What's the oddest thing you've found while cleaning?
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January 1st, 2010
Today I decided to clean my car for the first time in a couple years Yea, gross I know so I could have a place to put my belongs when I travel yay! moving out!. I cleaned my seats, the leather, and the trunk. In the trunk, I found a bra and a swim bottom– my friend’s bra and swim bottom haha! I’m pretty sure these are from four years ago.
Found any interesting things while cleaning lately?
How long had they been there?
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I was cleaning out my closet, and in a purse that I haven’t used for a long time, I found an earring that had been missing for almost two years. I only have one really nice pair of earrings, so I was really glad to get it back. I thought I’d lost it elsewhere. I almost put the purse in the Goodwill pile without checking the inside pockets.
@Facade Believe it or not, it was in the lint filter of the clothes dryer.
@janbb That sneaky little bugger!
I found one of my diamond earrings I got as a graduation present on the carpet edge nudged in the small space against the wall while vaccuming. The strange thing is that I lost it over 3 years ago and just found it. I’ve vaccumed quite a bit over the last few years, but somehow it never got sucked up.
I once found a Green Bay Packers bobblehead in my couch cushions. I am not a Green Bay Packers fan, nor are any of the friends, family, or acquaintances that I have invited over. I have never purchased or owned any of their memorabilia, including a bobblehead. I have no friggin’ clue where it came from! It’s one of the greater mysteries of my life.
I found my grandfather’s wallet. He has been dead for 45 years. I have no Idea how it got where it was, or why it was there. I was cleaning out my father’s barn.
@Facade- Yes indeed :)
...now if I can only remember where I hid the other one for safe keeping then I’ll be able to wear them again
I found a very stale Eggo waffle under the couch once. Also, half a muffin that was hard as a rock. Separate occasions.
Once when I was cleaning my son’s room, I found a cup of old coffee, a spoon, a small bowl of sugar, and an empty creamer I’d been going out of my mind trying to locate. He was 4 at the time, and obsessed with coffee. I guess he’d confiscated those things to try to make himself a cup.
A mummified cat in my uncle’s heater duct. It’s was disgusting to say the least, and a bit sad because that cat died when I was 6.
High button shoes, very old whiskey bottles, an antique bottle of perfume, and a homemade pornographic toy.
There have been many other things like that, that I have found in my old house. mostly while cleaning the attic, or the dungeonlike basement.
Ive found quite a bit of weed before. Its like finding money in your pocket but 10x better :P.
A wormhole to parallel universe and my car keys.
@AstroChuck Is that not where car keys always are when we lose them?
Usually, but I found both of those in separate places.
When I was younger I was cleaning my room and I found a $100 bill, that I had stashed when I had a lot of money just so that I could find it when I was poor. And it worked. Ha.
It would be very odd indeed to find myself cleaning.
I’m quite lazy
a kiwi under my brothers bed. nasty, man!
A skeleton of a possum under my garden bench
When my daughter was about three she and I were cleaning her room. Digging in her toy box I found a plastic toy treasure chest. It was just big enough to hold a half eaten, mummified McDonalds cheeseburger. There is no telling how long it had been in there. It kind of scared me. It was hard as a rock, but other than that it wasn’t moldy or anything. What the hell was in that cheeseburger that it looked moderately edible after who knows how long in a treasure chest in the bottom of a toy box?
I was helping my mother clean out her laundry room junk drawers and I pulled out an old fashioned rectal thermometer that had a string that had become tangled around it and at the end of the string was a red Christmas twinkle light bulb.
I asked her “What is this some kind of tracking beacon?”
@chipiki- story of my life!
I found a live squirrel behind my sofa when I was hoovering. Don’t know who was most shocked – me or the squirrel!!
My grandmother’s dildo. I wish I were lying.
Cool question—finding stuff I’ve lost is pretty much the only thing that motivates me to clean.
I find little stuff regularly: rings, pens, 190384 tubes of forgotten chapstick.
But (and I know this might sound weird or gross), the “oddest” and happiest thing I’ve found is dog hair. Years after my favorite dog died, I was still finding her hair everywhere: stuck to the side of my dresser, wound around my shoelaces, and tucked inside the pages Jane Eyre.
It comforted me, finding that.
@juniper – I know what you mean. I found some of my beloved dog’s hair after she died and it felt like confirmation that she had existed and was “here” when her absence was so overwhelming.
@juniper
At $1.99 (MSRP), you had $190,384.00 worth of Chapstick. Damn girl, could I borrow a few hundred?
Years ago, after I found my ex-wife in bed with some guy and I threw her out, I found her stash of love letters stuffed in the couch. Wouldnt have been so bad but they were letters that confirmed she’d been seeing the guy for at least a year of our marriage.
Oh, and I found a top set of teeth once after a particularly rowdy party when I was single.
Mostly though, when I’m cleaning, I find myself alone cos everyone buggers off and leaves me to it! alone with no help! Damn!
@scotsbloke “Oh, and I found a top set of teeth once after a particularly rowdy party when I was single.” That made me laugh, did anyone ever claim them?
Funnily enough, the guy who’d lost them came back for them. – he was a friend of a friend of a hanger-on. (I think he was a boxer which is why he had falsers)
From what I remember it was a good party…...... it was many moons ago when I was young, single and a bit of a LAD!
When I worked for Renault in Exeter our valeters found a large vibrator tucked under the drivers seat of a car…... we helpfully left it on the passenger seat for when the lady returned :)
Cleaning the yard, I found an old horse shoe. I live in town, but my house is a little over 100 years old.
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