17 Everyday Items That Have a Secret Their Owners Never Expected to Find

Curiosities
2 years ago

Unexpected things can find us everywhere. For example, you can use a certain item for a long time and suddenly find a secret detail on it. Or you can buy a pretty statuette that can also be useful, like being a pencil sharpener.

At Bright Side, we believe that it would be great if life could bring such pleasant surprises to us more often. And the heroes of this article were lucky in this exact way.

“As something of a practical person, I was having a difficult time in justifying this purchase.”

“Imagine my girlish delight at turning it over to reveal a pencil sharpener, and thus an excuse for my frivolity.”

“My black headrest shows up completely differently to the black chair on infrared.”

“The remote to our new Christmas lights has timer options for 6 hours, 8 hours, and... 6,639 hours?”

“This envelope someone sent me is a map inside.”

“My daughter’s tiger has distinct bright and dark stripes in normal light, but is entirely pale white in night vision.”

“I peeled back the packaging on my Barbie themed tube of lip balm and discovered the packaging of a different brand underneath.”

“My ornament has a hole for a light to poke through so it mimics the lit lighter from this movie scene.”

The LEGO Adidas Shoe has you stepping on a LEGO piece printed on the insole.

“My new fitted sheet has a pocket on it.”

“I opened a thrifted fern book from 1961 to find a total of 4 dried ferns inside!”

“$2 for a lifelong friend sounds like a good deal to me.”

“I found this cute egg thing in a trash pile and cleaned it up. It’s pretty neat.”

“I found someone’s secret stash in a 1976 book from a high school library in Utah.”

“We were handed down chairs built during the Great Depression.”

“Lumber must have been hard to find at the time because our chair is made from an old Ouija board.”

“I finally found something cool and unusual. A tin can light!”

“This panda and cub were just sitting in the farthest corner of the store on the highest shelf.”

“And I’ve been looking for a Panda cookie jar for a long time.”

“My mother-in-law’s ‘new’ couch has a phone in it.”

Do you have an item that you’ve discovered a secret in? What was it? Tell us in the comments below.

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