“What Working On The Same Spot For 41 Years Does To The Floor”: 50 Pics Of Worn-Down Things (New Pics)
Time waits for no man, nor anything really. Use, neglect, or just the simple passing of days and years, inevitably, end up leaving a mark on everything and everyone. Like a canyon being worn down by the flow of water over thousands of years, everyday use can leave its own impact, from grove marks to wear and tear.
People across the net share the interesting effects of time and use on everyday items. While not intentional, the incremental, tiny changes add up, creating a sort of organic, new art. So get comfortable, settle into your favorite chair, and scroll through. Upvote the most interesting examples and be sure to comment your thoughts below.
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A Black Shirt Of Mine That Got A Solar Tie-Dye Job After Years Of Being Crammed In The Back Of My Car
It just happens. I don't own a car, but I know how this works. You get it there for some reason, and then every day you think "Okay, I will get it out tomorrow". But it doesn't happen until you have to do a capital cleaning/repairs on your car.
Load More Replies...My Parents' Cat Always Follows The Same Path Through Their Garden
My dogs do something similar...No matter where the are in the yard, when I call them they always walk to the center of the yard and make a right angle turn onto a path they've worn and follow it to the house. That part of the yard is wide open and the house is clearly visible. It's funny to watch them make that sharp turn and "merge" onto the path.
Mine do this too!!! Though dog paths are much more "dirt trail" than cat paths, apparently 🤣
Load More Replies...It looks like he stepped into the exact same footprints every time!
When your sweet baby is gone, hopefully not for MANY years, preserve the path by laying flat stones in where her footprints have been... mowing over those would be too hard to do! 😭
That's a lovely idea. Maybe try to find little paw shaped stones.
Load More Replies...Ok so what you do is take casts of the cats fee and make little stepping stones so it lasts forever
My weenie has 3 perfectly worn dirt paths in our grassy yard, I learned recently these are called 'desire paths'
Just a reminder that roads are not a human invention. I explore paths only made and used by animals all the time.
Generations Of Bunnies Have Worn A Perfect Groove In My Neighbor's Fence
Time really doesn’t treat everyone and everything equally. By one’s late forties, it’s easy to see what people have “aged well” or “aged poorly,” while in objects, certain materials hold up a lot better than others. A car, left in a field for decades will inevitably begin rusting down into nothing over time, while plastic and glass, unless there is some significant force, will be around for centuries.
Some of the largest examples of this are in nature, where water, wind, and sun have been steadily working before we had even emerged from the oceans. The Grand Canyon, for example, took the Colorado River around five to six million years or “work,” wearing down rocks piece by piece.
Countless Hours Of Wind Moved The Chains To Get This Piece Of Art
Would it keep it's form with the wind blowing it or is it more likely it swings this way after being used (more force behind the swing). I'd expect the links to act as joints in the wind, not makkng a straight line 🤔
The wind isn't pushing on one point, it's pushing equally hard on each link and on each part of (one side of) that link.
Load More Replies...I'd suggest it's not wind blowing the chains, but people releasing the chain when unhooking it. When you let go from the hook over on the door, it swings down and then back and forth. Otherwise, you're regularly getting gale force wins targeted on that door...
23 Years Ago, My Girlfriend Was Given 2 Identical Stuffed Peter Rabbit Toys. One She Kept With Her At All Times (And Still Does), The Other Was Stored Away
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." "I suppose you are real?" said the Rabbit. And then he wished he had not said it, for he thought the Skin Horse might be sensitive. But the Skin Horse only smiled. "The Boy's Uncle made me Real," he said. "That was a great many years ago; but once you are Real you can't become unreal again. It lasts for always."
The velteen rabbit is one of the best books I've ever read!
Load More Replies...She cuddled his fur off. I have a similarly threadbare panda who has had her fur cuddled off.
Basically Toy Story, the brand new one is sad because it didnt see the light of day after all those years, and the terribly blighted one is happy, because it got to play so much with its owner.
Load More Replies...Little bunny foo-foo hoppin through the forest…
Load More Replies...Family Heirloom Watch That Was Passed Down To Me. Traces Of The Family Photo Carried On The Back Are Still Visible
Thanks for posting this! I was trying to see it inverted by staring at the original for a minute and then looking at a white wall but it didn't work out.
Load More Replies...To all those who have criticized my comment, English is not my native language and it was not my intention to offend anyone. My intention was to reply in advance to everyone who would thank me, that's all.
"You are welcome" isn't seen as an insult by folks who aren't snowflakes. I appreciated the effort, so thanks.
Load More Replies...FFS...What's with all the hate against two little words that mean NOTHING to any of you, except maybe the OP.
This reminds me of something that happened when I was a kid. We were visiting family friends. Me, my brother and their daughter were playing in the living room and I went past a table with a framed school pic of my friend on it. As I went by, I realized at a certain angle there was suddenly a man's face in the pic. It took up the entire frame. Scared the heck out of 10 yr old me. I went and got my friends mom and showed her. She was spooked too. Then realized the frame used to hold a pic of her dad, my friends grandpa. It had that pic for several years and the image must have burned into the glass. The weird part was no one noticed before I did that night.
Physicists and other scientists call this particular phenomenon entropy, as new matter or energy is never created, but everything slowly breaks down over time. Originally used in thermodynamics, most people know it from everyday occurrences in nature. Mountains get shorter, cliffs erode and dunes are slowly washed away.
A Stop Sign In My Town Is So Old It's Becoming A Metal Band Logo
Usually they get replaced every few years and there's a color coded sticker on the back noting what year it is from. When I'm a bored passenger in the car, I look for the stickers and read what colors mean which year.
Load More Replies...Might want to call that in though it looks super cool. I'd steal it but it's not my style.
Scary! This must be very effective - looks like there will be divine retribution if you don't.
400-Year-Old Wooden Staircase In Prague
Look at some of the stone staircases in old churches and houses, worn just the same way.
Think of all the thousands of footfalls that created that result.
Load More Replies...I kind of hate that I laughed at this, because now I'm cringing at the incline it would be. I certainly wouldn't manage to get up that, even if it was in a straight line. And going down would be... interesting. I'd definitely hope there was no one anywhere near the bottom.
Load More Replies...Staircase in one building in Auschwitz was worn out the same way. Way too many tourists went there.
I stayed at an apartment in Paris with communal stairs like these. Walking up and down them each day felt so good. You can't do it without thinking about all the people who walked their hundreds of years before you.
A Broken Tube TV In My Work Has "Game Over" Burnt Into The Screen
It's not a broken TV, it's the monitor from Atari's Pole Position. poleposa1-...67d9e3.jpg
Wow, I think you're right! Nice catch.
Load More Replies...That's awesome and too cool to throw away. Get a table top to put on it and make it and end table or bedside table.
Sometimes the combination of patterns creates a sort of emergent art piece, as colors and shapes are formed. Human beings have an amazing ability to find beauty in the most random collections of things, so it’s not surprising that many of these images were wildly popular on the net before being gathered here.
Organ Keys From The 1850s
The "D" seems to be the by far most used key over the years. Fascinating. I'd have guessed another key.
Looking at the 3rd inversion right hand chord position of D major... I definitely agree
Load More Replies...Amazing! Just think about all the people who could’ve possibly played that organ!
Years Of Graffiti (Oakland, CA, 2012)
Queen Elizabeth I- had smallpox as a child and used white makeup to cover up the scarring. The concoction of the Venetian Ceruse she used contained lead, a poisonous heavy metal. This lead lead to hair loss, skin shedding and loss of cognitive abilities over time. Also cleaning off makeup was not a common practice. It is believed when she died, she had about an inch of the makeup caked on.
What a coincidence- I learned that fact for the first time just yesterday when I was searching random Royal Family facts!
Load More Replies...Years ago, people would cut the old paint off of the railings and fixtures in automotive paint booth and make jewelry out of it. Today's water based paint doesn't leave that residue. If someone were to take this and make jewelry out of it, it would be fantastic!
Reminds me of Fordite. Fordite is a "mineral" found at the Ford Motor Company factories where they paint the cars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordite
Reminds me of the stack of date tags on my car's license plate - it's a 97.
The Stirring Pattern Formed Over Time In My Coffee Cup
Probably just molecules of metal from your spoons. Can use any abrasive cleaner to remove it. Unless you want to ingest that metal!
No, yeah no. I've used abrasives on my glazed porcelain dishes and the glaze is now wearing off in some small areas. Since porcelain is porous, it allows bacteria to be trapped and increases the risk of serious infections. Technically I do need to replace those dishes.
Load More Replies...Also because of the ear, the mug is always held in the same position. Otherwise it would be more random and no clear pattern.
Load More Replies...I could do this if I didn't take the spoon out within seconds of stirring
Other examples are more about satisfying human curiosity. From food items stashed away for decades to years of dust creating rug-like layers, most people might find these sorts of edge cases interesting, as we tend to not encounter them on a daily basis. It might be a great way how to satisfy that childhood curiosity of “What if?”
Today On My Walk I Found An "Army Man" Embedded In The Sidewalk
You Can See My Weight Loss Progress In My Work Belt
Congtates on the loss. Keep on with it.I have one of those, somewhere. I stopped using it when the end reached the middle of my back. It got too awkward using a belt that would go 1 and 1/2 times around.
I've had belts like this too. It's a sure way to tell how much you've slimmed down. Better than a scale.
The Art And The Artist 11 Years Later
How interesting that the cat just uses the same pillar all the time?
They leave their scent each time which then attracts them back. If you put something like peppermint or lemon scent on the post the first few times the cat uses it, they will be put off.
Load More Replies...could it be i have found my equal
Load More Replies...Yep. The cat is finally about to achieve what it's been trying to do for the last 11 years.
Load More Replies...I love this picture! Especially when you notice the little cat in the background!
excuse me but does anyone else see a cat in the background?
As Geoffrey Chaucer wrote, “Time and tide wait for no man,” which is a good lesson to remember, regardless of what you do, time will pass. An older form, “And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet,” has been attributed to an 11th-century manuscript, but regardless of authorship, the idea stands. Most people prefer to not think too much about aging, but it’s unhealthy to deny the fact that we will age.
Four Leaf Clover My Great-Grandmother Found In 1922 In Her Diary
“Found on the the way to Equality Highschool September 28th, 1923. Short while before we moved to Herrin.” (Editied thanks to fellow pandas help. :))
Apparently (with a little googling) Equality is a small town of less than 1 square mile in Illinois with a population currently of around 500 people. The high school closed in 1987. Herrin is also in Illinois.
Load More Replies...I'd say the clover had the BEST luck, still being around over 100 years later!!
I'm scared of four-leaf clovers. I've only found one in my life but that might be because I never looked again. It was June 10th 1975, we were having a day out in the forest. I showed it to my daddy because I was so excited. Two days later, June 12th, he died. I know that the four-leaf clover had nothing to do with that but I've been scared of them ever since.
I like the name of her high school. Did it live up to this standard?
Tree Ate A Road Sign
My Mom's Purse Was Stolen In The 80s At A Hiking Trailhead. Today Someone Found It. The Leather Was All Destroyed, But She Is Getting Some Cool Keepsakes Back
Every bit of plastic that has ever been produced is still here.
Load More Replies...This happened to me also! I had a purse stolen from me and someone found it 15 years later!!!!!!!!!! Some fun mementos still in there!
No F'ing way!!!! That sat in the woods for decades?? If its as old as me its been there 40 years!!! How was it not stolen again or taken off by an animal?!
By mistake my father was buried with his bank cards. If anyone ever accidentally digs him up they will know exactly who he was. 🤭
So the images here also can be seen as quasi-educational, showing precisely how time (and tides, for that matter) wear things down. If you start to look carefully, you’ll find examples in most parts of life, from paths etched through grass where people want to cut a corner, to certain buttons in elevators being pressed significantly more frequently.
Decomposed Jeans I Found On The Job Yesterday
You know those hipster jeans that are 90% holes? A hipster would wear these.
I was going to say, I think I saw a pair just like them online for $450 the other day.
Load More Replies...First thing I thought too. Looks like a crime scene. Lol.
Load More Replies...I'm *so* glad I'm not the only one who thought it.
Load More Replies...Only the elastic is left. Maybe not an eco-friendly material in retrospect.
Moss Growing On A Sign, But Only The Parts That Illuminate
I hate to be that guy but its more likely to be in these locations because of the perforations for each led, the rest of the surface is too smooth for the lichen to get a start
Probably heat. The rest of the sign is too cold to grow efficiently.
Load More Replies...All The Layers Of Paint On The Berlin Wall
I remember when they pulled the wall down. If you read the 3 facts of the Berlin wall it will give you insight on how treacherous and dangerous those times were.
I remember when they put the wall up, and it's been down for more years than that! (Now I feel old at a mere 67).
Load More Replies...I like it that by now it's been reduced to a big canvas.
My niece's dad wanted to take her to Germany with him to see this historic event. She was 16 and didn't want to go.
It was long enough ago that a lot of people nowadays have forgot the dangers of communism.
There’s never been a true communist state. What they had wasn’t actual communism. You might want to educate yourself on what that actually means. Also, what people are pushing for, now, is democratic socialism, which is not the same thing at all. Many countries successful employ democratic socialism, yet you lot love to ignore all of their successes. You point toward old systems that have nothing to do with anything because you don’t know what you’re talking about and you don’t have an actual valid argument.
Load More Replies...I have a small chunk of the Berlin Wall from the parts they took down first. In a cool cardboard gift box and a small bag.
Wait. The Berlin wall was PAINTED? I thought anyone who got too close was shot. Can we get a Bored Panda collection of art from the Berlin wall?
Many of the examples here focus on paint, from graffiti to interior design. While each layer might seem tiny, just a millimeter thick, these pictures show just how quickly they add up. Jerry Seinfeld had a bit describing how repainting his apartment always made him nervous, as he could feel it “closing in” around him.
Reinforced Concrete Dissolved By Years Of Dog Urine
Working on a house once I had my planer sitting on the ground by my tool trailer while unloading materials. Did not know the short time I was carrying materials in the house a dog had pissed on my planer table (foldout stainless). It corroded one of the tables.
Had a loose bottle of hydrochloric acid pop open in the bed of my truck once. That was also bad for my tools.
Load More Replies...The ammonia in cat pee can strip wood. Friends mom - 70s - house with beautiful hardwood floors that she kept immaculate. Same woman 50 years later - she became crazy cat lady and had about 45 cats when she died. Cats pissed everywhere. House so bad you needed a respirator for the ammonia smell. Those beautiful wood floors were literally stripped to bare wood by the pee. It also rusted the paint off the heater vents. The difference was astounding.
500 Old Singles vs. 500 Brand New
I did some work on large money sorting machines in the US Federal Reserve Banks. The difference in height is anything and everything you can imagine on someone's hands.
As a former teller, used money is disgusting but new money is so much harder to count by hand.
But heroes and villains can glance at a million and tell it it's 10k light! (lol not going to edit it)
I'd Been Looking For A Replacement Blanket For My Favorite Wamsutta Comforter. Top Is The One In Use For 40+ Years. Bottom Is The Replacement
Not the exact same colors, but this definitely shows the difference use over time makes!
Kitty didn’t approve it, she transitioning it into approval(by leaving her odour and so on, on it). The old one obviously has her smell and approval already.
Load More Replies...40+ years and it's not completely thread bare..I'm impressed it's only colour faded.
I still own my mom's old blanket, and it is older than me.
Load More Replies...That was my 1979 sheet and comforter design for my waterbed (graduation gift *bed and sheets* instead of a car). Had forest green carpeting and white walls. Walking in to the room always made me smile.
And my father gave me a brand new car. 1963
Load More Replies...Seeing some of these images shows that in the long run, he is right. If a landlord (or series of landlords) are lazy enough, they will just paint over the previous layer, year by year. While this might actually help with insulation, the tenant is technically paying for a slowly shrinking apartment, which, at the very least, is an interesting metaphor for the housing crisis.
Madrid
All chaps are assless. Otherwise they'd just be pants.
Load More Replies...I don't think the statue minded who the butt-rubbers were...
Load More Replies...Bronze statues are a testament to middle school humor living on in the brain long after middle school. If it has boobies or a butt they are usually shiny. But I kind of go "Daw!" inside when I see animal ones where you can tell everyone gives it a pat on the head because the head is all shiny in the places you might pet a dog or cat.
A Gift Bag My Mom Has Been Reusing For 39 Years
Thank you for making me feel old. I was born many years before this bag even came to be.
Load More Replies...That would be 40 years and 10? mths. I was born in '84 and 39, now. Unless this post is 2 years old.
It's Safe To Assume Which Pocket My Husband Prefers To Keep His Phone In
I usually wear holes in the knees of my jeans before they get to this point.
One other fringe benefit is it’s a good way to see what products and brands know how to pass the test of time. Sadly, a lot of modern products are woefully designed and break down after a few years, if not a few months of use. Lists like this help separate the actually quality items from cheap copies.
I Work At A Mini Golf Course. These Golf Balls Have Been Stuck In A Stream For So Long They Became Smooth
The Well-Worn Groove On This Step At Westminster Abbey, After 800 Or So Years Of Visitors
I feel like I would twist my ankle on the weird shaped step instead.
Load More Replies...Isn't this where the bird woman sits? Oh no, wait. That was St. Paul's. Is there a place like this at St. Paul's, where the bird woman sits?
It's amazing how something worn smmorh, used and aged, looks so beautiful. If only people felt the same way, about humans aging.
Oh, I was there! There was wear on all the steps like that, it was really cool!
My Dad Found A ~20-Year-Old Banana In His Coat Pocket
It was in his pocket, but he WAS happy to see them... it just went from there. :)
Load More Replies...Eewwwww. I don't know what disturbs me more. The smell of rotting fruit or the fact that coat hadn't been cleaned for 20 years.
I’ve seen a banana similar to that once near a tree at a park, but I doubt it was 20 lol
The last decade of mass smartphone use has been a great way for people to document all these interesting and curious findings, to such a degree that there are whole internet groups devoted to it. The “Mildly Interesting” subreddit is one such example. So if found that this list wasn’t enough, Bored Panda has got you covered, check out our other list of stuff that time left a mark on and this article about things that got really, really worn down.
An Elderly Customer Came In Today With A McDonald's VIP Card
From the Reddit post: " The back of the card (which I have chosen not to show, as it has private information on it) entitles the cardholder to any regular coffee or fountain drink of their choice with the purchase of any “Breakfast or Dinner entree” It looks like it was signed by a store owner at one time to an employee, but it says that it works at any McDonalds."
Load More Replies...From the Reddit post: " The back of the card (which I have chosen not to show, as it has private information on it) entitles the cardholder to any regular coffee or fountain drink of their choice with the purchase of any “Breakfast or Dinner entree” It looks like it was signed by a store owner at one time to an employee, but it says that it works at any McDonalds."
Load More Replies...Elderly is usually starting at 80, senior at 60. Middle age is 30.
Load More Replies...I see the "crew meal" and "Manager meal" options in the till. Seems to me that they should be the same button, equal treatment?
Wooden Dog Sculpture In The Local Park Got A Little Mycology Make-Over
Shakespeare like to dress his goodest boy up in the finest ruffles as well. Twinsies!
My Husband's Decade-Old Computer Chair vs. New One, The Same Model, I Am Suprising Him With
Any chair in this house belongs to Bouche. If Audi is lucky, he's allowed on, too. This includes the seat on my-- I mean on Bouche's-- walker.
Same Size, Make And Model Boots, 1 Year Wear And Tear Of Working In A Mine
They all get issued new boots annually at most mines
Load More Replies...If working in a mine does that to leather boots in a year, what is it doing to you over the years?
Just one more reason I'm thankful I don't work in a mine. I hope they get paid well - the boots indicate that would not be a pleasant job...
Word by redwing boots you can just make out the brand on the tongue of the shoe
Load More Replies...I Work In A School That Was Built In 1917. These Are The Stairs From Students Walking On Them For Over A Century
All with the same hunched over, defeated look, I'm sure.
Load More Replies...A shame they cannot spell 'honour' correctly in a school! No wonder the stepped to the right to avoid it.
I'm guessing these stair pics are usually American? Where I live, if I see stairs that are still flat I go 'Oh, new stairs!' 😉
I was thinking Europe, or at least a country where they drive on the left side, only because people tend to have walk patterns in crowds that mimic driving patterns. Assuming stairs get more worn by going down (the weight of the person hitting the stair), then this picture would show people descending on the right side, ascending on the left, whereas in America, people tend to ascend on the right side, descend on the left. Thoughts?
Load More Replies...My Mother-In-Law Plays A Lot Of Yahtzee. Bottom Row Are Her Favorite Dice
That's why they are her favorite. Who wants random when you can always win?
Load More Replies...Retired Corrections Officer here. Bottom row looks like prison dice made from toilet paper.
Dice like these are obviously going to show some numbers a lot more often, and if she likes them so much it's probably because those are the high numbers. So anyone playing with her and letting her use these dice is dumb.
those bottom dice look more like when you poke holes in an eraser with your pencil. (we all did that, right?)
Found A Go Pro That's Been In The Ocean For Roughly 2 Months, It Still Works
The shark week team found one as well. They get knocked off the shark diving cages. That one had some footage of a really big Great White that hadn't been identified before.
wonder if there's any film on it, from those 2 months spent underwater...
Finally Got A New Phone Cord At Work
Old timer - I used to spend hrs untangling those - it was kind of relaxing.
And you still didn't get a swivel thingy to stop it from happening again.
I never could understand that. If you put down the phone the same way you picked it up, this would never happen.
It happens when a right handed person has their phone on the left side of the desk. They pick up the phone with their left hand and, while transferring the phone to their right hand, spin it towards themselves. Then, when the call is finished, they pass it back to their left jand to hang up. This creates a 360 degree spin each time they use the phone.
Load More Replies...There are still stores/businesses that use corded landline phones.
Load More Replies...Eiffel Tower's Stairs Are Slightly More Worn On The Inside Because Of People's Fear Of Heights
Or the night watchman who walks down the stairs every night has a fat left leg
I don’t know how many people that visit are from countries that drive on the left. I am and I’d walk on the left, leaving the right for people overtaking me. Surely most people scared of heights (brave enough to go to the top) would go up and down on the elevator rather than walk all the way down.
Here are the numbers from 2015 : https://fr.statista.com/statistiques/474860/visiteurs-nationalites-tour-eiffel/ Since then, the number of Chinese tourists in France (and all around the world) increased greatly, while the number of Indian or UK tourists not so much. In 2022, half of the visitors were from the EU, with the UK slightly decreasing comparing to 2015. Most of the people who visit the tower are from countries where you drive on the right, and this has been the case for a long time.
Load More Replies...It's just as far to the ground from either side. People are silly.
Well, in Australia it would be because you keep to the left when going up and down stairs. :)
Years Of Paint Build-Up I Chipped Of An Old Trestle At Work
I was given a pendant necklace of Fordite, very cool!
Load More Replies...The Door Handle To The Restroom At Work Is Marked By Wedding Rings
Never take your rings off when you wash your hands. There’s always a chance of forgetting to put them back on again. My mom lost 2 family heirloom because of that. She went back to the bathroom 2 minutes later and they were stolen.
A Customer At My Work Paid With A Series 1934 $100 Bill
I was living overseas when they came out with the new bill designs, and no joke, when I came back to the US and first got a new $20 I thought it was a fake.
Load More Replies...If it is in reasonably good condition. I think this one is worth maybe $100
Load More Replies...I used to handle a fair amount of cash at work, absolutely horrifying when you wash your hands after and the water just goes BLACK.
I worked in a bank for a while, can testify to this. One time I accidentally licked my fingers to count money, we always had that pink gel stuff but instinct just kicked in. The taste of that was horrible and lingered. So gross. I thought for sure I was going to die from some undiagnosable super virus and end up in a medical journal!
Load More Replies...My wife works with money. She complains old money is often very dirty. And speaking of dirty she can also tell when she gets drug money from the residue.
I read somewhere (not sure if true) that bank tellers and people who handle large amounts of cash have to take drug tests with a little level of indicator because the amount they absorb from the bills would cause them to test positive.
Load More Replies...In Canada, when they switched to the polymer material in 2011, all other forms were accepted and turn into the Bank of Canada for destruction. Finding an old note nowadays is usually of interest to collectors. I sold a VFC $2 for $48 to a dealer.
Most bills had this design up until the mid-'90s when they were redesigned.
Wrong. There are more changes between a Series 1934 and the "Large Heads" that started appearing in the 1990s.
Load More Replies...The Way The Sticker On This Shampoo Bottle Has Worn Looks Like A Letter Tornado
How did humans survive before shampoo contained 100+ ingredients? SMH
Before cell phones, we needed the 100+ ingredients on shampoo bottles to read while we were on the toilet hahahaha!!!!
Load More Replies...My Dress Shoe Sole Has Worn Out To Make It Look Like It Has An Eye On The Bottom Of It
The Wall After Countless Swipes With Key Cards
that was made by one person use a credit card, guess how old they were!
I have noticed lately that a lot of companies now have a plexiglass shield between the swiper and the wall to alleviate this.
Went Back To Office Today Since I Started Teleworking From Pandemic
This could be caused by fluorescent lighting directly above.
Load More Replies...What Working And Sitting On The Same Spot For 41 Years Does To The Floor
A few more years and then he falls with his chair on his colleague's desk, one floor below!
Not to mention what it does to the body. I worked in a factory once. There were women who had been there for 30 years doing riveting piecework. Their backs and shoulders were all hunched up.
Yeah, careful guys with ergonomics at work. My hands ache, just looking at his posture. There are simple rules, that any respectable boss should actively enforce, for the good of the people. I now work in Germany, and oh boy I was never so well cared for. Really, look into ergonomics regulations, you'll never want to go back.
Load More Replies...I can't imagine this situation for myself... I like a change of scenery.
After 4 Years Of Wearing This Sweatshirt To Work, A Completely Different Imprint Has Started To Appear Under The Original
I'm not sure if you should be pissed because you thought you were buying a garment 'new' or impressed that the clothing was 'reworked' and not thrown into a landfill or shipped to a third world country. I would be leaning to the later personally. Impressive.
I think the implication is that it picked up the logo from a work garment( not sure though)
Load More Replies...Interesting...Red Rocks Amphitheater is in Colorado... I wonder if it was designed like that on purpose 🤔
Load More Replies...Um...Red Rocks, Colorado is both a park and amphitheatre. It's one of the coolest venues in the world!
Very impressed that they spelt 'amphitheatre' correctly! There is some hope for the US yet!
My Old Next To My New Clogs
I got those too .... sure we wear them. Warm in winter, cool in summer. Quick to dry when wet. They can be used everywhere (though not in house i'd say) They are also approved safety wear so there are folks on all kinds of industries that use them on the job as well. They only time -i think- they suck are in the snow. They are warm enough, but the build-up under the sole is huge.
Load More Replies...I believe that the Dutch version was originally intended to prevent foot injuries from being stepped on by milk cows. There is also a Danish version which are part leather with a steel toe. These are a general outdoor shoe, meant for getting dirty and for kicking rocks. When I was a kid, some other boys and I would get on the swings at the playground and see who could launch their clogs the farthest. Mine made it clear across the street and into someone's yard.
As a Dutchie here; you have to wear them in but once they formed to your foot, they are quite comfortable.
And wearing them with thick socks of (goat) wool will make them extra comfy
Load More Replies...Many older farmers, but also young farmers in the Netherlands wear them; however, modern safety boots are more popular.
Load More Replies...New vs. Old $20 Bills In ATM Dispenser
That's an ATM canister. Each one holds up to $80,000. There's usually two loaded and then a third that takes in money. Depending on the volume of transactions, they're loaded and reconciled every say, or at least once a week.
I’ll jam the cameras, you make sure the area is clear of witnesses.
Load More Replies...I like getting crisp, look-like-they-were-printed-this-morning bank notes when I get cash from an ATM...
25 Years Of Burn-In On An Old Pacman Arcade Screen
Asphalt Over Tiles In A Waco, TX Parking Lot
1990 vs. 2020. My Dad's College Hat vs. My Future College Hat
Store Clerk's Counter
my first thought was ants from a cartoon. "We are going for the sugar!"
Load More Replies...I Didn't Realize How Faded My Headlights Were Until I Changed Them (2008 Peterbilt)
Peterbilts are damn good trucks. They're like the Mercedes Benz of trucks. Cozy comfortable and they can go a million miles easy.
My brother bought a Peterbilt. It is an 1986 and has 2 million miles on it. He is still using it every day. Mostly train miles at 160 thousand pounds.
Load More Replies...A New Keyboard Cover Just Came In, I'm A Writer With A Bad Habit Of Hard Typing
I found it amazing that I could still "see" the letters a, s, e, r, t a full year after they had completely worn off the keyboard. My mind must have been filling in the blanks with remembered vision, quite without me being aware of it.
Load More Replies...Guilty. I learned typing in Junior High, and we had manual typewriters. You had to hit the keys hard enough to get through for carbon copies. I've been destroying computer keyboards ever since.
Wow. I don't think I've ever worn the keys away like that in all my years typing. You all must be banging pretty hard on your keyboards! Hopefully you have your own offices and aren't driving your coworkers crazy with the noise. :)
This Door Keypad. Passcode Is 2929
Replace the keypad and confused workers will not be able to get in.
The 1 has seen a bit of use at some point too. Not as much as the 4 & 5, but a bit.
Load More Replies...The Sun Has Changed The Meaning Of This Sign
The Staircase On This Ship Where You Can See That The Majority Of People Step Down Left Foot First
Most of us grab the hand rail with our right hand, making it natural for the left foot to take the first step. I had to really think about this!
My Husband’s Work Boots. Brand New And Used About 4 Months. Yes, That’s The Steel Toe Showing
I guess he has to kneel on the job a lot. A plumber may be or tiler or something like that.
Load More Replies...Damn, they must be heavy. We had to wear shoes with steel toes at my old job, in case a cargo cart rolled over our toes. We didn't even work anywhere near carts.
Glad someone is looking out for him. Bet if it were left up to him he would stil be wearing it.
Men aren't completely incapable of looking after themselves!
Load More Replies...I Work At A Whole Animal Butcher Shop And Finally Replaced My Primary Boning Knife After Three Years
My great grandmother had a knife that ended up looking like that. Over a much longer period of time obviously. She used to sharpen it in the back step
My parents had one too. I think it was partly sentimental, because she stabbed herself with it the day they bought it, on the bus on the way back from the shop. (I added the full story to the stupid reasons to go to hospital the other day)
Load More Replies...“Don’t You Dare Try To Upsell Me Sir. Just Do The Damn Oil Change”
I was literally talking to a friend last night who had a blow out that flipped the car off the side of an overpass. Shen spent a month in the hospital. Damn rental car.
Load More Replies...Yes, and we (Netherlands) have a mandatory check-up every year. Is the profile is less than 1,6 mm , you will have to get new tyres. Or your car gets approved and you can't collect it from the garage...
Load More Replies...Or the people who will killed by this criminal will also be organ donors. How about animals that will be crashed by this nut cases?
Load More Replies...That's what the rear tires looked like on my truck the day I bought it. Smooth flat rubber, no steel or kevlar belt showing. I drove straight from the farm where I bought it to a tire shop. To this day (roughly 15 years later) when the fronts wear out and I go for new ones, the shop will rotate the partially worn rears to the front, and put the new tires on the rear. I've never needed to buy more than 2 tires at a time. Which is good, because the least expensive name-brand tires that fit are over $200 apiece.
Yes. Definitely a hydroplaning nightmare.
Load More Replies...But the sidewalls are shiny. Make your pretty before you make it safe! 🙄
Two-Decade-Old Nalgene vs. The New Replacement
To elaborate on the other comments, even though plastic lasts for a long time, it doesn't last in its useful state for a long time. Plastics tend to become brittle with age, as the chemicals that keep them flexible (called plasticisers) leech out. That's one of the contributing factors to the cloudiness too, though there's also quite a bit of scratching. Once it's gone brittle, especially with scratching there too, one good knock will break it like glass.
Load More Replies...This Clock Has Been Around My Office For More Or Less 20 Years. It Is Disintegrating On The Sunny Side
Possibly a bit of both. Sun will cause plasticiser (the stuff that makes plastic pliable) to leech out faster, and any knock will break it. Even if it's not dropped, you can see 'fracture' lines on older plastic where the plasticiser has gone from it.
Load More Replies...1995 Zippo, Before And After. One Day It Will Look Like It Did Before The Sanding And Polish
Zion National Park
I've hiked most of Zion, the chain is on a hike that requires walking on a tiny lip of rock with a sheer cliff face...so ya hold onto the chain as you go. And yes, the chain gets really hot as it sits in the sun. So hold the hot chain or fall down the side of a sandstone cliff.
Load More Replies...I Think I Just Discovered "Sprite" Logo Inspiration
I Left The Key In The Shed Door During A Very Windy Night And The Keyring Wore A Circle Into The Wood
Hope no one saw the key and got the bright idea to take it to get it copied so they could snoop and steal at will.
Load More Replies...Brass Hammer. 1 Year Of Use vs. Brand New
What do you specifically use a brass hammer for? And is it harder or softer than an everyday hammer?
The Printer Ink At My Work Created Stalagmites
With printer ink wasted that sure COST a lot of $$
Load More Replies...My Parents' Mailbox Has Been Whittled Down A Bit After Getting Weed Whacked For 50 Years
I Found A Car In Toronto Overgrown With Plants, On A Busy Street Parked Beside Other Cars
That's what I was thinking. "That HAS to be deliberate."
Load More Replies...It seems the upper window was left open. Some debries has blown in for a start, not to mention the moss, and the tree roots are not likely in the upholstery. Or what is left of it.
Load More Replies...I Work Near A Pool, And All My Tape 'Grows'
From Reddit: It's Sellotape, which is cellophane, which is hygroscopic — it absorbs moisture. When it does, it swells. When it swells, it has to go somewhere. So the tape crinkles / buckles on one edge, eventually, and that it the side it starts moving towards.
Load More Replies...On The Left: Brand New Hedgehog Dryer Buddy, And On The Right: Dryer Buddy After Approx. 12 Years Of Use. They Are Thrown In The Dryer With Clothes To Help Fluff Them
I got rid if the hedgehog ones because they fall apart easily. We've switched to cactus ones and they are WAY better. They're solid instead of hollow. Here's where you can get them: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09NKJ16SN?ref=nb_sb_ss_w_as-reorder-t1_k0_1_12&=&crid=1SX2YWUSQ0NLP&sprefix=cactus%2Bdryer&th=1
he opportunities to add microplastics to our environment are endless
Any way the occidental countries have destroyed the ecosystems throughout this once Paradisiac planet with our greedy needs. It's impossible to get back to what this World was before the beginning of the Industrial revolution. It's very heart breaking for the new generations and for all the ecosystems. Man wanted to be greater than God.
Load More Replies...This Quarter From 1876 Is Worn Almost Completely Flat
This tends to happen to all old coins. At least here you can read the date.
Old vs. New Shopping Cart Wheels
I wouldn't describe the one on the left as a "wheel" anymore.
No wonder one always wants to go to the parking lot.
A New Notebook Next To The One I Used Last Year
This Penny Was Stuck In A Crack Inside The Washer
Pure copper (unlike today's pennies) and with a date no newer than 1958. Cool.
A Giant Globe At My Library Has A Worn-Down Spot Where Little Kids Put Their Fingers On Where We Live
Table Hockey Puck After About Four And A Half Years Of Playing. New One On The Left For Comparison
This is the Finland vs. Sweden version, with genuine commercials in the "ice".
This Laminated Paper Sign Has Turned Into A Bag Full Of Water
The Way This Worn Seat Reveals How The Colored Dot Pattern Is Created
My Socks Have Worn Out In The Shape Of A Frowny Face
Mine are completely see-through. I saw all ten of my toes through them yesterday.
The Spot Where Everyone Stands In This Elevator In Belgium
So I'm the only one who presses the button and moves to the back...interesting realization of self reflection.
I always go to the back and in a corner, I feel safe there.
Load More Replies...The Red Came Off This "No Smoking" Sign
Abandoned Audi TT Quattro Along With A Lot Of Other Abandoned Cars UK
This particular item is a year old. If you follow the link back to the original reddit post, it's not "abandoned", it's just been parked unused and neglected since 2014. It was registered nonoperational at that time. It looks like it was parked because it failed an emissions test, and the owner never got the money or the motivation to get it fixed. Something I can completely relate to.
What, exactly, is the difference between "abandoned" and "parked unused and neglected"?
Load More Replies...New rules! This NOW does not pass My inspection and test. I will have to confiscate it.
This Pair Of Shoes I Found Encased In A Hundred-Year-Old Concrete That's Been Eroded Over Time By A Waterfall
Yeah, the way they're positioned looks a little too natural.
Load More Replies...This wasn't RAAC, the concrete that's just hit the news in England that they are now saying only has a 30 year lifespan?
Sink Worn By Years Of Dripping Soap
Actually, I think s/he washes the sink very often. Do you see how worn that drainplate is?
Load More Replies...UV Damage On A Red Plastic Box That Sat In A Window For 15+ Years vs. The One (Same Age) Kept Away From The Sunlight
The solution to plastic waste. Leave it exposed to the sun's radiation, eventually it crumbles to dust
Same think happened to the originally colourful toys that people left at local plaground.
Someone Dropped This Off, Check That Screen Burn. It’s Off
The pic on reddit is bigger, you can read the text on the screen. Win 98 or 2000 machine, partner guesses 2000 because it's probably from an industrial terminal so likely running a server side OS. The burned in program is mentioning postal codes, from a post sorting office perhaps?
Look How Thick The Layers Of All These Posters Are On This Lamppost In Berlin, Germany
Old Tape Measure vs. New
Was it continuously dragged along asphalt over a long period of time? How did it get that worn?
Look how nice and shiny and rounded it got after years of handling!!
Non-Yellowing Case After Two Years Of Use Compared To New
That is clearly brown, not yellow, so no lies detected. Technically, anyway.
Load More Replies...Exact Same Rubber Fingertip. Left One Has Flipped Through Hundreds Of Thousands Of Pages, Right One Is Brand New
The Buttons That Contain The Numbers For This Door Code Are Significantly Faded
... And *THIS* is why you change the code every sixty or ninety days!
I would guess Pi- 314. Knew a maths room that had this number.
Load More Replies...The Cold Weather Brought Back My Car's Window Sticker From Years Ago
It's 2023. 2017 was "years ago" yes it may not be that many years, but a lot of people, especially older generations talk like 6 years ago was a lifetime ago 🤣 But yes, I would still consider that car new as well
Load More Replies...My Coworker Drags The Front Of His Foot When He Walks
Ditto, this is the first ware on my Neanderthal feet
Load More Replies...I constantly lift my big toes in both feet. I didn't realize how much until I wrote holes in both shoes at the exact spot.
I go bare foot 80 percent of the time and I can barely see any wear at all on the soles of my feet.
3 Days Of Studio Work, Barely Hanging On
That's a pretty long life for a professional drumsticks.
Load More Replies...Good grief! I wonder how many pairs of sticks drummers need to carry with them on a concert gig? Not every place necessarily has the particular brand of sticks that the drummer might prefer.
Chocolate That Nobody Opened For 2 Years
I have seen heat-damaged chocolate before, but this has a pattern on it that is reminiscent of mold.
there is absolutely nothing wrong with it either, chocolate does that as it ages
Nobody Wants A Car Wash
The Milk Bags Have Colored Their Shelves
Sadly it's a complicated process. 1 -Go to your local shopkeeper and say "Sir/Madam, I require lactose. Cow preferably" 2 -Hand you the grocer your ration voucher for your allotted weekly milk supply. 3 -Step back from the counter while they process the order and confirm the voucher's authenticity 4 -The shop keeper will hand the order form to a lower ranking employee who will take the tram to the back of the store's dairy section 5 -Move to the left and stand in line behind the other awaiting milk lovers 6 -Approximately 30 minutes (metric minutes) later over the speaker you will hear your order number over the PA system 7 -Proceed to the counter to fill out your D1M48J6 Milk receipt (Make sure to retain your copy for tax purposes) 8 -Receive your bags of milk and place them in your government issued reusable carrying tote. 9 -At home place the milk in your reusable 6L milk dispenser. Save the bags (again for tax purposes). Use as needed. 10 - Enjoy! It`s all you get this week!
Load More Replies...I am from the US. Milk bags? Never seen this before. Are there advantages to selling it in bags?
My Work Received A Haribo Gummy Bears Bag Which Congealed Into A Mass
They're odd. The insides melt first, so you can bite into what looks like a perfectly fine jelly baby, and it's liquid inside.
Load More Replies...The Wear From The Cashier's Shoes At This Shop's Checkout
Why they don't let cashiers sit? Standing at one place for hours is worse that walking all day.Guess employer couldn't even be bothered to buy cashiers anti-fatique mat. We have these chairs: pracovni_z...048af4.jpg
Looks like Beeker from The Muppets laying on the floor at the bottom right
Marks On The Floor From Steel Fittings Being Dropped Throughout The Years
My Vans And My New Vans. These Are The Same Color
Found An Original Glass Bottle Of Crystal Pepsi, With Foam Label, While Cleaning Out My Mother-In-Law's Place
It'd be worth testing it in a mass spectrometer, to see how the formula for Pepsi has changed over that time.
Load More Replies...Until now, I had completely forgotten that foam soda bottle labels used to be a thing. I would have to peel them off, before tossing the bottle into the correct 55 gallon drum for the color, (brown, green, or clear) and then crushing them into tiny pieces with a 10# dirt tamper. Circa 1973.
My More Than 10-Year-Old Wallet vs. A New One Of The Exact Same Design
I have one of these, comic design they don't make anymore , they hold up beautifully
This is a “paper” wallet, according to OP. Brand name is Mighty Wallet.
A Beer After Leaving It Out For A Week
Double Copper Hammers. New vs. 8 Years Of Use
Whiskey Turned Black After 7 Days In A Flask
Most likely a bad quality flask. Food grade stainless steel should not do that. Better to throw away the whisky and the flask. There is risk of metal poisoning
Load More Replies...Huh, so that's why my hip flask came with a note saying don't leave booze in there past a certain amount of time.
I'm just trying to figure out why it was in there for 7 days I'm lucky if my flask ain't empty within 1hour
Which explains my leather-wrapped glass flask. For longer trips. Not cheap, tho. https://www.fendrihan.ca/products/f-hammann-glass-flask-small
Left A Wet Post It Note By Accident On Our Quartz Island, Now The Note Is Embedded
That's like those cheap marble tables in outside cafes, you spill one red vine glass, it's stained forever.
The Worn-Down Parts On This Statue At Zion National Park
To be fair, the right arm and and the tip of the nose are worn. Also a little bit of the pants, you-know-where.
Well-Worn Mouse
New Retainer vs. Old Retainer
This is driving me completly nuts. I have the same "problem" Mine look like that. 🤬 I brush my teeth very regularly (at least twice a day), I wash the thingie before and after use and it still looks like this. My husbands look completly clear. 🙈 his are made of a different plastic though and I drink a ton of coffee while he never drinks any coffee. Haven't figured out why this happens though 🤷♀️ it only makes me not whant to use them 🤮
I just puked in my mouth a bit... thanks for that. why didn't BP censor this!! this is the kind of thing I need to have censored, not stupid words I already know and use 500 times a day.
This Is What 10 Years Of Heavy Smoking Did To My Grandma's Carpet
And the really fun part is that it's soaked into the structure of the house, and just painting over it is not enough to prevent it from leaching back into the living space. You need to use a sealing primer, or nicotine and other toxic chemicals can seep back through ordinary paint. A shellac or lacquer primer will do the trick. But those walls will still be toxic when the time comes to tear them down. And that goes for the floors and subfloors under the carpets as well. And the linoleum in the bathrooms.
My grandparents' house was appalling, when we were clearing it. I'm fairly sure the walls were hallucinogenic, if one were inclined to touch them. They were definitely sticky.
Recently I Replaced The Smoke Detector. This Is What 20+ Years Of Smoke Detection Does
I've replaced fixtures in kitchens that looked like that. Heat and grease and just plain age will yellow the plastic.
Load More Replies...Not from a smoker. White plastic yellows over time. Notice the ceiling is not yellow (unless it was just painted, it too would have nicotine muck on it). That's why old computers, video games systems, toys etc all look off white or cream/yellow.
My Dad And Grandpa Got Matching Bibles In 1975. One Was Used, Other Wasn't
Checked the OP, in a comment they have stated the worn one is their father's.
Load More Replies...The Crocs I've Been Wearing As My Everyday Shoes For 6 Years vs. A Brand New Pair
Pretty obvious the OP didn't wear them all the time. I love the comfort of Crocs but if you wear them every day they wear out like the 'before' after just a few months
Load More Replies...They very best footwear ever, I've have them in many colors and styles. The ones with fleece inside super cool for winter when I've to take doggy for a last toilet walk that takes 10 minutes. Boots take too long to put on and take off. CROCS rock. My bud Chihuahua hates snow and rain so these shoes are just perfect, quickly on quickly off.
That's encouraging that they last that long. My feet are swollen, and I wear Crocs.
You Can See Where People Nap In The Breakroom
There's a bookstore in Brownwood, Texas which was a theater during WWII. Soldiers would come in to town, buy a ticket, and sleep. You can see a progression of head marks going up the wall.
Brand New Laundry Dye Catcher vs. One Used For About A Year
I've been using the disposable sheets and washing blues, reds and whites together for years with no stain. I need the reuseable one too. https://carbona.com/products/laundry-care/color-dirt-grabber-reusable/ https://www.amazon.com/Carbona-Color-Grabber-Reusable-1-Count/dp/B000J2OAYQ
Load More Replies...For 7 Years, Half Of This Deck Has Been Used To Play Euchre. The Other Half Has Been Relatively Untouched
Worn Down Escalator Landing: Left Foot vs. Right Foot
Hm. Doesn't match the theory of holding on to the handrail with right hand in one of the posts above
Those were ship stairs, which are much steeper than a normal staircase and would more likely necessitate the use of handrails. This post is of an escalator, whee you're not actually walking up/down, so are less likely to use the handrail.
Load More Replies...Apparently, if you step onto the escalator with your left foot, you step off with your right.
Same Wallet: 6 Years Of Daily Use vs. Brand New Replacement
I will be sad if my wallet dies before me. It's the best one I've ever had.
Bored Panda, please stop deleting the posts over 50! before one could click the link to se the full former post. Why 😑
Ok but the cover image right now is a statue with a shiny butt and I was not expecting to see that first thing when I opened bp
The Hachiko statue near Shibuya Station in Japan has a shiny nose
Load More Replies...Bored Panda, please stop deleting the posts over 50! before one could click the link to se the full former post. Why 😑
Ok but the cover image right now is a statue with a shiny butt and I was not expecting to see that first thing when I opened bp
The Hachiko statue near Shibuya Station in Japan has a shiny nose
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