Yes! We live in a home built in 1838. While renovating it, I found a small pair of embroidery type scissors inside a wall we had opened. They are quite ornate and I just love that they've been here for quite some time.

How awesome that you found it! I love when things like that happen. And it's such fun to find a something special for free or cheap! I have made a few good buys at thrift shops. I am surprised sometimes at the things people donate at goodwill and salvation army. The goodwill near where I used to live in Dallas had a deal with the Fossil company. Anything that did not pass the inspection for sale was donated to that goodwill store. I don't know how many wonderful leather fossil leather purses and wallets etc I bought there. Most of them I couldn't find the defect. Some were just a few stitches irregular.

I purchased two unusual art pieces at a garage sale in TN about 13 years ago. They have an almost eery feeling, a darkness to them, so I put them in the guest bedroom. After a couple of years one fell off the wall and broke, and it was signed under the mat. We researched the artist. He was a Japanese man that had been a POW in Siberia. We were so interested in his story. Some of his works are in a famous museum. We were so surprised. I paid $15 for both of them.

Another find was an etching from a thrift store that we took out of the frame and it was signed too! We researched that artist as well and he had an interesting story.

We also bought a house and found a hidden safe- nothing was in it but it was fun to find.

I also found deer antlers in my backyard that I treasure.

I found the object of my affection (my husband) 39 years ago. Does that count??

I've never found anything of great value, but I often use found items in my jewelry designs.

Other than that, I once found $10 dollars laying in the street and have picked up a few cool things at thrift stores and antique stores that appealed to me even though they had no monetary value. Unless you count the brand new caramel colored suede blazer from Jones of New York. It fits me perfectly and I love it!

I once found someone's platinum and diamond earring. They were reunited. I was very happy. I would've put up lost/found for it even they had been a pair. My son has lost the flute I played for decades, his tablets, phones, etc. Almost all has been found again. I've never "found" anything cool for myself.

I had the ring repaired but a few months later, I broke my left wrist and had to take them off. I put them in a baggie in a glass candy dish in a corner cabinet in my kitchen. I was house sitting for a friend...spending nights at her house and came home one morning and someone had been in my house. The doors were open and all the cabinet drawers and doors and dresser drawers in the bedroom. Whoever came in, couldn't find the light switch, so had left the doors open on my refrigerator. Everything in the freezer had thawed out. In the corner cabinet, the candy jar was empty. I had about $5 in change in there....which had caught his attention but the baggie with the rings was gone. I was literally sick. Right after that I moved into the other house, which is on the same property. I checked pawn shops and sent word via some rather sleazy people to tell drug dealers, I would buy them back. No questions. I seldom ever went back in the house. One day I was in there though and looking in the corner cabinet. There was a vegetable dish in there that had a domed lid. I looked in the dish because I am always dropping some little trinket or something in a dish like that. It is an antique and I had never used it. When I removed the domed lid, I could see a baggie shoved back in the corner. My rings. The light had been so poor and the thief was in such a hurry to get to the $5, he hadn't noticed the rings in the baggie and had shoved it back in the corner. That was 18 mo after I thought they had been stolen, and a few days from Valentine's Day.

I found an envelope containing $932 in cash. I was at work and compared handwriting to checks I had taken and figured out who it belonged to. Told my boss and he took charge of it. The lady called and I told her I had found it, it was safe. She came back, running in, and I directed her to the boss and he gave it to her and she left. She never bothered to say a word to me. I also found a wallet with over $100 in it. I called the owner and he argued that he hadn't lost his wallet. I should have said OK and hung up but I didn't and he finally agreed to meet me and kept me waiting for 20 minutes even tho I was in a hurry. I really should have hung up! He thanked me nicely but he asked me if I wanted a tip and that pissed me off. I could tell he didn't want to give me anything. I would have turned it down, but the way he said it was weird. "Um, you don't want a tip, do you?" And he was in his robe. At 9 AM. At a store. After keeping me waiting. Why didn't he get dressed?!

Oh! I found a chain saw, a new one, Stihl, on the side of a road. Never saw anything in the lost and found ads. It's been over 30 years and it's cut up hundreds of trees and still works great.

I 'found' an Elton Bennett serigraph unframed and thumbtacked (!) to a bulletin board in a second hand and vintage shop. $9. It was smaller than most of his work at about 9 x 12. I contacted his daughter and she hadn't known any of that particular subject in that size existed. Over the phone, approx. 20 years ago she appraised it at the smaller size and with thumbtack holes that are now covered by mat and frame, at about $450.

We found my little dog on the side of the road a few years back. My kids had wanted a pet and I didn't want one because I knew it would be my responsibility. Dh and I were finally resigned to getting one from the pound after we got back from vacation. I was visiting my dad and had told him about it. I made him go with me and the kids and my nephew to pick peaches out in the country. On the way back my dad spotted this little black dog on the side of the road out by a white country church. I turned around and went back. Sure enough, there was a small pup with his eye hanging out. I brought him back with us and took him into the vet first thing the next morning. He's been a great member of the family for us.

I found a lovely shaped glass pitcher at a yard sale that was very dusty and dirty. There were no chips or scrapes on it. The bottom was rounded and segmented like fruit and the spout was wide and curved. I paid $2. It is marked Tiffany and Company.

Seagrass, that's exactly what came to my mind as well. As a single mother who was always struggling, all I wanted was a "normal" life with a loving man so we could live the dream. I was almost 40 when I found him (on ICQ), he was 1,000's of miles away in Sweden and eventually ended up moving here to be with me. That was 18 years ago.

lukkiirish - he's been a gem to me. We've had our good times and our bad, but I don't know how I could live my life without him.

I've told this story on KT before.

DH and I lived in a new apartment as newlyweds. We had a Westie Pup we called Charlie. I would wash him in the laundry tub in the communal laundry room and bring him back to the apartment, wrapped in a towel.

One day I'd washed him and was drying him when I realized my wedding/engagement ring was gone. (We'd had my wedding ring attached to the engagement ring, so it was all one piece; it had been loose on my finger.)

The apartment building was cheap construction. There was no trap on the laundry tub; the drain went directly into the sewer. The ring was GONE.

We notified the insurance company. They would replace the diamond, but not from Peacock's, where DH had bought it. I chose a new ring from a wholesaler. I was anxious to have 'a ring' before we traveled to Montreal in a few weeks.

One week before we were to leave I came home from work to find Charlie sitting in the kitchen, proud as punch. On the floor beside him was my ring, entwined in some of his hair. He'd scooped it up when it came off during his bath. The vet said he would have waited to upchuck it until it had gotten a little 'insulation' on it.

Now for the sad part.

Charlie died at nine. I'd taken him to the vet to have his teeth cleaned, and the vet found something extremely rare: Cancer of the tongue. Dear boy! Better I'd lost that ring than have it cause an injury that would take his life!

No other, newer, bigger diamond for me, ever!

I lost my wallet once on the way to the airport. Luckily, I had my passport and was able to board my plane, but I had to call and cancel everything and go through the hassle of getting a temporary out-of-state driver's license and a credit card replacement. Three months later, my wallet arrived in the mail with no return address or note, but everything intact. Even the change had been wrapped in a tissue and included. Amazing!

Well, its my job to find cool old things- I'm a vintage dealer, it's how I've made a living for the last 19 years.

the man of the house, however.... I relandscaped our front yard in conjunction with a rebate program offered by our local water utilities a few years ago- took out the grass and put in DG and unusual, colorful succulents. I did 95% of the work myself from running the sod cutter to planting. I worked on it for weeks. He decided to help dig one of the last days (it was my project, he wasn't not helping!) and he hadn't been digging for 10 minutes when he found a diamond ring. After the rebate and selling the ring we came out quite a bit ahead!

We found 3 tiny kittens in a trash can. Bottle fed them and kept one. She lived to be 18 years old.

I lost my wallet with $700 in it. A lady found it and turned it into the police station, who called me. Everything was intact. They gave me her name and address...I sent her a gift card for $100.

I found a professional set of Chicago cutlery wrapped in a leather sheet with knife pockets. Those had been recently used and was soiled. That pack was laying by the side of the road immediately after a junction. I suspected those had fallen from a food service vehicle. However, the knife began to raise suspicion with me due to nature of the particles on it. I handled the package with rubber gloves and turned it over to the police just in case these were weapons of mayhem that had been tossed. After a week, the police phoned and said that I could collect the items if I wanted those.

When my son was born my dh gave me a diamond necklace and I wore it a lot. We went to a hockey game and when I got home I noticed I had the broken chain, but not the diamond. We called the arena, but no answer so we took off for the 25 minute ride back to the arena. My dh found a door to enter and the cleaning crew was already cleaning. He told them what he was looking for, they all went to our section and a row below our seats, they found my diamond. What a relief!

Chisue, are you saying the ring caused Charlie's cancer? That doesn't sound right. I hope you haven't blamed yourself.

I've found (and taken in) a number of dogs and cats over the years, all priceless. One inanimate object that comes to mind is a 100-year-old piece of newspaper. Like many others, it was intended as insulation, jammed into the spaces between the hemlock planks that make up my old farmhouse.

In 1987 my 9-year-old son pulled it carefully out of the wall. Unlike other pieces he had tried to read, this one stayed mostly intact. We learned that on July 9, 1887 Mrs. Pomeroy Cutler was in town, the local druggist opened a soda fountain, the minister was confined to bed, and the physician purchased a new driving horse. The odd thing was the newspaper came from Massachusetts. I live in Pennsylvania.

Just recently, a worker at a recycling plant near Toronto found $100,000 stashed inside an old discarded TV. Sounds amazing, story was that a man got the money from an inheritance, put it in a box and hid it inside the TV. It was there for many years until found at the recycling plant and returned to the rightful owner. Now I don't know about most people, but if I had $100,000, I would certainly remember where I put it! Hidden $100,000

Stacey- I lol at that! I know where I keep EVERY penny!

Stacey, I wonder how old he was. I know if I remove an item from the spot where I've always kept it, and put it in a new "safe place," I'll never see it again. :-)

Drop dead gorgeous!!!! How lucky for you and for him.

Lily- aren't Maine Coon cats amazing! We found one in the woods and he also has NO bad habits, is sweet to our dog, and so loving.

It's funny because our cat doesn't look like the cat we found anymore. He was a kitten in the picture above about 16 months according to the vet. His face and body really changed.

Alisande - I have "safe" places like that too where I store things. In fact, they are so safe, that even I can't find them any more!

The man in the news story who forgot about his hidden $100,000 is 68 years old. After several years, he gave the TV containing the money to a relative who presumably was the person who took it to the recycling facility.

My husband was renovating an old house -- I think this was the one that had the original log cabin hidden in the walls, not sure, but he did find a bone or antler handled bowie knife in the wall. We kept it for years, but this was among the objects stolen in one of the many house burglaries I suffered in North San Diego county.

When I pulled out the flooring of my family room addition (in order to strengthen and insulate) I found two decorative enameled metal 12x12" tiles on the ground under the floor. One red/white, the other green/white. I later learned that the addition had originally been built as the office of the woman who owned the house in the 1950s, and she was the regional manager for a company that made these enameled plates that were used on gas stations, diners etc. I don't know if that was Lustron, the maker of the steel homes. I also don't know if the handyman kept them or left them under the new floor!

I found and bought a beautiful tourmaline pendant at an estate sale. $10, but I don't know if it is worth more or less.

When I go out for a walk on trash day, I often find everyday household items in good to perfect condition set out for the trash. Nothing really valuable, except for the Dyson vacuum.

Alisande -- The diamond is pear shape, and the pointed end protrudes a good bit from the body of the ring. (I remove it at night for that reason.) Yes, I believe it damaged Charlie's tongue as he regurgitated it. Our vet said tongue cancer is extremely rare. The vet called while Charlie was still anesthetized for tooth cleaning. He advised just letting him go -- so I never got to say goodbye.

We had three subsequent Westies over the years. Two of them lived past 15.

I mostly find stray cats and dogs - or maybe they find me. My GSD "Mister" found a tiny kitten in an isolated area on very cold day. Poor thing was infested with fleas. I bottle fed him.

Sabbath , Maine Coons are very unique cats as I'm finding out. There was no question I would keep him if owners weren't found which was highly unlikely after seven months. He was neutered and declawed on all four paws, so they should have had him microchipped. Yours is very cute too. They are very dog like cats and he follows me everywhere. He loves the dogs and they him but keeps his distance of the two other large cats but is okay with the small frail 17 year old one. Currently he's laying like road kill on the kitchen floor on his back with all four paws straight up. He's not a lap cat like my other three.

When we were building a replica of a Williamsburg carriage house in the back of the property , my contractor found where the old outhouse was and we extricated many artifacts. This was how they disposed of "garbage' in the 1800's by throwing them down the latrine. We found intact bottles of meds, yellowware , redware, crocks of all kinds, porcelain chicken eggs. Most were damaged but some were intact like all the bottles and eggs. The city newspaper sent a photographer out and we were featured in a large story with pictures about 25 years ago.

I found 2 little naked things under one of the trees, I learned that they were baby squirrels and bottle-raised them. They're called 'pinkies' as babies. I raised them until their tails got bushy and were eating nuts and vegetables and we drove them to a forest and released them.

We put them at a base of a tree, they scampered up the tree then back down and up my arms and they both nuzzled my neck then took off. I bawled like a baby on the way home.

Sidney and Seymour

I too raised a baby squirrel whose mother was killed. I nursed him and fed him and let him go in my yard. I marked him on the foot but that washed off and then he blended in with the rest of the squirrels. His name was Buddy. He ate out of my hand for awhile but then reverted to the wild.

I also found old ornate scissors, two - a normal sized and a small pinking shear. They were both down inside an vintage upholstered chair that I had bought years ago and sat in often. One day I moved it and heard a jingle and reached way down and brought up one pair on one side and another down inside the other. Why I hadn't found them until then I don't know.

Found this girl late at night on a country hwy & named
her Maggie (Rod Stewart’s song.) Among
other things Maggie had a lump (hoped it was a fat deposit) but it was breast
cancer. Vet estimated she was 7 yrs old & that her owners probably dumped
her due to her condition. After
treatment & spay she lived another 8 yrs. She never was the most obedient
dog & the house rule – no dogs in the kitchen when I’m cooking, did not apply
to her. She was the best little vacuum
cleaner.

A few minutes ago I was flipping over a cushion on a chair I never sit in because a friend is coming over in a little bit to watch a movie with us tonight. There it was, a necklace i've been looking for for a year now. I had looked everywhere including suitcases! What a nice surprise. Once I found a 24K gold bracelet I had lost for about 4 years. I thought I had left it in a motel room in Florida but I was going out one night, put on a skirt I obviously hadn't worn in four years and when I put my hands in the pockets, there was my bracelet.

I can not tell you what a terrible time I am having after moving back into the house finding where I put things. I need a master list for everything and sticky notes all over the house. I was changing purses last week and thinning out the stuff stuffed inside! I was carrying everything but the kitchen sink during the time we lived in the rv so I wouldn't "lose it". I started digging through one of my coin purses which had a zipper side pocket. I didn't think there was anything in there. I was wrong I pulled out 7 100 dollar bills! $700! I assume I stashed it there because I thought we were going to need cash for various reasons. I still don't remember putting it in there. So now I moved it to a safe place hahaha! Alisande will you please remind me of the safe place lol! I told my husband where I put it to help me remember. The very next day I tested him. He said what $700 are you talking about! Good grief getting old is no fun. Except you don't have to buy new books you can just read them again because you have forgotten that you ever read them the first time!

When I was double digging in the back yard to build a flower bed, I found a whiskey bottle (not very old, it had a screw on top), some pieces of broken pottery, the glass lid to a canning jar, a couple of small toy cars, and multiple marbles. My house was built in 1941 -- I believe it was farmland before that. I was surprised at how far down I found the toys and marbles.

Something else interesting (to me, at least) was that at about 18 inches down I have found bits of charcoal or burnt wood mixed into the heavy clay. I did read that sometime prior to the neighborhood's construction, there was a large fire that burned over the area so I have assumed they are remnants from that.

Jasdip -- Aw...Sidney and Seymour...what a lovely story.

Georgysmom -- I'found' something of value in the pocket of a robe I seldom wore. One day I was so mad at my DH that I took my wedding ring off and put it 'out of sight'. Of course, I got over my 'mad', but then couldn't find the darn ring! I was about to come clean to DH when I put on that robe and found my ring in the pocket! (This ring has had *adventures*.)

chisue......I use to hide jewelry in clothing pockets figuring if someone came to rob the house, they might find everything but it would take them a lot longer:-))) I don't do that anymore because I can't remember where I hid things! Glad you found your wedding ring.

Talk about putting things up and forgetting where.....the lady I fostered the pups for gave me a huge bottle of pyrantel, a wormer, and it was in the front seat of my truck forever, and I finally put it up somewhere. Now I need it and I have looked everywhere I can possibly think of and I haven't found it yet. One time I found $900 in the glove compartment of my car. I had put it there and forgot it about it. This was years ago when obviously my husband made a lot more money than he does now. We went on vacation and I think I put it in there in case something happened and we needed the extra money. I got a pair of shorts at a thrift shop and the first time I wore them, put my hands in the pockets and found two twenty dollar bills folded together in one of them.

I have also found kittens in a dumpster. Raised them on a bottle. Right now I am raising 3 baby squirrels. Someone found them in the attic of an old house they were tearing down. I don't usually raise squirrels, but the person who usually does, "retired". Actually, her husband retired and they want to travel, and so she has quit rehabbing. There is someone I could have given them to, but they aren't good at raising baby animals. I am feeding them every 4 hours and I am worn out from not getting any uninterrupted sleep. I go to sleep easily and wake up fast, but after being up and moving around for 30 to 45 minutes, I have a harder time going back to sleep again.

Interesting post. As i was reading these replies I thought that I had nothing to write about until I read about the lost diamond rings.

I had signed up for a group dog training class at our local high school and after returning home one evening noticed my engagement ring was missing. Trying to retrace my steps I drove back to the school and pulled into the same spot. As I got out of the car I saw it laying on the pavement. It had been such a bitterly cold night that I never felt it slip off my finger when I removed my gloves to unlock the car.

I lost and found the same ring a few years later. The kids requested BLT sandwiches for lunch and I took my ring off and placed in on the counter while separating the bacon slices. After cleaning up I realized it was missing and tore the kitchen apart. Then I pulled the bacon out of the refrigerator and found it wrapped in the aluminum foil wrapper.

The one on the right is a little spooky looking. My daughter told me it scared her so I put them in the guest room because no one ever went in there.

Nicole- I have a dolphin ring too! Mine is different from yours, how many people have and treasure their dolphins rings- not many!! I smiled when I saw that. My mom had mine custom made with stones from my Grandma's wedding ring that she inherited. I love dolphin smiles :)

My best doggy friend. She was dumped by some people and left to roam. We picked her up and she was my sweetie for over 11 years.