Some marbles. I've lost a few over the years.

Some years ago, I lost a drawing notebook full of sketches I'd done over a few years. Dunno if that counts as 'valuables'?

I'm 99% sure it's somewhere at home, but either way I'd really like that back.

Oh, I found such a thing three different times, yesterday! In a county office, an employee patiently, compassionately, happily helping an elderly lady with paperwork; at a takeout restaurant, a genuinely happy individual who graced me with a smile that would shame the sun, in it's glory, an authentic wish for a great day and a hug, at another business, another absolutely fabulous smile from a spry elderly lady with the most brilliant gray hair.

Nice snack I bought myself and forgot, and then finding it again later while browsing aimlessly.

I took the cargo hitch off my bike and set it down somewhere in the basement...

My motivation

I think it would be cool to stumble upon something of archeological value while on a hike. Like some ancient statuette, or something like a cuneiform tablet.

A cat.

Packaged meals, wildflowers, an aloof cat, alcohol, a street performer, maybe a neat rock.

Disposable vapes. I harvest the batteries, that are wasted on them.

Art, a park, a hidden beach. A copy of Found Magazine.

An underground city

Happiness.

Gray’s Sports Almanac

I lost my friggin glasses two weeks ago, it'd be nice to find them.

Found within my own home/possessions, a jolly rancher hard candy.

Out in the wild, a geocache. I go searching for them intentionally on occasion, but I also just spot one while I'm not looking and those are my fave. Especially the really tiny ones, "oh, that bolt on that stop sign looks a little weird. Hey, it's a nano cache!"

I also go hiking a lot and it's always fun finding plants I have high confidence that they are edible. I cooked up quite a bit of wild fern this spring, now it's berries and mushrooms.

Info that allows me to break through any of the "brick walls" in my genealogy research.

My copy of pokemon heartgold that I lost right before fighting red

Finding some conclusive supporting material about the (as yet unsolved) Voynich Manuscript.

Either, enough information to decode a possible cypher, or proof that it is an elaborate troll/hoax/joke.

Could be the 'Rosetta Stone moment' of the modern era.

I really appreciate that people in my city place their old books in small boxes with a "zu verschenken" (free to take) sign when they want to give them away. I've found many great books this way, along with a few quirky and unusual ones too.

Lan Chi chili paste.

I had a little pen knife that was great for small stuff like opening packages and cutting string. I lost it maybe a year ago. A replacement is maybe $10 but I liked that one :/

I'd also be pleasantly surprised to find some data I know I have saved but cannot find

Legible notes, especially those intended to be personal. I absolutely love buying used books and finding notes in them (either between the pages or written on them). Crumpled notes, shopping lists, discarded notebooks.

If I wasn't poor, I would prefer those to the banality of money.

Office supplies or gaming stuff

My virginity.

Find where? At home? In someone's backpack?