What was the oddest thing you found when clearing out things of someone who passed on?
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My great uncle had 5 gallons of mercury in a glass jar in his garage. We couldn't move it cause the jar would break and let mercury into the water system since the garage had a drain. We also couldn't get anyone to move t because it was "too much". We did eventually get someone to move it though.
@BanterMaestro2-vh5vnAlso incredibly dangerous… like, holy shit, how do you even get that much mercury? Genuinely wondering if it contributed to his death.
Even a few drops of Hg spilled needs a hazmat team to clean up: five GALLONS of that stuff would ruin the neighbourhood’s habitability for a very long time, if not the entire town’s!
that first story is like the analog version of "clear my browser history"
After my great grandmother died, we found quite a few interesting things including her diarys from when she was little to when my grandfather was married, it included everything about the small town she lived in, which in the 60s was then transformed completely, because of how much detail she included someone is writing a book about her and everything she detail, with permission from my grandad, which is cool. she also had some random person's golden tooth? never knew anyone with one so she probably just found it on the floor lol.
My parents bought a hoarders house for she passed away. We found old news dating back from titanic. We found old milk bottles and crates that they brought to the house way back when. We found old jewelry and old guns. Vintage old books and clothes. It was sad. But awesome finds. We didn’t take anything we gave it away. But wow what history you find in a hoarders home.
Than there terrible people
Some hoarders have really interesting things they've kept over the years, others are just clingy to trash.
My grandma passed away in 2011, and during lockdown we cleared out her things. She was adopted as a child and we never knew her bio parents. We live at the bottom of the street right next to two others. We found her birth certificate during the clear out and learned her bio parents but also something much more insane. We found out that she lived on one of the two streets right next to us and we would be able to see her house out of our back garden. For context, we moved in 2014 and we had no idea her bio parents lived so near us, we mainly moved there because it was relatively cheap, a well suited home for us and was near my dad's work. So you could expect that we were in complete shock as to what we found out.
I knew the sapphires would be real the moment the jeweler told him he could take them off his hands.
Last Story: As a naturalized Texan, I gotta say, hiding your out of state birthplace is a very Texan thing to do. Heck, I admit being from out of state, but I have an adoptive Texan name that replaced the alias I used for the first dozen or so years of my life.
The "Hank Hill was secretly born in New York" is an actual fear Texans have. It's relatable.
When my grandma died in her 80's, we didn't find anything shocking as much as weird. She hid mail around the trailer while everyone who visited had to pretend not to notice a crunch sound after sitting on the couch. Under the cushions was huge stacks of mail. This included bills, ads, everything. There was more mail kept carefully in cardboard boxes and grocery sacks found in a closet. Mail everywhere! Decades of it. The family couldn't just throw it all away because among the junk was important documents. Everyone finally took them home to go through. We found individual pieces of jewelry carefully wrapped in toilet paper and stashed all over the trailer. They were among her mail stashes, in her folded fabrics in her sewing room, in closets. Anywhere but her jewelry box. Some of it was my great-grandmother's jewelry. It was maddening. I hope we found it all, but we could have missed something. So glad thats over.
My grandpa passed a few months ago. we found a Wendy's coupon that expired in 1998 in his wallet. just yesterday, we found this weird thing that weighed a letter and told you how many stamps you would need for it. the best part about it was that it told you how much the stamps would cost in 1976. That is the most him sounding thing in existence and it got me on the floor laughing.🤣
Cleaned out my great aunts house after she passed and I personally came across a KKK membership card for her husband. He was the most mellow guy you'd ever meet but was apparently a bastard in his 20s. Oddly he did not live in the south nor had any roots in the south.
Apparently, my Dad was interested in natzi memorabilia and had quite a collection of silver rings and medals; I donated it to a museum that collects and displays such artifacts in the midwest. I tried to sell the stuff in town and they were just going to give me silver melt value, so I guess I did the right thing? His "girlie movie" trove was unceremoniously chucked into the trash. I always knew he was a perv.
Maybe not "shocking" or " weird", but definitely surprising. Both of my parents whom I lived with since I was born passed away last year, dad in March, and Mom in December '22. Dad didn't have very much in his bedroom, outside of his clothes, and a couple picture frames. Mom, on the other hand, there were oodles and oodles of stuff in her room that I am still not done going through (she was an indoor smoker and her room is taking awhile to process because of how nasty it is in there, and how every time I open the door to her room, I feel this sensation of being overwhelmed that I don't know where to even start trying to clean it all up). However, I did find an old candy box underneath her bed, because I needed the bed frame, as I wanted to set up another bed but dad's bed frame was broken and held together with a C-clamp. So, I took this candy box and dusted it off, it was absolutely covered in a mixture of tobacco tar, dust, and pet hair, opened it up and found a plethora of old letters and stuff. Most of it was from my maternal grandparents who I have zero memories of (my maternal grandma passed when I was a toddler, and IIRC, my maternal grandpa passed before I was even born) to mom and dad, a couple report cards from mom's early schooling (why she kept this I have no idea), a report card from my older brother's early schooling, a few baby pictures, that kind of stuff. And then, I found It.
A hand-written letter on a piece of yellow notebook paper, from dad to mom which explains how exactly they met and how their relationship started. Apparently, they bumped into each other at my maternal aunt's house, and dad was an acquaintance or friend of said aunt's husband. The first meeting was apparently awkward judging from what the letter said, and dad apparently talked to said uncle and said uncle convinced him to talk to who would become my mom, and so he wrote her a letter apologizing for the awkwardness, and expressed interest in talking to her again, asking for a second chance.
Said second chance obviously happened, as they got married, and had my brother and I. But, I was very surprised to see that mom kept that letter all these years. She passed away at the age of 67, and it sounds like she was 18-19 when she got married, so they were married some 49-50 years. Adding to the surprise was the fact that during the past 10-15 years or so, mom and dad really didn't get along all that well. They were always constantly arguing about everything, they could rarely agree on much of anything, be it faith, plans for the house, or just stuff in life in general. Dad had started taking this stance of "I'll do what I want regardless what she says" and she started her somewhat isolated way of living, sticking to her bedroom and the extra bedroom where her computer was, and rarely going anywhere else in the house other than the kitchen or the bathroom.
I found it surprising she kept the letter that started their relationship all this time, when it was rather clear to me that the two could barely stand each other during the past couple decades and only stayed together because of religious reasons (or so it looked to me).
I think, if they had lived another 5 or so years, they very well might have divorced or at least separated and lived apart from one another, dad was tempted to move out several times in the last 5 years, because he couldn't stand her aggressiveness and hostility towards him, and I myself had wished a few times that I could afford to live on my own, that I could afford to find a place.
Well, sadly they're both gone, and I got my wish: I live alone now, with the cat that both of them were fond of. I'm currently trying to clean up the humongous mess they left me: mom was a heavy indoor smoker, and dad was a borderline hoarder, he liked to keep lots of old mechanical junk, old motors, old hardware, lots and lots of tools, that kind of stuff and during the last few years of his life, he got lethargic due to his cancer and just left stuff go. I've made some progress, but I've a good bit of work to go, and thanks to a new, better paying job, there's a bit of light at the end of the tunnel that hopefully by the end of '24, I should have a good bit of it done.
Somethings we found after my dad died recently:
-Bags of me and my brothers baby teeth
-Drawings and concepts for an in ground pond, it was pretty good for somebody who could "only draw stick figures"
-He had 3 hard hats from his job for some reason
-10 years of working on submarine stuff award
-GoPro full of videos of him and my brother fishing
I hope you saves the GoPro videos, I feel like your brother would want them.
Hard hats tend to pile up. You keep a spare in case someone forgets one. You keep another one because your other car needs one. You got another because it's a coworker's and they forgot it. Another is a coworker you buried last year.
My grandparents have dementia and have since been moved to an elderly home for people with dementia. The most interesting thing I found was a sickle and hammer brooch.
I think your grandparents may have been communists.
Or, they killed a communist and took his brooch.
My wife went to Russia a few years after the fall of the USSR. They were desperate to sell old communism stuff for American dollars. My wife got a few things just as souvenirs. We’re not communists. It may just be that.
The war memorabilia: Donate that to the local historical society. It _pains_ me when people don't give full respect to those who have served. 😞
The guns were (hopefully) sold to collectors. If they get put in museums, they're likely going to be full of concrete and inoperable. Authentic, sure, but effectively useless.
A tale as old as time… granddaddy was a stud in the service, but at the cost of being an abusive alcoholic to his family
A literal bomb that did not detonate from the Vietnam war in my FIL’s belongs just sitting there on a shelf. Husband wanted to keep it, but after extensive research we decided it was best to call the military to come retrieve it. Apparently these things are still embedded all around Vietnam and they sometimes randomly explode and still kill people. A bomb guy was dispatched to come get it immediately and upon inspection he said that it was indeed still basically a ticking time bomb. He expressed that it was probably good that it was never dropped on a hard floor because it could hurt someone. It was to be taken back and exploded at the base where they test stuff like that.
While cleaning out my grandfather's house after he died, we found newspapers about the moon landing. Unfortunately we were unable to find anyone interested in them and were forced to put them out for recycle :(
Oh noo! I would have loved to have those, or at least read them!
Should've donated them to an appropriate history museum. They may never be put on display, but they'll be well preserved inside the archives.
@@lordpumpkinhead265 We tried. But there aren't any in my area and none of the historical societies wanted them
My father in law doesn't know his birthday.
He has an idea but not positive.
Born in a farmhouse, it was a few days before the Doctor came around to do a check.
His birth certificate is dated the day the doctor came, not the day of his actual birth.
my grandpa died in 2018 and in 2021 we decided to see everything he had left, nothing to weird except he had copies of a ton of newspapers from 1960 to 2010 and they were all in good enough quality that you could still read them, we let grandma keep them and i have no idea if she still has them or not
The last story, I was adopted when I was 2 years old and I actually have 3 birth certificates. My original one from MS with my bio parents, one from KS when I was adopted, and another from KS after they changed my name. If anyone asks where I'm from, it's KS. That's where I was raised by my parents (adopted parents) and what I consider home, but I was born in MS.
YES! another.... well I don't know how to explain this one, especially the first story lol
According to my mom, they could see from my grandmas documents how her mind detiriorated the last couple of years.
She would always go to the atm once a month and take out cash (my aunt would handle her bills for her so it was just for trips to the shops etc.) and would write on the envolope what was bought when and for how much. all perfectly in order untill the last couple of years when she forgot money in the envolope after the month was over etc. so they found a decent amount of money in it, but they had to go through years of otherwise meaningless documents to make sure.
I was at the planning meeting for a relative's funeral. The funeral director asked why the family said that the deceased was born in Idaho when her birth certificate said she was born in Montana. Her brother told the director that it was because the family didn't bother getting a birth certificate for her until she was a toddler, and by then, they had moved to Montana. In the old days, it was normal for people to delay getting birth certificates for their kids.
This may be an explanation as to why the woman spoken of in the video claimed she was born in Texas, when her birth certificate said she was born in Arkansas.
not my family but i was clearing out a family friends house for their big move, found silver coins, years old newspapers, long expired chocolate and preserves and the piece de resistance..an honest to god scythe
on the last one...
what was the legal marriageable age in those two states at that time?
because it's possible she lied about her birth place And possibly her age due being under aged when they got married. it wasn't uncommon during a certain time period for "women" (read: girls) under age to say they were older so they could "legally" marry their boyfriend; for whatever reason. usually because the girl was already pregnant. but some times it could just be that things were bad at home. (not enough food, etc. for everybody)
My ex's mom had folded hundreds of plastic grocery bags into perfect little triangle bun things. We just found a big bag full of them. Oh, and we found pictures and a box full of Jewish... artifacts? including a very old metal-bound Hebrew bible from her secret wedding to a Jewish man that had apparently happened before she met my ex's dad.
Did the family live in Texas, and if so, when did they move there? She may have been born in Arkansas and moved to Texas very young.
Is it lame to speculate that the grandma legitimately didn’t know she was born in Arkansas? My almost-90 year old grandmother went to get social security last year, and for some reason this needed a copy of her birth certificate, when none of the other legal processes she’d been through over the years did. She and my mom had to go to town hall to get a copy, and when they did, she found out that the name on every legal document she DID have- marriage certificate, bank statements, Medicare- was NOT her first name! Her entire life, she thought she was the only one of 11 siblings to just….not have a middle name. We knew that her parents followed a very common Catholic practice at that time of naming ALL of their boys “Joseph” and calling them by their middle names. Less common was doing the same for girls, but with whatever culturally relevant form of “Mary” was popular (Marie, Maria, etc). Turns out, her parents had named their first child Marie, given different names to their next two daughters, then gotten to my Memere (the youngest girl) and decided to go back to Marie again. Her “first name” from her entire life was legally her middle name, and she had no idea.
2:11 I hope I’m misunderstanding, cause it is illegal to sell war medals
They were probably talking about just general memorabilia like the uniform
Narrator you seem dangerous running from the law
Wheres the story where the uncle was a grand wizard? No way its not on here
Happens WAY more often than you think.
I’m not the first person here but I’m the first too comment and I still got here in the first 2 minutes
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@@leemetcalf5136 thanks :)
This is weird
I liked my own comment
great for you.
@@whatsup5791 yeah, you have a good point.