So my dozer blade pulled up a weird time capsule from a 90s yard sale

Was clearing an old lot for a new pad last week, pushing back brush and a rotten shed. Felt the blade catch on something solid and metallic, figured it was an old pipe or maybe a car part. Turned out to be a sealed plastic tub, totally intact. Popped the lid and it’s just full of like... brand new, still-in-box Beanie Babies and a stack of those old Pogs slammers. Honestly, my first dumb thought was ‘score, these might be worth something.’ But then I’m looking at the site plans, this was definitely the client’s property, not some random buried treasure. Felt kinda shady even thinking about it. Ended up just handing the whole tub over to the site boss with a straight face, said I found some ‘personal effects.’ He looked inside, laughed, and just shrugged. Still makes me chuckle thinking about almost having a moral crisis over a bunch of stuffed animals.

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the_patricia1mo ago

Wasn't that a wild find? I totally get that split-second thought of "jackpot!" before your brain catches up. I found a box of old baseball cards in a wall once during a reno and had the exact same weird guilt trip over it!

robin_henderson811mo ago

@julia_park44 really nailed it with that sidewalk twenty comparison. That quick thought about cash from beanie babies must have been a trip. But it makes me wonder, when you gave the tub to your boss, did he even get why it was a big deal? Like, was it just a joke to him, but maybe someone really cared about that stuff once. What do you figure the person who buried it was hoping would happen, you know?

julia_park441mo ago

Ngl that whole situation would've messed with my head too. Like finding a twenty on the sidewalk is one thing, but a whole sealed tub of forgotten stuff feels different. You did the decent thing handing it over even though part of you was calculating Beanie Baby fortunes.