Few things take longer than deep cleaning your home. Not only because cleaning is something that feels neverending, but also because you usually find all sorts of stuff along the way, which tugs on your heartstrings or calls for further inspection.
That’s how you end up spending hours playing with things you had forgotten about. But it gets even more interesting—and likely, even more time consuming—when you find things you didn’t even know existed.
After stumbling upon such unexpected finds, many people show them off online, and that’s what today’s list is all about. We have combed through the internet to bring you some of the most unexpected and interesting old house finds that people have showcased. So, if you’re curious about the kind of treasures they have found from way back when, wait not a second longer and scroll down to browse them below.
#1 I Found These In A Crawlspace In My Basement Mildly Curious
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#2 My Septuagenarian Mom Still Has Her ‘97 Softsoap Container To Match Her ‘97 Fish Bathroom
Just keep refilling, just keep refilling, just keep refilling, refilling, refilling.
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#3 How Funny! My House Was Built In 1925 And I Am Tearing The Fireplace Out. In The Walls I Found Something Wrapped In Newspaper
Its a sandwich wrapped in newspaper dated 1924.
#4 First Prize String Beans From September 1945 Found In My 102 Year Old Patient’s Basement
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#5 We’re Having A Clear Out At My Nan’s House And We Just Found This Perfectly Preserved Early 1950s Bar Of Yardley’s Soap. Smells Great And It’s Not Cracked At All
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#6 I Will Never Throw These Away
We found these in my father’s house when he passed away. We found LOTS of items that fit in this sub, but these were my favorite!
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#7 Helping Friend’s Mum Clear Out Her House, Found Her Sexy Vatican Calendar (She’s 94)
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#8 Cleaning Out Mil Old House
Found this old bottle of booze. It’s remy cognac… looks old.
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#9 Found Cleaning Out My Grandparents House That They’ve Lived In Since 1965
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#10 I Was At My Grandparents House And I Found This In Their Things. I Love It
It’s a radio that looks like those old computers, I’m glad I got to take this with me my grandma had past away so we were looking through some stuff so we could clean some of it out.
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#11 For All Of Your Chocolate Covered Poison Needs
There are still some left in the bottle – they look just like brown M&M minis. Does anyone know why this existed?
OneBlueberry2480: During the turn of the century, small amounts were taken to encourage saliva production, and build a good appetite.
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#12 1940’s Unused Roll Of Toilet Paper
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#13 Nanny Kept Everything
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#14 This Old Seven-Up Bottlers Flavor I Found At Grandma’s House
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#15 The Original Key To My House Built In 1937. It Still Unlocks All Of The Doors In The House. The Creepy Thing Is, The Bedrooms Only Lock/Unlock From The Outside
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#16 My Grandfather Worked In A Pringles Factory. Yes There Are Chips In There
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#17 Found At Nan’s House – Glass Vase With Metal Grill Inside
It’s for arranging cut flowers (a rose bowl).
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#18 Found This Cleaning An Old Mans Basement
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#19 Didn’t Pick Up Almond Extract From The Grocery Store Because I Was Told We Already Had Some
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#20 Unopened Welches Jelly Jar From 1994. Found This At An Estate Sale This Summer
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#21 Cleaning Out My Grandma’s Basement And I Found A Bottle Of Arsenic
On another note does anyone know how to safely dispose of arsenic? The bottle is really cool and I want to keep it. I have no use for the actual arsenic in it. I feel like it’s not one of those things I can just pour out on the ground with it being poison and all.
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#22 Thirsty Anyone?
And no I will not drink it. I was um… A bit obsessed with BSB… I was determined to marry Kevin.
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#23 Found Under The Floor Boards In A 1800’s House
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#24 Remodeling My 1918 Home And Found This Battery In The Wall
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#25 Canned Peaches From The Carter Administration. Found In Mom’s Cellar. Peaches Canned In 1976
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#26 80’s Gatorade
Helping someone clean out their house today and these were in the basement.
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#27 My Grandma Still Has An Unopened New Coke Can In Her Fridge From 1985
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#28 Found When Cleaning Out My Mothers Closet
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#29 Granny’s Freezer Had An 84 Year Old Biscuit With A Note
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#30 Found In My Boyfriend’s Pantry
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#31 Poptarts 1991 With Free Vhs Rental
When I was in highschool in 2010-2014, I found this empty poptarts box behind the lockers. Still one of my favorite things.
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#32 Found In The Back Of My Family’s Vacation Beach House… Any Guesses As To Production Date?
Found a few things online from the 70s-80s but can’t find the actual date on the box!
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#33 Found This In My 80 Year Old Mother’s House
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#34 Other People Inherit Money Or A House; I Inherit The Heinz Ketchup Limited Black Edition
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#35 Found Two Bottles Buried In My Cellar
My new house is from 1703, so they can be 1 year old or 321 years old or anything in between. The cellar is directly soil, so I found it while cleaning it out. Contrarily to the bottles in the picture (from the 1990s I think), these two were buried in the soil.
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#36 This Soap I Found At My Grandmas House
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#37 Chips From ’94. Cleaning Out A Hoard, And Found These
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#38 Breakfast With Barbie Cereal Expired In 1990
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#39 Forgotten Emergency Snacks Found In Our Earthquake Kit From The 90’s
The Chewy bars were absolute mush. Nature Valley bars were still dry (because of course they were). And I wish I could say those were breadsticks and peanut butter but… They were cheese.
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#40 Cleaning Out My Grandma’s Pantry And I Found These Jarred Preserves From 1964
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#41 Bought These Off A Walgreens Shelf 3 Days Ago
It took all my strength to get it lodged into me. And now I can’t get it out. Might tie it to the door and slam it shut.
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#42 Found Back In 2013
It’s not a recent find but I moved in with my grandfather when my grandmother passed back in 2013. Slowly started working on cleaning things out and found this gem at the back of the pantry.
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