Southerngirl Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Ever went thru your older parents or Grandparents out buidings?? What are some interesting odd things you found?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 No, but I'd like to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southerngirl Posted January 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 ok Granny Dorothy rain barrel froze and busted so I grab a fella and go to Granny Smith's down in NC to get another one. They are upstairs in a old packhouse that everyone else is afraid to go in, much less upstairs because the foundations are falling out from under it in the basement. Anywho, I'm upstairs plundering around to see what all's up there. Everything is fair game since I'm the only one willing to go get stuff. I opened the upstairs door and was handing stuff out down to Tony who was standing in the bed of my truck I got a few barrels, 2 with brand spanking new tobacco sacks in them, one with used sacks in it, alot of nylon line (some still good amazingly after all these years) some new 3X3 posts (why the heck did Grandpa put them upstairs???) a few boxes of misc bottles and such, some old newspapers of sort and some old burlap fertilizer sacks. I also handed down a old aluminum cabinet that was really cute, and a gun rack and some more barrels for some of the rest who may want stuff. There still some stuff up there like a dozen or so glass gallon jugs (sadly all empty) and plantbed fabric, a huge roll of heavy red fabric??? a straightback chair but the bottom would need rewebbing. and such stuff. It's amazing what all we squirrel away in a lifetime! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 nope, but i'd like to go through one some fine day, and discover an old p-51 mustang.... that's my fantasy plane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southerngirl Posted January 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 nope, but i'd like to go through one some fine day, and discover an old p-51 mustang.... that's my fantasy plane oh now that would be sweet!! I like to read up on old planes myself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IowaDeerHunter Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Yeah, I think one of the best things I found was an old desk in the old washhouse with newspapers from the 1960's and 1950's. Just old stuff like bottles a bike, really old bike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant-KS Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 nope, but i'd like to go through one some fine day, and discover an old p-51 mustang.... that's my fantasy plane You and me both, but I'll take an F4U Corsair...mmmmmm In answer to the OP, I live on the farm where my mom grew up (both grandparents still living), and there really isn't much but junk in the outbuildings...and some 30 year old poo. LOL When I was a li'l kid we'd always run out to the shed and play on the old combines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unioncountyslayer Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Not an outbuilding, but I did help my Granddad pack up a bunch of stuff (about 30 years worth) when he sold his recording studio in Charlotte about 15 or so years ago. Found a bunch of cool stuff that was stashed away that he let me keep. A busted guitar amp that belonged to his friend Johnny Cash, a couple promotional pictures of my granddad with Hank Williams Sr. from when they were on the same label together making personal apperances, and an I.O.U. note left on a cowboy hat from David Allan Coe because he was broke and couldn't pay up front for the recording time. I have all this stuff in storage, boxed up with silica bags but one day hope to display it in some cool way. When I do I'll take pictures and share them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southerngirl Posted January 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 now that is cool!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Nope, sure wish I could have though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerClay Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Out building? Is that southern term for a garage, shed or barn? I don't think you are talking about an out...house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Yep, did that at my wife's grandma's one summer looking for parts to my Oliver. Ran across an old wheel horse lawn tractor. My buddy took that home, but I don't think he ever got it started. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southerngirl Posted January 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Out building? Is that southern term for a garage, shed or barn? I don't think you are talking about an out...house. yes dear, out building, barn, etc etc We southern farmers have lots of them This one was the 'pack house' 3 stories counting the basement. It was just ourside the front yard and full of all kinds of stuff. Ofcourse there was also a car shed corrn crib, tractor shed, pig shed, are you getting the idea??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 At my father's parents.......any time I went there as a child I would always plunder thru Paw Paw's shed. I loved it. Old fishing stuff, old tools. Neatest thing to me was a thing that dispensed oil. I don't know what you call it. That shed is gone now, along with my grandparents who I miss terribly...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeNRA Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 No, but some of the old farms we used to hunt had some real old bottles that my father and I used to collect! I have some that are worth about $25! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southerngirl Posted January 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 oh I've got a BUNCH of old bottles I've got one worth $100. They are all over the woods around here if you know where to look I got some of my Grandpa Smith old fishing stuff after he passed. I have a bunch of old fishing lures / plugs that I've been told are worth something but I've never really checked into them. I also got his old Penn 9 fishing reels. I took them with me to the beach and had them fixed up / oiled etc. Those things are great, but a *(&^&*^#%# to learn how to properly cast without either burning your thumb or creating a 'bird nest'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfletch7441 Posted January 28, 2008 Report Share Posted January 28, 2008 Been through my maternal grandma's barns several times. Nothing of much monetary value, but several priceless personal memento's. The clothes my grandpa died in, old cotton picking bags that my grandma, grandpa, mom, and aunts used to pick cotton in, marriage licenses, birth/death certificates, and numerous items I can't remember now. Old chests are treasure troves for personal items. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adjam5 Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Hmmm funny you should ask... I have been in the process of cleaning out my parents, which was my grandparents house and basement. My parents were depression era children and threw NOTHING away...I mean NOTHING!!! Lots of junk. But there a few cool and interesting items that always get me off track from what I was there to do. Tons on stuff from Queen Elizabeth's coronation( Dad was stationed in England during the Korean war) and some vintage fishing equipment that has decorated my hunting cabin wall. It is a huge history lesson digging through the basement and garages:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted January 29, 2008 Report Share Posted January 29, 2008 Sure have. My gradparents are long gone now though. My grandparents on my father's side both passed away before I was 3 years old. Fortunately my grandparents on my mother's side lived to see their great grandchildren. My grandfather on my mother's side used to work for the Railroad. First as a blacksmith and then he taught himself to be a welder. If someone needed a specific tool for some purpose, he'd make it or invent one. He kept a lot of those tools he made when he retired. I used to go through and ask him what they were. My father has them now. He also made some of his own fishing lures. I have all of them. He passed away in 1990. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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