Stuff your vendor left in the house you bought

celyn90

ergghh... don't know where to start...

In the garden, litres of stuff used for professionally valeting cars, several wheelie bins full of jam jars, about 20 litres of rancid cooking oil in metal drums, most of a car buried in the garden in bits, a lot of bank statements. Half of a garden trampoline and some sort of garden swing.

Inside, a bag of children's toys, a suitcase, a dead bird and a harmonica.

noelphobic

I moved into my house in 1994 and found a child's gas mask in the loft. It's sad to think they kept it in case it came in handy.

sheilavw

We moved here in 1988, they just left under sink opened washing powder, fabric conditioner and that type of thing. However, a friend at work moved a few months ago and they left everything. Purchased house from a Mum and Son (twenties) on day of completion still in the house at tea time! Finally got key and literally it looked like they had just gone out. She took pics every room. Clothes in wardrobe, toiletries in bath cabinet, furniture including beds with bedding on. In lounge on side tables plates with left over food on, all cutlery, all outside furniture!

Old_Git

empty condom packet

gazter

Our vendor left us a bottle of champagne and a welcome fruit basket!

Davesnave

Current house, too much to list and too many issues, but the smoking bonfire of what we didn't get made holes in the polytunnel and partially killed a tree. We are still finding things 5 years on, though these are now all buried items. The original main burial site contained several tonnes of material, fortunately before the tip got iffy about people arriving in vans with dumpy bags.....:D

Previous house: tens of thousands of glass fragments, presumably buried under the hedges during WW2, a concrete platform hiding within it a bike and several Crittall windows. 14 of the concrete ornaments once displayed on there were later retrieved from the pond. I wish we'd kept one....but I buried them in one of my own creations....:o

First House: A wind-up gramophone we auctioned for £45, several gas masks still in their cases, a map of the city dated 1912 and a bag full of watercolour paintings of dubious merit. A second bag contained all the evidence relating to the man of the house's tribunal case as a conscientious objector. It couldn't have been up there during the War, as the house was flattened by a bomb..... Yes, the irony didn't escape us!:rotfl:

nanto3girls

It was 1969, we got a council house(which we bought in 1982).There was an old electric boiler in the kitchen, full of water and clothing.The fireplace in the living room was piled high with ashes,and a load of final demand letters, through the letter box.
Every room was decorated in some shade of green.We later learned they had done moonlight flit,and the house had been empty for 3 months.

Slinky

Flat_Eric wrote: »

A teddy bear lost behind a fitted bed. For some reason I put it in the in the loft in case it was much loved and much missed but have had no missing bear calls yet. ...

That reminds me, when we unpacked my OH's stuff from a house move where the removal people had packed, he found they'd packed a small toy monkey which had been hanging on a nail in the garage of the previous house he'd owned and had been left by the previous owner. So it ended up in the garage of the house he'd moved to, and is now hanging up in the garage of the house we currently live in.

His vendor had also left him a metal filing cabinet in the shed, we've got that in our shed now full of come-in-handy/junk.

piglet25

I'm puzzled by the amount of people out there who like to bury things!

Davesnave

piglet25 wrote: »

I'm puzzled by the amount of people out there who like to bury things!

Standard practice in the country.

How long does it take to dig a 6 cubic yard hole with a digger?

Answer: under 1/2 hr

How much does a digger cost to hire?

£75, if you don't know someone who has one.

How much is a 6 cubic yd skip?

£285

Go figure. :think:

But people have always buried things. "Out of sight, out of mind."