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I am a huge comic book nerd, since i was a kid i have collected them. If i had every single comic i had as a kick my collection would be as many as 500 comics. I just realised that my mum has thrown away my old collection of about 200 single issue comics and my trades took a huge hit. It seems keeping them on my bookshelf is not a suitable place for them...

Here's some of the comics that are missing

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Wildcats gone, a few of the Batmans gone, the Nightwing gone, Daredevil by David Mack gone, Gotham Central probably thrown away too, Man without Fear gone which pissed me off cos i met John romtia Jr. Preacher 3-10. So so so much shit. Oh and a copy of Super Mario Sunshine signed by Charles Martinet. Ahhhh, i think at this point i have to dump my shit off to my friends for safe keeping. I won about 300 comics now and i keep them in a suitcase and i keep track of them freqeuntly.
 
My mum won a BMW Mini in a tin of dog food (the prize was printed on the underside of the lid).

She threw the can away thinking it was a scam or something. It wasn't. She spent the next day searching through bin bags at the local dump without any luck.
 
Ghostbuster building complete with ecto 1 and all the ghostbusters and slimer.

I was so pissed off. Still pretty steamed now that I think about it.
 
That sucks, that 1602 series was good, too.

Comic books for me as well. Nothing too valuable, but a milk crate full of them from when I was a kid. They would have held a sentimental value, but not much more.

Oh yeah, all my He-Man figures. I had a bunch, too, including Castle Grey Skull and Snake Mountain.
 
Not thrown away, but sold (probably for $1-5) at a yard sale G1 Optimus Prime and Jetfire complete in box while I was away at school. :(
 
Sealed Marvel vs Capcom 2 and Shenmue 2 for dreamcast. Don't know if those have any real value but i wanted to keep em.
 
when i was about seven years old, my parents threw away my perfectly good nikes. i remember getting so upset i ended up making them call the garbage disposal company, lol.
 
Starwars comics from #1 to #128. All in individual plastics sleeves and tucked away in a perfect sized box.

It was the first and only time my mother decided to enter my room and clean it, but without even cleaning it. She just chucked some shit out that she thought I didn't want; that was put away nice and tidy.

It was during the summer too and she put them out the back, where it was raining on that particular day, so they were ruined. They would have been fine if it didn't rain.

Fucking devistated.

EDIt - there was old Dandy, Beano and other comics too. No idea if they were worth anything at the time.
 
i don't remember any stories involving my mom but my uncle threw away my nes collection that i was building up with my cousin. i wasn't very happy when i found out.
 
My mum threw away a bag of about 15 transformers when I was around 12. I vaguely remember packing all of them into a single bag when I was 11, only to discover at 12 that she had threw away the whole bag because she thought I didn't want them anymore :(

Also my Dragon Ball trading card collection (granted, it wasn't many).
 
My mom got pissed at me one time and threw away hundreds and hundreds of my comics. She took them out and threw them in the trash can and for some reason I didn't go out and get them. I was kind of a piece of shit way back then and I really can't think of why I didn't go out and get them all out of the trash.
I get sad thinking about so many of them being gone every now and then.
 
All issues of EGM, Nintendo Power, GamePro, GameFan, Game Players and Ultra Game Players from about 1988-1998.

What I wouldn't give to look back on some of those nowadays.
 
My mom once threw away my PS3 controllers (2 of them)...supposedly by accident :/

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a buttload of gaming magazines & comics too
 
I had an awesome Commodore Amiga monitor with RGB that I used to use older consoles on. Everything looked great on it. I went to live overseas for a few years, and when I came back in 2008, I found out that my parents took it -and several other SDTVs I had- and got rid of them.

In 1993 my father and my older brother took our NES and 50+ games collection and sold it off because we'd gotten a Super Nintendo in fall 1992. I played the NES all the time but my brother convinced my father to sell it off to some shitty mail order/trade-in store listed in the back of a video game magazine. They got a pathetic amount of money back, which was used to buy SF2 Turbo.

In 1992 we got the SNES after my father took our Apple IIgs and sold it in a garage sale. He didn't care as he'd upgraded to a Mac, but that computer had a bunch of great games and I really wanted to keep it.
 
The most valuable thing (monetarily) I ever had thrown away was an almost complete set of Mego toys: Star Trek figures, Marvel figures, the Star Trek bridge playset. If you believe the hype, those toys probably would have sold for hundreds of dollars. But that's just stuff ...

The most important thing my mother threw away was a complete set of Xbox Nation magazines. Now I'd written for plenty of magazines, but I'd been with Xbox Nation from its first issue, and those things were special. I won't ever be able to replace those issues, I don't think.
 
Bleepey said:
I am a huge comic book nerd, since i was a kid i have collected them. If i had every single comic i had as a kick my collection would be as many as 500 comics. I just realised that my mum has thrown away my old collection of about 200 single issue comics and my trades took a huge hit. It seems keeping them on my bookshelf is not a suitable place for them...

Here's some of the comics that are missing

comics1.jpg


Wildcats gone, a few of the Batmans gone, the Nightwing gone, Daredevil by David Mack gone, Gotham Central probably thrown away too, Man without Fear gone which pissed me off cos i met John romtia Jr. Preacher 3-10. So so so much shit. Oh and a copy of Super Mario Sunshine signed by Charles Martinet. Ahhhh, i think at this point i have to dump my shit off to my friends for safe keeping. I won about 300 comics now and i keep them in a suitcase and i keep track of them freqeuntly.
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Nightmare fuel.
 
A cat. We had moved from a fairly rural area, where the cat was free to run rampant, to the suburbs, and apparently cats aren't supposed to kill a couple birds a day(and bring them home as gifts mind you).

About the only good thing to come of it was that the family who adopted it had a huge farm with lots of room to roam.
 
A Diamond Back BMX bike.

It was given to me by a friend when I was a teenager. One day the crank snapped, so I walked back home with the bike and put it in the shed. As I had another bike and I didn't have the money to get a new crank, I was in no real rush to fix it, but about 3-4 weeks later I opened the shed and the bike was gone. My mum had cleaned the shed out and had taken the bike to the local tip.

I was really fucking pissed off, cos the bike was clearly in top condition other than the snapped crank, so it's not like she threw away some rusty old piece of shit - but even so, she should have asked me first.
 
My mom threw away my blanket that she made when I was an infant. It was sky blue and white and I still used it, sort as a pillow. I came back home from college and it was gone.

Fucking worst day of my life.
 
1. All of my N64 game cases.

2. Medical pamphlet we got in the mail back in like 1993 that had a gross looking illustration on the front that I really liked. I asked my mom what happened to it, but she said she didn't know. It was only later in life I realized what had truly transpired that day.
 
Speedymanic said:
Ghostbuster building complete with ecto 1 and all the ghostbusters and slimer.

I was so pissed off. Still pretty steamed now that I think about it.
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I still have mine! (since it was in my bedroom closet and my mom never cleaned it out)

Ninja Turtles on the other hand... :(

at least they went to goodwill or a place like it, but I still kind of wish I had Rafael and Michelangelo
 
Bleepey said:
I am a huge comic book nerd, since i was a kid i have collected them. If i had every single comic i had as a kick my collection would be as many as 500 comics. I just realised that my mum has thrown away my old collection of about 200 single issue comics and my trades took a huge hit. It seems keeping them on my bookshelf is not a suitable place for them...
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Jesus christ. Did the jury acquit you or what?
 
Im the opposite. I have trouble throwing shit from when I was a young kid out because my mother wants to keep it or something.
 
Man, you people have horrible parents. My mum knew full well that if she had binned my comics there would have been a nuclear meltdown strop coming her way. Which is probably why I'm a semi-hoarder now...

The worst thing I lost due to her was a ninja star that I found in a bush when I was young. Granted, a seven year old probably shouldn't have a razor sharp ninja star, but it was so cool and I was so gutted when I realised she had thrown it away.
 
Shadybiz said:
That sucks, that 1602 series was good, too.

Comic books for me as well. Nothing too valuable, but a milk crate full of them from when I was a kid. They would have held a sentimental value, but not much more.

Oh yeah, all my He-Man figures. I had a bunch, too, including Castle Grey Skull and Snake Mountain.
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I still have the 1602, thank goodness. That shit was sooo good and i am not a Neil gaiman fan. But here was my initial haul of comics from library clearouts.

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After i lost a lot of my comics i catalogued them and here is my collection.

http://tinyurl.com/Myowncomics
 
My threw this out
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I came back home one day to find out my thundercats lair was thrown out, I still had the box too, it use to hold my other toys...
 
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