Taking things from the house when you move?

zipwen1

Originally Posted by black-saturn
I think it's great when you can be considerate like that. My parents left a bottle of wine and a note saying something like 'hope you enjoy your new home as much as we did'.
anyone got any suggestions on what to leave if your buyer has been a right......
il let you finish that, i think you can imagine

MJMum

Just a big photo of you grinning manically?

zipwen1

MJMum wrote:

Just a big photo of you grinning manically?

:rotfl: lol that is so strange because when we first moved in here the vendor kindly left us a very frightening painting of an old lady at the top of the stairs, i jumped out of my skin, had to have the boyfriend remove it i didn't dare. :eek:

BargainJunky

When my mum and dad moved out of their bungalow and sold it to a builder to build in the back garden dad took all his 2x1ft slabs from his veg patch. He used them in the new garden!

There was a delay selling the bungalow and while they were living in their new home mom went back to the old one for a bath (apparently the water was hotter!!!!!).:rotfl:

franklee

Poppy9 wrote:

I left and labelled paint tins saying "living room", "bedroom 1" etc. Handy for touching up if you don't want a full scale redecoration. I also left instructions for central heating, with notes saying how quickly/slowly the house warmed up/down, window cleaner name, rubbish collection day, names of next door neighbours etc.

I left a sketch of the garden with all the plants named on it as I'd planted the garden from scratch and I thought it would be nice for my buyer to know what they all were. I think she thought I was a little eccentric but her mum did like the garden! I hope that was the right thing, she may have ripped it all out by now anyway but the front garden was looking great last time I passed which is about four times a year. An ulterior motive for doing the sketch was to keep a copy for me as a memento and for reference for the next effort.

clairefun

I'm doing a 'garden guide' too for my buyer, she'll be a first time gardener so I think / hope it'll be welcome. She seemed to be interested that it's all planted up for wildlife so it'll be good for her to know what's coming if she's keeping it. I also want to print a local map and mark locations of nearest offie, post box, phone box, etc, as she's not from the area. We're leaving curtains but not nets, as my ex's mum gave them to me after I'd been l'd been lusting after them for 3 years or so and I've still never seen any like them, so I have to keep them! (Silly I know). We're leaving the curtains though, and the lightbulbs! Taking the lampshades though as they're quite distinctly personal - one pink and jewelled which goes with our bedroom decor and one red silk with indian designs & elephants, so probably not to everyone's taste...

skim

zipwen1 wrote:

Originally Posted by black-saturn
I think it's great when you can be considerate like that. My parents left a bottle of wine and a note saying something like 'hope you enjoy your new home as much as we did'.
anyone got any suggestions on what to leave if your buyer has been a right......
il let you finish that, i think you can imagine

a blocked toilet?:rotfl:

BobProperty

zipwen1 wrote:

Originally Posted by black-saturn
I think it's great when you can be considerate like that. My parents left a bottle of wine and a note saying something like 'hope you enjoy your new home as much as we did'.
anyone got any suggestions on what to leave if your buyer has been a right......
il let you finish that, i think you can imagine

skim wrote:

a blocked toilet?:rotfl:

We've done this one before... cat fleas, woodworm, dry rot.....
and if you are going to block the toilet, do it properly, there's some extremely hard fast setting concrete that is used for emergency repairs to things like runways, expensive but......:eek:

papermoney

We are not taking lightbulbs - how odd

When the buyers came round to view they asked if we would be leaving carpets and light switches.

I was surprised people take carpets with them.

The same for the garden shed, I don't see the point of taking ours even though it is only 6 months old. I'm too worried it will not go back together again. hehe

Hi - RedBedHead - see you on the yellow forum

pbfhpunk

I feel really bad now!!

We've already talked about when we move we.re taking the toilet seat and lightbulbs, but this is because
The toilet seat was an xmas present and is one of the ones with barbed wire in, and the light bulbs are all energy saving ones that have been in for less than a year.
HOWEVER....
We will refit the old toilet seat and replace the bulbs with normal ones, and we're also leaving spares of the halogen ones for the kitchen and the ones we get from ikea so they'll be able to see which ones they are. We're also leaving loads of spare tiles and the paint is all marked where it's for. We have a storage chest in the back garden, a big metal thing that comes oof the back of trucks between the cab and the crate and we're leaving that, mainly because it's so heavy it took us 90 minutes to move it the 30 metres from the car to the back garden and we had to take the gate off!!

Helen