422 posts in 11.5 years and you show up for this one! I love it!
On the floor of my basement, right at the bottom of my steps is half a dollar bill. It’s been sitting there for at least 5 or 6 years. About 20 feet away on a desk is part of the other half. I could gather up the two halves and deposit them when I go to the bank (I’m there every week) but I really don’t care so it just sits there and taunts me each time I walk by…in the mean time I’ll bend over to pick pennies up off the sidewalk.
My daughter’s first preschool project that was recognizable and cute (a egg carton and pipecleaner based spider with googly eyes- the thing is black and orange and as halloweeny as a 3 year old can be) has been hanging from our dining room chandelier for 7 years now. (Technically it moved houses 5 years ago but was just put onto the new chandelier- more like a fancy light fixture now). This is funny for two reasons- it changes its identity only during the time of year- it’s our christmas spider, thanksgiving spider, easter spider, except for halloween in which it is just “the spider”. Secondly, my son did the exact same project two years later and his spider was not ever hung up and was actually recycled within a few days. My daughter has already asked if she gets to take the spider when she leaves to have a house of her own.
About five years’ worth of Sunday funnies. (WARNING: old thread!)
If I think too much about it, most of the stuff in my house is stuff that I just step over, walk by or shove in a corner vowing to do something about later.
I have a container of star anise that has lived in my pantry or on a shelf in my kitchen for years. It came from the cottage which was sold more than twenty years ago. I have never used it. I will likely never get rid of it.
:eek: God, my whole house is wall-to-wall ‘just left it like that’! Two things I’m looking at this very moment: a dried rose from a bush in our garden this summer. Just sitting there all alone on the shelf, all dusty. On the counter, a cheap plastic food chopper thing, used once, that doesn’t really work very well. But I can’t decide what to do with it - give it away? throw it away? and so it sits there.
I have a can of canned bacon that was made in Yugoslavia. Yes, Yugoslavia. It’s got a church key and, although it’s a cylindrical can, it opens about a third of the way down. I have no idea why it was designed like that.
One of these days I should release the eldritch porcine horror contained within.
When I was a young guy in the 70’s I shared a house with a few other similar aged guy.
Arrived home one day and one of the guys was sitting on the lounge watching television. Beside him was the dog turd his puppy had laid on the lounge. Did he bother to remove it?
At work someone taped a one dollar bill in a clearly visible but odd and slightly out of reach location. The bill remained in that spot for well over a year.
Until I took it down recently and put it in my wallet. But not before photocopying it, cutting out the image, and taping that in the same location.
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- Bottle of water I bought for moving day. It’s still in the fridge and I moved in 2 years ago.
- Corsage from my brother’s second wedding I stuck in my car. They’ve been married more than 4 years.
Last year’s Secret Santa gifts I got at work are still lying around. One made it upstairs to my bedroom dresser (which I’ve had since I was in high school); the other didn’t make it past the kitchen table.
I’ve lived in my house over 10 years and there is still junk here from the last owners in the garage and darkroom. We are also using the window dressings (curtains, blinds, etc.) they left behind.
First, congrats on the new dog!
Second: I have an idea for your clocks! Most clocks have a removable back, or cardboard insert with the clock numbers on it. If your clocks are of this type, perhaps you could put pictures of the pet in question on the backing so that the clock shows the pet the time is referring to.
Or have a clock made with a photograph of that pet. Lots of photo-frame clocks out there too, I see!
Just a suggestion; having the very clock in the house stopped while the pet was still there has it’s own memories, too.
We moved into our apartment 3 years ago. The bottled water in the back of the bottom cupboard was there when we moved in, and…yep, it’s still there. I’m betting it’s been there a LOOONG time. 
There’s a can of spotted dick in the top of my kitchen cupboard. I can’t bring myself to eat it and because it’s food I can’t throw it away unless it’s gone bad. Does anybody know how long can goods will last?
The second bedroom in the apartment I share with my wife is pretty much “left it there.” It’s basically a pile of boxes and bags with books and craft supplies. It was intended to be a reading / crafting room, but it just isn’t big enough; there’s nowhere to upack things to. I intended to install floor to ceiling shelves, but it’s just not worth it since we’ll probably move again before it’s worthwhile.
Well? Did you open it?
If so, what, if anything, was in there?