We've found some truly interesting things as we've been working on this project. Some of it's been scary, and some of it has caused us to laugh like kids at the carnival. We've developed our top five list of Things You Really Don't Want to Find in Your Walls...
5) Pennies in light sockets.
4) Hornet's nests for window insulation.
3) Pine cones.
2) Large chunks of daylight seeping through.
and the number one thing you really never want to see in the walls of your home...
1) Multiple snake sheds.
What are some strange things you've found in your home spaces?
Dy
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Well, this is embarrasing.In our basement we have found a chipmunks winter savings, as well as a nest of ring neck snakes. (The boys were squealing with delight as they pulled them out and held them up for me to see,"Oh, WOW Mom! ANOTHER ONE!") And worst of all...........under Jack's bed (of course), a tiny treefrog *skeleton*. (shudder) Please don't call the authorities. Really. They are happy and well cared for children. Really.
ROFL Melissa! I grew up never wanting to clean my room. WHen we moved out of the house I lived in from 14-17 we found a tiny mouse skeleton in a tupperware box...lolol
Yikes@the snake sheds Dy. A whole collection and you never had to leave the house! I bet our walls have one or 2 after our snake escaping.
Wow, yuck, and shudder! We have never come across any of the *things* you guys have found, but our current house had swallowed up lots of Fisher-Price "people" and little plastic animals. Little people in the heating ducts (dropped down the registers) and lying in the ceiling light fixtures (supposedly testing the what-goes-up theory). Our bathtub barely drained, and I joked that we would find a F-P person down it also -- no, but there was a little plastic pig was lodged in the plumbing joint.
The yard here has been a constant source of marbles. I pity the former owner who lost their marbles here, but it's good news for me as I gather more and more marbles for myself. I have saved them in a jar, just so I cannot be accused of losing my marbles. ;)
Oh no....creep me out!!!
Animal leftovers are not for me.
Donna
Yuck! We once lived in a rental house in AR that had squirrels in the attic...our landlord had someone fix it. But you know how they fixed it? They boarded up where the squirrels got in and out, the squirrels died and we had to live with the smell for a really long time! Not fun!
1. Piles of dirty laundry.
2. Piles of dirty dishes.
Ooopssss. That IS my house!
Sigh.
LOL, Patty!
Well, we found a gin still in the basement. Not sure if that's gross or a 12 step program. *grin*
At least you are still laughing. The snakes would send me over the edge.
Urine in the floor furnace. You find it when the heat comes on and it starts to burn. Ever smelled burning urine? When we lived in that house, we spent a great deal of the winter months with the windows open. My brothers thought that floor furnace was the absolute coolest thing ever. :)
When we were looking for our first home (before we even had children), I would turn around and leave if I spotted a floor furnace. Nope, didn't care that it no longer worked and the place had central heat. I'd lay odds that my middle son would be a furnace pee-er.
KathyJo, what's a floor furnace? Is that a baseboard heater?
Ick. No matter what it is... ick!
The only thing I've ever found is when we were moving out of our house in the woods a couple of years ago, I found a *large* dropping of some sort. Large like, a marble. I have no desire to find out what ws living in that scary basement room. Whatever it was, it was too big for me to defeat on my own!
I was thankful that we found it when we were moving out, and not when we were moving in!
*smile* These are great stories! Thank you so much for sharing them. Y'all had me laughing into my coffee, which is a great way to end the day.
Hillary, a floor furnace is a horrible contraption that was (I am convinced) the precursor to the rack, the Iron Maiden, and other medieval torture devices. It was aimed predominately at children.
The furnace-heated air blows directly through the ducting to a centrally located vent in the floor. The grate is metal. It gets hot. The vent is usually smack in the middle of a hallway and goes all. the way. across. You can't get anywhere in the house without walking across it, which isn't a problem three seasons out of the year... but any child who lives in a house with one of these dreams of the day she's big enough to clear it by leaping, and lives in fear of having to cross it at night to pee. (Hence, some children simply don't cross it, LOL.) They don't have those in KS? I thought everyone our age or older had at least one floor furnace related trauma from childhood. :-)
Dy
Dy -
Well, now that you described it, I know what it is. I've *seen* them in other people's houses, but never in mine! :)
I saw them a lot in Wisconsin (older homes), but not here. But then, I've only been here a year, so there's still time.
All I can think, though, is ick! Urine is just the stuff that would smell. What *else* could be in those things??
Bleah!
Hilllary
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