12/03/2025
2 weeks ago my team and I were helping a retired client sort through her living room — which had turned into a storage zone after several relatives passed and left her with all their things. There was no place to sit, and even the couch had been moved out to make room for the piles.
She had reached out after seeing my story in Whittier magazine and said, “I just can’t do this on my own anymore.”
While we were sorting through one of the many bags — mostly full of old 31 products — I found a small stack of photos. She glanced over and said, “Oh, those were from my mom.”
As I moved the photos into a sturdier box to keep them safe, something underneath caught my eye.
Jewelry.
She gasped. “Oh my god. I wondered where that went. I couldn’t find her pearls anywhere… and look, it’s all her watches.”
It was one of those moments that reminded me — sometimes it’s not about the clutter. It’s about what you find in it.
So I’d love to know what's the weirdest place you have found something you "lost"?
