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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Mom found this used chair that she HAD to have. In the process of carrying in this sucker...I heard the distinct sound of MONEY falling to the garage concrete floor! I look down and see a Canadian quarter(not silver). So doing my best Sherlock Holmes imitation I checked the inside of the chair after removing the cushion. I struck "GOLD" or at least a gold colored Canadian Loonie. In all, I found $2.34 in Canadian clad and $0.27 in U.S. clad. All of the Canadian cents were copper. And, the 2 Canadian nickels were 1981 beavers! It was interesting to find Canadian clad since I'm just southeast of Chicago.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
809 Posts |
A Canadian chair eh?!  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
952 Posts |
nice.......that chair must have been 'cross the border for awhile......
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
1164 Posts |
Went back again...checking for a beer....eh!
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Moderator
 United States
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It is always fun to find change in the furniture. Even more fun when it is second hand furniture!  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
19935 Posts |
LOL!
I used to know a guy that would always carry a big knife in his truck. Whenever he saw folks tossing out furniture to the trash, he'd stop and slice it up looking for coins and valuables. He once found a diamond ring!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's also fun to find bills in second hand cloths!
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
2448 Posts |
"Found money"...nothing like it...  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3294 Posts |
I like getting my heavy winter coat out of the closet for the first use each year and occasionally finding a $20 in one of the pockets.
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Valued Member
United States
255 Posts |
LOL, that is the best. finding money you did not know you had. :)
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Valued Member
United States
425 Posts |
Years (early 80's),ago I worked at a gas station, You would not believe the bills/coins that would come in there! I still have a $5 Confederate bill someone passed off and a 1928 $2 bill. All kinds of Silver coins too. I figured they must have been digging through mom and dads junk draws for odd change.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Another place to find change is the junkyard...a guy I know that searches for classic car parts has found over $6K in change looking under the seats of cars.He's been doing it for a few years but hey...free money
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1164 Posts |
Got kicked out of a place for doing that.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3592 Posts |
He is friends with the owner and has permission to do about anything...even gets his gas there ... got parts for my Camaro 4 speed swap last year ..cost was breakfast at McDonald's
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Valued Member
United States
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never know what you will find. I bought a coin collection before that had a 2 dollar bill inside the pages of a book that no one knew was there at time of purchase.
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Posted 01/10/2011 12:32 pm
