Do You Find Weird Stuff at Your Parents' House?
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2011/09/09 18:52:38
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Ever walk into the basement of your parents' house and wonder why there are boxes upon boxes of weird nick-nacks and more than a few cases of too-old-to-be-good boxed wine? Well, you're not alone.
On a trip to his mother's house one day, Brooklyn-based comedian Joel Dovev noticed more than his fair share of wacky items. With a freezer full of uncooked meat in the cellar and a menorah, dreidel and shofar on the mantel (Google it), Dovev soon realized that that the stuff at his parents' house was just too weird not to document.
So he decided to start a blog about it, aptly titled "Crap at My Parents' House."
Asking people to play along and submit their own stories with pictures, Dovev started receiving more submissions than he knew what to do with and he realized he wasn't alone and something phenomenal was afoot.
Now, he's taking the best of his submissions, providing captions to each ridiculous photo and making a book out of it.
"It’s one of those things that no matter where you grew up or what era, everyone can relate," Dovev told the New York Daily News. "We’ve had submissions from around the globe from people of all ages."
Do you always find weird stuff at your folks' house? Share your stories -- and snap a picture next time you're in the area.
On a trip to his mother's house one day, Brooklyn-based comedian Joel Dovev noticed more than his fair share of wacky items. With a freezer full of uncooked meat in the cellar and a menorah, dreidel and shofar on the mantel (Google it), Dovev soon realized that that the stuff at his parents' house was just too weird not to document.
So he decided to start a blog about it, aptly titled "Crap at My Parents' House."
Asking people to play along and submit their own stories with pictures, Dovev started receiving more submissions than he knew what to do with and he realized he wasn't alone and something phenomenal was afoot.
Now, he's taking the best of his submissions, providing captions to each ridiculous photo and making a book out of it.
"It’s one of those things that no matter where you grew up or what era, everyone can relate," Dovev told the New York Daily News. "We’ve had submissions from around the globe from people of all ages."
Do you always find weird stuff at your folks' house? Share your stories -- and snap a picture next time you're in the area.
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Sakura11247 2011/09/09 21:11:42
PS: I'm not posting pictures... you perv!
Thats the book ^
As a kid I remember finding,real handcuffs (I don't even want to know or think about it!!!), a home electrolysis machine, which isn't too weird but looks absolutely bizarre to a child who has no idea what it does, several old photos with a person posing for the camera with a paper bag over their head and a smiley face drawn on it, oh...and a welder's flint, which to a child, looks like a giant weird safety pin....click on the blue "more" to see the weirdness.
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As a kid I remember finding,real handcuffs (I don't even want to know or think about it!!!), a home electrolysis machine, which isn't too weird but looks absolutely bizarre to a child who has no idea what it does, several old photos with a person posing for the camera with a paper bag over their head and a smiley face drawn on it, oh...and a welder's flint, which to a child, looks like a giant weird safety pin....click on the blue "more" to see the weirdness.
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It looks a little bit like this:
http://www.cookware.com/asp/s...
She also has a gadget that pops the pits out of cherries. And I swear it's older than dirt. Here's one that looks like it but it's probably stainless steel:
I can't tell you how many weird tools my Dad has. But then he works at a hardware store. lol
collected by my grandparents, my parents or me. Right now I am in the throngs of collecting wax seals. Crazy you say, could be to you, but there are some pretty amazing
wax seals out there. When you see how very long ago they were used and how they were use. It's a history study in it's self. What might be interesting is not to just judge your parents by what "weird stuff" they have laying around, BUT ask them why they own it !
not just one or two...there are a ton of them and they are in the weirdest places too
The mannequin head in the aquarium, the giant nutcrackers around the toilet, and the electric singing fish all over my Dad's bedroom wall were more or less my fault.
Please tell me she didn't fantasize about Darth Vader.