<p>We actually had a ghost shovel our driveway and walkways last month – at least, we’ve thanked the usual suspects and it wasn’t any of them.</p>
<p>Years ago when we moved, we had the entire interior of our house painted before we moved in. There were 3 or 4 painters here for at least a week.
When we finally moved in we found an ax upstairs. Not exactly necessary for painting… A couple of the painters were a bit scary, but ax murderers??</p>
<p>Somebody left a wool overcoat at a friend’s house, which they gave to me when I was about to go shopping for one, a year after they came across it in their closet. I’m about a standard deviation shorter, and two standard deviations wider, than the average man. It fit like a glove.</p>
<p>Live is good!</p>
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<p>This just proves the old saying</p>
<p>“Ax, and ye shall receive.”</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>You are always such a cutie, violadad. Maybe the painter’s name was Tom A. Hawk?</p>
<p>jym, I’m no hack. Did you expect a hatchet job from me? BTW, your comeback was finely honed.</p>
<p>You have such a sharp wit, VD. I can hardly get a handle on it.</p>
<p>Aha! Now I know where all of my kids’ missing shoes, socks, and hoodies have gone!</p>
<p>We never had ax murderers in our house, but we once had a carpet installer taken away in handcuffs by the state police! Turns out there was a warrant for his arrest for nonpayment of child support issued by another state. We thought they could have waited a couple of hours so he could finish laying the carpet!</p>
<p>Novelisto–I’m just an occassional baker and other than cookies, it often comes from a box. Cake mix is homemade right? 
The one thing I’ve never been able to do is roll out pie crusts or doughs so it is a bit ironic that a rolling pin was “left.” </p>
<p>The house we lived in at the time was new when we moved in. </p>
<p>This thread made me curious about how this rolling pin is used so my friend google and I researched it. It seems to be for a type of German cookies. No one in my family or my husband’s family is of German ancestory. At the time I thought perhaps my MIL left it, but it had been months since she had visited us when it showed up. (and I have no idea why she would have a German rolling pin. She also would have told us about it if she did.)</p>
<p>I think the most likely explanation is that my D pilfered it from preschool or a friend’s house. She often used a rolling pin for play doh. She was about 3/4 at the time. I do recall an incident in that age range with a pack of gum she lifted from a grocery store when I would not buy it for her. She did say she didn’t take the rolling pin from somewhere though. </p>
<p>BTW–the great gum incident of '94 did not go on her college apps.</p>
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<p>or perhaps his associate, Barry D. Hatchett.</p>
<p>These are some funny stories. We have found used socks, hair bands, combs, etc after sleep overs in the good old days. I also have marveled at the lost winter or down coats in school lost and found boxes. Years ago, a kid in my car pool came home in winter saying he had no coat. I dropped him his grandfather, and told him that the boy said he had no coat. Of course the mom and dad later called me and said he went to school in a coat. I said great, you figure out where he left it. They did find it the next day somewhere in school.</p>
<p>Jym and violadad: you both had me groaning ;)</p>
<p>While the rest of you are busy trying to return unclaimed property to its rightful owners, I’m driving myself batty trying to find something of my own 
We had recently taken everything off the walls in one room in order to repaint. Now, for the life of me, I cannot find one of those items which was a beloved antique. Have looked high (attic) and low (basement). Does this happen to anyone else?</p>
<p>worrywart-- is it possible you put it someplace like a dresser drawer, for safekeeping?</p>
<p>It’s entirely possible and I have been ransacking the place in search of it. Maybe toledo’s got it in her drawer?!</p>
<p>Finally! DH found my lost item in the stacked containers of baby clothes/toys that I’ve been saving since kids were small to recycle to my future grandkids. Obviously that was the last place I would’ve thought to look.</p>
<p>We lost some special packing boxes for Christmas decorations, both of us turned the house upside down looking for them, and they were big…never did find them!</p>
<p>Well don’t despair. I’m living proof that eventually…</p>
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<p>Somemom I am rolling on the floor laughing…hard. I really have 6-7 of those EXACT towels. And mine just seems to have legs. I remember giving a pool party for teens, and was astounded at not just the number of kids who came without towels, but the number who had no problem just wearing one of mine home…without even a “please?” One mom sent her wet child back in when she came to pick him up because he needed a towel, one of my towels. </p>
<p>So now I have a stack of scrawny, faded, thinning beach/pool towels that no one ever claims just in case.</p>
<p>so, to the OP…did you ever find the owner of that ring???</p>