Some years ago, I lost a drawing notebook full of sketches I’d done over a few years. Dunno if that counts as ‘valuables’?
I’m 99% sure it’s somewhere at home, but either way I’d really like that back.
I think it would be cool to stumble upon something of archeological value while on a hike. Like some ancient statuette, or something like a cuneiform tablet.
Art, a park, a hidden beach. A copy of Found Magazine.
I took the cargo hitch off my bike and set it down somewhere in the basement…
I’ve got a pair of vice grips somewhere in my flat.
It’s not even that big of a flat, and I don’t even have that much stuff. There’s no way I ever left the flat with them. Yet they’ve completely disappeared.
Oh sorry, i borrowed them to clamp a hitch i found to my bike.
Aw Ffff…
My motivation
Motivation is fleeting. Discipline is a trained skill.
Whatever thing you wish you had motivation for, make a schedule for yourself and start doing it. Pair it with something you like (“I run each morning and I get my morning coffee after I finish my run”) and stick to it.
To someone with ADHD, this is like telling them to just pull ya’self up by yer bootstraps. 🙃
The problem with adhd is that we know the guy who set the rules is full of shit
Happiness.
We said no valuables
Disposable vapes. I harvest the batteries, that are wasted on them.
A cat.
Found within my own home/possessions, a jolly rancher hard candy.
Out in the wild, a geocache. I go searching for them intentionally on occasion, but I also just spot one while I’m not looking and those are my fave. Especially the really tiny ones, “oh, that bolt on that stop sign looks a little weird. Hey, it’s a nano cache!”
I also go hiking a lot and it’s always fun finding plants I have high confidence that they are edible. I cooked up quite a bit of wild fern this spring, now it’s berries and mushrooms.
Info that allows me to break through any of the “brick walls” in my genealogy research.
Finding some conclusive supporting material about the (as yet unsolved) Voynich Manuscript.
Either, enough information to decode a possible cypher, or proof that it is an elaborate troll/hoax/joke.
Could be the ‘Rosetta Stone moment’ of the modern era.
I really appreciate that people in my city place their old books in small boxes with a “zu verschenken” (free to take) sign when they want to give them away. I’ve found many great books this way, along with a few quirky and unusual ones too.
I had a little pen knife that was great for small stuff like opening packages and cutting string. I lost it maybe a year ago. A replacement is maybe $10 but I liked that one :/
I’d also be pleasantly surprised to find some data I know I have saved but cannot find
Lan Chi chili paste.
Office supplies or gaming stuff
