Have you ever sold something and regretted it immensely?

[Gravitycollapse]

I sold my beautiful bicycle about 3 years ago after I got a motorcycle. I've spent the last 3 years trying to hunt it down or find the same model for sale. This is going to follow me to my grave.

[Art_from_Ark]

1. I once bought a beautiful $2.50 gold piece

It looked like it might have been a presentation piece. I paid $125 for it at the time, and sold it a couple of weeks later for $135. I thought I was doing great with that sale. But, as it turns out, that gold piece is probably worth thousands of dollars today because of its condition

[elleng]

2. I don't recall selling something,

but I regret letting my cousin borrow my 'complete Beethoven' album(s.) He never returned them/it.

[madamesilverspurs]

3. Sold my Wurlitzer organ,

used the money for a downpayment on a car that broke down within a couple of months. Got better mileage out of the Wurlitzer.

[Doc_Technical]

4. Yamaha SR500

n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. Some of my vintage guitars from the early 60s

including a Gibson ES 335 and Les Paul Jr., Epiphone Broadway, and pre-CBS Fender Stratocaster and Telecaster. I also regret selling the Marshall 100 Watt stack I bought in London, England in the late 60s. I also really miss the wonderful 1962 Jaguar Mark II I sold, the most beautiful car I ever owned. I had to come up with money for law school. Unfortunately, I learned that with regard to guitars and cars, they just don't make them like they used to and you just can't replace them with modern equivalents, as there are none.

[Byronic]

6. A Jag Mk II!

What a wonderful, wonderful, vehicle. The absolute top of the tree for me. Such style and elegance. Watching episodes of Inspector Morse must make you ache with loss!

[Shankapotomus]

7. I once gave the last cookie

from a bag of Chips Ahoy to someone. But I really wanted it. Haunts me to this day.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. Yeah, I can see

how that would be a traumatic experience

[anasv]

9. my first house, a little bungalow.

Not only was I an idiot for selling it, but the new owners tore it down.

[loli phabay]

10. some land i owned, only now do i think it was a mistake due to my kids not having it to catch brown

trout or hunt rabbits on it as i did when i was young. its silly really as its to far to travel to anyway but the thought is still there.

[Paladin]

11. Martin D-28 six-string.

Wish I'd done more with it, taken lessons, etc.

[panader0]

13. My Fender twin reverb, my Gibson LGO, and every other piece of

musical equipment I sold. And a '53 Ford. I did hang on to my '39 Martin 0017 tho...

[Paladin]

15. That '39 Martin ought to be worth some serious bucks.

Glad to hear you hung on to it.

[pipi_k]

12. Didn't actually sell it...

I gave it away to my son's ex girlfriend back in 1995...a beautiful silver and turquoise squash blossom necklace and earring set. It had been a gift from an ex boyfriend and I didn't want to just throw it out. I thought my son and his gf would get married someday, so...

anyway, they broke up a few years later and while I see her on occasion, and we're Facebook friends, I'm still sort of sorry I didn't keep it.


What I regret being a part of selling...hubby's authentic Henry rifle used by his g.g.g. uncle in the Civil War. Complete with documentation and everything. We have a replica hanging on the wall now, but of course, it just doesn't hold the same sense of History...

[cyberswede]

14. Someone else sold something I didn't want to sell

I sent a series of art garments to a gallery exhibit in another state when I was in college, and the one piece I specifically told them wasn't for sale was sold.

I got the money, but I would prefer to have the piece.

[Raffi Ella]

17. That really is a beautiful bike.

I can't think of anything I regret selling or giving away. I can think of some things I regret not buying.

[spinbaby]

18. A pair of shoes

Donated them to the Goodwill. They were great shoes, bought in Germany, made of butter-soft leather, but they were too snug, so I donated them. Then I lost a lot of weight and--guess what--your feet lose weight, too. I would love to have those German shoes back.

[frogmarch]

19. My childhood cello so that

I could donate to the John Edwards pres campaign.

[Walk away]

27. That's terrible!

I feel really bad for you. Maybe some child is making beautiful music with it.

[Common Sense Party]

20. Sort of. I put my vinyl Lps in a garage sale several years back, seeing how many would sell

at 50 cents to $1 a piece.

Some guy came along and offered my wife $10 for the whole lot. She took it. That was a huge steal.

Now I wish I had them all back.

[Earth_First]

21. Sold a concert print, well traded it for concert tickets a few years later...

However I haven't been able to find another one in years.

The two that have come up for sale are well outside of my price point.

[Tom Ripley]

22. My birthright for some pretty shitty bean soup

What was I thinking?

[TrogL]

23. Original Korg MS-20

I've found a use for it and they guy who I sold it to hasn't paid for it.

[OriginalGeek]

24. 1968 Pontiac Firebird

It was my first car. Bought the body when I was 15 for 250 bucks and an engine for another 250 and worked on restoring it until I got my license. It was in running condition when, a week after I got my drivers license I got drunk and ran it into a telephone pole.

It was fixable but more than I could handle at the time so I sold it to a guy for enough to get me a 71 Plymouth Fury III. I wasn't allowed to go anywhere in the Fury but school and work.

I should have kept the Firebird and fixed it.


On the plus side I've never driven drunk in the 33 years since.

[davidpdx]

25. My grandfather gave my mom a handmade rug

and it was passed to me. I ran into hard times and had to sell it. I didn't get anything near what it was worth.

[liberal N proud]

26. 1973 Plymouth

[BarbaRosa]

28. BMW R100RS

sigh