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lorich
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Grammie says "Lora Gina"
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Anyone finding little "things" in their new home...
This weekend we did a LOT of work in our home. Tons of new fixtures, fixing the electricity...you name it.
While doing this we tour up a lot of plywood in the attic to get access to the wires, etc. We kept finding odd pictures, books, even some creepy looking teddy bear under the boards.
We even took a wall down in the kitchen and found a new years eve card from 1986 and some school bulletin from 1981.
We're still hoping to find some treasure of some sorts....money...besides the penny we found... 
Anyone find anything while doing repairs, demo?
Message edited 5/7/2007 12:14:41 PM.
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PotofLuck06
Our Baby Boy Is Here!!!
Member since 11/06 13241 total posts
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Betsy
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Re: Anyone finding little "things" in their new home...
Sadly no, but we haven't ventured into the attic.
The outside, though, we found tons of crap, prob just dog toys that had bitten the dust though.
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| Posted 5/7/07 12:25 PM |
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joenick
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Valerie...aka...Do Me A Favor?
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Re: Anyone finding little "things" in their new home...
I never found anything in my house. Though, if anyone ever takes down the walls in my family room, they will find our names and my son's name (the little guy wasn't born yet), on the studs (when the walls were down before our remodel). We also included the date and a picture drawn by my son. So cute!!
My parents found a huge jug of pennies in their crawlspace in Queens when they first moved there in 1975. Cool!
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| Posted 5/7/07 12:36 PM |
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Kissy331
My two miracles!
Member since 5/06 17826 total posts
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Kristen
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Re: Anyone finding little "things" in their new home...
Not so much inside but outside, that was another story. When we started to rake out the side of our house, we found pieces of carpet, posters, clothings, walkman, shoes...It was disgusting!!! 
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| Posted 5/7/07 12:45 PM |
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Stefanie
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Stefanie
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Re: Anyone finding little "things" in their new home...
When we were raking we found the head of a hammer in the lawn. We found comforters in the loft of the garage. I don't even know what's in the shed because it's so packed with crap.
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| Posted 5/7/07 12:52 PM |
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danielleandscott
My new 71 Super Beetle
Member since 5/05 13476 total posts
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Scott
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Re: Anyone finding little "things" in their new home...
When taking out the ceiling in the kitchen to run pipes for our new washer and dryer, the contractor found a check from 1966 from the the original owners of the house and also a driving map from the 60's
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| Posted 5/7/07 1:09 PM |
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MegZee
My bunny
Member since 5/06 8777 total posts
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Meaghan
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Re: Anyone finding little "things" in their new home...
When we redid the kitchen, we found a picture of the owners wife eating some kind of crab/crawfish. but it looked not cooked, and she had a creepy look on her face.
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| Posted 5/7/07 1:12 PM |
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MegZee
My bunny
Member since 5/06 8777 total posts
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Meaghan
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Re: Anyone finding little "things" in their new home...
oh, and when we ripped up the floors, we found sunflower seed shells, I almost puked. he must have been eating them when installing the floors
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thewinterone
You make me happy
Member since 5/05 2474 total posts
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cause you are gray.
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Re: Anyone finding little "things" in their new home...
We found a bunch of pictures in the electric box.
They were of the previous owners putting up the stone wall for the fireplace.
There's also lots of writing in a crawl space (like whoever was here, this one loves that one etc.).
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| Posted 5/7/07 1:33 PM |
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alisonggg
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Member since 3/06 4749 total posts
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Re: Anyone finding little "things" in their new home...
a few tools in the garage, a metal flower pot, a firewood holder and a no parking sign
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| Posted 5/7/07 1:38 PM |
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ODonnell
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Re: Anyone finding little "things" in their new home...
We found a bundle of what looked like Russian papers in our attic. Apparently some owners in the past were circus performers (no kidding) so we wonder if they were from them.
We also found old whiskey, milk and cream bottles when digging in our yard.
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| Posted 5/7/07 2:02 PM |
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JennCo
My greatest joy is my baby boy
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Re: Anyone finding little "things" in their new home...
We found a few love letters written to the DD of the owners - some of which her parents Probably wouldn't have wanted to see! 
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| Posted 5/7/07 2:12 PM |
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Re: Anyone finding little "things" in their new home...
We found some old tree trunks and crap that the previous owners buried instead of getting rid of..
ALso, we know the previous owners (family friends) and they told us not to dig on a certain side of the yard which is where they buried some of their cats that had passed away.... Their graves were marked with stones so DH stayed away.
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| Posted 5/7/07 2:51 PM |
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MrsNaunie
Kai helps my father dump out.
Member since 9/06 1181 total posts
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Lauren
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Re: Anyone finding little "things" in their new home...
Matchbox cars, super balls, a nasty old Chucky Cheese cup, dead possum.
Nothing "If Walls Could Talk" worthy.
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| Posted 5/7/07 3:19 PM |
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Palebride
I am an amazing bakist
Member since 5/05 13673 total posts
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Lori
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Re: Anyone finding little "things" in their new home...
We bought our house from the 4 kids who inherited the house after their parents passed away.
We've heard from neighbors that right before they moved out, all of the kids were frantically searching the house for stuff their father "hid" somewhere in the house....and they never found it! So there could be some good stuff in this house....we just have no idea where it might be!
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| Posted 5/7/07 3:22 PM |
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princess99
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ME
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Re: Anyone finding little "things" in their new home...
My parents were the original owners..... they both have passed away....  I have found a lot of stuff my parents had gotten for me and my sister for when we have kids- a found 2 mother charm necklaces, brand new in boxes with our names on it, some money in my Dad's tie, and Chanukkah presents my dad had for me, and a few peices of jewelry my dad had put aside for me that were my Mom's, when I found that I just stopped what I was doing and started to cry hysterically. It is so sad. I am still emptying out lot of this house, while living here, so I do not know what else I will find. When I do throw out something I feel bad and say out loud how sorry I am do to this, but it is my time to enoy this house.... so sad..... 
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| Posted 5/7/07 3:43 PM |
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MrsPowers
So blessed!
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Ivelysse
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Re: Anyone finding little "things" in their new home...
We haven't found anything yet but then again we haven't really ventured into the attic.
We found a plan for a possible pool in the garage on the wall.
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