30 Worn Down Items That Show the Power of Time

1. “Knife At My Work That Is Halfway Gone From Sharpening”

2. “Just Found An Old Roll Of Biodegradable Poop Bags, They Really Do Disintegrate Like Advertised”

3. “Old Gold/Copper Crayola Crayons That Turned Green From Oxidation”

4. “30 Years Ago, My Grandfather Encased This Meatball In Epoxy”

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6. “My Parents Got This Spray Bottle Of Windex In 1979 And Have Been Reusing It Ever Since”

7. “I Found This Leaf With Only It’s ‘Veins’ Remaining”

8. “You Can Tell Where People Tend To Line Up At This Brooklyn Hardware Store By Where The Linoleum Tile Has Been Worn Away To Reveal The Original Ceramic”

9. “I Went Into The Office For The First Time Since March 2020 And Found The Kiwi I Left In My Desk”

10. “This Tree Eating A Postbox”

11. “This Brick Wall Got Smoothed Into A Rock”

12. “I Accidentally Left My Iron Man Canvas Out In The Rain And Inadvertently Improved The Original Design”

13. “A Seesaw (Teeter-Totter) In My Local Playground Where Thousands Of Little Feet Have Worn Through The Asphalt”

14. “Bathrooms At My Engineering University”

15. “The One And Only Basketball That Lives At The Local Park And Somehow Still Bounces”

16. “About Time I Bought Some New Work Boots”

17. “This Jack O Lantern With Mold Growing From Inside”

18. “Nature Swallows A Car In Hawaii”

19. “My Nana Has Been Using The Same Deck Of Cards For 10 Years And They’ve All Grooved To Her Hand Placement During Shuffling”

20. “The Knife At The Left Was Used By A Butcher For 5 Years Straight. The One At The Right Is The Exact Same Knife, But Brand New”

21. “Found Some Change That Had Been In The Brushes In The Clothes Dryer”

22. “1,800-Year-Old Roman Leather Sandals On Display At Vindolanda Fort In Northumberland, England”

23. “This Sun-Worn Sign Outside My Office That Looks Like It Belongs In A Horror Film”

24. “The Wear And Scuff-Marks On This Boat Look Like An Island In The Sea”

25. “60-Year-Old Unopened Pepsi Bottle”

26. “Faded Sign From The ‘War On Drugs’ Era”

27. “Exact Center Seat, 3rd Row From The Back Of The Theater Gets A Lot Of Use”

28. “Years Of A Lock Grinding On A Brick”

29. “This Whiteboard Eraser Has Definitely Seen More Than Its Fair Share Of Use”

30. “This Is The Same Doll, One After 32 Years Of Love, The Other Still Pristine”