Stuff your vendor left in the house you bought

maas · 19 September 2014 at 5:21PM

Im sure people found some interesting (and useless) things left by the vendors when they got the keys to their new house. Mine wasn't very interesting but wondering what cool things other people found in their new house (like treasure maps)!

In the loft I found

Magnetic Dart board and darts set
Large Box full of 40+ random books (old Liverpool FC guide to thriller novels)
Briefcase (empty)

Wheelbarrow (garden)
Packs of compost (garden)
Ant Powder (for the invasion on crawlies I was soon to discover)

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amersall · 19 September 2014 at 5:25PM

Mine left nothing in the house but left a bonfire burning of all their rubbish in the garden, including a chair, settee, two wooden bed frames and mattresses :rotfl::rotfl:

Solsol · 19 September 2014 at 5:27PM

Do endless phone calls and letters from debt collectors count? Still getting them five years later!

BeansOnToast_2 · 19 September 2014 at 5:31PM

When did Liverpool FC publish a guide to thriller novels?

browneyedbazzi · 19 September 2014 at 5:35PM

Solsol wrote: »

Do endless phone calls and letters from debt collectors count? Still getting them five years later!

The vendors of my house left the same....plus visits from bailiffs trying to take possession of their car.

They also left no end of rubbish - random bits and pieces in most rooms including tacky christmas tree baubles in a kitchen drawer, a stack of side plates, assorted cutlery, a large framed mirror hidden in a wardrobe, 17 rolls of wallpaper in the shed, a pot full of keys that don't seem to work in any locks in the house...the list could go on for ages.

We did 3 or 4 trips to the tip to get rid of their junk.

princeofpounds · 19 September 2014 at 5:37PM

Whale vertebra
lump of melted glass about 6 inches around
half-buried climbing frame
concrete slabs
broken traffic cone.

Mind you, one builder I spoke to recently bought a wreck to do up... turns out the old guy who lived there had a hobby of burying things. Anything really... no bodies though!

dirty_magic · 19 September 2014 at 5:38PM

My uncle's house had loads of stuff left in it, don't think they even looked in the loft. We found an ancient cookbook in there and some old dominoes. I loved exploring it, I was only young at the time.

MadelinesMum · 19 September 2014 at 5:38PM

Just a loft full of boxes of books and a whole house worth of old pub patterned carpet (which was full of dust and totally ruined). We had fun getting that lot through the hatch and to the tip!

BeansOnToast_2 · 19 September 2014 at 5:41PM

We had half a bottle of whisky, a can of Stella, and a couple of drink's worth of gin.

[Deleted User] · 19 September 2014 at 5:53PM

Somewhere in my garage there is a large iron press used by dentists to make false teeth. A house my parents bought in the 1950s had been a dentists surgery.

One of the next door neighbours where I live dug numerous car engines out of the garden. The previous occupant used to buy old cars, pull them to bits, then lose interest and bury all the parts in the garden.

GalaxyStar · 19 September 2014 at 5:56PM

Sofa, chairs, tables, bookcases. Newspapers. calendars from the 1980's, they left a lot due to ill health and had movers remove what they were taking, granted we bought some wardrobes and table and chairs they left a lot more stuff. Skip full and not even got rid of it all!

Turns out the old guy was an artist, found loads of postcards of the same drawing he'd done, an old framed painting he'd done too - which is nice so may put up in house! And what looks like an old map of an area, with old style drawings on but can't tell whether it really is old or not!

Stuff your vendor left in the house you bought

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