Found 2025

Every year the Kirkland family keeps a jar of ‘found’ coins - and once per year I do the accounting. Previously: 2024, 2023, (no 2022 post?), 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. We’ve been doing this since 2004.

Here’s what we found in 2025!

Found 2025

Even fewer coins than last year; I think the approaching cashless world is cutting into this, plus our family now has two very independent teenagers. We’re not taking as many slow ambling walks as we did back when they were in elementary school.

Plus: the abolition of the penny finally happened this year. Who knows how this will affect this!

We did still pick up 147 individual coins, which adds up to $11.82, plus some miscellaneous euro Erika found in Germany and the Netherlands this summer. Tracked in our ongoing spreadsheet, of course.

Found 2025

As always: these coins are stored in the archive for the one-day future Erika Kirkland Museum of Found Objects.

Hi, I'm Matt.

I design and organize things at a digital product studio called Brand New Box and my personal stuff is all here at mattkirkland.com.

You're probably here because you saw one of my many silly side projects like:
> Dumb Cuneiform, my Clay-Tablet-as-a-Service, or
> Dracula Daily, 'the internet's biggest book club', or
> Secret Robots, my ongoing project to unmask the hidden robots inside children's toys.

You can check out my real work, my many other silly side projects, or my super-self-absorbed reading journal.

I'm currently working on Duck Bread.

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