Things that just appear

66Mustang
66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,399 Championing
in Coffee lounge
Another pointless topic but thought it might be fun…

It occurred to me today while it was raining that neither I nor anyone in my family that I know of has ever purchased an umbrella, yet we have about half a dozen of them. They seem to just appear from somewhere.

Wondering if people can think of any other items that have always just been there and you don’t ever remember purposefully going out to acquire?

I don’t think it’s just an inheritance thing either as another one I can think of is computer keyboards. I have never purchased one but always seem to have one. If I break one or need another one, there always seems to be one somewhere in the house. This is something too modern to have inherited from deceased family members.

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  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,471 Championing
    Biro pens. I can only think of about 2 times I've bought them, and yet always seem to have an abundance (other than at the times I need one the most, of course...). 
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,399 Championing
    That’s a good one!!! :D
  • Tori_Scope
    Tori_Scope Scope Posts: 12,471 Championing
    Bookmarks, too. I don't recall ever having bought a bookmark, other than perhaps a couple as a souvenir as a child, and yet I feel as though I'm drowning in them :D Okay, maybe that's an exaggeration, but I don't need as many as I have!
  • 66Mustang
    66Mustang Online Community Member Posts: 15,399 Championing
    Haha :tongue:
  • leeCal
    leeCal Online Community Member Posts: 7,537 Championing
    edited May 2022
    I’ve noticed two things appear regularly over the years. One is scrunchies on the pavement and the other is hair clips. I see them everywhere I go! 

    If I only had a pound for every one I’ve spotted I’d be quite well off. 💰 
  • janer1967
    janer1967 Online Community Member Posts: 21,922 Championing
    Odd socks go in the.wash as a pair come.out with one missing then just as you have cleared out the odd socks the other one appears 
  • vikingqueen
    vikingqueen Scope Member Posts: 1,959 Championing
                 Dust..... what is this stuff.. who puts it everywhere, I swear there is a little troll lives in my house and sprinkles it liberally at night when I'm asleep  ;)
  • Ross_Alumni
    Ross_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,611 Championing
    Batteries of random sizes
  • emancherry33
    emancherry33 Online Community Member Posts: 3,640 Trailblazing
    buses usually 3 of them ,appear from no where when you dont need them.

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