Dirty Picture...

[mvSWAT]

Is it just me or do you guys also try to picture in your mind how that found article got there and what the area looked like when it did? I've been trying to clean up my yard while metal detecting, I keep finding tons of old beer and soda cans 4 to 5 inches down, this leaves me with a dity picture of what the yard looked like years ago and a bad taste for the people who let it get like that. Although I have found 4 horse shoes out there.....perhaps the horse just couldn't seem to get his empty cans in the recycle box.
I'd much rather be picturing a weathy miser hiding his hard earned riches for safe keeping.

 

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[southern gent]

After my Grandmother died I hunted her yard for a vision of the past and a keepsake for the future. I found at least a dozen sardine cans and over a dozen beer cans. My uncle and my dad helped build the house and also did the yard afterward. That explained that. Any way, I found nothing of any kind to keep for the memories, but I did make a few while I was there. Good luck & HH! Chris

 

[True_Metal]

I do that too. Some of the things i find i tend to wonder about the circumstances as why the article was lost or what the person did or felt upon discovering the loss, and if they possibly searched to locate it again. I really wonder when i find old money if the loss was devastating to the loser and of the reprocussions if any that befell them from their spouses and or family, since back in the old days every penny counted and was valued. It can bum you out a little, but as i see it, that person is long since dead and you'll never really know, so life goes on. ?I'll also try to picture how a site looked years ago before i detect it to maybe isolate a specific area or spot and really nail it good and dissect it thoroughly.

 

[nedigger]

I too find myself trying to picture the person and what they where doing when they lost an item. I basically try to go back to that time in my mind and see things as they where then. When I found my 1842 seated liberty dime I did some research on it and in doing so found that a dime was about 2 hours pay in that time period. I can imagine it caused a little tightening of the belt for the person who lost it as the country was in a depression at the time. Here is an informative site I like to use when researching American coins http://www.oldcoinshop.com/coinhistory/index.php.

 

[Diane L.]

I am a great believer that if you keep looking you will find what your looking for.Try around old trees and where their roots come out and in holes at the bottom,Chipmunks like shinny stuff and will hide them in those areas.I found a 1936 silver dime in one and keys and other stuff too.Looking around the frame of the building and at areas where there may have been? buildings or out houses,Along side walks where they can role into the crack betwen the grass and the walk way.under boulders and in old bottles,I also look in areas where old cars sat,They rust out and in old times they hid money in the gas tanks,etc!Look in well downed walked paths,Areas where they played volleyball or base ball.Because money etc..falls out of pockets or purses.In gardens are a good place where they did digging ....There may be money" hidden" that never went to the bank and they forgot where they hid it.Don't stop because you get junk! Junk leads to good stuff quitting does not!
Always check? under the bushes and under fallen trees where things get hidden.
Check Dog house areas because kids like dogs and loose items also I did when I was young!
Barn yards,Fields,Hill tops in gravel pits if they had one started,My husbands brother has a small one and I have checked it.Along the fence lines and telephone poles where coins could have fallen out of pockets while being put up.Streams in the back yard!!
Just litterally every spot Corner,hole,and under everything! I look no-matter how much junk I find!?
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Note:* Fill your holes and always clean the junk you find do not leave it laying around !! It makes it look bad for us metal detector hunters !And it is the right thing to do?and ask for permission first Always!*
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My Quote: {We will eventually find our future and our past by our own footsteps of curiosities} By Diane " Also none as Frank"
Yes,I wonder some times too,That same thing ,But if you show your finds and use that information to help someone, your doing a great deed for the person who lost it.Maybe you can find enough money and then buy something for someone in need, in stead of hoarding it. Do something nice for someone or donate it to the poor or the elderly home in your area.It will pass on some beautiful thoughts and feelings! and you will feel great because of that and I am sure that will be the same thing those that lost it would feel also! Spiritually speaking!God will love that also!

 

[diggummup]

I am a great believer that if you keep looking you will find what your looking for.Try around old trees and where their roots come out and in holes at the bottom,Chipmunks like shinny stuff and will hide them in those areas.I found a 1936 silver dime in one and keys and other stuff too.Looking around the frame of the building and at areas where there may have been? buildings or out houses,Along side walks where they can role into the crack betwen the grass and the walk way.under boulders and in old bottles,I also look in areas where old cars sat,They rust out and in old times they hid money in the gas tanks,etc!Look in well downed walked paths,Areas where they played volleyball or base ball.Because money etc..falls out of pockets or purses.In gardens are a good place where they did digging ....There may be money" hidden" that never went to the bank and they forgot where they hid it.Don't stop because you get junk! Junk leads to good stuff quitting does not!
Always check? under the bushes and under fallen trees where things get hidden.
Check Dog house areas because kids like dogs and loose items also I did when I was young!
Barn yards,Fields,Hill tops in gravel pits if they had one started,My husbands brother has a small one and I have checked it.Along the fence lines and telephone poles where coins could have fallen out of pockets while being put up.Streams in the back yard!!
Just litterally every spot Corner,hole,and under everything! I look no-matter how much junk I find!?
********************************************************************************
Note:* Fill your holes and always clean the junk you find do not leave it laying around !! It makes it look bad for us metal detector hunters !And it is the right thing to do?and ask for permission first Always!*
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My Quote: {We will eventually find our future and our past by our own footsteps of curiosities} By Diane " Also none as Frank"
Yes,I wonder some times too,That same thing ,But if you show your finds and use that information to help someone, your doing a great deed for the person who lost it.Maybe you can find enough money and then buy something for someone in need, in stead of hoarding it. Do something nice for someone or donate it to the poor or the elderly home in your area.It will pass on some beautiful thoughts and feelings! and you will feel great because of that and I am sure that will be the same thing those that lost it would feel also! Spiritually speaking!God will love that also!

Well said!That about sums that up!Good Luck and H.H.

 

[Lowbatts]

I just wonder who it was that left that beer can laying on the ground long enough for it to become subterrainian in the first place. Then I realized that even groundhogs need a beer now and then, what with the fate of spring hanging over their holes every Feb. 2nd and all.

 

[mvSWAT]

Yeah.....there's nothing worse than a groundhog with a hang over.

 

[Diane L.]

yes! It is unfortunate that people throw cans on the ground, though, I look at it as a gold mine just waiting to take to the can collectors to collect the prize.I don't myself, I collect my own soda cans not ones from the ditches anymore,but I know people who make some good money collecting thrown away cans.

 

[Diane L.]

Come to think of it .....Does anyone know how the stocks for this kind of thing is doing, Recycling and can collection agancies ect
There is a second look at how you can make money from someones thrown away can or one on the ground.HMMMMM!
I wil have to lookm into this for sure!

 

[Diane L.]

Come to think of it .....Does anyone know how the stocks for this kind of thing is doing, Recycling and can collection agancies ect
There is a second look at how you can make money from someones thrown away can or one on the ground.HMMMMM!
I wil have to look into this for sure!