---- Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU> wrote:
> Oh all right, I'll guess I'll toss in my weird find too.
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> A horseshoe.  A real horseshoe, from a horse.
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> You go figure...

Well, among some, a horseshoe is considered a good luck piece, sort of a lucky charm. Maybe the previous owner hauled the shoe around like some do a Saint Christopher's statuette or medal.

 When I bought the house I live in now, there was a horseshoe nailed over the garage side door, and another over the main entrance door to the house.  I haven't bothered to remove the garage one, but I thought the other one not only looked tacky, but might give visitors an erroneous belief that I am superstitious.  I am thought in some circles to be weird, anyway.  No need to exacerbate that belief.

mcneely

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> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:06 AM, T Collins <tonycollin@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Ok, I'll contribute
> >
> > This is not a weird thing as much as where it was.....
> >
> > Many of you (I'm sure) have seen those metal dishes that are
> > magnetized. We use them when we are taking things appart so that
> > things like bolts and nuts stay put.
> > Like the one below:
> > http://i00.i.aliimg.com/photo/237948897/Magnetic_Dish.jpg
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> > Well, I found it months after I bought my vanagon. It was ontop of the
> > rear drivers side trailing arm. I drove the Vanagon from Cincinnati
> > OH, to Ann Arbor, MI. It was grimmy and still had cotter pins on
> > it....
> >
> > So yes not a weird item. Just placement.
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> > Tony
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> > On 1/2/12, Courtney Hook <courtneyhook@shaw.ca> wrote:
> > > A lovely gold ring with a small stone in it. Not that big, probably for a
> > > child, but what really p***ed me off, is that the people I bought the van
> > > off kept it after I showed them, even though they said it wasn't
> > theirs!!! I
> > > was just as dumb for not keeping it, but at the moment, I didn't object.
> > :-/
> > > I'm now older and wiser, and gold is worth 1600 an ounce.
> > > Courtney
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David McNeely