Yesterday I found and retrieved a piece of jewelry from the bottom of the pool. This is my ninth piece (mostly earrings) for the year, a new PR. They have all been cheap/fashion pieces except for one, which was a tiny antique silver pendant with a diamond chip in it. Why you'd wear jewelry into a pool is a mystery to me, but it takes all kinds.
Anyone else ever find anything interesting?
-LBJ
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For me the best has been the occasional penny or quarter...
Although, when I was a kid we used to belong to a summer swim club, they would have an annual cookout. One of the games for the kids was that they would throw a ton of coins into the pool and we would dive for them. Mostly pennies, but a good share of other coins. They broke it up by age group so that the big kids didn't muscle all the loot from the little kids. And in each age group there was one silver dollar added to the stash. That was the grand prize.
And another game was to dump a couple hundred little goldfish (yes, live, swimming fish) into the pool and we would catch and take them home. They even had de-chlorination drops available for us to put into the cups and tupperwares we had for the transport home.
I never forgot those days. So recently when my group at work had a little summer cookout at someone's pool, I brought about $10 in mixed change for the kids to dive for.
Yes, there is a special charm to finding sunken treasure.
For me the best has been the occasional penny or quarter...
Although, when I was a kid we used to belong to a summer swim club, they would have an annual cookout. One of the games for the kids was that they would throw a ton of coins into the pool and we would dive for them. Mostly pennies, but a good share of other coins. They broke it up by age group so that the big kids didn't muscle all the loot from the little kids. And in each age group there was one silver dollar added to the stash. That was the grand prize.
And another game was to dump a couple hundred little goldfish (yes, live, swimming fish) into the pool and we would catch and take them home. They even had de-chlorination drops available for us to put into the cups and tupperwares we had for the transport home.
I never forgot those days. So recently when my group at work had a little summer cookout at someone's pool, I brought about $10 in mixed change for the kids to dive for.
Yes, there is a special charm to finding sunken treasure.
