What's the oddest thing you've found while cleaning?

I was cleaning out my closet, and in a purse that I haven’t used for a long time, I found an earring that had been missing for almost two years. I only have one really nice pair of earrings, so I was really glad to get it back. I thought I’d lost it elsewhere. I almost put the purse in the Goodwill pile without checking the inside pockets.

My mind.

@PandoraBoxx That was close. I’m glad you found it :)

@janbb Was it behind the fridge?

@Facade Believe it or not, it was in the lint filter of the clothes dryer.

@janbb That sneaky little bugger!

I found one of my diamond earrings I got as a graduation present on the carpet edge nudged in the small space against the wall while vaccuming. The strange thing is that I lost it over 3 years ago and just found it. I’ve vaccumed quite a bit over the last few years, but somehow it never got sucked up.

@Chikipi It’s a miracle!

I once found a Green Bay Packers bobblehead in my couch cushions. I am not a Green Bay Packers fan, nor are any of the friends, family, or acquaintances that I have invited over. I have never purchased or owned any of their memorabilia, including a bobblehead. I have no friggin’ clue where it came from! It’s one of the greater mysteries of my life.

I found my grandfather’s wallet. He has been dead for 45 years. I have no Idea how it got where it was, or why it was there. I was cleaning out my father’s barn.

@Facade- Yes indeed :)
...now if I can only remember where I hid the other one for safe keeping then I’ll be able to wear them again

@jeffgoldblumsprivatefacilities Weird.

@Ghost_in_the_system That’s pretty cool.

I found a very stale Eggo waffle under the couch once. Also, half a muffin that was hard as a rock. Separate occasions.

Once when I was cleaning my son’s room, I found a cup of old coffee, a spoon, a small bowl of sugar, and an empty creamer I’d been going out of my mind trying to locate. He was 4 at the time, and obsessed with coffee. I guess he’d confiscated those things to try to make himself a cup.

A mummified cat in my uncle’s heater duct. It’s was disgusting to say the least, and a bit sad because that cat died when I was 6.

High button shoes, very old whiskey bottles, an antique bottle of perfume, and a homemade pornographic toy.
There have been many other things like that, that I have found in my old house. mostly while cleaning the attic, or the dungeonlike basement.

Ive found quite a bit of weed before. Its like finding money in your pocket but 10x better :P.

@uberbatman Nice.

A wormhole to parallel universe and my car keys.

@AstroChuck Is that not where car keys always are when we lose them?

Usually, but I found both of those in separate places.

Lucky

When I was younger I was cleaning my room and I found a $100 bill, that I had stashed when I had a lot of money just so that I could find it when I was poor. And it worked. Ha.

It would be very odd indeed to find myself cleaning.

I’m quite lazy

The floor?

a kiwi under my brothers bed. nasty, man!

A LOADED GUN< YIKES

A skeleton of a possum under my garden bench

When my daughter was about three she and I were cleaning her room. Digging in her toy box I found a plastic toy treasure chest. It was just big enough to hold a half eaten, mummified McDonalds cheeseburger. There is no telling how long it had been in there. It kind of scared me. It was hard as a rock, but other than that it wasn’t moldy or anything. What the hell was in that cheeseburger that it looked moderately edible after who knows how long in a treasure chest in the bottom of a toy box?

@stemnyjones Sweet! I did that once too.

I was helping my mother clean out her laundry room junk drawers and I pulled out an old fashioned rectal thermometer that had a string that had become tangled around it and at the end of the string was a red Christmas twinkle light bulb.

I asked her “What is this some kind of tracking beacon?”

@chipiki- story of my life!

I found a live squirrel behind my sofa when I was hoovering. Don’t know who was most shocked – me or the squirrel!!

My grandmother’s dildo. I wish I were lying.

Cool question—finding stuff I’ve lost is pretty much the only thing that motivates me to clean.

I find little stuff regularly: rings, pens, 190384 tubes of forgotten chapstick.

But (and I know this might sound weird or gross), the “oddest” and happiest thing I’ve found is dog hair. Years after my favorite dog died, I was still finding her hair everywhere: stuck to the side of my dresser, wound around my shoelaces, and tucked inside the pages Jane Eyre.

It comforted me, finding that.

@juniper – I know what you mean. I found some of my beloved dog’s hair after she died and it felt like confirmation that she had existed and was “here” when her absence was so overwhelming.

@juniper

At $1.99 (MSRP), you had $190,384.00 worth of Chapstick. Damn girl, could I borrow a few hundred?

Years ago, after I found my ex-wife in bed with some guy and I threw her out, I found her stash of love letters stuffed in the couch. Wouldnt have been so bad but they were letters that confirmed she’d been seeing the guy for at least a year of our marriage.

Oh, and I found a top set of teeth once after a particularly rowdy party when I was single.

Mostly though, when I’m cleaning, I find myself alone cos everyone buggers off and leaves me to it! alone with no help! Damn!

@scotsbloke “Oh, and I found a top set of teeth once after a particularly rowdy party when I was single.” That made me laugh, did anyone ever claim them?

Funnily enough, the guy who’d lost them came back for them. – he was a friend of a friend of a hanger-on. (I think he was a boxer which is why he had falsers)
From what I remember it was a good party…...... it was many moons ago when I was young, single and a bit of a LAD!

When I worked for Renault in Exeter our valeters found a large vibrator tucked under the drivers seat of a car…... we helpfully left it on the passenger seat for when the lady returned :)

Cleaning the yard, I found an old horse shoe. I live in town, but my house is a little over 100 years old.