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Helped my neighbor fix a leaky pipe under his sink yesterday - found $20 in there from the previous owner
The guy on Maple Street, he's been in that house for about 5 years and never opened the cabinet under the kitchen sink. I was helping him swap out a old shutoff valve because it was dripping, and when I pulled the stuff out from under there, there was a crumpled up $20 bill stuck to the back of the pipe with some old duct tape. We both laughed about it. Makes me wonder what else is hidden in houses around here. Has anyone else found random stuff while doing a repair?
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torres.riley18d ago
Finding money is cool and all but honestly kind of creepy. Someone taped it there and probably forgot about it. Or maybe it was hidden for a reason. I'd be more worried about what else is lurking in those walls or crawlspaces. Old money doesn't always mean good luck.
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max_schmidt7718d ago
Respectfully gotta push back on this one. Finding old money in a wall or crawlspace isn't creepy at all to me, it's more like a time capsule that just happens to be cash. People used to hide money in their homes all the time back before banks were everywhere, and it's usually just a forgotten stash from a homeowner who passed away or moved. Unless there's something obviously off like symbols or weird stains on the bills, it's probably just someone's lost savings. I'd be thrilled to find anything like that, and worrying about "bad luck" feels like overthinking a harmless little mystery.
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kelly_rivera18d ago
Stop, wait a minute. "Weird stains on the bills"? That's not "overthinking," man, that's a major red flag. Who hides cash and ends up with mystery stains on it besides someone who stashed it after something went down? I get the whole time capsule argument, but you're glossing over the part where "harmless little mystery" turns into finding money that looks like it's got stuff on it that ain't just dirt. And the old-timey hiding thing, I feel like that's more for like a few gold coins in a coffee can, not a stack of stained bills taped in a crawlspace. I'm just saying, if I pull out a twenty from 1920 that's got brown marks on it, I'm putting that back where I found it and calling it a day. That ain't a harmless mystery, that's a horror movie prop.
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