Losing your first cube

I'll play the bump game! My first cube was a Rubik's brand that I used a Dremel on for the edges + corners and lubed with Traxxas circa 2008. I left it at my mom's house after finding better cubes many years ago. She casually solved it a few times and put in storage. I thought it was lost but I recently found it in the basement in storage!
 
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My first cube was a trash dollar store kind, it was really clunky, light and experienced frequent lock ups. Nevertheless I learned how to solve half of the cube with it.
I forgot about cubing for a while until Christmas, when I got a Rubik’s Brand, which I learnt to solve the cube completely with. The dollar store cube was disassembled at the time... And I was assembling it (painstakingly), when it fell apart EVERYWHERE onto the carpet floor.
I was like, hey I have a better cube now and I can’t be bothered to do this all over again. So I threw it away. RIp
 
I should ask my parents to ask their friends if they have a Rubik's Cube that could be mine. The chances of finding it are slim though. I don't even remember the parent's friend name because I didnt pay attention to the name and just went along when my parents had their dinner party with their friends.
It might be at my cousin's house too. Many years ago he and I would have "Cube Meetings" where we would discuss our puzzles. I can't remember more than that. He had a Mirror blocks cube which I always wanted and a Rubik's Icon Cube which is a stickermod with grayscale stickers. I don't think he cares about twisty puzzles now.

Actually I lost more cubes when I hastily moved out of my apartment when the pandemic meant everyone took classes online instead of on campus. I lost a Meilong, Kylin v2, Cross X-cube, and rediminx. I found my mains like my GTS2M so those were taken home. The one I care the most about was the X cube because that was a Secret Santa gift from a friend. However I think they were in a box in the apartment lounge so someone else has them in storage and can make good use of them.
 
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The GAN SM wasn't my first cube, but it was the one I appreciated the most. I had so many good memories with it, including the time when I met my first cubing friend at school, and using that cube at my 1st competition. I really enjoyed it. Then I went to comp one day (the last one I've been to), and I pulled out some of my collection (which obviously caught the attention of some). My family went to go get lunch, and then I went on to compete for some event like pyraminx or 2x2. When I came back, I looked for the SM in order to practice for round 2. And I looked, and I looked, but it was lost. To me, it was too much of a coincidence that it got lost right after my family left and after I wasn't guarding my cubes. I ended up trading a 9x9 and a mirror for like a GAN Air S which I didn't quite like, but it was the only thing I had back then to compete. I still have it (stored in my drawer), but I still miss my SM :(.
 
rubik2005 said:
The GAN SM wasn't my first cube, but it was the one I appreciated the most. I had so many good memories with it, including the time when I met my first cubing friend at school, and using that cube at my 1st competition. I really enjoyed it. Then I went to comp one day (the last one I've been to), and I pulled out some of my collection (which obviously caught the attention of some). My family went to go get lunch, and then I went on to compete for some event like pyraminx or 2x2. When I came back, I looked for the SM in order to practice for round 2. And I looked, and I looked, but it was lost. To me, it was too much of a coincidence that it got lost right after my family left and after I wasn't guarding my cubes. I ended up trading a 9x9 and a mirror for like a GAN Air S which I didn't quite like, but it was the only thing I had back then to compete. I still have it (stored in my drawer), but I still miss my SM :(.
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That's really annoying. It must have been one of the 1% of the cubing population that aren't honest people
 
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