Up to no good

Before the bases for the kitchen cabinets go in, I thought it was pretty important to hide a treasure tin for a future homeowner.

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  • one slice pasteurized processed cheese flavored food product embroidered with the words “got milk” (at least 18 months old)
  • one green feather from a boa
  • mixed tape labeled “unknown 1994″, made by Nikki Lindheimer
  • one slide
  • three business cards
  • floppy disc
  • tool from white board assembly
  • one Bahamian dollar
  • five foreign coins
  • shell
  • nail file
  • one miniature rubber chicken (plastic)
  • police badge
  • list made by my mom of gift money for me
  • two foreign stamps
  • adhesive bandage strip
  • pink cotton fabric embroidered with the word “slogan”
  • bobby pin
  • sears credit card
  • auto club card
  • store club card
  • expired gift card
  • touch pad from a cell phone (found on street of Brighton, England)
  • label from vintage linen towel
  • car insurance verification, expired
  • package rusty sewing needles, one threaded
  • miniature hot sauce jar, no lid
  • green plastic army man
  • bar receipt from cheap cruise with a cartoon on back (circa 2005)
  • plastic piece from wire shelf assembly
  • stereo remote control that hopefully isn’t the one for the truck
  • yellow fabric sunburst embroidered with the words “Goes with everything.”
  • snarky note addressed to finder of tin

(Handsome husband’s head is not included in the tin.) Here in the tin in place, about to be buried.
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