# Have you ever stumbled across something you completely forgot you owned? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 15, 2023, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stumbled-across-something-you-completely-forgot-you-owned/993211 "2023-11-15T23:14:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stumbled-across-something-you-completely-forgot-you-owned/993211/41 "2023-11-19T13:49:20Z")
Hah! Pre-COVID we had a hay delivery arrive at 6 pm on a hot, humid day. My gf was delayed by traffic. She arrived literally two minutes after we’d finished. I was coughing/huffing/puffing/perspiring. The farmer shouted to my gf, “Hello, blister!” When she asked what that meant he said, “like a blister, you showed up after the work was done”. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stumbled-across-something-you-completely-forgot-you-owned/993211/42 "2023-11-19T13:51:02Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > There should be a specific term for that. Blister it is! ---
**Author:** ![Al128](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/al128/32/16541_2.png) [@Al128](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Al128)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stumbled-across-something-you-completely-forgot-you-owned/993211/43 "2023-11-19T20:10:49Z")
the other day I had an episode of finding something I had NO recollection of owning … my problem now (and this is not a joke) … I forgot what this “item” is … but I do remember being surprised ---
**Author:** ![vbob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vbob/32/4439_2.png) [@vbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vbob)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stumbled-across-something-you-completely-forgot-you-owned/993211/44 "2023-11-19T20:31:55Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I assume I already have one somewhere Same here - no wonder Rhode Island is so full. My wife likes to go to Savers for MORE stuff - I just go out to the garage and pick a random box or bucket to fossick about in, and it’s like the Rocky Hill Flea Market never shut down - never fail to find forgotten treasures and occasionally even what I thought I needed… ---
**Author:** ![vbob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vbob/32/4439_2.png) [@vbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vbob)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stumbled-across-something-you-completely-forgot-you-owned/993211/45 "2023-11-19T20:33:25Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > My stepson was a master at offering help with a job when it was just about finished. Mom would see us busy and wonder aloud “Anything I can do to watch?” ---
**Author:** ![themapleleaf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/themapleleaf/32/14349_2.png) [@themapleleaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/themapleleaf)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stumbled-across-something-you-completely-forgot-you-owned/993211/46 "2023-11-19T20:41:29Z")
A [moldavite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moldavite) rock. This is a very rare mineral that was formed when a meteorite impacted with Earth about 15 million years ago and that only occurs in the Czech Republic and rarely in Germany or Austria. A Czech friend once gave me a small moldavite in a little box. I’m not even sure which friend it was, though I have my suspicions (I think it was a former English as a second language student with which there was a hint of romantic interest though it never developed). One day I found it, and was surprised that I had it. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stumbled-across-something-you-completely-forgot-you-owned/993211/47 "2023-11-19T20:48:14Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > > > My son is kinda into the smaller kits right now. He’s a bit too young to do it on his own. I want to encourage him because honestly they look pretty awesome. I love putting together puzzles and it seems like a similar thing. > > I do also, but Lego sets have the disadvantage of clear instructions on how to assemble them. Even better are Puzz-3Ds, which don’t come with step by step instructions. I’m not sure how much of these are made anymore, I had a lot of them. > Buy the buildings as opposed to the spacecraft, since not having flat bottoms can be an issue. My wife did some PR for the guy who founded Wrebbit, the Canadian company that invented them, and the Star Destroyed puzzle was tough even for the designers. I have a Puzz-3D Millennium Falcon puzzle in a box in the basement. I have tried to build it twice but have given up when I get close to the final assembly. You pretty much need five hands to hold all the different parts together. It’s ridiculous. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2023, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stumbled-across-something-you-completely-forgot-you-owned/993211/48 "2023-11-19T21:21:45Z")
> [@vbob](#): > > Mom would see us busy and wonder aloud “Anything I can do to watch?” Oh I am stealing this. 😁 ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stumbled-across-something-you-completely-forgot-you-owned/993211/49 "2023-11-20T02:37:13Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I have a Puzz-3D Millennium Falcon puzzle in a box in the basement. I have tried to build it twice but have given up when I get close to the final assembly. You pretty much need five hands to hold all the different parts together. It’s ridiculous. Actually. that might be the one I was thinking of. It isn’t you. We just found another one today - an ashtray from the NY Playboy Club which my father must have bought or liberated when he was a member in the early '60s. (By then neither of my parents smoked.) It’s selling for $25 - $45 when I just searched for it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-stumbled-across-something-you-completely-forgot-you-owned/993211.md?page=2)