Didn't know I had it

[BWS]

Found an envelope I put in our safe,had $1k in it....

Long story short;

Was saving $100 bills in a "stack",putting them in the safe for a new to me tractor. Was stacking them pretty high.... only had a rough idea of the total. Knew it wasn't "high" enough so didn't need to keep that good of track. Say $5k and growing.

Awhile goes by and thinking it's gotta be getting on up there? Counted it and was like what the heck? thought there was more?

Months go by and wife(of 40+ years)mentions something about giving some cash to the kids. That's when the lightbulb comes on...... yup,wifey is sneaking money off the stack to give to the 4 GROWN sons! Two of which have PhD's,and the other two are almost as well off. Was like,honey they have more $$$ than we do?

Around that time,must've started sticking 100's in this envelope.... and chunking it in the back of safe. Forgot it completely... until that day. Bought a compound bow for one of the boys with it....haha.

 

[north east redneck]

Found 500 Winchester SPPs in the back of one of the safes the other day. Not sure why or when they got there. Primers are kept in a different place.

 

[230RN]

"Found" a .22 rifle I had been prowling around the property with in that late winter

I knew it had to be on the property somewhere, but I wouldn't have left it anywhere exposed to the elements, so I figured it had to turn up someday. But kind of irked me all that summer.

Turned out I had leaned it on the wall behind the shop door and all summer I worked with the shop door open, so never saw it until the first cool day when I closed the door for some work.

Aha! Dummy! Dope slap! Idjit!

Mind you, this was long before my memory

Sorry. Phone rang. What was I saying?

 

[Howland937]

Finding stuff I've forgotten about is pretty common actually. As soon as it appears, I know exactly where I got it, when, and how much I paid.

Finding stuff I have no earthly recollection of acquiring or where it may have come from happens on occasion. Usually small stuff...ammo, components, optics. I was cleaning out a car I hadn't driven for 2 years after I'd concluded I was never going to fix it. In the trunk was a single shot H&R Topper 12 gauge. THAT was like finding money, since to this day I don't know how it got there.

Another time, after returning from a gun show we had set up at, my dad and I had a gun niether of us could recall trading for. I was certain my dad's memory was deteriorating...but then again, I did find an H&R Topper one time...

 

[230RN]

I noticed a while ago that I could never remember the time I took to bed.

Some casual research of mine indicated there is an amnesia effect when you're very tired, which seemed to explain that and maybe some of the incidents herein, but I forgot what the name of it is.

 

[Scooter22]

I'm always "finding" a rifle I forgot about stuffed in the back corners of my safes. But recently I was moving things around in the dungeon and went to move 2 circuit board carrying cases I got from work 25 years ago that were on the bottom of a shelving unit.. When I reached in to pick them up by the handle they were VERY heavy for being empty like I thought. One had 2 440 rnd spam cans 7.62x54R. The other 2 spam cans 8x57. Unopened.

 

[unspellable]

Found a bunch of 41 Mag ammo I didn't know I had. Since I had sometime previously sold my S&W 57 I had to find another revolver. That explains the 41 Blackhawk I now have.
Now, if someone can tell me where I put the 45 Colt conversion cylinder for my Ruger Old Army...

 

[Howland937]

Now, if someone can tell me where I put the 45 Colt conversion cylinder for my Ruger Old Army

Side pocket, cargo shorts that fell behind the freezer that happens to be in the laundry room. You haven't worn them in a while because they also disappeared, but you haven't worked out that they disappeared about the same time.
At least that's where my extra P238 mag that went on a 6 month hiatus was.

 

[DustyGmt]

Awesome!
That's like when you find a $20 bill you'd forgotten in your back pocket.

Only better, it's ammo!!!

who else has found something good they forgot about?

I have all kinds of boxes in my vault and every once in a while I get a wild hair or go in after something and often come across a few boxes or even a case of something I thought I shot up already, it's always a happy feeling. I shoot as conservatively as I can and every once in a while I say to heck with it and shoot a bunch, then I get remorseful about it and will buy a box or two of whatever and when I go to put it away I'll often find a good deal more than I recall having.... that's ALWAYS a good thing.

I wish the same thing would happen with guns I sold or traded off years ago, it'd be nice to see my Colt Woodsman or M1A mysteriously appear

 

[Old Dog]

I once found a S&W 637 (one of the only Smiths I bought with The Lock, but it was almost unbelievably cheap, new) in my garage that I'd forgotten I'd bought. I had brought it home, locked in a a workbench drawer and promptly forgot about it (I already had a vintage Model 37, a sweet Model 36 and a cherry Model 60, so I hadn't even thought about getting this new one to the range). Putzing around the garage one summer evening with a beer and a nice Arturo Fuente, I discovered the revolver. This was months later. I don't even recall if I ever shot the thing before I sold it off when I decided I was against The Lock...

My guest bedroom closet find. So no wonder my housecleaner was always giving me the side eye when she came out from cleaning the guest bedroom (which has only been used maybe two or three times in the past ten years). I only went back there to see if there were some extra clothes-hangers. Oh, I was looking for one of my swords, too. (You can see the dust on top of the boxes) This was the stuff I'd been stashing during the run-up to the 2016 election (when I was convinced Hillary would be our next President). But hey, I did find my LBV from back in the day...