“What is this oddly shaped sink used for?”
“It’s a prep sink.”
“Scissors with weird angle. Return gift from the bridal shower. What is the use of this?”
“It’s to candle wicks.”
“Set of 9 wooden balls. 4 black, 4 brown, and one smaller brown ball.”
“Lawn bowling set.”
“Small leather piece with straps and adjustable buckles.”
“It’s a boot strap!”
“Round brown things with holes in them lining a small waterway.”
“They are artificial reef balls. They are there to create a ’living shoreline’ to prevent erosion.”
“Easily malleable metal, with diamonds in the center. I have four of them, and they were all rolled up.”
“These are cuffs for braids and locs.”
“Two red and blue patches titled ’came the yawn’ and ’one eye closed here’.”
“Bookmarks! Put them over the corner of the page, words facing the page you’re on, to mark your spot!”
“My friend found this on her coffee table. It’s made of metal and bracelet-sized. But no closure to put on.”
“It’s a tie chain.”
“This chain inside my door? It connects the door to the frame and can easily just be pulled out of the door.”
“It’s a concealed door closer (and it’s broken).”
“Plastic baggie with maybe pillow batting inside it, zip-tied closed around an air hose.”
“Grunty thing from inside a dog toy.”
“A silver spoon with ’top’ part?”
“Seems to be a medicine spoon.”
“Plastic clear tube with a flanged end with movable orange ball tip found in woods.”
“Looks like a venom sucker from a snakebite kit. I have such a kit, though I use it for mosquito bites.”
“Found in the oven after cooking Thanksgiving meal. 3 inches, solid, light, stiff.”
“It’s a melted pen.”
“A kitchen cabinet made of metal in a house built in 1951. I think the kitchen was remodeled in the 70s. We are trying to figure out why it’s vented.”
“Maybe to hang tea towels to dry off. The grate will be for ventilation to help dry them without them getting musty.”
“Found these tiny white balls with faces on them.”
“Looks like it’s stink-bug eggs.”
"It looks like it’s just an RFID chip for the laundering company"
"We’ve removed the device. It’s an anti lock device to pull out or detach locks, so it was an attempted burglary. Thankfully, they weren’t able to enter."
"It’s an egg surrogate. I’ll use chickens as an example. Sometimes when my chickens lay a fertile egg, they get broody. So my wife will take one of these surrogates and carefully switch it for the real egg and take the real egg to the incubator. That way, the angry chicken can still feel like she’s sitting on her egg, but there is no need to worry about damage due to angry moody chicken"
"Surely they are solder from copper plumbing. If you overheat the pipes while soldering, long strands like this can form on the inside. Definitely a sign of improper soldering, if that’s what they are"
"It’s from a product called an Infinity Hoop. A sort of hula-hoop with this weight on it."
"Actually, this is now so commonly confused as being a hat stretcher, that they are now reproduced and sold as ones. And yes they can be used as such, but they are not originally designed for this purpose. And this antique one wasn’t made for that. To add to the confusion, the real name is also similar. This is actually called a band stretcher. This device locks inside a brim block and holds the material tight inside the block while it is steamed. The size indication is a safety feature meant so you do not overstretch and break your brim block."
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