Workers were renovating the kitchen and found a gift from the previous tenants

What can you not find in an old house! Sometimes, together with him, we get the stories of former residents, small messages from the past, and also unexpected gifts.

Craig Harrigan and his partner have been hired to renovate the kitchen of an old house in Edinburgh. And when they got to work and began to dismantle the floor, they found something like a makeshift box under it, in which the unexpected message was hidden. It was abandoned by the previous owners of the house.

The letter, written right on the floor, read: “Jack and May lived in this house with three children and a dog. The last time we did repairs in the kitchen was in April-May 2001. All the best! Have a drink for us.” And so that they could immediately proceed to the fulfillment of the wish, a bottle of single malt whiskey was attached to the letter.

Craig Harrigan, 35, shared the video on TikTok. “I called the employer and reported the find. She was very happy, admitted that this letter was written by the hand of her father, and she is one of those three children, which are discussed in the message, Craig said. “We cut out a piece of old parquet and gave it to her as a keepsake along with a bottle.” Unexpected, but such a nice gift!

The video has garnered over 11 likes and over 000 comments. But Craig himself was especially struck by the date. It seemed to him that 130 was quite recent, until his partner said that, for example, he had not even been born then. It was only then that Craig realized that 2001 years had passed!

Harrington admitted that it was one of the most unusual finds in his long practice. Usually, less pleasant surprises are found during repairs: obscene drawings, cigarette butts, old newspapers.

Such unusual discoveries happen not only to him. For example, American John Reynolds once found in the backyard of an old house … an abandoned swimming pool. And in our country, during repairs, “time capsules” are often found: messages from builders and repairmen immured in the walls, created in the Soviet Union and beginning with words like “hello to the Komsomol members of the future.”

Such “greetings from the past” make us think about what was before us, about the history of the house in which we are going to live or already live. They make you feel the flow of time, the connection between the past, present and future. They make us remember where we came from and where we will go.

If we want to please one of the descendants (or maybe ourselves, only after 15 years), we can also create our own time capsule. And it is not necessary to raise the parquet for this: services are now working on the Internet, with the help of which we can send letters to our own email box, and receive them after a couple of years.

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