photo of an insane amount of clutter filling up a garage or a room, you can't tell because it's floor to ceiling with detritus, papers, photos, and just stuff.

Stuff I Found

  • THREE $10,000 U.S. Savings Bonds
    (in what the family told me was trash).
  • Lots of missing and sought-after jewelry.
  • A portfolio of decades-old photographs perfectly preserved in the false bottom of a World War Two Army foot locker.
  • Lots of books, pamphlets and WW2 propaganda (See the 3 Raves from Stanford University libraries) in the decrepit shed of a Palo Alto home.  We were mere days ahead of the silverfish, termites and mice. 
  • A deed to a piece of San Francisco property no one in the family knew that Mom had even bought.
  • GrandDad’s Patent, dated 1905, for a nickel operated table-top juke box. (The family had been looking for it for decades in the vastly cluttered house).
  • A Boar’s head, with tusks intact. No one was looking for that.