This Man Found A 100-Year-Old Wedding Cake While Cleaning His Garage

#1 Family 'heirloom' discovered after 100 years

Every now and then we find something interesting when cleaning our garage. But what Ronald Waringer found tops it all! It's a tradition for some to save the top tier of the wedding cake to enjoy on the first anniversary, and that's what Ronald's grandparents did.

#2 The cake was moved from one freezer to another to preserve it

His grandparents got married on March 17, 1915. However, they never got around to enjoying their cake a second time. as Harvey Waringer passed away in 1944, and the couple had never eaten the cake. Inez Waringer gave the tier to Ronald's parents around 1960, "because they had a better freezer."

#3 Ronald Waringer found the cake in his garage freezer

Oddly enough, Waringer found the top tier of their wedding cake in his garage this year, the 100th anniversary of his grandparents' wedding. "I knew it dated way back into the teens, and that I wasn't allowed to touch it, but that's all I really knew," he said.

#4 It was found in near perfect condition when he decided to clean his freezer out

He brought the cake from his parents home in the early 2000's after their death because he wanted to preserve it himself. By that time the cake had already been petrified, so it went in to the freezer in the garage. Having put the cake out of his mind, he never used the freezer, but decided to clean out the garage recently, and he found the 100 year old cake!

#5 The cake's icing is still intact and in really good condition for being 100

When he uncovered the antique dessert on a shelf, it was perfectly preserved inside a hatbox. Of course, the cake was inedible, but, "for 100 years old, it's really good shape," Waringer said. The cake's layers had long ago disintegrated, but the rock-hard, "porcelain-like" icing, with just a few cracks, is still practically perfect.

#6 The cake and a memory book were both discovered in a hatbox, frozen in time in a freezer

Inside the little hatbox was also a memory book that had belonged to his grandmother. There was even a little note on a page from a friend that mentioned the wedding cake and how this friend would make her cake when and if she ever married. The note was written 10 years before Inez and Harvey Waringer got finally did get hitched.

#7 The family is going to keep the cake around as long as possible and preserve it for others

Waringer is not really sure why his grandparents never got around to eating the cake or celebrating their anniversary, but the cake has been kept by Waringers daughter Jenny in hopes to preserve it for another generation.

#8 Bill Murray would approve!