Nate
You never know what you’re going to find when you’re rummaging through old stuff in the basement. It could be a cool piece of family history that you didn’t know or some sort of historical find that would never have been unearthed if it wasn’t for you.
It’s like when an old piece of mail is found behind a cabinet at the post office and they deliver it decades later. We’re always hearing about that, but what about the stories that go unreported and end up in the “Took You Long Enough” subreddit?
People are finding stuff all the time, and the stories are too cool to not share with you.
1. “Found On Facebook”
2. “Found a marriage certificate from 1895 in a flooded cabin we renovated.”
3. “My dad finally found his missing Led Zeppelin tickets… 44 years too late….”
4. “This old McDonald’s coupon I found in my grandfathers things.”
5. “My great grandmother kept a news paper of when America landed on the moon. Just found it today.”
6. “Found this “white couch” in a free pile years ago and saw a rip in it last night when I was cleaning to find it was reupholstered over gorgeous emerald green fabric this whole time!”
7. “Found this post in a really great FB group I’m a part of. Birth announcement from 1988.”
8. “We were cleaning out our Aunts house who had just passed away and found this. My Great-great grandfather’s enlistment paper to WW1”
9. “This WWII newspaper of Germany’s surrender found in my grandparent’s attic”
10. “Took Him Long Enough”
11. “A Vancouver elementary school just unearthed a time capsule after 50 years. In it was a letter from then Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau.”
12. “This was the first movie I went to see, my grandmother had sealed the tickets up in an envelope & I was sad I never saw them again until I JUST found them at the bottom of a shoe box full of old cards & letters! I relished opening this. Movie ticket stubs from 1994, $4.50 a ticket.”
13. “Cigarette holder gifted to my grandfather from his AF unit while they were stationed in the UK during the Korean War. ‘From the old gang, 8/7/1954′”
14. “My mother found a 4th birthday card she forgot to pass on to me…I’m 26 now.”
15. “Found my grandmothers calendar which contains the date of her first date with my grandfather. Thursday the 10th 1955. They would get married 1 year later”
16. “Someone peeled off 20 years worth of subway ads to reveal this Road Trip poster, circa 2000.”
17. “My roommate bought a pair of pants at the thrift store and found this in one of the pockets.”
18. “Found this ‘old’ CD player/radio, when I opened it I found another “old” gem inside. A classic combo”
19. “Found 40 year old Doritos under my porch”
20. “Only 15 years late…”
21. “Only 15 years late…”
22. “Found this glass Gatorade bottle out on a nature walk today! The top was sticking out of some deep mulchy ground. Glass bottles were discontinued in 1998!”
h/t: Ranker