What have you found lately

[martinw-48]

Yesterday I found a Bic four colour biro as I alighted the bus
It was all dirty due to recent rain but all four colours are working
A couple of days before I found a brand new Bic lighter
I often find two dollar coins but it's only been five and ten cent pieces for ages now
Last significant find was a Kelvin Cline purse with over six dollars in change
I handed it into the local police station when it eventually opened and was rewarded with twenty dollars by the owner
I was very tempted to buy food with the coins because I was broke but went to Vinnie's instead for some assistance
I've been judged by some people for going to Vinnie's with them stating that they could never do that but I'd rather eat than hold onto some false pride

[go-tazz]

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@imastawka wrote:

Did the RAM have work experience kids working there in 2000?

That's the same year as the mule dollar.

(I have a 2000 dollar coin, but it's not a mule, sadly)

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I've yet to go through the $1 coins but don't hold much hope of finding one

[go-tazz]

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@martinw-48 wrote:
The 2007 five cent pieces with two obverses are a worse mistake than the $1 mule

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They are a bit harder to find as well (I remember that I'm supposed to check the five cent pieces after I've handed them over).

[martinw-48]

Just found a twenty cent coin in the middle of the road.
Very damaged from being run over

[martinw-48]

Just found a (one) gold stud earring.

[icyfroth]

An umbrella hanging of the mesh fencing of the local Coles car park. Ended up not needing it after all and seeing one of the spokes was broken, I ended up hanging it back. 

[martinw-48]

Just found another ring.
I think it's a ring.
It's a small length of chain that is a complete circle and it fits my little finger.
I'm going to the police station to hand it in

[springyzone]

I haven't 'found' found anything, but I had an exciting weekend as I found 'out' something. 

I have had an old painting since I was about 14. I heard my grandfather taking about it once so knew it was done by a relative from the distant past. It has the initials E.H aged 10, 1827 on it and I knew the young girl who did it won a Children's art competition with it.

My grandfather died when i was 13, so I didn't think I would ever be able to know who did it.

But over the last few years, I have been into genealogy so on the weekend I thought-just for fun, I'll see who is on the trees and who would fit.

My lucky day! Only one, a young girl called Eliza Herivel, born 1816 in Guernsey, Channel Islands.

A second cousin confirmed it would have been by her as she was quite artistic.

So I feel like I have struck gold. Better than gold.

[martinw-48]

Just found a biro and then a ten cent coin

[martinw-48]

https://youtu.be/W9kHOC3wbKw

[chameleon54]

I,m in the process of doing up an old house. While digging around the outside with the Skid Steer, I "found" the main copper water pipe from the meter to the house. Luckily I only bent it rather than break it. Also missed the gas line by 100 mm. ( gas was turned off ). While levelling the block I " Found " a 1940,s rubbish dump full of old bottles ( same place I found the nest of baby snakes mentioned in an earlier post ) and on the weekend " found " the old septic tank. I had basically dug right down to it and ran the loader over the top of the ageing concrete a number of times.

Suited up and put on a respirator  and spent a couple of hours on Sunday removing asbestos from an exterior wall. Took the cladding off another wall today and "found" a heap more blue asbestos and the worst birds nest of electrical wiring I have ever seen, including junction boxes without covers and loose wires etc. Also " found " the woodwork on the bottom of the wall had rotted away and it was basically just swinging in the breeze. The only thing holding it up was the gyprock. Also " found " an exterior wall under a verandah I had assumed was clad in cement sheet was just Gyprock....( an interior cladding made from plaster paris and cardboard )

The floor is pretty creative too. It looks like it was originally just paved with used red house bricks covered with Lino. At a later date some-one has then spread a layer of sand on top of the bricks and lino and then poured a cement slab over the top of the whole lot.

I,ve done up quite a few old houses over the years. Always purchased demolition jobs on good blocks, only paying block value and then restored the houses. All up I,ve seen some creative building in my time but this one is turning out to be a real doozy..

Cant wait to see what I " find"  tommorow when the roof comes off.