@b0rk Huh, I had no idea "git stash pop" existed. Not sure if I even realized you could have multiple stashes. Definitely did not realize that "apply" can be repeated.
I kinda use git-stash as a place to put diffs that aren't important enough to go in my long term memory, so I may have lost work to it but only by forgetting that work existed. I can't imagine remembering more than one stash simultaneously.