As you may remember, my wife and I rented a storage bay for the winter to store our "inventory" of things for this spring's coming garage sale. There is a single dumpster at the facility in which people toss their stuff when they decide to leave their space. While there may be a single bag or two of house hold garbage from the onsite manager's apartment, 98% of what's inside is dry and dusty. When we tossed in some of our stuff, I found some interesting things. It's continued and each month the "free" things have been rather profitable..... From the Mongoose 21 speed adult bicycle, to a taser, to 1930's box cameras to jewelry to old letters, 1955 Income Tax forms, wedding notices, marriage and driver licenses, and old B/W pictures, it spawns a live hands-on trip back through time. Two weeks ago, I came home from the same "Never Ending Treasure Chest" with two reels and half a dozen 3 inch diameter and 4ft. long bundles of different color and diameter of heat shrink tubing..... This weekend I found a shoe box full of letters of a 1951 high school girl and her family growing up on a farm in the panhandle of Texas.
At the end of an already surprising treasure hunt inside this special dumpster, while looking for some matching earrings that fell out the bottom of an old cardboard box, my eyes caught a glimpse of something oddly familiar. I knew I had told of finding the twenty dollar bill in between two personal checks dated 2007 a month ago....but no pics..... So, I walked over to the pickup to get my phone and took this picture before going any farther.
Do you see anything next to the white envelope?
Along with a dental appointment receipt, dated 1983, in a small bank envelope from Clyde, Texas, there were 3 ones, 1 five, and 3 ten dollar bills......What got me in the heart was the handwritten note paper clipped to the group of $5 and two $10 dollar bills: "From Ma Ma and Pa Pa"......
When I get more time I'll send pics of what else I just found in this dumpster after coming back from garage sales Friday morning and then the return second visit, Friday afternoon:
A small Sterling Silver baby cup still in its original gift box, costume jewelry, a folding straight razor, a ring box with a (2.3gr) thin 14kt gold band inside, a narrow sterling silver bracelet, a wide nickel-silver and turquoise band bracelet, a Shirley Temple doll pin, and some foreign coins and tokens..... With the $20 bill find, and an old purse with just over $2 in loose change inside, and not the $38.00, I've found cash totaling $60.00 in that one dumpster....
Bill
As you may remember, my wife and I rented a storage bay for the winter to store our "inventory" of things for this spring's coming garage sale. There is a single dumpster at the facility in which people toss their stuff when they decide to leave their space. While there may be a single bag or two of house hold garbage from the onsite manager's apartment, 98% of what's inside is dry and dusty. When we tossed in some of our stuff, I found some interesting things. It's continued and each month the "free" things have been rather profitable..... From the Mongoose 21 speed adult bicycle, to a taser, to 1930's box cameras to jewelry to old letters, 1955 Income Tax forms, wedding notices, marriage and driver licenses, and old B/W pictures, it spawns a live hands-on trip back through time. Two weeks ago, I came home from the same "Never Ending Treasure Chest" with two reels and half a dozen 3 inch diameter and 4ft. long bundles of different color and diameter of heat shrink tubing..... This weekend I found a shoe box full of letters of a 1951 high school girl and her family growing up on a farm in the panhandle of Texas.
At the end of an already surprising treasure hunt inside this special dumpster, while looking for some matching earrings that fell out the bottom of an old cardboard box, my eyes caught a glimpse of something oddly familiar. I knew I had told of finding the twenty dollar bill in between two personal checks dated 2007 a month ago....but no pics..... So, I walked over to the pickup to get my phone and took this picture before going any farther.
Do you see anything next to the white envelope?
Along with a dental appointment receipt, dated 1983, in a small bank envelope from Clyde, Texas, there were 3 ones, 1 five, and 3 ten dollar bills......What got me in the heart was the handwritten note paper clipped to the group of $5 and two $10 dollar bills: "From Ma Ma and Pa Pa"......
When I get more time I'll send pics of what else I just found in this dumpster after coming back from garage sales Friday morning and then the return second visit, Friday afternoon:
A small Sterling Silver baby cup still in its original gift box, costume jewelry, a folding straight razor, a ring box with a (2.3gr) thin 14kt gold band inside, a narrow sterling silver bracelet, a wide nickel-silver and turquoise band bracelet, a Shirley Temple doll pin, and some foreign coins and tokens..... With the $20 bill find, and an old purse with just over $2 in loose change inside, and not the $38.00, I've found cash totaling $60.00 in that one dumpster....
Bill
