Oddly, people collect unopened stuff like that.
Google for it–might be worth a buck or two.
I found a early 1960’s nickel and a couple marbles digging my flower garden.
Nothing as spectacular as others here posted.
My uncle bought a rural home. There was a single shot .22 left in the closet. It came in handy shooting skunks and possums. They were getting in his chicken pens.
A scar on the roof where a stovepipe had once gone thru. Push button light switches and a floor heater that only heated the space above it. (that house was built around WWI.)
Children’s toys buried in the backyard at another place.
When I moved into my current house, in the attic was a framed movie poster for Napolean Dynamite.
I lived in an apartment in a big old mansion many years ago and it had those big hot-water radiator heaters. If you peered between the slats you could see the layers of wallpaper where the edges curled up over the years. When this building was demolished we found a room in the basement that was not visible before and we found an old newspaper from WW1 and some old fishing rods down there.
In the last apt. building I lived in (another big mansion made into apts.) there were little frames in some of the apartments on the walls - the landlord had found graffiti (eg. “John Smith was here 1914” or something) and preserved them. There is also a “rare basement bake oven” in the basement, I didn’t *find *it but I did sneak down there to look at it.
What is “grass” wallpaper?
Looks a little like burlap or a very upscale Hawaiian hut wall.
An Eichler, by any chance?
Randy Parks.
We’ve lived here for almost 2 years, but this week I ripped the carpet out of a bedroom closet and found a pretty little one-hitter pipe under it.
Room previously occupied by a teenage girl…I wonder if she freaked out when she realized she left it behind.
This stuff:
Old grass wallpaper is very nasty to remove.
The previous owners had left a wedding dress in the laundry/utility room. I didn’t have any easy way of contacting them and they never attempted to contact me so it sat around for maybe five or six years until my now-wife used part of the material from it to make the flower girl basket for our own wedding.
I don’t think it was especially valuable just judging from the style and feel of the material but it seemed weird that you’d save it but then not care that you left it behind.
Ah, thank you. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before.
Oh yeah one time when I first moved into an apartment downtown the pipes clogged and when the plumber took the U joint off the kitchen sink something fell into the bucket with a “clunk”. I said “If that’s a hot knife it’s not mine.” Sure enough it was a “hot knife.” (Remember doing hot knives in high school? I certainly don’t, lol.)
A young couple bought the house next to ours and remodeled it top to bottom (quite a job, given the prior tenants). They then split. She lived there until the divorce, I guess, and one day the house was just cleaned out and empty. I walked through it and all that was left - and I mean ALL, not a speck or scrap anywhere else - was a box. Wedding albums, trinkets, cake knife, all that stuff.
Just left pointedly in the middle of a bedroom.
No kids, so I guess it really was trash. But.
What’s a ‘hot knife’?
Mine are boring.
Last house, on the day we were moving in, a dead crow in the driveway. I hear that it’s good luck in Haiti.
Current house, about 200 wire hangers in the attic. Obviously not a Joan Crawford fan.
Sorta off topic but last year my son lived in the same college dorm complex that I lived in. All the furniture is built-in and when I was there, the space under the bed was open for storage by raising the entire mattress surface like a trunk lid. It was great!
Now, for my son, the beds were all screwed down! 
You wonder what was hidden or abandoned that prompted the modification.
Apparently holding the material to be smoked between two heated knives.
Someone is sure to try and explain it and make a hash of the topic.
My brother once worked as a wedding photographer. He worked real hard to sell couples on getting 2 complete copies of their wedding photo albums, even offering great discounts on the 2nd one.
His stated reason was that ‘so you have one to loan out to the relatives, and still have a copy for the two of you to keep at home’.
The real reason was so that they would each have a copy when the divorce happened, Cynical, but based on experience. It meant he wouldn’t have to dig out years-old negatives, pick out the ones they chose for the album, make additional enlargements of them (possibly being asked to crop out the ex-spouse or their relatives) – oh, and expecting to pay little or nothing for all his time on this.
I am trying to recall who I know that did that-with scissors.