asked her if she would pay her rent for her and put $600 on the kitchen bar. They were sitting having a cup of tea and noticed the money was missing. They started looking for it and discovered her two year old son flushing the last $100 bill down the toilet.
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Post by AussieMeg on Jul 25, 2016 4:01:39 GMT
By the time I realised, the rubbish had long since been picked up and taken to the tip. Little sidetrack here but I love the word "rubbish".... so much classier than "garbage"! But, uh, what is a "tip"? Is that what we call the transfer station? I think that's what it must be..... where the rubbish trucks take the rubbish to be dumped! "Transfer Station" sounds ever so fancy LOL! |
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Post by purplebee on Jul 25, 2016 4:08:35 GMT
I'm starting my 17th year a a lunch lady next month.
I've dug lots of interesting things out of the trash for our little darlings - bracelets, rings, plastic food containers from lunch boxes, retainers, and probably a bunch of others that I don't remember!
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Post by cadoodlebug on Jul 25, 2016 4:23:43 GMT
My sister was a real estate agent and about 25 years ago she had a file sitting on her desk that went missing (this was when we had paper files, nothing on computers). She realized it must have gotten knocked into her trash can so she and BIL tracked the office trash to the San Diego dump and actually found the file!! She said the smell and all the gross trash almost did her in.
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Post by Basket1lady on Jul 25, 2016 4:26:32 GMT
I think we have all gone through the trash a time or two in our lives! I volunteer at the high school theatre. During the musical this spring, I had a kid hand me an envelope with $50 cash to order pizzas. I had set it down on the table while we were eating dinner and it went missing. I hadn't been anywhere else since receiving the envelope, so I thought it had been thrown away as the other moms were cleaning up. So I dug through 2 huge barrel trash cans full of 140 plates, drinks, leftover pasta, and salad.  And all for nothing. Someone had thought I had left the cafeteria, picked it up and put it with my stuff backstage. After that, I got serious with my policy not to take money unless I was holding the money folder. Really, I had only myself to blame. I'm all over that theatre and with 140 kids handing in permission forms, show fees, tee shirt fees, meal fees, ticket money... I've always got money to deal with. It makes me paranoid! Normally we ask that the kids pay in checks, but because I was paying the pizza guy directly and not through our school account, I needed cash. |
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. Luckly they were fairly close to the top and hadn't fallen too far down. Unfortunately, they were the only pair I had with me so I cleaned them up as much as I could with hand sanitizer and napkins and had to put them on to drive away. 
still heartsick over it.. i went through our trash, went through the bag we had tied up here, and went to the dumpster at the barn in attempt to retrieve other bags that were ours,but the dumpster was empty. it was wrapped in paper and in a little plastic shopping bag on the coffee table. Im thinking it got grabbed up with fast food bags and such and tossed..
