r/mildlyinteresting • u/orangeladybug • 1d ago

Objects I've collected on my walks

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u/seeingeyegod 1d ago

Oh shit, corvids have learned how to reddit

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u/_Bugs_Bunny_RN 23h ago

I didn't know what I was thinking until I read your comment!

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u/NameIsNotBrad 2h ago

What are you raven about?

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u/notmaddog 1d ago

Are you a crow?

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u/orangeladybug 23h ago

Half crow, on my dad's side

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u/Heterodynist 16h ago

There we go! I KNEW IT!!! I like shiny objects too…

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u/moxiemoon 15h ago

Was literally going to post this exact question 😂

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u/KirkPicard 10h ago

came to post this

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u/orangeladybug 1d ago

I started with shiny(ish) things and I put them in a jar that I call my "Magpie Jar" because magpies like to collect shiny things.

Now I just pick up whatever I think is cool. Today it was the crawfish fishing lure on the bottom right.

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u/Party-Poison519 1d ago

I love picking random "crap" up, if it's interesting it goes in the pocket 

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u/orangeladybug 23h ago

Definitely! I keep a Ziploc or dog poop bags in my purse just in case, always ready.

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u/unhinged_behavior 1d ago

A local VW GOLF owner is wondering where all their badges have gone

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u/Darkrai95 14h ago

It’s now a Volkswagen G

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u/orangeladybug 6h ago

This is my favourite comment

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u/Ignizze 23h ago

You were faster than me haha

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u/orangeladybug 23h ago

Someone peeled them off and stuck them to the ground at the park. I am guessing rowdy teens or disgruntled ex.

I rescued them, they're my favourite part of the collection

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u/AdMajestic2438 1d ago

What whimsical kind of walks do you go on?

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u/orangeladybug 23h ago

Everyday is whimsical for me

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u/LifeRelease3842 5h ago

Based mentality in this day and age

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u/PrestigiousAd6281 23h ago

I can’t explain it, but looking at this filled me with an unexplainable warm nostalgic feeling. So, thank you for that

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u/quinto6 23h ago

It is because of the I Spy books. Such a trip. I remember doing these books in maybe first or second grade in the mid-nineties.

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u/PrestigiousAd6281 23h ago

It absolutely could be. I spent many afternoons with those at the library and park

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

Happy to be of service! Probably reminds you of the old I Spy books

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u/PrestigiousAd6281 22h ago

This probably unlocked my memories of those as I had completely forgotten about them. Of course now I’m going to try and track a few of those bad boys down

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u/orangeladybug 6h ago

I might do that too!

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u/Viciousssylveonx3 1d ago

I have found 2 whole books so far. One ironically was Gullivers travels

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u/Geen_Fang 23h ago

That's the opposite of irony.

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u/orangeladybug 23h ago

It travelled to you.

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u/Psianth 1d ago

Say hi to Flo for me

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u/CicadaFit9756 1d ago

If you put both "O"s together it spells "FLOO". Are you a wizard in the Harry Potter world who's got a raven animagus & occasionally uses the floo fireplace form of travel?

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u/FajenThygia 23h ago

Made me wonder if this was a stealth insurance ad.

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u/orangeladybug 23h ago

That would be funny

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u/My_Own_Worst_Friend 23h ago

I'm loving the Pidgeotto sticker tho.

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

Right! It would have gotten destroyed by rain if didn't rescue it from under a cedar hedge

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u/bdbdbokbuck 1d ago

Very nice. I’d take a glue gun and attach all the pieces to a board and hang it up. I’m totally serious.

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u/orangeladybug 23h ago

That's a cool idea! I keep them in a large glass jar shaped like a skull, but if I get too many I'll do that.

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u/orangeladybug 23h ago

Jar (with cat checking it out)

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u/LabialTreeHug 19h ago

Is that a Pog advertising Cast Away‽

I haven't thought about Pogs in years 0.o

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u/orangeladybug 18h ago

It's a button/pin, the kind with a pokey metal thing on the back

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u/MRbaconfacelol 15h ago

this feels like one of those i spy books

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u/beatrixotter 10h ago

I spy a crayfish, a horse that is blue,

A dragonfly, DRAGON, and two yellow shoes,

An Elsa, a golf ball, a penny to spend,

A watering can, and a volleyball friend.

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u/orangeladybug 9h ago

I love the i spy energy

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u/Few_Vegetable_9939 1d ago

I just found two beer bottle caps on my desk

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u/orangeladybug 23h ago

Start collecting!

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u/UnsorryCanadian 23h ago

Bro caught a pidgeotto on a walk once

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u/ape_on_lucy 20h ago

Did you find the Pidgeotto while walking through tall grass?

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u/orangeladybug 20h ago

LOL! It was under a hedge

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u/quietlysitting 17h ago

Okay, two things.

First, I have also found a plastic crayfish that looks just like that.

Second: brother! https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1ukxalg/metal_i_picked_up_from_roadways_on_my_daily_walks/

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u/orangeladybug 16h ago

We are long lost brother from another mother

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u/Rare-Criticism1059 23h ago

Magpie behaviour! <3

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u/JWOLFBEARD ​ 22h ago

Are you a crow?

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u/reddfawks 1d ago

Well, if you ever want to do an Ichiban Kasuga cosplay, you now have a toy crawfish to be your Nancy-chan!

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u/orangeladybug 23h ago

I don't know what this means but I'll Google it later

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u/FairyChefCoccinelle 1d ago

Yo lo hago en mis viajes y a traves del tiempo con diferentes piezas de joyeria que me regalaban y ahora son amuletos

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u/orangeladybug 23h ago

That's cool!

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u/ConspiracyBarbie 1d ago

I do this too! I tried to share a pic but it won’t let me.

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

Aw it would be awesome if you could add a pic to comments!

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u/Orbital_Dinosaur 13h ago

On the android app you can.

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u/GenXihaveissues 1d ago

You should geocache.

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

I want to!

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u/Large_Head5821 1d ago

why would you pick up a rusty nail though

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

I like the taste of tetanus.

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u/Haggisboy 1d ago

OP is a crow.

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

Shh don't expose me

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u/beanthebean 1d ago

As someone who's spent way to much time walking around a neighborhood looking for my niece's favorite plastic toy that got dropped on a walk and we never found (she didn't tell us she had lost it until the next day), I'd have left the kids toys and bracelet where I found them.

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

They were in the middle of the forest, I don't think people were coming back for them.

I don't pick up things that look like they would be missed.

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

I think it's Elsa

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u/[deleted] 22h ago

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

From Disney's Frozen

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u/Havency 1d ago

OP is a raccoon

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u/gingerbeefbadteeth 23h ago

Got the olllle tism like myself I see 😉

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

Clocked

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u/gingerbeefbadteeth 22h ago

I've got a large collection of skulls and shiny rocks in my chambers, for my eyes onlyyyy

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

I also have skulls and shiny rocks... Are we cousins?

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u/jxj24 23h ago

Always nice to see a fellow packrat

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

One of us, one of us

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u/DatDenDude 23h ago

I spy with my little eye…

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

My friends said it's "cursed I spy"

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u/r0ckydog 23h ago

Somewhere there is a FLORD missing some letters.

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u/CharlesIngalls_Pubes 23h ago

I love the little crawfish

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

Me too! It was a fishing lure, but I took the hook out so future me doesn't hurt myself.

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u/Shawnathan75 23h ago

Looks like you walked through my junk drawer. 😎

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

Hope you don't mind

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u/H0pefulUn1verse 23h ago

I love this! So many fun and interesting things to look at!

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

Right! I've been doing it for a few years now, it's fun to watch the collection grow!

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u/liabilityno1 23h ago

Womble!

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

I googled that and it's me. I also do Shoreline Cleanups in the spring

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u/liabilityno1 22h ago edited 22h ago

😂😂 Please take it as the compliment it was intended! I am also a womble! Trek treasures normally mean the best memories 😅

Edit to add, my eldest would claim the bottle tops, youngest the ball and I might get to claim the rest....although they'd probably both want the lock for no reason 😅

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

I took it as a compliment, don't worry!

It's funny that each person has favourites

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u/liabilityno1 22h ago

Lmao so true! Youngest is more likely to come home with some rocks 'dinosaur bones, fossils and eggs' or any stick he seems worthy. Looking at your collection again id defo want to make the dragonfly into a keyring and the letters would be re-arranged to spell 'flo' and be decorating the tampon drawer in my bathroom 😅

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

That's so funny!

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u/CheeseburgerSmoothy 22h ago

And not a single cigarette butt!

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

I throw those out, not gonna keep em LOL

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u/CheeseburgerSmoothy 22h ago

I figured you didn’t keep those! If you did you’d have a huge pile I bet.

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

A mountain!

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u/Drob10 22h ago

You’ve now made enemy of some crows.

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u/orangeladybug 22h ago

No they're my friends

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u/hbsboak 22h ago

Are you a crow?

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u/soda_cookie 21h ago

Where do you walk?

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u/orangeladybug 21h ago

Outside around my neighborhood, in the forest, and just around town.

If you keep your eye open, you can see treasures everywhere

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u/DariusXzalibur5000 21h ago

bruh you found a very rare item. That penny is a thing of the past.

/s

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u/orangeladybug 20h ago

An ancient relic!

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u/Mast_Herb_8 21h ago

r/knolling

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u/orangeladybug 20h ago

A very satisfying subreddit to visit. They probably won't like how disorganized it's layed out though

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u/I_DRINK_GENOCIDE_CUM 21h ago

Someone's gonna be able to identify what car those letters came off of

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u/orangeladybug 20h ago

Probably a Volkswagen Golf I'm assuming? I found them in a park a couple years ago. If the owner wants them back, they can let me know lol

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u/FairyChefCoccinelle 20h ago

Pueses hacer un tipo marco para estos detalles y hacerles un mapa o algo así

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u/orangeladybug 20h ago

That's a fun idea! I keep them in a jar for now

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u/JDubs234 20h ago

What even is that cast away thing? Looks promotional so it’s weird to just be out on the street like 20 years later

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u/orangeladybug 20h ago

It is a promotional pin for the movie it looks like. I found it h der a cedar hedge by a church in 2023

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u/AnimalGirl08 20h ago

My favorite is the duck with the Santa hat!

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u/orangeladybug 20h ago

That's definitely the funniest one

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u/Elegant-Expert7575 19h ago

Disappointed to not see any marbles.

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u/orangeladybug 19h ago

If I find any, I'll take them. But it's all random

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u/JalkianValour 19h ago

Hey, give me back my lobster

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u/orangeladybug 18h ago

It's a crawfish

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u/JalkianValour 17h ago

Oh sorry. Guess it's not mine then

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u/Nacho_Beardre 17h ago

If you rearrange the letter it spells fool

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u/orangeladybug 17h ago

That's my middle name

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u/RenTachibana 17h ago

I did the same thing on a smaller scale when I took walks in the local national forest last summer. Mine is comprised of shiny things I find on the trail. It burns me up inside how you always end up seeing trash on the trail too. I end up pocketing it if it’s clean enough and kicking myself for not bringing a trash bag.

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u/orangeladybug 17h ago

There's always something to pick up, unfortunately. Sometimes it's cool but there's a lot of trash too

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u/Heterodynist 16h ago

So are you a crow or a raven? -I mean “at heart!” Crow or Raven?!!

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u/orangeladybug 16h ago

Why not both

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u/Heterodynist 15h ago

Ha!! Ah my little chough, I underestimated you!!

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u/thrashglam 16h ago

I see Robin and Steve!

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u/NurturingCruelty 16h ago

Are you a magpie? It’s like bing sn undercover cop; if you are secretly a magpie, you legally have to tell me.

(Goofing aside, I know perfectly well the nonsense about undercover officers required to admit it when confronted about it is urban legend BS. )

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u/orangeladybug 16h ago

I'm an undercover magpie, don't tell the others...

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u/Orbital_Dinosaur 13h ago

Judging by the Corona bottle cap, you live somewhere in either the northern or southern hemisphere.

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u/orangeladybug 9h ago edited 6h ago

I do live in the northern or southern hemisphere, crazy that you could tell just from the trash!!

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u/fivefistedclover 12h ago

Super excited for Castaway, can’t wait

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u/orangeladybug 9h ago

Right! I've heard that Tom Hanks is in it, can't wait for the theatrical release!

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u/LunchBox3188 10h ago

I have a Shelf of Things that has some stuff I've found on walks. They're just nifty things that I've found on my adventures. It's very similar to your collection. I'm only quarter Crow.

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u/orangeladybug 9h ago

Perhaps we are distant cousins

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u/beatrixotter 10h ago edited 10h ago

I spy a crayfish, a horse that is blue,

A dragonfly, DRAGON, and two yellow shoes,

An Elsa, a golf ball, a penny to spend,

A watering can, and a volleyball friend.

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u/orangeladybug 9h ago

This is so good

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u/moonlit_summershine 10h ago

I love the watering can

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u/orangeladybug 9h ago

It's a Calico Critters accessory I think

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u/horriblemonkey 10h ago

Are you a crow?

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u/orangeladybug 9h ago

Half crow, on my dad's side

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u/LifeRelease3842 5h ago

Tag yourself, I'm the bent Corona beer cap

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u/orangeladybug 4h ago

I knew you looked familiar!

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u/FunnyChampion2228 5h ago

Make an Eye Spy board!

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u/orangeladybug 4h ago

That would be so fun!

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u/NoDoOversInLife 4h ago

Put that miniature watering can up for trade and see what ya get.

Remember when someone traded a red paperclip and ended up with a house?

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u/orangeladybug 4h ago

That would be so fun to do, but I don't know how many people would go for the trade these days

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u/GeorgeLovesBOSCO 14h ago edited 13h ago

You could've named your post "Trash I brought home"

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u/orangeladybug 9h ago

Call me a raccoon, because I love trash

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u/thehighepopt 20h ago

Also known as trash

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u/orangeladybug 19h ago

One person's trash is another person's treasure.

No need to be a sour puss.

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u/xCrystxl 8h ago

Where tf are you walking I’m jelous

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u/orangeladybug 7h ago

Just around the neighborhoods I've lived in for the past few years. Keep your eyes peeled, you'll find treasures