Have you ever found a nut you forgot you squirreled away?

Not yet. When I squirrel away nuts I keep track of them.

Spare car key, that I squirreled away” in a suit coat pocket for the valet at restaurant, three months ago.

I’m always finding bills in the back pockets of jeans.

Absolutely! I recently found my travel wallet with a pile of cash left over from an overseas trip I made in April of 2006! (It was more than $1000! Woohoo! )

last winter I found a ten pound note in the pocket of a coat I hadn’t worn for nearly a year. That was a nice surprise. @worriedguy I wish it had been 1000!

I’ve found stacks of bills tucked away in spare wallets. I rarely carry cash around with me, and I have a tendency to forget where I store it.

Money. I keep finding envelopes filled with cash from either Christmas (not necessarily from this past Christmas) or from my previous job. I’m terrible at going to the bank. I’m pretty careless with money. I don’t think I value it as much as most people do. As long as I have money to pay the few bills I have, I’m good.
My favorite thing to find is giftcards for a massage.

Oh! I also found something not so valuable! About 2 weeks ago, I put on my dress winter coat and found 2 unused pee pads (sorry, incontinence protection products) in the pockets, left over from when I had my surgery 18 months ago. Thankfully, the only use they are to me now is for waxing my car. :-)

Actually my dad squirreled away the most awesome pair of mid century stainless steel salt shakers (about 20 years ago) into a bag of out-dated camping gear. I was looking for something else and there they were! My childhood came flooding back to me. I rescued the salt shakers and squirreled them away into one of my own drawers of treasures. After I die, my currently 5 year old nephew, will probably find them and say, “What the heck are these stupid things and what’s all this other crap that she saved?” ( a Liberace doll, trolls, vintage fabric, scraps of 1960’s era Xmas wrapping paper, a boomerang shaped ash tray that belonged to my grandpa, a bunch of old Little Golden books, and a collage that I made with pictures of the Bay City Rollers glued onto a piece of cardboard.)

@worriedguy We’ve got a whole drawer full of those “pee pads” here. Dad had heart surgery last year. Hope you’re feeling better : )

One time I found 2 nugs in this weird little wooden egg shaped container I have…I was ecstatic.

I have to hide anything candy related I bring into the house for me. I don’t buy much, perhaps a couple of times a year, but if I don’t hide it the kids get to it and it’s gone.

Just the other night I found a twix bar I had hidden over a month ago and then forgot about in my laptop bag and I joyfully shared it with my husband.

Absolutely! One time I paid for a birthday lunch for a large group of co-workers, but each of them gave me their share in cash per prior agreement. I stuck the money in one of my car’s seat pockets and prompty forgot about it. Months later I discovered the money—it was like $125—and felt like I had won the lottery!

Absolutely! I had just come back from a trip and I thought I left My Mp3 there until I found it in my Shaving bag!

@Kardamom Oh yeah! I’m fine. Better than original specifications! That’s why I feel I should change my name to something like Luckyguy.

I understand.

@worriedguy I think that’s a great idea!

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I sometimes find duplicates of useful tools and stuff. Luckily, I like having duplicates in case one breaks.

And squirrels not only do forget where they hide a bunch of nuts (up to half of them, according to some estimates), but they have a strategy which ends up creating more plentiful forests in the long run. They, along with deer and other animals, eat the acorns of the white oak first during the fall, since they have fewer tannins and are generally starchier. The red oak acorns, on the other hand, are hidden so that rain and melting snow can take the tannins out to some degree, making them edible. Red oak acorns tend to have more fat, making them more sustaining during the winter. In that way, they plant more red oaks than white, and get more food value out of it.

@worriedguy I found money in my travel pouch from an overseas trip also. I’m glad to hear I’m not the only one.

I recently went through several purses that I was donating to charity and found a $20 bill in two of them!

@incendiary_dan Yeah, I think last I counted I have 8 tape measures.

found a bag of weed in one of my pants pockets hanging in the closet many years ago when i was into that. Don’t remember putting any weed there so I had no idea how old it was. Pretty foggy times back then ;p