When I was still retired, hadn't returned to full time work again, my nephew and I got a job cleaning out a house after the decedents personal property had been auctioned off. The executor said we could have anything we found that we might want. Among some of the stuff we kept were eight wooden decoys from a noted regional carver. They were appraised at several hundred dollars each. In the green houses on the property we found several shed snakes skins over six feet long.
My late father was a golfer. One day, while looking for his lost ball in the woods at the golf course, he came across two canvas bank bags that were rotting away and contained almost two hundred silver dollars. Given the age and condition of the bags, they'd been there for years. Given their location along the side of the golf course, people must have passed within a few feet of them thousands of times.
