# Things that showed up in your house and you don't know how they got there **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 12, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-showed-up-in-your-house-and-you-dont-know-how-they-got-there/1002801 "2024-06-12T21:32:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-showed-up-in-your-house-and-you-dont-know-how-they-got-there/1002801/21 "2024-06-18T15:16:12Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > Mine too. He got it together in the end, made a life for himself, now has his own BIL in his house . You moved in with him??? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-showed-up-in-your-house-and-you-dont-know-how-they-got-there/1002801/22 "2024-06-18T16:42:01Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > > [@aurora\_maire](#): > > > > I live alone > > You _think_ you live alone. The guy living in your attic, or other crawl space, got interupted while doing laundry. Definitely [check the attic](https://www.milwaukeemag.com/the-legend-of-milwaukees-most-infamous-love-triangle/#:~:text=It's%20the%20story%20of%20Dolly,hardnosed%2C%20hard%2Ddrinking%20businessman) or basement. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-showed-up-in-your-house-and-you-dont-know-how-they-got-there/1002801/23 "2024-06-18T16:46:01Z")
😀 No, his wife came with a family like my wife did. But it’s a success story. He was 14 when his dad died and he was like our first son. Taking longer to get our real kids out of the house. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-showed-up-in-your-house-and-you-dont-know-how-they-got-there/1002801/24 "2024-06-18T19:03:21Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > a friend of mine found a DIAMOND RING. > > In her toilet. Back when my dad worked at a sewage treatment plant, the plant would occasionally get phone requests to look for either diamond rings or money. The story was always that a girlfriend or wife had gotten mad and flushed her ring (I’m done with you!) or cash (You said you’d never gamble again!). I don’t remember a story about them finding a ring at the plant, but several times floating bundles of money were found. It’s possible that a past tenant or owner had flushed down the ring and it was heavy enough not to make it past the S-bend. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-showed-up-in-your-house-and-you-dont-know-how-they-got-there/1002801/25 "2024-06-18T19:23:23Z")
A kitchen table (found buried under multiple storage items in the basement)\*. Miscellaneous Christmas ornaments that showed up in the ornaments box without any trace of where they came from or how they got there. \*Apparently it was my sister-in-law’s. Hubby told her she could store it there and it got promptly buried under a sheet and miscellaneous boxes. And then forgotten. Years later, as the movers carted it off the truck to our new house, I was highly confused, never having seen it. They rolled their eyes at my apparent senility. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2024, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-showed-up-in-your-house-and-you-dont-know-how-they-got-there/1002801/26 "2024-06-18T21:03:05Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > It’s possible that a past tenant or owner had flushed down the ring and it was heavy enough not to make it past the S-bend. Likely it was indeed either flushed deliberately, or dropped accidentally. I think it must have gotten slightly past the S-bend, since she’d lived there for several years at the time it turned up. In any case, I think it’s a hysterical story. I’ve certainly never found much of any value in MY toilet!! ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-showed-up-in-your-house-and-you-dont-know-how-they-got-there/1002801/27 "2024-06-19T03:07:13Z")
What song was it? ---
**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:** [June 19, 2024, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-showed-up-in-your-house-and-you-dont-know-how-they-got-there/1002801/28 "2024-06-19T11:11:55Z")
A guy I know shared with me that he likes to leave odd little things behind when he is in someone’s house. So, if he is one of several people at a get-together, he might leave a single condom in its package behind a pillow on the couch. Or a can of smoked oysters atop the refrigerator. His “fetish” led me to carefully gift wrap an absolutely horrible porn DVD and leave it on the gift table at a friend’s wedding reception. All his elderly relatives cracked up, passing around the box. I never confessed and the groom never accused me, although he frequently discussed with me who he believed was the “sicko”. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-showed-up-in-your-house-and-you-dont-know-how-they-got-there/1002801/29 "2024-06-19T14:51:07Z")
Bible Dreams by The Wild Swans. I still never heard of them. 🙂 I think their wikipedia article is longer than that of the Rolling Stones, almost, for never doing all that much. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-showed-up-in-your-house-and-you-dont-know-how-they-got-there/1002801/30 "2024-06-19T17:10:14Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > I still never heard of them. 🙂 Me neither. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-showed-up-in-your-house-and-you-dont-know-how-they-got-there/1002801.md?page=1)