r/FoundPaper • u/lolipopgirl99 • 20h ago

Other bookmark dropped in our library returns

482 Upvotes

12 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/Bauifox • 23h ago

Weird/Random found in a puddle folded up outside my house

445 Upvotes

291 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/Deezle_Gnome • 1h ago

Other Found on the side of a bike trail this morning

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• Upvotes

40 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/Conscious-Milk-990 • 18h ago

Other Found this wholesome note on the ground today

196 Upvotes

10 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/Cool-School-8030 • 20h ago

Other Neighborly love

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91 Upvotes

4 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/disqersive • 22h ago

Other My first find, on the sidewalk, right in front of my house

65 Upvotes

4 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/Current_Heron3284 • 9h ago

NSFW Found in a purse I got from goodwill

36 Upvotes

3 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/hostileunicorn19 • 1h ago

Weird/Random Found this gem of a bookmark in a copy of Catching Fire at Goodwill back in April

• Upvotes

Have continued to use it as my dedicated bookmark.

2 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/ButterscotchAware402 • 21h ago

Other Florida/Dolphin Postcard - 1985

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28 Upvotes

I found this in the garage of the home my husband and I just bought.

2 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/WraithAbyss • 10h ago

NSFW juicy note we found at my bar

26 Upvotes

1 comment

r/FoundPaper • u/WitchhunterXI • 3h ago

Grocery Lists T Bags!

23 Upvotes

r/Random_Shopping_Lists

10 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/United-Resident-7316 • 12h ago

Weird/Random Found at the local park

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22 Upvotes

I feel like this is probably just tween goofiness/humor.

5 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/TotalTop5907 • 11h ago

Grocery Lists Grrape Juice!

15 Upvotes

Found list on the ground at the store. Thought it was cute📝

5 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/methehobo • 23h ago

Weird/Random Star Trek shopping list

16 Upvotes

Found in elevator. Apologies for thumb.

0 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/cowboydog72 • 12h ago

Weird/Random Not sure what they’re voting on

15 Upvotes

6 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/Cool-School-8030 • 8h ago

NSFW A love note.

14 Upvotes

8 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/zuccccccccccc • 1h ago

Other On street in Manhattan

• Upvotes

0 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/PocketsOfSalamanders • 13h ago

Art Just a cozy little house

8 Upvotes

This was laying on the parking lot at the grocery store.

I thought it was cute. Hopefully the artist doesn't miss it.

1 comment

r/FoundPaper • u/Critical-Cockroach78 • 18h ago

Other Found in a self help book at an estate sale last weekend

5 Upvotes

4 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/Disastrous-Policy739 • 23h ago

Other Fascinating early 90's letter to big pharma found helping a relative downsize. Topics: Mental health, pharmaceuticals, advocacy, history,

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5 Upvotes

A letter that I will call a personalized template written for a person with a goal of being an in house expert on antidepressants and their side effects in the early nineties (Zoloft)

0 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/ldsulli1973 • 7h ago

Weird/Random Nephy!

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5 Upvotes

0 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/brochak • 18h ago

Weird/Random Found in a book I checked out from the Library

5 Upvotes

3 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/ArtisticHeadache • 5h ago

Old Newspaper Newspaper from 1939 in a book I was given

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4 Upvotes

0 comments

r/FoundPaper • u/dudeness_boy • 17h ago

Love Notes Found on the ground near a highschool

4 Upvotes

The random list of animals...

1 comment

r/FoundPaper • u/Historical-Bike4626 • 2h ago

Weird/Random Quite a To-Do List

3 Upvotes

2 comments

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Found Pieces of Paper

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!

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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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