Things you heard that make you say WTF

That sucks, bro.

I would've shite a brick.

I did since I was such in shock

Would have been worth so much money

You need to send her packing to the nursing home, man.

That's the only option.

My grandpa was an avid baseball card and comic book collector as a kid throughout the late 30s and 40s. Supposedly had a pretty fantastic collection that his mother threw out after he went off to Korea, right after his father died. Thankfully my grandpa is too old and has gone threw too much to remember what exactly he had which kind of removes the sting...

My family also used to have annual passes to The Masters throughout the 60s, 70s, and 80s (still have all the badges and autographs from Palmer, Nicklaus, Zoeller, etc). We lost them in the early 90s when my great grandmother (suffering from dementia) threw out the renewal papers for the passes as junk mail after my great grandfather had passed.

If you sense a theme developing, I've already taken stock of every valuable and potential valuable of both my father and grandfather so that if/when they pass away, the same mistake is not made a 3rd time

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Hearing that your grandmother accidentally threw out your dad's childhood baseball cards that included Mickey Mantle, Lou Gehrig, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, etc

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i havent thought of this in over 20 years but I hated my grandmother for a few minutes when my dad told me this story. Thing is, she burned them and it wasnt no accident

kind of comforts me to hear that my grandmother wasnt the only one who destroyed legendary BB cards.

On a semi-related note, not long after i finished up school i was helping my mother clean her house. my parents are hoarders and she had me using my truck to take a bunch of stuff to the landfill.

When i got there as i was throwing stuff in the dumpster i noticed some old magazines. They were my dads old playboys. One of the first ones i noticed was a 1978 original farrah fawcet cover.

She had already been diagnosed with cancer at the time so i figured it was just a matter of time and this would be worth some money in the not-so-distant future. she died about 2 weeks later.

Transgender bathrooms.

When my dad cleaned out my grandfather's barn/shop, he threw out unopened shop manuals on P-40 and P-51s. Still in the wax paper and twine.

I've heard $25k a set.

Would have been great to have them to sale for school or whatever or just keep