Marilyn's PHotos - Jan 7 2026 - Don't Toss That Out
We throw things out every day. It is an ordinary activity. Every so often we clean things out and take them to the dump.
We generally know what our own stuff is and isn’t. And then there is another category of things tossed out.. but not for long.
A first-generation Apple computer valued at over $200,000 was dropped off at a recycling center.
A Jackson Pollock painting purchased for $5 at a thrift shop was later authenticated and valued at $50 million.
A winning lottery ticket worth $1 million was found in a trash can outside a convenience store.
A valuable Van Gogh painting was found in a Norwegian man's attic after being lost for over 100 years, initially thought to be a fake print.
A human kidney was once accidentally mistaken for medical waste and tossed out by a nurse.
A prosthetic leg was recovered from a dump after being mistakenly thrown out by a man's wife.
An entire batch of expensive modern art (which included cookies and was meant to make an environmental statement) was thrown away by a cleaning lady who thought it was trash.
In 2014, James Howell was cleaning up his office when he deposited one of twoi dentical hard drives into a trash bag — identical except in that one of them contained his Bitcoin wallet. When he realized he’d thrown away the wrong one, he immediately tracked it down to a landfill owned by the city council, but they won’t let him search it. He’s suing for access, but in the meantime, he’s watched his bitcoin fortune surge to over $600 million that he can’t touch. The next time you’re having a super bad day, just be thankful you’re not that guy.
In 2015, while helping their boss move to a new floor of the New York jewelry store where they worked, some flunkies threw out three beaten-up wooden boxes that turned out to contain $5 million in diamonds. They were found by a building security guard, who turned around and sold several of them to another store in the same building.
Declaration of Independence Copy: A Pennsylvania man bought a painting for a few dollars at a flea market solely because he liked the frame. When he removed the ripped canvas, he found one of the 25 known copies of the Declaration of Independence, printed by John Dunlap on July 4, 1776, tucked behind it. It later sold for $2.48 million at auction.
Fabergé Egg: An unsuspecting buyer purchased a rare Fabergé egg at a flea market for a small sum, intending to sell the accompanying gold for scrap. It was later identified as a missing Imperial Fabergé egg that once belonged to the Emperor of Russia and had been missing since 1902. It was valued at an astonishing $33 million.
This is a picture of our garbage container - it is done with multiple images in camera.
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