I did horribly on a test in high school once and went through my closet throwing out most of my favorite toys, in particular things from Nintendo:

All my pokemon cards (I had a few pages of some pretty rare ones)

My GBA (the thing I learned programming on)

About two trash bags full of other various things including SNES games

Often I regret throwing out the Pokemon cards, lots of people I met in college loved the game and I feel like that could have scored me a bit of reputation (but maybe that's a childish thought.) Then again, maybe if I didn't have that kind of attitude I wouldn't have made it to college at all.