Most "interesting" places I find during construction and reno projects aren't ever cool, they're often a combination of depressing and/or scary. Hoarder homes, etc.
I found this pistol, its a Belgian copy of the british bulldog in 38short colt and with it a 1913 German Bible, and an empty bottle of liberty whiskey from 1917 all in a old wood box.
I found a really nice hammer deep in between a customer's wall once. I gave it to him since it's his house but I was kinda hoping he'd give it to me. He looked like a guy thay despised working with his hands so I was a little surprised he kept it.
The basement at work has a safe from the 50s built into it. It's a huge safety hazard oh well.
I found a newspaper from the day before I was born in someone's desm
It's frickin weird. I don't look for a lot of newspapers. There's not a lot I've ever seen in abandoned offices either. Like 6 or 7. My birthday wasn't anything special. Why was this newspaper kept for me to find 40 years later? Frickin weird
Not really hidden but we had an old house trailer at my last job that they had used for storage years before that everyone else was too afraid to go into because the porch was rotten. So finally when the plant was shutting down, bossman said I could have whatever I wanted out of there. I got 3 hand trucks, like 8 gallons of antifreeze, an 8' step ladder, an old pressure washer that the only thing was wrong with it was the throttle was stuck open, several laptops, a brand new grill set, three full fire extinguishers, just tons of shit
I should've taken that bucket of methanol that was in the stack of miscellaneous oil and fluids before they laid me off. No idea what we even used to use it for.
I used to be a security guard at a car parts plant. They had several 55gal drums of machine oil sitting around all over the place with pumps threaded in them. Whenever no one was around I would pump a drink bottle full of oil. I still have gallons and gallons of the shit just sitting around
i found ten thousand dollars in a coffee tin last week in a ceiling while i was doing a remo. old bills are kinda hard to spend actually. itll probably be the luckiest thing that ever happens to me.
any atm wont accept it, so you cant spend it at self checkouts, if someone tries to run it through a blacklight counterfeit detector or something they wont work because theres no watermarks, and if the person is too stupid they won't know how to tell if its fake or not. ive had all these problems so far. it usually works though when people don't bother trying to check it or if they know what they're looking for. best bet though is just to exchange it at a bank for new bills. it takes a long time to spend ten thousand in cash.
lol
It feels really weird going into the bank exchanging this money. handing them like $10,000 in good quality bills nearly all from 1981 seems really weird I also don't want to pay taxes on it, and depositing $10,000 or more requires you to fill it a form to declare it as something.
There's a bunch of weirdness with serial numbers that collectors like. All one or two numbers, the same backwards and forwards, that kind of shit. You've got a shitload of bills so you could spend a little more time sorting through them. Of course the value is ultimately determined by the bill's condition so if they're all pretty worn then there's not much point, but since you're on this site you'll probably have fun regardless.
It's all about condition, those aren't very old and aren't in great condition. It won't hurt you to call about them, but don't be surprised when you find out they're worth about $20 each. The one with the low-ish serial number might go to $25 to the right collector?
1 month ago
Anonymous
I have a true binary $5 star note, all 0's and 1's. Even with two bad creases I had someone offer me $75 for it
1 month ago
Anonymous
i mean if thats all it is then why should i bother? id only bother trading them in if i got like twice their value or something. a few extra dollars doesn't mean much to me.
you could probably split it into 2k stacks, and just deposit them at different bank branches every week or two. It will definitely raise some eyebrows from the bank teller, but as long as they react to the money pen, and there are security strips in all the bills they spot check(I'm sure they wonk check all 100 bills) it should be fine. Legal tender is legal tender and at the end of the day, it's not their job to record where every bill comes from. If they ask, just tell them you found it in your attic. A lot of boomers stashed cash out of mistrust of banks. it's not that weird
thats kinda the plan. thats pretty much what happened when i exchanged the first 2k. they did make me deposit it and withdraw it so it was accounted for i guess.
Do not do this, they take 15% and if you make over $600 ebay will submit a 1099k to the IRS saying how much you made and you will have to pay taxes on it.
>purchase house >it has lightbulbs and wires and shit >move into the house >enjoy your house and your lightbulbs and wires
meanwhile in your moron brain >purchase land >the previous owner has the right to everything left on the property and can come get it at any time and you're stealing if you don't give it to them right away
By your logic he should've given it to the property owner. Which, you know. He should have.
1 month ago
Anonymous
If you forget your can of $50,000 when you sign over ALL of your interest in a property that's your own problem.
1 month ago
Anonymous
The way he wrote it makes it sound like he found it while working on somebody else's house. If it's his ceiling then it's his money, otherwise yeah, he technically stole it from whoever's house it currently is (might be a company though, in which case, who cares).
1 month ago
Anonymous
Oh you're right. I just assumed everyone on diy is a neet and must have been doing work for his own house.
Yeah frick him if it was someone else's house
1 month ago
Anonymous
Oh you're right. I just assumed everyone on diy is a neet and must have been doing work for his own house.
Yeah frick him if it was someone else's house
it was a vacant house. old owner died and someone new bought it and was having work done before they moved in.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
>someone new bought it
Anon, that means they own it. And everything in it. You're a thief.
4 weeks ago
Anonymous
Not to mention he stated the amount, over 5000 is typically considered grand theft. So he just admitted to a felony, and provided photographic evidence. Whoopsy.
I do home renovations and on a few occasions the customer showed me a secret room. Where they tap a bookcase and there is a room on the other side. In one house the guy had a bunch of guns and ammo on the other side
Not me, unfortunately. But in 1988 I did have a co-worker who was redoing a 2-car garage in 1985 and found a hidden compartment in a wall. After prying it open he found an original unopened copy of The Beatles "White" album still sealed in its original packing.
In the 1970s his landlord rented the house to a guy who turned out to be a property thief.
I am currently sitting above an old pit in my garage I found 10 years ago when I ripped up the floor. Like an absolute moron I filled it up with asbestos I ripped out from elsewhere in the house because I was too cheap to dispose of it properly. Have since got rid of the asbestos but I don't want to go back down there. Would have made an amazing little bunker or hideout for my kid 🙁
I was doing a repipe a couple years ago on a house with a basement the was half a 5ft wall of dirt concreted off from the rest of the finished basement. of course had to roll around over there to run plumbing for above. hidden behind the wall I found this calender with an empty can of campbells chicken noodle and fifth of whiskey
oh and when I was a kid we lived along a relatively busy road and was mowing up there and found a 20$ stuck up against the fence
both moments were great
Hidden area under the first 3 steps of the stairs was a small hidden area. It had a bunch of empty boxes of Coke Cola collectables.
A few different times cleaning my mothers old house. My (older) brother would hide stuff around the house. My brother was moronic and did stuff (drinking, drugs, stealing) when hanging out with people because he had a hard time of making friends and he thought this was a good way to make friends.
My dad would let my brother do pretty much anything to the house because my dad thought my brother knew what he was doing but didn't know shit.
I never gotten around to fully check the whole house. It is falling apart now since no one lives in it for over 10 years.
A homemade bong (hoses and a pickle jar) above the bathroom in an area that you can get to from the garage.
A peep hole he made in his closet to spy into our sisters room.
Sister's training/sports bra in the wall in his closet.
Ripped out pages from Playboys stashed in the wall.
(He had a hole in the wall that he would hide stuff in that also had the peep hole).
A print out for making meth (which was more likely fake) that he found on the internet.
The basement was half ass (old house that was updated over and over since it was built in the late 1800s). He would use the crawl spaces to hide shit. This included.
A half case (24 cans) of Budweiser that expired back in 1998.
Cans of Chew.
I think he mostly stolen the chew and beer from our Grandpa in town.
He did build a bar in the basement that he only used for a year or so. It was mostly used by him, our sister, and a few of their loser friends that lived in that town. The basement only had the steps in the garage which made getting in and out easy from the garage door or back door for them.
I was redoing a kitchen and there was a big bulge in the drywall. When I cut it out there was a full on wood cabinet built into the wall that was just covered up with another layer of drywall.
if was like finding hardwood floor under shag carpet.
Used to work in a school, they had these super heavy duty backpack cubbies going up one of the walls almost all the way to the ceiling. Shit was like 3/4in ply and put together sturdy as hell. It was super easy to climb and once you were in the ceiling you could hop the wall and get onto this catwalk going over the hallway. Didn't find anything but it was a really good spot to chill after hours.
Found the previous homeowner's porn stash while running new electricals. We were told that the hubby was cheating on his wife and in the wall we found two pairs of stained panties and an old Playboy. Shit was full of full furry bushes.
I found 1500 ripping up a carpet in a borderline hoarder house, and like the good boy gigahomosexual boyscout that I am, I gave the money back to homeowner. My dad wanted to be paid cash at the end of the day and they 'didn't have any'. Don't do the 'right thing' anons, it won't get you anywhere.
For actualy diy, found a 1970s porno rag when I bought the house. Posted it here like 6 yrs ago but thread got deleted by homosexual jannies because they dont like looking at breasts. whatever, I guess they can't help it.
we're on PrepHole so I can be candid, I havent been with many women. and the ones I have been with are all shaved, and the slightest comment is met with instant screeching. It hurts my soul. I need at least one nicely maintained bush in my life, but im heading for a lonely death at terminal velocity.
I was moving around some computer stuff downstairs in my home office in our old rental in 2010. I noticed that the wall drywall didn't fit too well I noticed it was gapping behind it so I opened up the wall. There was an old computer a box of papers some outdoors equipment and some apparent grow up stuff there was a holophane lamp shade,
The papers belong to some guy who'd been in Canada's prison system and there was stuff saying that he got compensation for getting hepatitis C while behind bars, a whole bunch of letters to his family there, Andrew 386 computer. I kept the hard drive out of it in case I ever want to try to see what he had on there
Most "interesting" places I find during construction and reno projects aren't ever cool, they're often a combination of depressing and/or scary. Hoarder homes, etc.
Found some weed while cleaning my grandma's new house. It was on top of the kitchen cupboards.
Yea..... no one cares
You cared enough to reply :^)
I found this pistol, its a Belgian copy of the british bulldog in 38short colt and with it a 1913 German Bible, and an empty bottle of liberty whiskey from 1917 all in a old wood box.
Pistol works great.
thats wild.
Once I found the box for an old general store .22, but not the revolver itself. I was very disappointed.
I found a really nice hammer deep in between a customer's wall once. I gave it to him since it's his house but I was kinda hoping he'd give it to me. He looked like a guy thay despised working with his hands so I was a little surprised he kept it.
The basement at work has a safe from the 50s built into it. It's a huge safety hazard oh well.
I found a newspaper from the day before I was born in someone's desm
why is it a safety hazard
Because it's a giant t safe you can walk into and there's no way to get out if the door closes.
That's cool, I have a news paper from the day I was born, my grandfather kept it and when he passed on I found it in his dresser wrapped up.
It's frickin weird. I don't look for a lot of newspapers. There's not a lot I've ever seen in abandoned offices either. Like 6 or 7. My birthday wasn't anything special. Why was this newspaper kept for me to find 40 years later? Frickin weird
Not really hidden but we had an old house trailer at my last job that they had used for storage years before that everyone else was too afraid to go into because the porch was rotten. So finally when the plant was shutting down, bossman said I could have whatever I wanted out of there. I got 3 hand trucks, like 8 gallons of antifreeze, an 8' step ladder, an old pressure washer that the only thing was wrong with it was the throttle was stuck open, several laptops, a brand new grill set, three full fire extinguishers, just tons of shit
I should've taken that bucket of methanol that was in the stack of miscellaneous oil and fluids before they laid me off. No idea what we even used to use it for.
Yes, you totally should have.
I used to be a security guard at a car parts plant. They had several 55gal drums of machine oil sitting around all over the place with pumps threaded in them. Whenever no one was around I would pump a drink bottle full of oil. I still have gallons and gallons of the shit just sitting around
i found ten thousand dollars in a coffee tin last week in a ceiling while i was doing a remo. old bills are kinda hard to spend actually. itll probably be the luckiest thing that ever happens to me.
Silver certificate or fed reserve note?
what? just bills from the 80s
$10k isn't a lot, just use it at self checkout for groceries, it'll go fast.
>. old bills are kinda hard to spend actually.
lying liars gotta lie. I found 10 million dollars in an old suitcase, but I couldn't spend it because somebody drew smiley faces on each president.
any atm wont accept it, so you cant spend it at self checkouts, if someone tries to run it through a blacklight counterfeit detector or something they wont work because theres no watermarks, and if the person is too stupid they won't know how to tell if its fake or not. ive had all these problems so far. it usually works though when people don't bother trying to check it or if they know what they're looking for. best bet though is just to exchange it at a bank for new bills. it takes a long time to spend ten thousand in cash.
>it takes a long time to spend ten thousand in cash.
Like hell it does.
ask me how I can tell you will die broke before your 60th birthday
>it takes a long time to spend ten thousand in cash
if im not paying my bills in cash what big purchases am i making?
drugs. that's what those bills were used to pay for, anyway.
Go to your bank and order 10k in half dollars and search them for silver
lol
It feels really weird going into the bank exchanging this money. handing them like $10,000 in good quality bills nearly all from 1981 seems really weird I also don't want to pay taxes on it, and depositing $10,000 or more requires you to fill it a form to declare it as something.
Split it up and sell it to collectors, look for sequential bills and misprints
i asked a coin collector if hed be interested and he said not at all.
Ask a bill collector doofus
thats a different store? the place said they were a currency collector. i guess i can call a different one tomorrow.
There's a bunch of weirdness with serial numbers that collectors like. All one or two numbers, the same backwards and forwards, that kind of shit. You've got a shitload of bills so you could spend a little more time sorting through them. Of course the value is ultimately determined by the bill's condition so if they're all pretty worn then there's not much point, but since you're on this site you'll probably have fun regardless.
https://www.mycurrencycollection.com/reference/collecting/types-and-values-of-fancy-serial-numbers
Search the bills for star notes. There will be a star at the end of the serial.
ill check
good call. i found 4 of them. ill call a place tomorrow.
It's all about condition, those aren't very old and aren't in great condition. It won't hurt you to call about them, but don't be surprised when you find out they're worth about $20 each. The one with the low-ish serial number might go to $25 to the right collector?
I have a true binary $5 star note, all 0's and 1's. Even with two bad creases I had someone offer me $75 for it
i mean if thats all it is then why should i bother? id only bother trading them in if i got like twice their value or something. a few extra dollars doesn't mean much to me.
for anyone curious, they are just reprints of botched bills.
you could probably split it into 2k stacks, and just deposit them at different bank branches every week or two. It will definitely raise some eyebrows from the bank teller, but as long as they react to the money pen, and there are security strips in all the bills they spot check(I'm sure they wonk check all 100 bills) it should be fine. Legal tender is legal tender and at the end of the day, it's not their job to record where every bill comes from. If they ask, just tell them you found it in your attic. A lot of boomers stashed cash out of mistrust of banks. it's not that weird
thats kinda the plan. thats pretty much what happened when i exchanged the first 2k. they did make me deposit it and withdraw it so it was accounted for i guess.
>probably be the luckiest thing that ever happens to me
Based and realism-pilled.
sell those bills on ebay
they don't seem to be worth much more than face value. i doubt it's worth the hassle
Yeah just use the money to buy gas and groceries
thats the plan. gotta keep swapping it out though because it wont work in cash machines.
You can't just give it to the cashier?
i guess. i always just pay at the pump or use self checkout.
Flip shit at some swapmeets. Ez.
Do not do this, they take 15% and if you make over $600 ebay will submit a 1099k to the IRS saying how much you made and you will have to pay taxes on it.
>found
I think you mean you stole them
from who?
whoever put it in the wall or their offspring, whom they didn't mention it to.
i dont know who put it in the wall and have no way of contacting them. they also dont live there and will never be back.
>purchase house
>it has lightbulbs and wires and shit
>move into the house
>enjoy your house and your lightbulbs and wires
meanwhile in your moron brain
>purchase land
>the previous owner has the right to everything left on the property and can come get it at any time and you're stealing if you don't give it to them right away
By your logic he should've given it to the property owner. Which, you know. He should have.
If you forget your can of $50,000 when you sign over ALL of your interest in a property that's your own problem.
The way he wrote it makes it sound like he found it while working on somebody else's house. If it's his ceiling then it's his money, otherwise yeah, he technically stole it from whoever's house it currently is (might be a company though, in which case, who cares).
Oh you're right. I just assumed everyone on diy is a neet and must have been doing work for his own house.
Yeah frick him if it was someone else's house
it was a vacant house. old owner died and someone new bought it and was having work done before they moved in.
>someone new bought it
Anon, that means they own it. And everything in it. You're a thief.
Not to mention he stated the amount, over 5000 is typically considered grand theft. So he just admitted to a felony, and provided photographic evidence. Whoopsy.
frick yea
Hurr durr I found a bag full of money. Will I
A. keep my mouth shut
B. post it online for the world to see
its pretty cool though right?
Yes
thats why i posted.
I do home renovations and on a few occasions the customer showed me a secret room. Where they tap a bookcase and there is a room on the other side. In one house the guy had a bunch of guns and ammo on the other side
rent free
under our 1900s house when jacking it up as a kid. later as a teen I got to clean up after it burned and found the o.g. well.
Not me, unfortunately. But in 1988 I did have a co-worker who was redoing a 2-car garage in 1985 and found a hidden compartment in a wall. After prying it open he found an original unopened copy of The Beatles "White" album still sealed in its original packing.
In the 1970s his landlord rented the house to a guy who turned out to be a property thief.
I am currently sitting above an old pit in my garage I found 10 years ago when I ripped up the floor. Like an absolute moron I filled it up with asbestos I ripped out from elsewhere in the house because I was too cheap to dispose of it properly. Have since got rid of the asbestos but I don't want to go back down there. Would have made an amazing little bunker or hideout for my kid 🙁
I was doing a repipe a couple years ago on a house with a basement the was half a 5ft wall of dirt concreted off from the rest of the finished basement. of course had to roll around over there to run plumbing for above. hidden behind the wall I found this calender with an empty can of campbells chicken noodle and fifth of whiskey
oh and when I was a kid we lived along a relatively busy road and was mowing up there and found a 20$ stuck up against the fence
both moments were great
>Kathy Ireland in the green swimsuit
Shit, that was the first swimsuit edition I ever bought. Pretty sure I still have in a box somewhere.
>$13.95 in 1995 dollaredoos
That's pricy af, what's that in bidenbucks?
>I need to be political, so I'm going to act like I can't Google!
Frick off.
about tree fitty
Hidden area under the first 3 steps of the stairs was a small hidden area. It had a bunch of empty boxes of Coke Cola collectables.
A few different times cleaning my mothers old house. My (older) brother would hide stuff around the house. My brother was moronic and did stuff (drinking, drugs, stealing) when hanging out with people because he had a hard time of making friends and he thought this was a good way to make friends.
My dad would let my brother do pretty much anything to the house because my dad thought my brother knew what he was doing but didn't know shit.
I never gotten around to fully check the whole house. It is falling apart now since no one lives in it for over 10 years.
A homemade bong (hoses and a pickle jar) above the bathroom in an area that you can get to from the garage.
A peep hole he made in his closet to spy into our sisters room.
Sister's training/sports bra in the wall in his closet.
Ripped out pages from Playboys stashed in the wall.
(He had a hole in the wall that he would hide stuff in that also had the peep hole).
A print out for making meth (which was more likely fake) that he found on the internet.
The basement was half ass (old house that was updated over and over since it was built in the late 1800s). He would use the crawl spaces to hide shit. This included.
A half case (24 cans) of Budweiser that expired back in 1998.
Cans of Chew.
I think he mostly stolen the chew and beer from our Grandpa in town.
He did build a bar in the basement that he only used for a year or so. It was mostly used by him, our sister, and a few of their loser friends that lived in that town. The basement only had the steps in the garage which made getting in and out easy from the garage door or back door for them.
I hate my family.
>A peep hole he made in his closet to spy into our sisters room.
Wait what?
Older brother would spy on our sister. Yea he fricked her too if your wondering so don't ask.
I just want that house to burn down. I disown most of my family.
Test
I was redoing a kitchen and there was a big bulge in the drywall. When I cut it out there was a full on wood cabinet built into the wall that was just covered up with another layer of drywall.
if was like finding hardwood floor under shag carpet.
We found several mummified rats when we tore down our walls during the expansion of my parent's house. They're so gross looking.
Used to work in a school, they had these super heavy duty backpack cubbies going up one of the walls almost all the way to the ceiling. Shit was like 3/4in ply and put together sturdy as hell. It was super easy to climb and once you were in the ceiling you could hop the wall and get onto this catwalk going over the hallway. Didn't find anything but it was a really good spot to chill after hours.
> chill after hours.
Whack off
Found the previous homeowner's porn stash while running new electricals. We were told that the hubby was cheating on his wife and in the wall we found two pairs of stained panties and an old Playboy. Shit was full of full furry bushes.
>Shit was full of full furry bushes.
The panties, magazine, or the mold?
Full on veganal bushes in the Playboy ya moron.
Underneath my stairs is unassailable. I would expect to fine an old soda car and empty pack of cigarettes.
I found 1500 ripping up a carpet in a borderline hoarder house, and like the good boy gigahomosexual boyscout that I am, I gave the money back to homeowner. My dad wanted to be paid cash at the end of the day and they 'didn't have any'. Don't do the 'right thing' anons, it won't get you anywhere.
For actualy diy, found a 1970s porno rag when I bought the house. Posted it here like 6 yrs ago but thread got deleted by homosexual jannies because they dont like looking at breasts. whatever, I guess they can't help it.
What kind of skin mag
high society
cover had a topless girl with a hat and cane I think? idk, but bush needs to make comeback, and anyone who disagrees can fight me
>bush
"I was there Gandalf, 3,000 years ago."
we're on PrepHole so I can be candid, I havent been with many women. and the ones I have been with are all shaved, and the slightest comment is met with instant screeching. It hurts my soul. I need at least one nicely maintained bush in my life, but im heading for a lonely death at terminal velocity.
My wife shaved the first one or two times we went out and I said it wasn't a big deal so she stopped.
I thought I'd like it because it wpuld be like my animu waifus but now it's frickin weird.
Find a nice bear. Guys can be very hairy and give the best head.
but im the bear
I was moving around some computer stuff downstairs in my home office in our old rental in 2010. I noticed that the wall drywall didn't fit too well I noticed it was gapping behind it so I opened up the wall. There was an old computer a box of papers some outdoors equipment and some apparent grow up stuff there was a holophane lamp shade,
The papers belong to some guy who'd been in Canada's prison system and there was stuff saying that he got compensation for getting hepatitis C while behind bars, a whole bunch of letters to his family there, Andrew 386 computer. I kept the hard drive out of it in case I ever want to try to see what he had on there