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I found a walter payton rookie card but it was in a trailer, so I guess that doesn’t count

Wall full o' razor blades.

Behind the medicine cabinet when they used to have a slot for razor blade disposal?

I have never found anything of value in an old house, cabin, or barn. A friend of mine (who is gone now) was buying up farms in the late 50's and early 60's. If there were buildings on the place he would take a look in the attics and crawl spaces if they had one and if nothing was there he would doze it in a pile and burn it. One farm he bought had two Winchesters in it. A Model 12 12 ga. built in 1924 and a 1895 lever action in 30-40. They were in a closet in the living room of the farm house just leaned against the wall in plain site. He used the model 12 as a pheasant and duck gun for years.

Lots of old rubbers

Yes, and I've even seen those slots in fairly recently construction.

Not a find, but rather what we had to clean up. My uncle used to move mobile homes before he died. One Saturday, he took us to a mobile home he was to move and gave my cousins and I some cleaning supplies and told us to clean the “ketchup” off the floor. Ketchup my ass, it was blood as a husband had murdered his wife there and we cleaned up her blood. We didn’t know for quite a while what we actually had cleaned up that day. Probably couldn’t get away with that now. That was over 30 years ago.

My parents bought an old shack that we tore down and put a cabin on in Minnesota in 1979. There were whisky bottles stashed all over that house and the surrounding lot. One pile seemed to keep on until we were digging a couple of feet down in the dirt, so we finally quit digging. In one of the closets I found a stack of Walt Disney comics from 1950-1952. Probably about 15 of them. Not a whole lot of value, I think one was listed at about $600 the last time I had them appraised. I have kept them all these years, not sure what I'll do with them yet. Too bad that kid didn't like Marvel comics.

Under the house once owned by a short Italian immigrant that drove a Cadillac and owned strip malls, I found desiccated rats.

I got a Beretta 25acp from his descendants in the trust fund, for $175 in 2002.
They called 380s, "cannons" and would not own one because of recoil.