This past weekend we met up with friends of ours from our old neighborhood.  It was so great to catch up and it reminded me of how much I miss certain aspects of our old house and neighborhood.  While I love where we are now, it is in no way as thrilling as where we once were, and sometimes I think back to all of the craziness and I just… miss it.

It’s not as if we moved away and can never visit, but in reality, that period of our lives is long gone.  The only tangible keepsake we have from what feels like our old life is a single $100 bill and an old envelope from the day we found $1200 in our ceiling.  $1200 bucks—God, that was such a good day!

One of the first things we did to the house was tear down all of the plaster ceilings and a lot of the old plaster walls that were too far gone to repair.  Night after night spent hauling plaster out of the house and into a 40-yard dumpster left us tired, irritable, and completely unenthused with the amount of crap we had “found.”  Old newspapers, tin cans, and used pantyhose stand out in my mind but all sorts of disgusting-ness came tumbling out of walls and ceilings.  So much in fact that for three years we never happened to notice an old cloth tied to one of the old pipes in the ceiling.

It was Wally (one of our completely awesome HVAC guys) who happened to notice and prompted Nathan to pull it down.  Nathan declined.  Wally insisted.  Nathan declined. Wally insisted.  Eventually Wally won and Nathan pulled down the rag—wrapped inside was an envelope with $1200 dollars.  $1200 bucks!  Ultimate WOOT!

By the time I had come home from work (insanely jealous that I hadn’t been there to experience it all) they had ransacked the entire house for more money but with no such luck!  Still though, I’ll take the $1200.

In our new house, we didn’t expect to find anything, but we did happen upon a single bullet and an unopened bottle of Captain Morgan’s Rum tucked under some floorboards in the attic.  While not quite $1200 dollars it was still intriguing to say the least.  Now I know that most people don’t buy houses and immediately rip out ceilings and walls, but I’m curious what other sorts of interesting things people have found.  We can’t be the only ones finding offbeat things, can we?