/r/FoundPaper
Photographs of found pieces of paper with writing on them, photographs or discarded cutouts. Appreciate the forgotten artifacts of everyday life.
Share any paper that you found (on the ground, stuck in some bushes or between cans of soup at the store for example) and you do not know who wrote it. Love letters, doodles, interesting to-do or grocery lists, notes from the past - share your discovery with us!
Photographs of found pieces of paper with writing on them! Look for paper. Make every day a scavenger hunt.
"I like this sub. Like being an archeologist or anthropologist, studying the leftover and forgotten artifacts of everyday life." -/u/TheSnackist
Check out some friends of found paper!
/r/BookInscriptions - little notes from past readers
/r/FoundClothing - who just gets rid of one shoe?!
/r/GrandmasCookbook - old thyme recipes see what I did there?
Notice the world around you. Pick up the paper you find on the ground. What is written on it might surprise you. Share it here.
PLEASE tag NSFW content!
Some of the most incredible things live written on the torn scraps of paper that didn't make it into the trash. They can be love letters, thoughts, quotes or a pertinent to-do list. The only rule is that you found it somewhere (on the ground, a public table or between the cans of soup at the store, so long as it isn't publicly posted!) and you don't know who wrote it. Anonymous and out of the blue is great!
- Love letters
- Poetry
- Doodles
- Scribbled notes
- Interesting to-do list
- Thoughts
- Impassioned graffiti written on paper
- Notes written in books
Please upload original content. The intent of this subreddit is to give fodder to the imagination through the actual weirdness of finding cool paper scraps/writing on the ground.
STANDARD FOUNDPAPER-PAPER-FINDING PROCEDURE:
- Remain calm and pick up paper
- Take a picture of it with your phone immediately
- Upload it to Imgur.com via your lovely mobile device
- Submit your link so we can see it!
WHEN SUBMITTING:
No stock images please. Use Imgur! Please have high resolution pictures, especially if there is dense handwriting. If it's somewhat illegible, leave in the comments what you can't say in the title. Post either in the title or in the comments where you were when/the story of how you found it. Maybe transcribe it in the comments if it's illegible and you have the time to do so.
If you find something in a mysterious foreign language, our friends at /r/translator can help! Comment !translate or !translator on a post, our subreddit bot /u/translator-BOT will automatically cross-post it to /r/translator, crediting the OP. Thank you to /u/kungming2 for writing this bot!
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/r/FoundPaper
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Pirate Body Family? 🤔
00:02 UTC
Found in my book
23:38 UTC
What do yall think Harris did?
21:51 UTC
Found outside today
20:55 UTC
Found on my doorstep
19:35 UTC
Found under attic stairs
Had to replace a step in the attic staircase and found this and a few other papers.
19:21 UTC
Found while sorting at Goodwill
18:35 UTC
Found in Winooski, VT
Front and back of an index card found on a sidewalk in Winooski while walking my dog. (Repost for formatting)
16:42 UTC
Found in the Yugoslav Building, abandoned around 1993 (judging by the other documents I have found there)
Any idea who that is and why would somebody print it on A3 piece of paper?
13:32 UTC
Assuming they dropped this after a mad dash to the toilet lol
10:33 UTC
Licked him in good shape.
09:48 UTC
Found in the back of a thrift store sudoku book
06:45 UTC
This is all garbage.
P.S. This is all garbage, we’re all sitting in a big, crowded, overfilled room in South Carolina, sweating our skin off, answering stupid questions that we’ve already answered 10 times already, and this joker wants us to write letters home telling how lovely the army is. I’ll write you a real letter soon. Love John
06:34 UTC
A letter to mom found in a used book.
05:43 UTC
Birthday party?
Bring on the scotch bourbon cognac
04:53 UTC
Saw this in a thrift store
03:37 UTC
found shopping list in a cart at work
can you tell which item i added
03:37 UTC
Found in Chicago a couple of years ago (marking nsfw to be safe)
I walked past like 5-6 light poles with this exact same note on all of them
03:22 UTC
Found in a jacket pocket at the vintage shop
Wondered if this was meth related. 1994 Walmart receipt for dust masks, Sudafed, and Afrin. Another Walmart receipt for shop towels and antifreeze. A note that says “bio carbonate of soda 16”” and “Bob Harris.” And another very faint receipt.
02:52 UTC
Found in a used book
02:13 UTC
Found in the bagging area of a check out
23:39 UTC
Found in a 1980s photo book of Rome in Scotland.
22:35 UTC
Found in Women’s Jacket
Thrifted and found with a pair of black gloves.
22:18 UTC
Found in a book at a thrift store
Wonder how they're doing now. And I hope Samuel had a good trip to Spain.
21:31 UTC
My dad found a letter he wrote to Santa in 1967
21:24 UTC
Found someone's grocery list
Found this in a Walmart parking lot.
20:40 UTC