HOW'D THAT GET THERE?

[Blade]

While cleaning out a closet today I found something that NEVER belonged to me. I don't even know who it did belong to. When I found it, I went :wtf:
:| I picked it up like evidence with a trash bag turned inside out, cuz I haven't a clue who wore it, or what they did with it, or where it had been. :|

Thought it would make a cute thread. What is the strangest thing you've found while cleaning. Or What did you find that you thought was long gone or lost while cleaning?

[EnderD_503]

When I was living in a dorm for the first three years of my first B.A. One day I was cleaning under the bed (which was...terrifying lol) and found a muffin I had taken from dining hall a few months back. It had not moulded at all after all that time...I swear you couldn't break this thing with a sledgehammer. My friends and I tried slamming it against the wall/floor/with various objects...this muffin would not break. That's some damn good preservatives... :| Also have no idea how it got under the bed...lol

[Kenna]

I LOVE the title of this thread!!!

When I found 3 empty tubs of Whipped Topping, an empty box of Dunkin' Donuts, 2 empty tubs of Marshmallow Fluff and chocolate ice cream syrup and a HUGE bag of half eaten mixed candy, melted together in a nasty lump, all ooey gooey stuck to the sides of the duffel bag along with loose tobacco, cigarette papers, cigars and empty Camel packs in my 16 year old son's room, I confronted him... his response was "How'd that get there?"

I wanted to squeeze his ears together!!

[tuffboi29]

My daughters room usually stays relatively clean. Even though she keeps it picked up sometimes it needs a good deep cleaning.

On one such deep cleaning day I went into her closet and found roughly 200-300 pennies. :|
A little mystified I ignored it and went on about what I was doing. I lifted her mattress to vacuum any crumbs or stray dust balls and found another 100 or so pennies. :wtf: ?

She comes home from school that day and I told her I cleaned her room. Eyeballing me suspiciously she dissapeared into her room. She came back out a few moments later looking PO'ed but didn't say a thing.
I couldn't help but smile and asked "Are you missing something?"

Fastforward a few days later...I caught her taking pennies out of my change jar...Not the silver, mind you.. just the pennies. :thinking:

[Kenna]

Come to think of it...
The family that moved into my Aunt and Uncle's old trailer might have found "strange things" under the bathroom vanity?
When my Uncle would bathe us 3 very young girls, he was VERY impatient and rough. He HATED to wash our hair so he would use gallon jugs or buckets to dump water over our heads and he'd push us down with his hand just below our necks. My sister and I hated to be near him, I'm sorry his daughter was stuck with him. I seriously hated bath time and would hide his gallon jugs under the bathroom vanity where there was a gap in the floor. I prayed he wouldn't find them. I wonder what the next family thought when/if they found them?

My daughters room usually stays relatively clean. Even though she keeps it picked up sometimes it needs a good deep cleaning.

On one such deep cleaning day I went into her closet and found roughly 200-300 pennies. :|
A little mystified I ignored it and went on about what I was doing. I lifted her mattress to vacuum any crumbs or stray dust balls and found another 100 or so pennies. :wtf: ?

She comes home from school that day and I told her I cleaned her room. Eyeballing me suspiciously she dissapeared into her room. She came back out a few moments later looking PO'ed but didn't say a thing.
I couldn't help but smile and asked "Are you missing something?"

Fastforward a few days later...I caught her taking pennies out of my change jar...Not the silver, mind you.. just the pennies. :thinking:

*smiles*
This made me think of my cousin... as a toddler, he would ALWAYS carry one penny in his left hand (which would turn green from the penny) and suck his right thumb.

[Rockinonahigh]

When I bought this house I had been cleaned by maid from top to bottom,we moved all our stuff in over two days,one morning my son ask if I had droped any pennys..no I said..all my change goes in the big jar(a big 5 galon water jug).Any how he found them in the washer,dryer,in every room in the house then put them in the jar..Thinking they were all picked up I forgot about it,well it wasnt long before more pennys showed up in every room in the house even the cabnets,after picking them up for a while I now just seep them under something cause they just come back if I pick them up,as many as I have picked up I wish they were dollar bills..but every penny helps.Its been near four years and I still have no idea where they came from.

[Soft*Silver]

Blade....I want to know what it was you found....

[Blade]

Blade....I want to know what it was you found....

Chuckling....I'll never tell....well I might tell eventually

[dixie]

Chuckling....I'll never tell....well I might tell eventually


inquiring minds want to know...

[RockOn]

Panties in the glove box in my truck.


Come on Blade, you have to tell us. Heh Heh!

[dixie]

in a duplex i lived in: a baby ball python in my kitchen cabinet

(i think somehow it must have escaped from the upstairs neighbor when they moved)

[Soft*Silver]

when I lived in my trailer, I found a condom in its packet, on my bedroom floor. It just showed up there one day. In the middle of the floor. I was not sexually active. I didnt have any left over from when I was. It wasnt a brand I used. My daughter had stayed at the trailer when I was in the hospital but she is allergic to latyx so she has to use animal skin ones. I knew it wasnt hers. Its not like it fell out of someone's pocket...no one and I mean no one goes into my bedroom. (I am seriously celibate).....

right

in the middle

of

the floor....

[TenderKnight]

When I moved into my apartment I was looking through the kitchen cabnets.. There was a lil board that looked loose in the back of one.. Inside where like 20 wash clothes rolled and stacked on top of one another.. I put on gloves and opened them.. Nothing was inside of them and they were hidden pretty good.. hmmm.. Have no idea why or how they came to be.. Some of them are still there, lol

[Gemme]

I've found everything from disgusting, rotting food to change to those little rolled up horoscopes in various corners, crevices and crannies of some of the places I've lived.

[dixie]

Nothing is as bad as moving into your grandma's old house (because after almost 30 years together she finally moves in with her bf) and finding her porn stash and "toy" box in the false bottom of an antique cabinet...:blink:
I love my grandma dearly and I'm happy that she has a healthy love life, but still...that's my GRANDMA!! LOL

[JustBeingMe]

When I was living in a dorm for the first three years of my first B.A. One day I was cleaning under the bed (which was...terrifying lol) and found a muffin I had taken from dining hall a few months back. It had not moulded at all after all that time...I swear you couldn't break this thing with a sledgehammer. My friends and I tried slamming it against the wall/floor/with various objects...this muffin would not break. That's some damn good preservatives... :| Also have no idea how it got under the bed...lol

I am ROFL Laughing so fucking hard on this one cause it sounds like the Biscuits my step mother used to make. LOL
My dad tried to make me eat them until I took two of them, stack them 2 high, and stepped on them with both my feet one on top of the other and said ... ahem, and you want me to do WHAT with them biscuits under my feet dad?
He looked down, saw me standing on them, and said, uhm, Never mind, see if the dog will. LOL
Me and couple cousins took the entire plate of them out the back door, and played baseball with them. Hitting them with the bat to see who could make a biscuit go the farthest. I am lauighing as I type. LOL:superfunny:
Had the dog ate them, he'd be :hospital-snoopy:

[Rockinonahigh]

After mom passed I was going thrue her cedar chest and at the bottom if found a very old copy of a book called memoirs of a woman of pleasure with some explict notes to mom with the inital J at the bottom...no I hvent read them even after all these years..nor the book.This surprises me cause she was an uptight peron about such things so I never thought of her being this way.

[Blade]

while cleaning out a closet, note: not my closet, but in my house...I found a bright red, lacy, with black stockings with the garter attached complete with undies to match, whatcha ma call it cuz I don't know what you call it. All I know is it was never worn for me and was never mine Don't have a clue where it came from. Picked it up with a trash bag turned inside out. Ewwwwwwww.....shakin my head. Someone must have gotten some fun out of it.

[Soft*Silver]

so THATS what you were talking about, Blade! LOL

[scootebaby]

living with my mom one sumer when i was about 19...she wanted me to flip her mattress one day..i guess she realized what i was about to find bc as i was lifting it up,she come walking quickly into the bedroom as i looked down--there between the mattress and box springs was a dildo :| a look of shock that quickly turned to surprise passed over her face then she asked str8 faced "what the hell is that and how did it get there"

there are just some things you dont wanna imagine about ur momma!

[Blade]

While cleaning out my own closet today, I came across 3 identical pair of Justin boots. Now I know exactly how they all got there I just didn't know there were that many pair in there. I had to read inside each boot at the lot numbers to figure out which boots went together, I had 2 pair with the same lot number. I had to look at the bottoms to see which 2 boots were worn the most on the soles to determine which to throw away. LOL I also found a bag with mail in it from Aug and Sept 2009 in it. Birthday cards bills all kinds of stuff in that bag. Now how'd that get there?

[Gemme]

While cleaning out my own closet today, I came across 3 identical pair of Justin boots. Now I know exactly how they all got there I just didn't know there were that many pair in there. I had to read inside each boot at the lot numbers to figure out which boots went together, I had 2 pair with the same lot number. I had to look at the bottoms to see which 2 boots were worn the most on the soles to determine which to throw away. LOL I also found a bag with mail in it from Aug and Sept 2009 in it. Birthday cards bills all kinds of stuff in that bag. Now how'd that get there?

If you liked the boots enough to buy 3 pairs of them, then maybe someone else would like them too. Maybe donate instead of trashing?

[Blade]

If you liked the boots enough to buy 3 pairs of them, then maybe someone else would like them too. Maybe donate instead of trashing?

Chuckling....Gemme, I actually have 6 pair of that same boot 4 brown pair, a blue pair, and a black pair. I wear them slam out before I part with them. I wear a pair for like casual wear and when I get them scuffed up some I start wearing them as my every day pair and wear the soles off them, meanwhile I start another brown pair for casual wear. Course I have the blue and black pair for casual wear to match my hat and belt or shirt or whatever. However I filled up a tote with Reebocks, Ariat's, flip flops, Brama's to take to Goodwill.

[Jude]

When I moved into my apartment I was looking through the kitchen cabnets.. There was a lil board that looked loose in the back of one.. Inside where like 20 wash clothes rolled and stacked on top of one another.. I put on gloves and opened them.. Nothing was inside of them and they were hidden pretty good.. hmmm.. Have no idea why or how they came to be.. Some of them are still there, lol

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Maybe somebody used them in the commission of a heinous crime and was hiding the evidence. Ever check above or behind to see if the original intention was to sop up blood or decomposing body liquids? Wondering who or what part of somebody is buried in that vicinity.

When I moved into my present house many years ago we discovered a couple of intact animal skeletons in the basement rafters. May have been dogs or cats. We were told later by neighbors that the people who had built the house years before were eccentric and the husband kept a shot gun in the kitchen and took pot shots at the neighbor's pets (occasionally at the neighbors themselves). They sold us the house when they retired and moved to a villa in Sarasota. I heard that they were both dead within a year or two. Last part is just incidental. I didn't care for them.

I've never shared this story with Lucy, my shih tzu. But I will on Halloween!!

[Queerasfck]

How did so much wine get down my gullet tonight????

[deb_U_taunt]

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I was cleaning up a lot I bought years ago. It was a Barbie graveyard. I found doll parts buried all over the property. Very odd.

[RockOn]

Sexy femme panties in the glove box in my truck. I never used the glove box and she had put them there months before when we became busy on a hot summer night. ;)

[deb_U_taunt]

Its not really a 'how did it get there', but unpacking during the move I found a chat log from back in IRC days between me and a old crush. AHHH the memories. I wonder how she is doing.

[cinnamongrrl]

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I was cleaning up a lot I bought years ago. It was a Barbie graveyard. I found doll parts buried all over the property. Very odd.

Sounds like my little brother was there :| My poor sister still cries over things he did to her Rainbow Brite doll..... :(

[deb_U_taunt]

Sounds like my little brother was there :| My poor sister still cries over things he did to her Rainbow Brite doll..... :(

Made me wonder what kinda little serial killer was running around the neighborhood.

Your brother grew out of it I hope?

[cinnamongrrl]

Made me wonder what kinda little serial killer was running around the neighborhood.

Your brother grew out of it I hope?

As far as I know he did...we just had to abduct and torture a few of his G.I. Joe's...lol

[deb_U_taunt]

As far as I know he did...we just had to abduct and torture a few of his G.I. Joe's...lol

LMAO I did this to a coworker, he had 'action' figures on his desk and he came in one morning to find them face down with barbies standing on their backs.

[deathbypoem]

A comb and a paintbrush. That someone so sweetly stuck down in the a/c vent.

:hangloose:

[cinnamongrrl]

I can't tell you how many times I've heard about toothbrushes being found in shower drains....I think it may be a military thing. I know my ex brushed his teeth in the shower....

[Kenna]

I will never forget the day Blade found the item he spoke about in the quoted post. And I'll never forget his reaction :superfunny:

You had to be there!! Life is never boring with your best friend.

Recent events made me say "how did THAT get there?" especially when Spring Cleaning in December. Yesterday it was a box of batteries that had disappeared and suddenly reappeared.

Last week it was my keys that I never misplace but somehow misplaced for 2 days (my best friend would roast me for misplacing them. It's an inside joke.) How did THEY get THERE? (in with my clean underwear) :blink:




While cleaning out a closet today I found something that NEVER belonged to me. I don't even know who it did belong to. When I found it, I went :wtf:
:| I picked it up like evidence with a trash bag turned inside out, cuz I haven't a clue who wore it, or what they did with it, or where it had been. :|

Thought it would make a cute thread. What is the strangest thing you've found while cleaning. Or What did you find that you thought was long gone or lost while cleaning?

[CherylNYC]

Someone else's paystub appeared on my desk at home. A person I don't know who works for a company I never heard of. No envelope.

WTF?

I mailed the paystub back to the company. That kinda spooked me.