This was inside an old recipe box. Instead of recipes it was a record of a woman’s daily affairs from the 1930s and early 1940s. It was mostly addresses but also included some of her expenses, rules for card games, a few diagrams of electric circuits and a long list of books she wanted to … Continued
I was taking the SAT a few weeks ago and found this on the floor behind me as I went to leave.
Found this snowflake outside Jefferson Elementary School in December, 2009.
This letter was inside a UPS box shipped to my apartment by my brother. He has no idea how it got in the box, but maybe it was stuck to some bubble wrap that was also in the box? I really hope the author is a fan of Found and sees it! I would feel … Continued
I was riding up the bike path on Octavia St and this perfectly flat-laying note was face up on the pavement. I pumped the brakes, hopped off the bike and walked over to pick it up, thinking it was a note from a lover to another. It was that and much more: The opening bars … Continued
This fell out of a book I picked up at the public library. The wish list was tucked inside of a thank you note for some other Christmas presents. She certainly put her request in early (or really late) for Christmas. The thank you note was mailed in 1971 and I wonder if she ever … Continued
After dragging my Christmas tree curbside, I found this soggy note next to my mailbox.
This is a list found in a Meijers (to non-Michiganders it’s a pre-Wal-Mart 24 hr fix-your-car-and-a-dinner retail powerhouse) parking lot on Black Friday.
In the post-Christmas season, its pretty predictable to find a lot of cast-off Christmas decorations in thrift stores, especially with the ever-popular New Years Resolutions of “getting organized” or “reducing clutter” being made recently by families everywhere. The subject matter immediately struck me as being awesomely … awkward, but at the same time quite thoughtful, … Continued