• @Zonetrooper
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    1813 days ago

    Some years ago, I lost a drawing notebook full of sketches I’d done over a few years. Dunno if that counts as ‘valuables’?

    I’m 99% sure it’s somewhere at home, but either way I’d really like that back.

  • Maeve
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    1513 days ago

    Oh, I found such a thing three different times, yesterday! In a county office, an employee patiently, compassionately, happily helping an elderly lady with paperwork; at a takeout restaurant, a genuinely happy individual who graced me with a smile that would shame the sun, in it’s glory, an authentic wish for a great day and a hug, at another business, another absolutely fabulous smile from a spry elderly lady with the most brilliant gray hair.

  • @[email protected]
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    1413 days ago

    Nice snack I bought myself and forgot, and then finding it again later while browsing aimlessly.

    • Otter
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      213 days ago

      Unless it’s at the bottom of a bag you haven’t used in months.

      Might be good still, but it’s likely smushed

  • ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠
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    1313 days ago

    I took the cargo hitch off my bike and set it down somewhere in the basement…

    • @bitwaba
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      613 days ago

      I’ve got a pair of vice grips somewhere in my flat.

      It’s not even that big of a flat, and I don’t even have that much stuff. There’s no way I ever left the flat with them. Yet they’ve completely disappeared.

      • JackFrostNCola
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        112 days ago

        Oh sorry, i borrowed them to clamp a hitch i found to my bike.

    • @Meltrax
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      413 days ago

      Motivation is fleeting. Discipline is a trained skill.

      Whatever thing you wish you had motivation for, make a schedule for yourself and start doing it. Pair it with something you like (“I run each morning and I get my morning coffee after I finish my run”) and stick to it.

      • @[email protected]
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        312 days ago

        To someone with ADHD, this is like telling them to just pull ya’self up by yer bootstraps. 🙃

        • @Noodle07
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          110 days ago

          The problem with adhd is that we know the guy who set the rules is full of shit

  • @reddig33
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    I think it would be cool to stumble upon something of archeological value while on a hike. Like some ancient statuette, or something like a cuneiform tablet.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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      213 days ago

      I think I may have kept this a secret, had my amazing secret enormous underground city to myself, and announced it’s existence in my will.

      Anthropology was also my first love, so I probably wouldn’t have done that, but it’s fun to think about lol

      • Admiral Patrick
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        113 days ago

        That’s exactly what I would have done, lol.

        When I’m gone and done with it, someone more altruistic than I can report it to the archaeologists haha.

  • Vanth
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    513 days ago

    Found within my own home/possessions, a jolly rancher hard candy.

    Out in the wild, a geocache. I go searching for them intentionally on occasion, but I also just spot one while I’m not looking and those are my fave. Especially the really tiny ones, “oh, that bolt on that stop sign looks a little weird. Hey, it’s a nano cache!”

    I also go hiking a lot and it’s always fun finding plants I have high confidence that they are edible. I cooked up quite a bit of wild fern this spring, now it’s berries and mushrooms.