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One of my favorite things is thinking about the life of discarded objects. I'll be walking through the woods and find a Mountain Dew can from the 80s. Who left

One of my favorite things is thinking about the life of discarded objects. I'll be walking through the woods and find a Mountain Dew can from the 80s. Who left it here 40 years ago? What store did he buy it from? Who stocked it on the shelf? Who was the person who packaged it after it came off the production line? Who was the truck driver that dropped off the aluminum? Who was the miner that pulled the ore from the ground? What star did the elements come from?

curtis3389 3y ago
Abandoned houses. They're all over the US, slowly decaying and collapsing, but at one time they were new. Someone assembled the materials and put in days of hard work, sweat, and blood building the house. They looked upon the completed house with all sorts of hopes and dreams in their mind. What happened? What was it like when they left? Did they hope to return someday? Or were they leaving behind a life of pain and suffering? Are there relatives that still own the house that look upon the house with disdain? Or is it a bank dispassionately looking to sell the land? Will it ever be bulldozed and burned? Or will it continue to sit in the corner of the plot rotting away to dirt and dust?
- pjmlp 3y ago
  You reminded me about documentaries, not sure if History channel or somewhere else, about abandoned towns from Wild West days, almost as they were back in the gold race or train building days. Modern Pompeiis, without the corpses, until those wood houses finally collapse due to Nature's action.
  - arrowsmith 3y ago
    Check out the YouTube channel "Ghost Town Living". Some guy bought an entire abandoned mining town in California and has been living in it for the last few years while slowly making the whole town liveable for guests and tourists. One of the coolest personal projects I've seen in a long time.
    - pjmlp 3y ago
      Thanks for the tip.

curtis3389 3y ago

Abandoned houses. They're all over the US, slowly decaying and collapsing, but at one time they were new. Someone assembled the materials and put in days of hard work, sweat, and blood building the house. They looked upon the completed house with all sorts of hopes and dreams in their mind. What happened? What was it like when they left? Did they hope to return someday? Or were they leaving behind a life of pain and suffering? Are there relatives that still own the house that look upon the house with disdain? Or is it a bank dispassionately looking to sell the land? Will it ever be bulldozed and burned? Or will it continue to sit in the corner of the plot rotting away to dirt and dust?

pjmlp 3y ago
You reminded me about documentaries, not sure if History channel or somewhere else, about abandoned towns from Wild West days, almost as they were back in the gold race or train building days. Modern Pompeiis, without the corpses, until those wood houses finally collapse due to Nature's action.
- arrowsmith 3y ago
  Check out the YouTube channel "Ghost Town Living". Some guy bought an entire abandoned mining town in California and has been living in it for the last few years while slowly making the whole town liveable for guests and tourists. One of the coolest personal projects I've seen in a long time.
  - pjmlp 3y ago
    Thanks for the tip.