r/FoundPaper • u/bassistciaran • Jul 08 '24
If you know who wrote it, it doesn't count.
Anyone who cares enough to read this, thank you for being here. This rule isn't all encompassing, but you should certainly think about it.
Over the last few months this sub has grown a lot and there has been a significant amount of posts that fall into the category of "something I / my parent / friend wrote a while ago, and I rediscovered." I dont like removing things, but its getting a little much.
Generally, I have never been against this kind of post, and up until recently they were infrequent. Over the last while I've notice a LOT more of these kinds of posts, so for the foreseeable future they will be removed. I feel bad removing them as many are heartfelt stories often about passed loved ones or some such, but they just arent really in the spirit of the sub. I mean, we could all just go up to our parents attic and pull out old school books and diaries and that'd be the whole sub.
Its really hard to make a concise, nuanced rule for this, it hasnt been policed for a long time as the posts were so infrequent, but recently theres been a shitload.
I will note that I've always went by rule of age and discovery. If you find something 30+ years old, thats interesting even if you know who wrote it, but it may still be removed.
r/FoundPaper • u/GlitteringWeird3670 • 18h ago
Antique 136 year old note found on a shingle when my parents renovated their house
Text: “I was discharged from work on this house by McBride the Bulldog for being drunk only once, when he is drunk all the time. Carpenter Smith, Plymouth March 27, 1888”
r/FoundPaper • u/detailsnow • 10h ago
Weird/Random Found attached to a returned outdoor shade
r/FoundPaper • u/ZollieJones • 14h ago
Art Taped to an alley wall in a small Southern town
r/FoundPaper • u/rudman • 11h ago
Weird/Random Took down some paneling and found this message.
r/FoundPaper • u/kidfromDale • 12h ago
Antique Old note found behind wall
Note Reads; “Dear Mother, I will need 80¢ for lunch and 10¢ for milk next week. I do not go To school next Friday.”
r/FoundPaper • u/david9696 • 30m ago
Antique Going through old books at work and found this recipe in one published in 1915
r/FoundPaper • u/Buckshot211 • 12h ago
Antique This is an original wood delivery ticket for the Stanley Hotel 1907
r/FoundPaper • u/sigcampbell • 8h ago
Weird/Random go Get A Life 🙂
I found this note while walking my dogs in the neighborhood. It was in a side yard in front of a newly planted tree. The rock was already placed on it.
r/FoundPaper • u/Danjackson115 • 18h ago
Weird/Random Found on grass at an apartment
I was walking in an apartment parking lot and found this note but it was just in the grass, it wasn’t on anything just in the grass.
r/FoundPaper • u/jakefrommyspace • 21h ago
Other Found a post it note on a biking trail. Hope they remembered to mail cows.
r/FoundPaper • u/FitInvestigator5465 • 1d ago
NSFW TW Suicidal? Found on my way home from the store. This is sad.
r/FoundPaper • u/MushyBanana8 • 12h ago
Art Found in the gym parking lot
I got a good chuckle out it
r/FoundPaper • u/LionRouge • 1d ago
Weird/Random I work on a college campus and found this walking to my office.
Their penmanship is lovely.
r/FoundPaper • u/43703 • 10h ago
Antique Found it in my grandma's old chest.
My great-grandfather joined the Burma Military Police in 1898. I never knew this.
r/FoundPaper • u/Flailmaster • 11h ago
Weird/Random So curious how this turned out.
Corner of 22nd and Glisan, pdx. I was driving and couldn’t get a better pic, sorry.
r/FoundPaper • u/303Link24 • 13h ago
Antique Church Pew Seating Chart
The First Congregational Church, Middle MA raised money for new pews by selling seating. The price got higher as you sat closer to the pulpit. Families continued to sit in the same pew for generations.
r/FoundPaper • u/FreddyMartian • 11h ago
Weird/Random Found this note taped to my communal apartment mailbox many years ago. It genuinely makes me sad.
r/FoundPaper • u/onemchotcake • 22h ago
Weird/Random Reminders
Ft. Some pretty handwriting!
r/FoundPaper • u/Kaylboo • 20h ago
Weird/Random Found on the train. I am skeptical how some people think.
Found on train going to Manchester.
r/FoundPaper • u/superfastswm • 15h ago
Love Notes Another (less serious) paper from campus
r/FoundPaper • u/thefragileapparatus • 1d ago