Not that many ppl liked ur post its just me Vern @ 26/10/2020 23:11

Hand Puppets: My dad was a special ed teacher in Queens in the public school system for close to 40 years. I am pretty sure these hand puppets were used by him and his students to help with learning, probably in like the late 70s/80s. I don’t know for absolute certain though. I played with them a little when I was a kid. Recently I found them in an old bag in the back of my closet. I actually ended up throwing them out the day this tournament began. They’re super old and creepy and I did a quick Google search and found the exact ones, and they aren’t valuable, so. That’s the story behind the creepy hand puppets.

you should have mailed them out to various members of fe

I would've proudly displayed one on my mantel

rager Ꞧ¿Ø»Ȿ„Ǝ—drrr @ 27/10/2020 1:03

Not that many ppl liked ur post its just me Vern @ 26/10/2020 23:11 Hand Puppets: My dad was a special ed teacher in Queens in the public school system for close to 40 years. I am pretty sure these hand puppets were used by him and his students to help with learning, probably in like the late 70s/80s. I don’t know for absolute certain though. I played with them a little when I was a kid. Recently I found them in an old bag in the back of my closet. I actually ended up throwing them out the day this tournament began. They’re super old and creepy and I did a quick Google search and found the exact ones, and they aren’t valuable, so. That’s the story behind the creepy hand puppets. you should have mailed them out to various members of fe

Mail me the bed pan

this was the other thing i wanted to submit but the unidentified toy thing and the bed pan thing beat it out:

shhh save it for next year

The bed pan is sitting in our basement right now, and The story is... unknown! Grandma has no idea where it came from. I did some digging on the patent, and it's probably from 1905 based on the number. In that case, grandma said it may have "come with the house" which was built that same year.

Weirdly, though, the first number on the patent is actually smudged on the pan itself. I found someone selling an identical bed pan and apparently its a 6... but that patent number is for some kind of vent, not for the bed pan! So it seems like the Meinecke "Perfection" might have been lying about being patented... what else was this bed pan hiding???

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And the unidentified toy thing was... a toy thing. I have no idea what it is. It was a hand-me-down to me, and I played on it all the time when I was little. It only lost the front wheel a few months ago, when grandma insisted i drag that thing out of the basement for my cousin's baby to play with. (They wouldnt let him near it)

Thats all the backstory i have for the thing itself... but when I went in the basement to take pictures of it for this, I had a horrible experience! Where I went to grab it, rightt next to my hand was a spider dangling right there, and I instinctually threw the toy away from me. Which is weird because I usually like spiders! BUT THEN I SAW IT: it was a victim of a fungal infection. It was PUFFY like cotton, and I assumed it was dead since it was still just hanging by the web from the toy, but when I went to get a closer look, it started flailing like it wasn't in full control of its own body anymore. It was AWFUL

here's a picture of that:

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you can also technically see it in the original picture if you know to look for it

it gave me a nightmare that night

lol that kid would’ve got tetanus if he played on that

rager Ꞧ¿Ø»Ȿ„Ǝ—drrr @ 27/10/2020 1:23

The bed pan is sitting in our basement right now, and The story is... unknown! Grandma has no idea where it came from. I did some digging on the patent, and it's probably from 1905 based on the number. In that case, grandma said it may have "come with the house" which was built that same year. Weirdly, though, the first number on the patent is actually smudged on the pan itself. I found someone selling an identical bed pan and apparently its a 6... but that patent number is for some kind of vent, not for the bed pan! So it seems like the Meinecke "Perfection" might have been lying about being patented... what else was this bed pan hiding??? --- And the unidentified toy thing was... a toy thing. I have no idea what it is. It was a hand-me-down to me, and I played on it all the time when I was little. It only lost the front wheel a few months ago, when grandma insisted i drag that thing out of the basement for my cousin's baby to play with. (They wouldnt let him near it) Thats all the backstory i have for the thing itself... but when I went in the basement to take pictures of it for this, I had a horrible experience! Where I went to grab it, rightt next to my hand was a spider dangling right there, and I instinctually threw the toy away from me. Which is weird because I usually like spiders! BUT THEN I SAW IT: it was a victim of a fungal infection. It was PUFFY like cotton, and I assumed it was dead since it was still just hanging by the web from the toy, but when I went to get a closer look, it started flailing like it wasn't in full control of its own body anymore. It was AWFUL here's a picture of that: Spoiler + you can also technically see it in the original picture if you know to look for it it gave me a nightmare that night

you could have become Spider Gwyn.

But Moose what is it? Just a picture you have somewhere or is it a mousepad or what is it? Lol

Clown Thing:
Already explained, but basically it's a running joke that my extended family on my mom's side has, where if you go to someone's house you hide it for them to find at some point and then they pass it on later on.

100 Trillion Dollars Thing:
I was on a spring break trip in Zimbabwe in 2010 and apparently their government had inflated their currency to the point where it was basically worthless. I was told that the 100,000,000,000,000 note couldn't even buy me a loaf of bread. I bought it for the way overpriced amount of $5 from a dude who had a whole fist full of them.

Lamps @ 27/10/2020 7:25

But Moose what is it? Just a picture you have somewhere or is it a mousepad or what is it? Lol

It's a picture! I was originally looking for a picture of a cave because I thought it was weird. Then I saw him.

I also found what looked like currency form the civil war, but I think it's a copy and not actually genuine

Couldn't beat the dead guy though.

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Painting Backstory: This is a painting my grandfather painted back in the day. Each of us grandchildren got to select a painting each. This was my pick, and I got to inherit it after he passed. I do not currently have it hanging anywhere, but mostly did so for the purpose of this challenge.

Ice Hockey Card Backstory: Collecting and trading ice hockey cards was the thing back in the day, and this was the first "big" card that I got. I think I traded this card from my neighbour, as it was already framed in glass.