Weird things found in the home....

[alfreda89]

When storage is available, I'm a magpie. Can I use it sometime? Is it expensive to replace? Would it be useful someplace weird, like a prop or costume? (Can you tell I used to procure for stage productions?)

I packed in a hurry this time, unlike the two previous moves. So some things I'd kept in those categories that would have gone, say, to Goodwill, came along stuffed in odd places.

Last night I found my Ex-SO's ex-wife's wedding veil.

Top that if you will....

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[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

best find so far were the timing points for my 1976 VW Rabbit, still in their unopened packaging.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Sell those suckers on E-bay!

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

I actually gave them and the Bosch oil filter (in original packaging) to my cousin the VW/Audi mechanic, and he does have an Ebay account, but, he has uses for things like that.

You recycled

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

...Instead of tossing them. Yeah done good!

[lagilman]

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Nope. You win.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

The thirty-five year old car parts still in factory packaging, kept for a car long gone, may slightly trump me in uselessness. But for pathos, a veil for a woman who looks like she could be my grandmother.

[sheilagh.livejournal.com]

Dude. someone on ebay NEEDS those parts!!!

Someplace in a trunk in a shed at my mother's house

[romsfuulynn.livejournal.com]

There is supposed to be a chemise that belonged to Queen Anne.

As in this woman:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Great_Britain

An ancestress of mine was apparently a lady in waiting in the court and had this handed down to her. Now mind you, neither my mother (now 86) nor I have ever seen this. my mother's father reported it's existence, and it should be with some later early to mid 19th century clothing that was worth saving.

Of course it may have long since rotted, been eaten by mice, or otherwise fallen victim to time. I'll probably find out this summer, my mother is (I hope) going to be moving out of the house she's lived in since 1955.

Not quite as weird as the veil though. (I'll be replacing my cheap dining room table with the complete dining room set my grandmother picked up cheap when the Maryland State house got refurnished in the 1930s._

Re: Someplace in a trunk in a shed at my mother's house

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Sounds very cool. Hope it is still intact. Wedding sites sell acid-free tissue paper for a much better price than ten small pieces at Michael's. You could get it packed like a wedding dress, too --