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This didn’t happen to me but to a friend. She lives in an old home and has a neverending list of projects, many of which she took up during the pandemic. She wo
by superultra 3y ago
This didn’t happen to me but to a friend. She lives in an old home and has a neverending list of projects, many of which she took up during the pandemic. She would often livestream her rehab at nights just to connect to people as she worked.
One night she was streaming the teardown of a bathroom wall. There, in between the walls, was a clipboard with some notes. She slowly took the clipboard up and started reading. Of course we couldn’t see what she was reading, but she started to cry and sniffle.
The clipboard had a list of wiring and installations. Had been written in the 70s. But the front page was a note, she told as she started crying, that said that rehabbing is hard and sometimes lonely work. But to keep at it because one day it’s worth it!
That moment arrived at a particularly lonely part of the pandemic for her and those of us watching. Whoever wrote that note and left that documentation from 50 or so years ago of course had no idea how it would find the reader(s) but could there have been a more perfect, beautiful moment than the moment my friend found it in the wall?
- kaycebasques 3y agoMy uncle lives in an old house in Lodi. He took down some kitchen walls for a major remodel. Somehow, a bunch of letters from the 1920s had slipped between the cracks and got stuck in the wall. It was a bunch of heartwarming, innocent correspondence between the family members now living in California and the ones who stayed back in Oklahoma (or somewhere like that). Uncle chokes up every time he reads those letters.
- mavhc 3y agoBehind the wallpaper I removed was a marriage proposal to the previous owner, her relatives still live next door so I got to show them
- mistrial9 3y agoMarshalls ?
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- bombcar 3y agoAll I found was lots of empty bottles of “medicinal” alcohol.
- mensetmanusman 3y agoWe found 100 year old recipes from magazines for christmas cookies. It was funny/crazy to see steps like ‘whisk for 30 minutes’ before they had mechanical kitchen utilities. Different times!
- sghiassy 3y agoWhat a fun story. Thanks for sharing :)
- fsckboy 3y agonext time you post change the story, say that the clipboard had half of her current to do list!
- agumonkey 3y agounless the previous owner was a rockstar renovator who only left "the work is self documenting" on a postit
- quickthrower2 3y agothe real 10xers used asbestos everywhere, the magic material that gets it done quick
- taneq 3y agonpm i radium
- moffkalast 3y ago"If it was hard to build it should be hard to maintain"
- apwell23 3y agoShe couldve planted that herself to make livestream more interesting with some sentimental drama.
- jacquesm 3y agoInteresting that your first thought upon reading something like this is that it could have been faked, complete with reason. I think that says more about you than that it does about the person described in the story.
- apwell23 3y agooh yea? How do you know it was my "first thought"?
- jacquesm 3y agoBecause you didn't precede it with anything nicer.
- Rebelgecko 3y agoGaslighting
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- js2 3y agoShe could write a movie from her story: > On 31 August 1997, startled by the news of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, Amélie drops a plastic perfume-stopper, which dislodges a wall tile and accidentally reveals an old metal box which contains childhood memorabilia hidden by a boy who lived in her apartment decades earlier. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9lie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9lie > While filing, Craig discovers a small hidden door. He crawls through it into a tunnel and finds himself inside the mind of actor John Malkovich. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_John_Malkovich https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_John_Malkovich > A woman (credited as "M") mentions to her musician husband (credited as "C") that as a child, she moved residences frequently and took to hiding little notes wherever she lived. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Ghost_Story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Ghost_Story
- jacquesm 3y agoI totally get that vibe. I've rebuilt an old farmhouse on my own and it was one of the most exhausting things I've ever done. It got to the point that I could hardly look at it for fear of sinking down furhter so I made the smallest room (2x2 meters) into a refuge from the insanity and I made it picture perfect. So the rest of house was in various stages of demolition and reconstruction but that one room survived through all of it and it really helped me to stay sane. In the end it all worked out but that was an insane amount of work. The worst bit was that all of the floor joists had either given out or were so rotten that they had to be replaced so there was a point when you just had a empty space with the roof on top and some bracing to stop the walls from pushing out. It would have probably been better and faster to knock the whole thing over and start from scratch but I was dead set on keeping the outside without any visible modification other than a single tilt window added in one of the roof surfaces. After that I've done two more major jobs on other houses but I'm at the end of my enthusiasm for this kind of work.
- cdchn 3y agoInterstitial home spaces are the 20th century's message in a bottle.