A thumbs-up Fonzie and a little gold: Curiosity Incorporated's basement boxes run thirty times past usual
Viewers are pausing on green glass canisters, a possibly early Barbie and a Canadian banknote with a strange nickname.
Curiosity IncorporatedStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 45,988 views a day, 30 times a normal first day on this channel (1,553).
Estate sale buys today might just land us a nice golden surprise!
Twelve hours after it went up, Curiosity Incorporated's newest haul video had passed 32,000 views. That puts it on course for about thirty times the channel's usual first day.
The premise is the channel's bread and butter. The about text describes an antique and collectibles reseller always hunting for finds and new lives for old things. This time the buy is a set of boxes of assorted collectibles from a basement sale, and the title teases a golden surprise. The description asks the same question more directly: was there gold in there too?
The comments read like a guided tour of the boxes. Viewers greet Alex and Melissa by name and keep returning to a set of green glass canisters. One viewer says her grandmother had the same set, labeled for cereal. A doll draws the most speculation, with one commenter guessing it dates from the 1950s. If so, it would come from Barbie's very first year, since she arrived in 1959. Others puzzle over a stone with an indentation, wondering if it was used to start fires. Some point to the moment a Fonzie figure turns up, the kind whose thumbs pop up when you press his back. And a viewer from outside Canada wants to know why the old note in the haul is called a shinplaster.
The channel's shorts from the same days, an estate crammed with old clocks and jewelry and a house being emptied for charity, drew hundreds of views each. The basement boxes did the heavy lifting.
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What viewers say
Those green glass jars are beautiful!
@HighvelocitymonkeySee it on YouTubeI have my grandma's green glass containers, they all say Cereal.
@meganyounger4842See it on YouTubeOK, you can't say something like, "There's another shin plaster note." and not explain why it's called that. Some of us non-Canucks might not have heard of that before. ;)
Looks like a really cool collection of goodies.@goulash75See it on YouTube
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- Channel
- Curiosity Incorporated
- Subscribers
- 593,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 41,761
- Video published
- October 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 32,421 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 45,988
The numbers
Half a day in, this estate-sale video is moving far faster than a new upload on the channel usually does.
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