# "Can you see anything? Yes, wonderful things": Adventures in getting your stuff back.

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 3, 2002, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-see-anything-yes-wonderful-things-adventures-in-getting-your-stuff-back/117237 "2002-07-03T19:16:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-see-anything-yes-wonderful-things-adventures-in-getting-your-stuff-back/117237/1 "2002-07-03T19:16:18Z")

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So I took a week-long vacation and headed with **Valkyrie** and the Tzeroling up to NH to spend some time with my folks, whom I haven’t seen in well over a year. And I underwent a ritual that, I think, finally confirms my status as a fully independent and (relatively) mature individual.

I got all my crap out of Mamma O’s garage.

Actually, it was kinda fun doing that, since I got to relive a lot of memories from my teens and early twenties, though it was hard having to realize I had to throw a lot of stuff out, primarily because some of it was thoroughly trashed, but also because of space considerations back here in VA.

The best part, however, was finding stuff I thought I had lost years ago. Like a small moneysock that contained Swedish coinage from the late 17th and early 18th centuries.

Other stuff I got back was:  
[ul][li]Books I’d bought in Russia, including a really nice hardcover of _Master and Margarita_ and a two-volume set of Shakespeare’s works.[/li][li]A neato-keen pair of hammer-and-sickle shorts from Peace Frogs.[/li]Tons of old family photos I got to dig through and remember who was who.[/ul]So, fellow Dopers - how about you? What treasures did you uncover or recover when you finally got those last few boxes out of your folks’ house?

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**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-see-anything-yes-wonderful-things-adventures-in-getting-your-stuff-back/117237/2 "2002-07-03T19:38:40Z")

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Just a few things…

My complete set of Nancy Drew books (up until I stopped collecting them) which I will never part with.

My candy-striper uniform (which I have put to good use a few times since finding it 😉 ).

Old TV Guides that I had saved. One from the last epidode of The Mary Tyler Moore show. One from the last episode of M_A_S\*H.

My old high school yearbooks (very cool to look at 20 years later)