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After over 7 years of dodging and feeble excuses over the next 2 weeks I will be moving in with Mrs Squilverine. Asides from no longer being able to lay about in my pants, farting and watching dvd's on my days off any more I am quite looking forwards to the whole thing.

In preparation for this we spent most of the weekend clearing out her garage which has become a dumping ground for lat 5 years or so life crap and other boxes of guff which people seem to accumulate over a lifetime.

Some of the more unusual items we found include several odd socks, whos partners still live in the chest of drawers, a rather natty wine bottle holder made from metal in the shape of a cowboy, a miniature game of air hockey and the cd single of Lou Begga's Mambo no. 5

However we did manage to locate Mrs Squil's current passport and about £15 in notes and coinage.

So people of Dakka, what stuff have you come across whilst having a clear out? The more bizzarre and unexplained the better!

Half a bike I have never to my knowledge owned.
Some old WWII bullets stuck in the wall.

Does the German helmet and machine gun ammobox(full) I found in my grandpa's garden when digging a pond count?

A WW1 French Cavalry Sabre Still sharp enough to give me a 3 inch gash, after 95 years.

Oh and one of those really hilariously expensive walking sticks, which turned out to be ivory and mahogany, concealing a 18 inch blade inside! Brilliant.

sA

We once found a bathtub buried in the garden.

A plastic garbage bag filled with @30 disney video cassette movies. Unfortunately, none were salvagable.

Must have been around the year 2000 and a friend was about to convert his garage into an extra room for his house. He's lived there about 3 months or so and hasn't really investigated the garage much, it's full of old newspapers, broken furniture etc etc. We spend a couple of days and fill a couple of skips with rubbish ( overnight the obligatory mattress appeared in accordance with the laws of physics) and then we find this extra brick wall has been built in the garage, really badly built and serving no purpose. So we start knocking it down and discover that for some reason the previous owner has entombed various household pets in this construction over the decades he'd lived there. Not pleasant at all.

Freaked us all well out when we first started finding these bones, it we hadn't seen the first couple of cat skulls we were getting ready to call the police in case we'd stumbled upon some grisly hidden murder scene or similar.

Wow, reds8n, I would have panicked at the sight of the first bones and called the police without thinking twice.

The only thing I found was quite strange. I was walking around our garden when I found a butterfly impaled with a skewer. Confused, I picked it up (by the skewer of course) and saw that the skewered was flayed out at the end. That was when I realised I had found that missing arrow from a few weeks before.

Cleaning out my friends garage in preparation for him moving we found a stash of around 10 or so antique swords.

Just after college, was helping a friend clean out his apartment.... Apparently, a previous occupant, and the landlord hadn't done a good job.... We found a total of 20 baggies of pot hidden throughout the place.

I'm moving house at the moment and so far I've found 35,000 Azeri Manat, which is worth about £6. I've never been to Azerbaijan.


I've also found a Bodhran.

We found a Microwave buried in a back garden once. That was, unique.

Most interesting thing I've ever found was my brother's Action Man Snowboarder in the hedge at my parents house when I was helping them cut it.

It had been MIA for about 10 years

Notice that everyone posting is British. That's what happens when your country has a history.

In the US, it's a lot of new construction, and zero world wars.

Yea basically, America is usually kind of dull when we find COOL STUFF!

I found a 1953 Fred Bear bow in the attic, thats the best "find" Ive got so far. OTher then that its "hey cool my old pants that were missing 4 years ago!"
Or "awesome 5 bucks in a.......sock?"

@ Phryxis - Erm, check the flags of people posting

Disreguard, my internets is getting stupid

You can become honorary British but you have to pass the following test.

1. What do the initials LBW stand for.
2. What is Marmite and do you like it?

ok uh
1. Live by women? Look behind webster? Liver beans and wine?
2. Its a sandwich type spread, for toast the like. But some clever guy used it in painting his plague marines......infact now I need to look for that thread

Kilkrazy wrote:You can become honorary British but you have to pass the following test.

1. What do the initials LBW stand for.
2. What is Marmite and do you like it?

Being British, I know this just off the top of my head!

KingCracker wrote:ok uh
1. Live by women? Look behind webster? Liver beans and wine?
2. Its a sandwich type spread, for toast the like. But some clever guy used it in painting his plague marines......infact now I need to look for that thread

Awww, 1/2 ain't bad!

Gwar! wrote:Awww, 1/2 ain't bad!

With that score we might be able to let him be Welsh...

I once found a scyth in the back garden-you know, like the kind farmers use?

Suffice to say it's mine now. For obvious reason *Points to avatar*.

"Farmers". Riiiiight! :p

Oh, I don't ever find anything interesting. The only interesting stuff I could have had belonged to my grandad and when he died his widow through it out, I wasn't born and my dad was in hospital, thus unable to rescue it.

The OC-D

helgrenze wrote:Just after college, was helping a friend clean out his apartment.... Apparently, a previous occupant, and the landlord hadn't done a good job.... We found a total of 20 baggies of pot hidden throughout the place.

/thread

Once I found a thin black plastic disc about 12 inches across with a small hole in the middle.

I think it may have been a record.

Hey, I got 100% on Kk's test!

Oh wait...

sA

SilverMK2 wrote:

Gwar! wrote:Awww, 1/2 ain't bad!

With that score we might be able to let him be Welsh...

So...um what's wrong with being welsh?

Found under my bed once £100 in £20 notes in a game case that i never bought or had the console for.
The funnier part was that i was looking for loose change (already checked in the sofa) to buy a new game. :d

I found 20$ in a wallet I found when cleaning my room not my wallet and I was only 12 so free money.

I thik ours trumps yours so here goes
my grandfarther found a
dead body(garden mostly decompoed stabbed to death or blunt force troma to back of head)
unexploded bomb

my dad
a credit card with the pin on the back with 1457.98 pounds on it(that was fun)
ornate sword(still sharp in display case loft)
pistol(street one bullet missing)

me
pack o dead mice in a 2 liter bottle of coke
dead dog
and a blunt ornate sword near the other ornate sword

Kilkrazy wrote:You can become honorary British but you have to pass the following test.

1. What do the initials LBW stand for.

Leg Before Wicket?

Kilkrazy wrote:
2. What is Marmite and do you like it?

A god-awful byproduct of brewing beer.