Stuff your vendor left in the house you bought

woodworm001

Solsol wrote: »

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

9 years for us

Also got a wheel barrow that I still use.

Now our house is on the market and I've never been in the loft, though I am aware there is a large cardboard box up there.

littlepinkbiscuits

BeansOnToast wrote: »

We had half a bottle of whisky

Are you sure it was whisky!

I had the corner piece of a corner suite, and it had a nice smoked glass coffee table top, over 400 cup hooks attached to every wall in the house, and a really dodgy 1970's portrait of a red haired woman. Oh, and under a filthy carpet I found a newspaper from the 1930's with Fred Perry winning Wimbledon.

Rather jealous of the whale bones and molten glass lump!

Slinky

Loads of hair in the carpet as they previous owner was a hairdresser and probably did some work at home....... and a very large cheap wineglass in a cupboard, with a large lipstick mark on it.

melanzana

OMG I remember back in the eighties when I bought my first (and last house believe it or not, perfect spot)....

In The garage I found a temporary grave marker in the shape of a cross, name, date of death and so on...creepy? No I lol'd. With due respect to the deceased.

And lurking in the back of same garage was a huge black sack full of.....


Yellow rubber duckies with numbers on them. Hundreds.

Found out later that they were used in a duck race in the stream behind the house, to raise money for various charities. How lovely.

Gave them to one of the charities, and very year at Easter there is a duck run, great fun.

Pidge_jen

My parents found:
An old dining table set sawed into pieces and stuffed into the understairs cupboard
A Wellington boot in the back garden containing loads of rain water and a frog - made us all jump when it hopped out :eek:
A dead bird in the cupboard under the sink
Some interesting women's apparatus (if you get my drift!) in the loft :rotfl:

Loopy28

We got left with several bin bags worth of rubbish left for the bin men in the front garden. We moved in on a Saturday and the bin collection was Thursday! Plus they left stuff that the bin men didn't take leaving us to dispose of it. What made it cheekier is they only moved round the corner so could have left it in their own garden.

Only bit if treasure was a secret stash of unopened alcohol behind a cupboard that they clearly forgot about :-)

stef73

My parents had a chest freezer left in celler, jars of pickles and preserves left in pantry and yes they asked for them back.
I had left 1 set of ladders (broken) ,tin foil on grill pan with i think sausage remains (house was empty for 3 months) & an internal fully glazed door in the shed.

pleasedelete

2 very large dogs

Argghhh

Solsol wrote: »

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

did you keep their phone number?

tanith

A snooker table quarter size, a 3 piece ladder, very handy and the lady left all her full length dresses including several evening dresses . She did come back for them but we still have the ladder 19 yrs later.