Thrifty Nickel Classifieds added a Lost and Found section to their incredibly convenient online web service over at OurThriftyNickel.com!
Have you misplaced your textbook? Perhaps left it on a table at McDonald’s when you were studying over a Big Mac and fries? Maybe sat it down on the seat next to you in the bus and forgot all about its existence? Place a notice in the Thrifty Nickel online! Perhaps a good samaritan picked up your quantum physics text, they would love to return it. We all know how expensive text books can be.
Did your pup fly the coop? Your chicken get out of the dog house? Search for them through the Thrifty Nickel Classifieds online. Throw out a wider net for your lost animals. Utilize the eyes of all who read the Thrifty Nickel. Place a lost and found ad today!
People lose things everyday. Some lucky people find things everyday. The Thrifty Nickel online provides a platform for exchange between the unlucky losers and the mysterious finders. For centuries the lost and found ad has resided in classified newspapers providing future generations with a survey of humanity through the remaining archives.
In Sara Bader’s fabulous book Strange Red Cow Bader compiles some of these fascinating lost and founds. While not all losts have a found, the ones that do instill within the reader the amazing sense of honesty and community that did and still does exist.
For example this lost ad was responded to within two weeks of placement:
“LOST, yesterday between the meeting-house in Worcester, and the road lading to Hardwick, a pair of SADDLE BAGS, containing a Cheese, some pulled Sheeps Wool, a number of Apples, a stripped small Apron, and a small pair of blue Stockings. Whoever has found the same, and will leave them at the Printing-Office in Worcester, or deliver them to me in Hardwick, shall be handsomely rewarded by JOSEPH BERNARD. Decem. 24th. — December 25, 1777, Massachusetts Spy or, American Oracle of Liberty
FOUND last week, a pair of SADDLE-BAGS, containing a number of Apples, and other valuable eatables &c. Enquire at Mrs. Jones’s inn-holder, Worcester. — January 1, 1778, Massachusetts Spy or, American Oracle of Liberty” (Bader 10).
Go on over to OurThriftyNickel.com, click Place and Ad, then click the Lost and Found tab. It really could not be easier to recover your belongings online than with the Thrifty Nickel. $5.75 for the first ten words, .40 cents per each additional word. One picture free with each ad! And because we love you and appreciate your business, we offer you a second week free when you place your ad online at OurThriftyNickel.com!
Make sure your lost items are found! Place an announcement in our classifieds and restore your faith in humanity!