remphish1 Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Random fun question...what is the best/most valuable/random thing you ever found? 1. I have found 3 different wallets...returned all three to the rightful owners...one eventually sent me a thank you gift basket with cholcate and fruit. 2. I found $20..three seperate times.. 3. I found half a $2 bill once??? 4. I found backstage passes on the floor before the Wilco show in Montclair... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Doug C Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 The clitoris. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
remphish1 Posted February 17, 2012 Author Share Posted February 17, 2012 The clitoris. Game over.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 My wife.Sitting at a bar on a Tuesday night. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
moxiebean Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 Most recently: Within the last month my wife & I have found $20, $10, & $5 while walking the dog in our neighborhood. I found an 1890s John L. Sullivan tobacco card in an old book - I later sold the card on ebay for $500. I bought an original Dali etching at Goodwill for $5. Also, what Doug C said. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SarahC Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 4. I found backstage passes on the floor before the Wilco show in Montclair... did you use them? i think the best thing i ever found was a $50 bill on the ground. just this past monday, i found a $20 in the parking lot of a dorm on campus. i did what anyone would do, and bought the white album on vinyl with it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
remphish1 Posted February 19, 2012 Author Share Posted February 19, 2012 did you use them? i think the best thing i ever found was a $50 bill on the ground. just this past monday, i found a $20 in the parking lot of a dorm on campus. i did what anyone would do, and bought the white album on vinyl with it. I did actually try and use them..unfortunatley the venue in Montclair doesn't have much of a backstage area and the band hightailed it out of there... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SarahC Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 I did actually try and use them..unfortunatley the venue in Montclair doesn't have much of a backstage area and the band hightailed it out of there... well, dang! at least you've got a neat after show pass... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Heartbreak Posted February 22, 2012 Share Posted February 22, 2012 I was in Bangkok recently at a tiny used book store in a large shopping mall, and I found a hardcover copy of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. It had no publishing date, but there was a note in there from 1899, so my guess is that it was printed between 1852 and 1899. I picked it up for the whopping price of three dollars. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 I FINALLY found a copy of this book:Or, I should say, that I finally found it for a decent price. Most places it's been going for >$40 or so. I found a copy at Half Price Books for $8. And it's in good shape. AND it appears to have been autographed by the author.Not bad. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
sonicshoulder Posted March 4, 2012 Share Posted March 4, 2012 Maybe not the best but one of the coolest was when I was remodleling my 100+ year old house. Found some firecrackers in the rafters wadded up in an issue of the Kentucky Post from around 1908. The firecrackers still worked and there was a reward in the classifieds for a "lost 20 lb bag of sugar which fell out of a buggie somewhere on Dixie Highway". Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Skian Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 Best road score:In a single large stuff sack -two top of the line sleeping bags.(His & Hers)a North Face down fill (large)a Mountain Hardware down fill (Medium) A trip to the dry cleaners and they were as good as new. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stooka Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 I found an envelope with over $300 in it. My friends mom saw me and made me knock on the closest door to see if it was theirs. It was a lady's paycheck. She gave me $5 for returning it. I also found a bag of weed once. In a fried chicken box outside the store. This was 1978 mind you. Back then I looked down a lot... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
PopTodd Posted March 5, 2012 Share Posted March 5, 2012 When I found this thing, I LITERALLY jumped around the store shouting, "YES! YES!" and holding it over my head.A couple of years ago I lost it in a flood.Motherfucker.Some really great stuff on here, terrible sound quality and all. Early, early versions of these songs. Loved this damn thing. Too bad it's not available on CD. (Although some of it is on the Osmium album. Just not all of it.)Now I need to find it again... in an electronic format. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magnetized Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I found a gold bracelet once. We were on a road trip and stopped for a picnic at one of those roadside parks along the highway, the ones with outdoor barbecue grills. We were just getting the coals going when I saw something shiny half buried in the dirt. It was a really heavy, solid gold bracelet. I asked around the park to see if the owner was there but no luck, so I just considered it a happy find, and I still wear it. And I also found a small bag of weed once, on the curb near the gutter when I was taking a walk in my neighborhood. I didn't look around for the owner in that case. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted March 6, 2012 Share Posted March 6, 2012 I found a gold bracelet once. We were on a road trip and stopped for a picnic at one of those roadside parks along the highway, the ones with outdoor barbecue grills. We were just getting the coals going when I saw something shiny half buried in the dirt. It was a really heavy, solid gold bracelet. I asked around the park to see if the owner was there but no luck, so I just considered it a happy find, and I still wear it. And I also found a small bag of weed once, on the curb near the gutter when I was taking a walk in my neighborhood. I didn't look around for the owner in that case. Um, that was mine. You have my mailing address, right? Also the gold bracelet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magnetized Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Um, that was mine. You have my mailing address, right? Also the gold bracelet.Haha, Donna. Next summer in North Adams, girl! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kidsmoke Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Seems like a long way to travel to retrieve a bracelet. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Magnetized Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 Seems like a long way to travel to retrieve a bracelet. I hear there's a band playing there you might like. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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