---- Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU> wrote:

> > Oh all right, I'll guess I'll toss in my weird find too.
> >
> > A horseshoe.  A real horseshoe, from a horse.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Could be the explanation, of course - though the horseshoe was in the
narrow space between the rear seat and the cupboards.  And the man I bought
the van from was Palestinian and Muslim - not sure he would have been
reared in western superstitions!  Anything's possible, though!

 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.
>
> Weird is good - but never tacky!

Joy

> mcneely
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> >
> >
> >
> > Joy
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:06 AM, T Collins <tonycollin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Tony
> > >
> > >
> > > 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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