/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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Found on the floor of a liquor store
06:19 UTC
I saw this in a Facebook group and I thought I would share with this sub.
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“Loyalty” found in Bible
04:09 UTC
Found this on the ceiling of my dorm room when I first started the school year
23:39 UTC
Happy Halloween! Here’s the most unsettling/spooky photo I’ve come across.
Found this in a donated photo album in Washington State 2 summers ago.
22:42 UTC
In my front yard
22:17 UTC
Outside a Social Security Office
19:16 UTC
Found in a thrifted Rhinoceros album
7/28/69
Dear Mom, First, I’ll say if I’m going to Disneyland and Vegas first I’ll need my $112.
Second, if I do I might need written permission. According to Sherry, I can’t stay in a hotel alone at my age. Don’t know if that is so. So, I could use a note or something if you could think of something convincing.
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Student area, Belfast
16:40 UTC
Found this on the counter at work
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Stuff found at school 3: under a lunch table
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apartment elevator find
15:13 UTC
Thrift store cookbook find
14:23 UTC
Fortune cookies anyone?
12:48 UTC
Found on the ground at a rest stop in Tennessee
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Found this bit of paper in some playing fields next to a school in south-eastern Australia
10:43 UTC
Me?
r/Random_Shopping_Lists
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Found on the nyc subway
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03:34 UTC
What does this say? Found inside the box amongst the components of a new bookcase I was assembling.
02:16 UTC
Found in an office at the cop shop
23:23 UTC
Love letter? Break Up Letter? Time capsule of 1980s music?Found in old book.
22:10 UTC
Found in a library book
this melted my heart. It was found in some non children's book, I can't remember.
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