Comments on: Dear Dairy

By: sheri shiflet

sheri shiflet — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:58:16 +0000

There were four bottles but, one fell down. The Richmond Dairy Company was built in the 1913, if you’d like more information, please feel free to email me.

Sheri

By: meganjchavz

meganjchavz — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:52:48 +0000

we found a skeleton key while digging in the backyard of our 1924 home!

By: Sophie

Sophie — Tue, 25 May 2010 13:33:53 +0000

About five years ago, my family decorated our kitchen, which had been the same since they moved in in 1991. When we tore down one of the cupboards, we discovered some papers behind it. It was the original order slip for the kitchen units and counters, and we found out they’d come all the way from Italy at the end of the 70′s.
It was pretty awesome, and we did actually think twice about keeping the units because of their interesting heritage, but alas, we had to replace them. They were super ugly :P

By: Tiffannie

Tiffannie — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:01:34 +0000

Like Amy and JM, my family also hid “time capsules whenever my dad did a major renovation (three to date). We included a newspaper, a list of the family’s names and ages and a note from each, money from the current year, a list of the current top 10 movies and songs, and Happy Meal toys (as an example of what kids played with in the mid ’90s). It sounds so lame when I explain it now, but hopefully if/when someone finds them many years from now they’ll think it’s cool…just like the people who dropped the milk top would have thought nothing of it but now we all think it’s neat.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:09:13 +0000

Aww you found a sweet little artifact! My house, which I’m pretty sure used to be a drug house, has some less- sweet things to be found. I found some kind of bill stuffed behind some pipes, and a high-heel shoe and some socks buried in the backyard! The best thing I’ve found though, is an old Jello cookbook. It has such treasures as Tomato Ribbon Loaf and Chili Shrimp Salad (all containing Jello). I’ll have to post some pics to my blog soon, they are hilarious.

By: everyeskimo

everyeskimo — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:44:53 +0000

weirdest find ever: a small metal tube with a swastika on it. i can’t even imagine the story behind that. (nor do i particularly want to.)

best finds: a key hole cover with a beautiful patina and a pair of super rusted kid’s scissors. they hang on the inspiration board in my office.

By: JM

JM — Fri, 08 May 2009 14:37:01 +0000

Amy – I love this idea “In the house I grew up in and my parents still live in, we’ve actually HIDDEN THINGS ON PURPOSE for future generations/owners to find!” How fun!

By: Tamisha

Tamisha — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:58:08 +0000

I meant to say “very old” condom wrappers from the 1930s, which is pretty cool. New ones would just be weird.

By: Tamisha

Tamisha — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:56:31 +0000

A friend of mine in Alexandria found a bunch of condom wrappers when they started renovations.

We haven’t found any really good treasure, but our 1950s rancher was built very close to Civil War battlefields and I find fire pits when I dig in the garden.

We too had one room covered in orangy knotting pine paneling. It was hideous. I washed it down with TSP, lightly sanded with a pole sander, wiped it down with a tac cloth, primed it very well, and then painted it. It’s been up for five or six years now and looks great. We just repainted it in December to put it on the market. You can see it here:

http://nestingpair.blogspot.com/2009/02/bedrooms.html

By: YoungHouseLove

YoungHouseLove — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:51:47 +0000

How funny, Carolyne! We had a similar experience with the inspector who looked at our house before closing. He had grown up down the street and was telling all these funny tales of the old owners and what the neighborhood used to be like. Apparently there was almost a tennis court in our backyard.

-John