I just did a

                                   rm *

  in  my  home  directory.  By  accident,  of  course.  Sooner or later,
  everyone does this.

  Luckily, not much was lost. In fact, I only lost some unimportant text
  files  (I  have backups of those) and a bunch of screenshots. It's sad
  that those screenshots are gone because some of them were  quite  old.
  On the other hand, I always wanted to clean them up...