Some marbles. I've lost a few over the years.
Some years ago, I lost a drawing notebook full of sketches I'd done over a few years. Dunno if that counts as 'valuables'?
I'm 99% sure it's somewhere at home, but either way I'd really like that back.
Oh, I found such a thing three different times, yesterday! In a county office, an employee patiently, compassionately, happily helping an elderly lady with paperwork; at a takeout restaurant, a genuinely happy individual who graced me with a smile that would shame the sun, in it's glory, an authentic wish for a great day and a hug, at another business, another absolutely fabulous smile from a spry elderly lady with the most brilliant gray hair.
Nice snack I bought myself and forgot, and then finding it again later while browsing aimlessly.
Unless it's at the bottom of a bag you haven't used in months.
Might be good still, but it's likely smushed
I took the cargo hitch off my bike and set it down somewhere in the basement...
My motivation
Motivation is fleeting. Discipline is a trained skill.
Whatever thing you wish you had motivation for, make a schedule for yourself and start doing it. Pair it with something you like ("I run each morning and I get my morning coffee after I finish my run") and stick to it.
I think it would be cool to stumble upon something of archeological value while on a hike. Like some ancient statuette, or something like a cuneiform tablet.
Packaged meals, wildflowers, an aloof cat, alcohol, a street performer, maybe a neat rock.
A cat.
Art, a park, a hidden beach. A copy of Found Magazine.
Disposable vapes. I harvest the batteries, that are wasted on them.
Somehow this popped into my head when you said that.
Disclaimer: 90s throwback alert.
I think I may have kept this a secret, had my amazing secret enormous underground city to myself, and announced it's existence in my will.
Anthropology was also my first love, so I probably wouldn't have done that, but it's fun to think about lol
Happiness.
We said no valuables
Gray’s Sports Almanac
Damn it Biff, you beat me to it!
I lost my friggin glasses two weeks ago, it'd be nice to find them.
Weird little drinking related story about finding my glasses from my college times: Got accepted for a PhD and wanted to party. Met a good friend and went to a Balkans party with loads of cheap booze. Wake up at 6am in a night bus out of town and can't find my wallet on me. Run like crazy to the club/bar where the party was. Last people there let me search for my wallet. Only find my glasses in the bar toilet that I didn't notice I had also lost. Lock credit card and go home happy that I at least found my glasses.
Found within my own home/possessions, a jolly rancher hard candy.
Out in the wild, a geocache. I go searching for them intentionally on occasion, but I also just spot one while I'm not looking and those are my fave. Especially the really tiny ones, "oh, that bolt on that stop sign looks a little weird. Hey, it's a nano cache!"
I also go hiking a lot and it's always fun finding plants I have high confidence that they are edible. I cooked up quite a bit of wild fern this spring, now it's berries and mushrooms.
Info that allows me to break through any of the "brick walls" in my genealogy research.
My copy of pokemon heartgold that I lost right before fighting red
Finding some conclusive supporting material about the (as yet unsolved) Voynich Manuscript.
Either, enough information to decode a possible cypher, or proof that it is an elaborate troll/hoax/joke.
Could be the 'Rosetta Stone moment' of the modern era.
I really appreciate that people in my city place their old books in small boxes with a "zu verschenken" (free to take) sign when they want to give them away. I've found many great books this way, along with a few quirky and unusual ones too.
Lan Chi chili paste.
I had a little pen knife that was great for small stuff like opening packages and cutting string. I lost it maybe a year ago. A replacement is maybe $10 but I liked that one :/
I'd also be pleasantly surprised to find some data I know I have saved but cannot find
Office supplies or gaming stuff
Legible notes, especially those intended to be personal. I absolutely love buying used books and finding notes in them (either between the pages or written on them). Crumpled notes, shopping lists, discarded notebooks.
If I wasn't poor, I would prefer those to the banality of money.
My virginity.
Find where? At home? In someone's backpack?
Anywhere it's generally okay to look/find things
The last time I was pleasantly surprised to find something somewhere, I was looking through store shelves and found an old food I used to like, toaster muffins.
