What have you found in your clutter?
Pickled clutter
A Pickled Monkey – Found on the dining room table under clutter. Called Pedro and beloved pet. Also found with Christmas cards that Pedro used to send.
Snappy clutter
A Stuffed Crocodile – found in the bedroom
Reading clutter
Beatrice Potter 1st edition (worth £6,500) – found in a cardboard box in the bottom of a wardrobe of a lady who was de-cluttering after loosing her husband and moving into a home. She went on a round the world cruise before going into the home, thanks to her clutter!
Snack clutter
A tin of soup from 1947 – a little out of date it was given to a local museum
Loving clutter
A letter from a friend 15 years ago – it wasn’t clutter as the owner wrote to the person again, re-established contact and ended up marrying him.
Banked clutter
An envelope with a Christmas gift of £5 from 1982 form a now dead Aunty - £5 which was never acknowledge and the Aunt never thanked
Valuable clutter
A bank book that was 27 years old and turned out to have earned £4,276 interest over the term.
Attractive clutter
A necklace made out of melted down silver farthings by Amerindians in the Amazon rain forest of Guyana, South America which was given to a lady on the day she accepted her missionary husbands proposal.
Chatter clutter
A full set of baby teeth.
Pet clutter
Dead mice – a very common clutter item! – mice often like to eat the clutter!
Reading clutter
12 years worth of newspapers,
Shopping clutter
A war ration book.
Yummy clutter
13 year old chocolate.
Historic clutter
The deeds of the first owner of a Victorian house being de-cluttered – from 1876.
Hidden clutter
A cellar – the owner didn’t know they had one.
Found something unusual, surprising or something that’s been lost for years?
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