What relics are you talking about?
One time (yesterday), I tried to take out some of the palladium and heartshaped pink diamonds from a treasure chest that my sim has at home, and I couldn't take them all (from the little blue triangle button). I took them out 1 by 1 until only one remained in the chest (the one that was stuck). I then put all of the others back in, and it was now possible to pull them all together from the blue triangle button.