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American author Nathaniel Hawthorne once said: "Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind." Let's explore that tail, shall we? It's not an easy task, but Bored Panda put together a list of photos that capture this elusive silhouette quite well.
From a meatball that has spent decades in epoxy to 1,800-year-old Roman leather sandals, the things you're going to see below have all faced the biggest battle in the universe — the passage of time — but took different wounds. Continue scrolling to compare them and if you want more of the same, fire up our similar publications here, here, and here.
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#1
The Wear And Scuff-Marks On This Boat Look Like An Island In The Sea
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#2
Shout Out To Lodge For Replacing My 14 Year Old Dutch Oven Because The Enamel Chipped. No Hassles, Just A Free Replacement In The Mail One Week After Contacting Them
#3
My Grandmother Has Kept Her Elementary School Lunch Box In Nearly Pristine Condition For Over 70 Years
#4
I Inherited My Grandma's Sewing Supplies And As I Was Putting Them Away Realized I Bought The Exact Same Buttons That She Did Over 35 Years Ago For Me
#5
The Knife At The Left Was Used By A Butcher For 5 Years Straight. The One At The Right Is The Exact Same Knife, But Brand New
#6
This Jack O Lantern With Mold Growing From Inside
#7
Brickwork By The Sea
#8
My Work ID Has Been In Its Plastic Holder For So Long That Itâs Imprinted This Ghostly Image Of My Face
#9
My Neighbors Have An Old Chair With Plants Growing Over It
#10
I Found This Leaf With Only It's 'Veins' Remaining
#11
The One And Only Basketball That Lives At The Local Park And Somehow Still Bounces
#12
My Parents Got This Spray Bottle Of Windex In 1979 And Have Been Reusing It Ever Since
#13
160 Years Of Foot Traffic Over The Step Into My Local Pub
#14
This Tree Eating A Postbox
#15
This Brick Wall Got Smoothed Into A Rock
#16
A Seesaw (Teeter-Totter) In My Local Playground Where Thousands Of Little Feet Have Worn Through The Asphalt
#17
I Went Into The Office For The First Time Since March 2020 And Found The Kiwi I Left In My Desk
#18
You Can Tell Where People Tend To Line Up At This Brooklyn Hardware Store By Where The Linoleum Tile Has Been Worn Away To Reveal The Original Ceramic
#19
Old Gold/Copper Crayola Crayons That Turned Green From Oxidation
#20
I Accidentally Left My Iron Man Canvas Out In The Rain And Inadvertently Improved The Original Design
#21
About Time I Bought Some New Work Boots
#22
Water Levels At Lake Powell Are So Low You Can Find Old Wrecks Out Of The Water
#23
Just Found An Old Roll Of Biodegradable Poop Bags, They Really Do Disintegrate Like Advertised
#24
Great Grandmother's Potato Peeling Knife Still Used By My Grandmother In Her Late 80âs. She Says Her Mother Used It When She Was A Child
ThoughtsAreNotFacts 4 years ago
Keep it forever! My grandma gave me an old lamp that has been used in our family for over 90 yrs. Doesn't match any decor and the plug is weird but I'm keeping it forever!
#26
Bathrooms At My Engineering University
#27
My Nana Has Been Using The Same Deck Of Cards For 10 Years And Theyâve All Grooved To Her Hand Placement During Shuffling
Alan Green 4 years ago
Does she always win? She's probably memorised every little blemish on the back of each card.
#28
100-Year-Old Logging Truck, Abandoned And Overgrown By The Trees It Once Helped Cut Down (Lynn Valley, British Columbia, Canada)
#29
1,800-Year-Old Roman Leather Sandals On Display At Vindolanda Fort In Northumberland, England
#30
This Sun-Worn Sign Outside My Office That Looks Like It Belongs In A Horror Film
#31
Found Some Change That Had Been In The Brushes In The Clothes Dryer
#32
A Tree Trunk With A Silver Kennedy 1/2 Dollar Coin
#33
These Hand Prints In A Cave In Southern Utah
#34
Faded Sign From The "War On Drugs" Era
#35
30 Years Ago, My Grandfather Encased This Meatball In Epoxy
#36
60-Year-Old Unopened Pepsi Bottle
#37
Years Of A Lock Grinding On A Brick
#38
Exact Center Seat, 3rd Row From The Back Of The Theater Gets A Lot Of Use
#39
Progression Of A Broom At A Machine Shop
#40
This Is The Same Doll, One After 32 Years Of Love, The Other Still Pristine
#41
This Guy Dancing At The Same Place For Weeks
#42
Nature Swallows A Car In Hawaii
#43
A 39-Year-Old Fan Which Turns 40 Tomorrow
#44
My Dadâs Tree Is Swallowing His Thermometer
#45
This Pumpkin Got Tossed In The Chicken Run Last November But Other Animals Ate The Insides, Leaving A Fairly Intact Shell
#46
Wear Marks In The Floor Of A Repurposed Leviâs Denim Factory. Someone Spent Their Whole Life Working And Standing In This Spot. Lamyâs Building, Sedalia, MO
#47
My Teal Post-Its Turned Green While I Was Out Of The Office For 15 Months
#48
Basketball I Got 5 Years Ago vs. Basketball I Got Today
#49
Found This At My Local Pharmacy
#50
This Whiteboard Eraser Has Definitely Seen More Than Its Fair Share Of Use
#51
The Rain Melted The Shells Off The Exposed M&M's I Found In A Parking Lot
#52
Old 3ds Found With Erosion And Barnacles Found While Diving
#53
One Of My Kids Left A Shoe Outside
#54
New vs. 3-Year-Old Cat Scratching Post
#55
The Patch On My Jeans Came Off Revealing Its Original Color
Tamra Stiffler 4 years ago
Levi's last forever. At least they used to - haven't had any in a while.
#56
Old Ice Pack Sprung A Leak, Had To Get A New One
#57
Three Years Ago I Hid A Golden Money Egg For An Easter Egg Hunt But The Egg Was Never Found... Until Now
#58
Well Worn Wooden Bench
#59
Boyfriend Bought Me A New Alpaca (Left) After I Slept With The Old One (Right) Every Night For 6 Years
#60
Wear-And-Tear On Playground Monkeybars Decreases As The Distance Increases
#61
7 Year Old Fast Food. Noticed At A Doctor's Office Today
#62
My Girlfriend Said You Guys Would Like This And I'm Not Sure Why
#63
What UV Light Does To Wooden Floors When A Rug Is Placed In The Middle Of A Room
#64
Years Of People Touching The Map At The "You Are Here" Spot
#65
My Hands After Washing The Dishes For 20 Minutes
#66
The Difference Between Brand New Teeth And 800 Hours Of Digging
#67
Finally Got Around To Replacing The Casters On My 1950s Wooden Bankers Chair
#68
Here's The Patina On A Knife I Made A Year Ago
#69
Does This Count? Highlighter After A Week Of Nonstop Studying
Chris Freeman 4 years ago
Reminds me of used college textbooks. Half of the first chapter pages are yellow. Last half of the book never has ANY highlighting in it. :)
Tim Douglass 4 years ago
Eventually everyone figures out that highlighting doesn't really help your studying at all.
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#70
4months Of A Sleep Guard. Never Thought I Used To Grind My Teeth
#71
This Raw Hotdog Someone Stuck On My Vans Antenna Nearly 2 Years Ago Is Skinny But Still Going Strong
#72
The Counter At This Truck Stop
#73
This Radiator Underneath A Hand Dryer In A Pub In Northern England
#74
My Husband Bought Me A New Uno Deck To Replace My 20-Year-Old Deck
#75
The Grooves Left By The Drop Rods On The Exit Gates Of The Carousel At The Henry Ford Museum
Ekaterina S 4 years ago
I would love to post the picture of me sitting on the carousel! Itâs been almost 20 years! Omg!
#76
This Death Trap My Wife Calls An Oven Mitt
#77
The Air Filter I Just Took Out Of My Lawnmower vs. The One I Replaced It With
Daniel Atkins 4 years ago
You know the only reason they looked is the mower wouldn't start. I have done this too.
#78
The Sticker On My High School Hat Iâve Had For 10 Years Fell Off Showing The Original Color
Nami Tantrum 4 years ago
i don't get why people leave them on the cap and don't bend the shield anymore
#79
The Spot Where Everyone Always Waits For The Elevator
#80
Finally Got A New Pair Of Work Gloves. 2 Year Gap
#81
Manhole Cover, New vs. Old
#82
Penny That Was Stuck In My Washer For Years
#83
Gorilla Nose And Nips
#84
The Wear Around Salon Seat
#85
My Old Skate Shoes vs. My Buddy's New Ones
#86
Dug Up A Very Old Orange Crush Can In My Garden Yesterday
#87
My Friendâs Childhood Towel After 20 Years
#88
Greasy Head Stains In Doctors Waiting Room
#89
New Yoda vs. 2-Years-Old Yoda
#90
This Box Of Crayons At The Corner Gas Station Lost Most Of Its Color
#91
Before And After 18 Months Of Covid Lockdowns
#92
This Jigsaw Has Sat On My Coffee Table For So Long It Fused Into A Flexible Mat
#93
My Laptop Keyboard Protectors, 6 Years Apart
#94
Brand New Stored In Closet vs. 25 Years Of Use
#95
We Found This Almost Identical Jacket Outside An Op Shop Today
#96
Handrail In A Stairwell At Work
#97
I Think It Was About Time For New Tires On My RC Car
#98
My 10 Year Old Rubik's vs. One That Just Arrived
#99
This Tube Of Toothpaste Discolored Of Being By The Sun For Years
#100
This Diary Full Of Stickers/Papers My Boyfriend And I Collected Since May 2020
#102
You Nose Its Been Touched A Lot
#103
The Sun Has Bleached The Corner Of The Carpet In This Shop Window Over Time
#104
Plastic Keyboard Cover At Work. I Work At A Dentist's Practice In Germany. Tooth = Zahn, Hence The Z
Blacksheep Backsheep 4 years ago
That's looks like plastic wrap after you peel it off then stick it back on
#105
I Have An Old Basketball In My Backyard That Has The Space Jam Logo On It
#106
Climbing Brush, About 8 Years Of Use (Bottom) vs. No Use (Top)
#107
Some More Well Worn Brakes
WilvanderHeijden 4 years ago
They are not "well worn", they are destroyed by a lack of maintenance.
#108
Old vs. New Leather Phone Case
Sue Sanders 4 years ago
Just one of thousands of iterations coming up in the next year/six months/week/being marketed right now.
#109
Old Air Purifier Hepa Filter On The Left vs. Brand New One On The Right
#110
The Cracks In My Screen Protector
#111
IKEA Dish Soap Dispenser Tip
#112
I Found An Old Candy Dispenser With Melted Skittles
#113
Gentlemen
Jayne Kyra 4 years ago
My most comfortable winter socks for the house have small holes by now... but they have foxes in Santa hats, so obviously I cannot get rid of them.
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What do you think ?
Kar Red Roses 4 years ago
Ending this really fun article with that stale skittles and a crusty old white board eraser didn’t sit well with me. I’m skeeved. Somebody pass the eyeball bleach!
LadyDez 4 years ago
I have a perfectly work down groove in the latch on my dog's leash that would fit here. Lol
Kar Red Roses 4 years ago
Ending this really fun article with that stale skittles and a crusty old white board eraser didn’t sit well with me. I’m skeeved. Somebody pass the eyeball bleach!
LadyDez 4 years ago
I have a perfectly work down groove in the latch on my dog's leash that would fit here. Lol
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