“I inherited a radium glass dish from my late great grandmother.”
“My nana has been using the same deck of cards and they’ve all grooved to her hand placement during shuffling.”
“Old shoes in the forest turned to moss!”
“Someone buried an old TV in our backyard at some point.”
“Keys from different points in the twentieth century my grandmother kept”
“Old vs new Monopoly pieces”
“I inherited my grandma’s sewing supplies. I bought the exact same buttons that she did over 35 years ago for me.”
“We discovered a locked safe in the floor during the remodeling of our old home.”
“I recently inherited this first print of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and a dozen other original Twain books.”
“WWII letters found in a donated dictionary at a secondhand shop”
“This abandoned gas station near my old high school still has the gas prices from when it closed down in 1995.”
“My grandmother still uses this stove from 1947.”
“Water levels at Lake Powell are so low, you can find old wrecks out of the water.”
“An over 100-year-old logging truck, abandoned and overgrown by the trees it once helped cut down”
“My workplace is being torn down and I found a long-lost time capsule from 1988 in the ceiling.”
“This forgotten bike that grew into a tree”
“My mom has never removed the protective plastic from her 10-year-old microwave’s keypad.”
“A local tire shop has a jar full of various things they’ve found inside of popped tires.”
“An entire family photo collection, from old black and white to modern — each photo was ripped in half and dumped in the alley.”
“I opened a ventilation cavity in a wall and found old love letters bound in string.”