Found vintage barn wood for a table, but it might be from a historic site.

Using old wood without knowing its history keeps me up at night.

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Picked up some beams from a torn down church in Ohio last year. Had that same sick feeling until I did some digging. Found out it was just a modern addition from the 1980s.

beng511mo agoMost Upvoted

Nothing like getting a blessing from the 80s instead of a curse from the 1800s.

xenam8426d ago

Oh man, @beng51 is totally right. I once spent a week feeling bad about some floorboards until I found a 1992 gum wrapper stuck under one. The real curse is how much we overpay for stuff that's basically just our own childhood junk now.

sethm581mo ago

That colonial-era guilt hits hard, doesn't it? You could probably convince yourself it's from a revolutionary war latrine. Turns out most of this stuff is from a shed that saw its best days holding someone's lawnmower in 1997. Guess my new table won't be screaming in historical anguish after all.