Did anyone ever throw away something that meant a lot to you?

[sage2021]

And these people don't even ask! They just throw away stuff that isn't even theirs.
I went to a Santana concert at the Filmore West in San Francisco, Ca when I was 15.
I had the biggest crush on the drummer Mike Shrieve. During the concert I started crying because I literally was shoved into the front stage and started crying because it hurt my chest.
So, Mike Shrieve, being the cool guy that he is, left his drum set, got his big cup of coke and walked across the stage and handed it to me to keep. I think he said I hope you feel better.
Of course I saved the cup and put in my room. I came home from school and found it gone! My Mom crumpled it up and threw it in the trash. I was Soo mad at her.
Santana Rocks!!

[FunkyMonkee]

I COULD TELL YOU STORIES!!
Mom did the same to me SEVERAL times!! I bought the Alice Cooper album, "School's Out" as soon as it came out. Inside the cover was a pair of panties made of paper towels (Brawny or Bounty, I'm not sure which) wrapped around the record. These were soon banned because some people were wearing them and, as they were made of paper, they could easily catch fire and burn the wearer. So, not wanting mine to get ruined, because I know a lot about collectibles, I kept them in one of my smaller dresser drawers. Around the same time, they were giving away free magazines all about the Woodstock concert and, of course, there were a few nude shots in it! I grabbed two copies and put those in the same drawer. One day, I went to school and, while I was there, mom decided to ransack my room and throw out anything she didn't want me to have and anything she deemed profane!! I lost the panties and the magazines! I think I just saw one of the mags a few years ago (I'm not 100% sure it's the same mag) and it was being sold for $50!! Thanks, mom!! You just threw away $100!! No idea how much the panties would be worth, now but, thankfully, I managed to find another copy of the album about 15 years ago with the panties in it!
I have a picture of me when I was 2 years old holding my first record, a woman singing and telling a story about a sleepyhead squirrel, which was a Christmas present. Not very long after I got it, it vanished, along with a couple kids albums I used to play the hell out of! One was a bunch of songs that kids at a birthday party could sing or play Musical Chairs with, another was an album of 4 Popeye cartoons, another was an album of 4 Hanna-Barbera cartoons. I still have the cover for that one but I haven't seen either album since I was about 7.
One night, we were playing a gig in Youngstown. When we left here to go there, it was so nice out, I never bothered to take a coat, even though it was at least fall or early winter. After the show it was a bit nippy so, one of my fans gave me the shirt off his back to wear home. I kept that shirt in my dresser for years. Along with an Air Force shirt that I bought years before that and wrote my band's name in a logo I designed on the back and another shirt my guitarist gave me. Years later, they all vanished!! Most likely, while I was at work or in college.
Near the end of mom's life, about 7 years ago, she was wheelchair bound and I was taking care of her until I had a very bad bout with back trouble! So, one of my ex-sisters came up to "help" and, while the two of us were laid up in the living room, that fucking cunt decided to clean out the fridge! She threw away at least a couple hundred dollars of perfectly good food, some of which I JUST bought 2 or 3 days before!! HOW she and her hubby got those huge bags out to the garbage, I don't know because, as strong as I was from drumming all my life, I could barely get it out of the can to retrieve anything that was still edible!!
4 years ago, my evil, greedy ex-sisters had me kicked out of my own house and, even though I spent at least 3 weeks trying to get all of my stuff out of there, including a solid 3 days in a row without any sleep!! I got out as much as I could but there was still loads of other stuff in there that I wanted to get out! I was PROMISED that I'd have another chance to get the rest out and would be told when that is. After a few months with no word, I get a call from my ex-neighbor telling me that there's guys in trucks going in and out of the house and throwing everything away!! I lost my computer desk, my brother's very expensive stereo, dad's stereo, at least 4000 records, hundreds of books, quite a few of them very collectible, band memorabilia I'd been saving for 25 years to be included in the book I'm planning to write about my years in the band, hundreds of other collectibles and old toys, a huge stack of my Mad magazine collection, ALL of my National Lampoon collection and dad's huge Playboy collection! Basically, my whole fucking life!! Things I will NEVER see again!! To get SOME of it back, I'd have to spend a small fortune!! I'd guess that stuff would all be worth a few million dollars!!
And, I could probably come up with more incidents!!

[FunkyMonkee]

One item I forgot, one night, I was running sound for Julian Lennon and, he left this huge bottle of water on the stage after he left. So, I grabbed it and took it home with me. Possibly the closest I'll ever get to Beatle memorabilia that someone very closely related to them actually used! I had to walk home, that night, about 8 miles, and was very careful not to smudge any of his fingerprints from the outside of the bottle. I left it on my dresser (the same one mom stole those clothes out of) for at least a decade! When I was kicked out of my house, I wasn't allowed to grab that, either!

[sage2021]

@FunkyMonkee
I swear, I would have called the cops on them for stealing your stuff. I would have started with the cops for documentation purposes. Then I would have started a civil lawsuit against them. What arseholes!
Are you sure they didn't know my Mom? Man. Maybe it's not too late to sue them. Wouldn't that be cool? 😎💰

[FunkyMonkee]

I'm hoping to sue the lot of them!! Do I need to worry about the statute of limitations on this? It was nearly 5 years ago, now.
One of the people that did this to me was a kid I went to high school with and I THOUGHT we were always good friends! I even treated him that way the first time or two that he came to my house 4 years ago until we were in court and that motherfucker stabbed me in the back!! As he's retirement age, now, I'm hoping that, if I CAN sue his snakey ass and it'll SERIOUSLY put a crimp in his retirement plans!! Sorry, Artie! You fucked me over so, now, I'm gonna fuck YOU over!! Same goes for those two evil cunts!! AND the one's hubby!!
I was at work one day about 5 years ago and, when I came back home, I noticed that a number of things had been stolen from the house!! AND, they left a number of righteous messes everywhere!! I called the cops and reported it but, of course, nothing was done about it!! It was DEFINITELY her and her hubby!! They're both such good holy rollers and walk around with a bible in their hand everywhere they go and he fancies himself to be a preacher!!

[FunkyMonkee]

And HE was a good friend of mine, too, until he married my ex-sister!!

[FunkyMonkee]

Around 1981, my guitarist gave me his entire collection of Rolling Stone magazine, from the very first one up to at least the mid to late `70's! I never even got the chance to look through them! I temporarily kept them in a portion of the basement that was never used. One day, I went down to get them and they were all gone!! Dad cleared that area out to build some kind of shelves along that wall which my brother cluttered up with all kinds of absurd garbage that HE dragged into the house!! Absolutely worthless shit that was still there when I was being kicked out!!
A few years before dad died 18 years ago, I came into a huge load of records, 45's. I kept them in that same space in the basement. They were all in nicely packed cardboard boxes and didn't even take up more than about a dozen cubic feet of space! One day, dad threw them all in the garbage!! I found out and went out to get them and took them back into that same spot. A few months later, he did it again!! This time, I put them into the back cellar near his Playboy collection! He threw them out again!! I put them back into the back cellar and he died a few months later. I lost them for good when I was kicked out 4 years ago.
About 20 years ago, there was a video production company in a house 2 blocks down the street from us and they were moving out and tearing the house down so, I went down to see if there was anything worth taking. I found a few video tapes a couple barn doors (used for lighting in video and movie production, etc.) and a metal box that can be used to install electronic gizmos into so they're not strewn all over the place, they're screwed into the box with what's called, "elephant ears". I can't think of the correct name for this box to save my life!! But, I was gonna use it (and the barn doors) with my band so I could put the brains from my Simmons drums into that box. That way, I could just carry the box with both brains attached to it instead of carrying each one separately.

[FunkyMonkee]

The box protects them and they don't get bounced around against each other The box was only about 18" x 8" x 10"!! The box had slots for at least 5 gizmos. Until I could get my Simmons drums worked into my stage set, I was just keeping the box in the garage in an out of the way corner. One day, mom or dad threw that box into the garbage!! The barn doors, too! Just those few things might cost over $100 if I was to buy them brand new!! Again, I pulled them out of the garbage and put them back into the garage! Again, they got tossed into the garbage and I never saw them again!! Not long after that, my ex-sister's in-laws decided to clean out THEIR garage so, my brother went to their house and toted ALL of their worthless shit back to our house and loaded up the screen house with it!! We USED to be able to sit out there and play cards and eat instead of soaking the kitchen after getting out of the pool and dealing with the bugs! It took us several weeks to build it! Once my brother loaded it with his garbage, it was completely ruined!! HUGE oil stains on the carpet!! And you couldn't even MOVE in there, anymore but, as LONG AS IT WAS BOBBY'S GARBAGE, it could say, no matter how much of it there was!! But, if I brought home a little box that I fully intended to actually use, OUT IT WENT!!
So, we built a small "barn" in the yard next to the pool where we could eat and hang out and he loaded THAT up with his shit, too!!

[exitseven]

@FunkyMonkee I would like to know just how those paper panties would catch fire? Friction?

[FunkyMonkee]

@exitseven I have no idea but I heard that some caught fire while someone was wearing them. Maybe they cut a taco fart and the sparks set it ablaze.

[exitseven]

Tacos hahaha

[exitseven]

I had a pretty big comic book collection. I had the first X-men and the first Daredevil. I had the issue of the Flash that had the golden age Flash in it. Also the issues ff the Fantastic Four that has first appearances of the Black Panther and Silver Surfer. I had the issue of the Avengers when they fished Captain America out of the ocean. They were not in plastic bags but were in good condition. There were hundreds of them. When I went away to college my mother threw them in the trash. If I still had them I would be retired now.

[sage2021]

@exitseven
What's up with these mother's that can't ask first before the throw away their children's stuff. See, that's why I never did that and I respected people's property and I am not a snoop. You can ask me to house sit for you and I wouldn't go through your stuff. Probably sit quietly and watch TV like I do at home. I'm just not into that, never have been. I have never gone through the wallet of any guy I have been with, nor was I tempted.

[exitseven]

My mother was the opposite of hoarder. I had all these comic books stored neatly in its own book case. Years later i had a bunch of stuff stored in the attic. All my stuff from college, a high school science fair project where i won second place , my toboggan and a set of snowtires used only one winter. She hired somebody to take it all away. She could not stand knowing all that stuff was up in the attic out of the way and out of sight.
I loved my mother but she was hard to deal with sometimes.

[exitseven]

Thanks for the MHO😎

[Lliam]

My mom was like that, too. She would wait until I wasn't around and then go in and clean my room. By the way, I wasn't a slob who left clothes and things scattered all over the floor.
She was basically going through my things.
When something disappeared and I told her to leave my stuff alone, she would act like she was innocent and I was hurting her feelings. It was like a form of gas lighting that literally made me crazy.
I HATE it when people touch my stuff!

[sage2021]

@Lliam
I am like you are. I hate it too when people touch my stuff or use it without asking and not returning it where they found it.
The guy that was living with me got into all of my things. Every single inch of all my stuff. He broke a lot of things too. Namely my cellphone when he first moved in.
He did all this while I was sleeping. He has boxes of my stuff and I have no idea what's in them. The first day he was here he threw out my kitchen sink strainer and this thing to help me open up jars and bottles - in the trash it went. He was like having a ferrel cat!

[FunkyMonkee]

Same here! To the layman, my room was a huge mess but, it was actually organized chaos! If I wanted something, even if I haven't seen it in decades, I could go right to where it was and pull it out in a minute or two! But, if someone else comes in and starts moving things around, I might have to hunt for them, after that!

[Likes2drive]

Yeah parents don’t realize the sentimental value to our things, I know some of my stuff went missing as a kid and I lost some stuff I liked during a move to one house to another

[sage2021]

@Likes2drive

It was that day when I swore to myself if I ever had children, I wouldn't snoop through their room and keep it private just for his eyes only. How many times I begged that woman to leave my stuff alone and stay out of my room.
At least it taught me that if I didn't want my kids to hate me, I had to give them their privacy and stay out of their room.
Sorry you had some of your belongings tossed out. It's just not right.

[Likes2drive]

Did you ever have kids? I have 3 daughters but they never got sentimental about anything that I know of , just pictures of the dogs they grew up with and my stepsons didn’t really care about anything either, only some kids are like that I guess

[sage2021]

@Likes2drive
Yes, I have one son. He us 45 now.

[Likes2drive]

I bet you two are close, my stepson is 35 and getting married again in January to his new fiancé. I sometimes wonder if I should do it a second time

[Jamie05rhs]

Mike is an awesome guy! That was really cool of him to do that!

And your mom was a jerk.

[sage2021]

@Hamie05rhs
Don't tell anyone, but I still have a crush on him 🤭.
Every once in a while I pull up his drum solo at Woodstock on YouTube. It's great to see and hear. He was 19 when he joined Santana and I think 19 or 20 when he played at Woodstock in New York.
My high school heart throb! ❤️

[sage2021]

@Jamie05rhs
Oops. I misspelled your username. I replied to your reply to me.

[Jamie05rhs]

@sage2021 Aww. That's adorable! 😍

[FunkyMonkee]

From what I was always told, he was only 17 at Woodstock. He was the youngest performer on that stage.
If I remember correctly, my recording of that solo is longer than the one on the album. I have THE ENTIRE concert!! If I recall from my list (I just saw it, yesterday), it'd take just over 43 hours to play it all.

[Jamie05rhs]

@FunkyMonkee Wow! That's incredible!

What did you record it with?

[FunkyMonkee]

Some of it's from the albums, most of it's from the recent CD's or downloads, some is from the various DVDs, some came from a website years ago where we were trying to put the entire concert together. Back then, there was only about 10 to 15 hours worth and a LOT was missing. A few years ago Andy Zaks remastered (supposedly) all of the recordings made during the performance and they were released as a 38 CD set of (supposedly) the entire concert about 3 or 4 years ago but, after getting all of those recordings and matching those I had with the ones he released, I've found there were a number of bits and pieces still missing from his set that I've had for years so, why he didn't put those in, I don't know. His version of the Jimi performance is nearly an hour shorter than mine! Something to do with Jimi's estate not allowing some of the tracks to be released.
He was missing a little bit of The Who, a very short clip of Santana (that was the strangest of all! It was only 2 seconds long so, why bother to cut it?), some of Melanie, at least one full verse of Richie Havens and few other short bits that I've never been able to understand why they were cut from the supposed FULL version of the concert! No way in hell did it have anything to do with trying to fit everything on each of the CD's! There was TONS of space on each of them!
I've also got a few hours of incidental stuff that he doesn't have. It's pretty cool getting to hear these! It's like you're listening to a piece of history nobody else has access to! It's sort of like how; if you just happened to be in the room with a tape recorder at the last supper and only you have the recordings of what actually happened. Sort of a fly on the wall aspect of what went on. Granted, some of it's kind of boring but, it still puts you on the site even better than the recordings of the show, itself does.

[eagle1951]

yeah