Stuff your vendor left in the house you bought

Elfbert

My Dad bought his house 34 years ago - we still find odd things in the garden.

When we eventually knocked down the outside loo at the top of the garden we discovered that buried around the back/sides of it were hundreds and hundreds of glass Bovril jars, all unbroken.

Laying a new path a few years ago I was joking with my young cousin about plague victims being buried there (completely untrue!) and the next shovel-full of earth he took exposed a pig jawbone and ribs/foreleg. He screamed!

We also found a giant metal sign for a local dairy in some brambles. It's quite cool, so we propped it up in the garden

Jagraf

The deadline was looming and we were waiting with the lorry to move in t 2pm.

The vendor came over to me panic striken as he was behind, and told me it would take him a while to move his ducks. He offered that we could keep them but we declined. Instead, we helped him move them and did most of our unpacking in the dark.

He did leave us some eggs though.

Nope, it wasn't even a farmhouse.

Jagraf

Elfbert wrote: »

My Dad bought his house 34 years ago - we still find odd things in the garden.

When we eventually knocked down the outside loo at the top of the garden we discovered that buried around the back/sides of it were hundreds and hundreds of glass Bovril jars, all unbroken.

Laying a new path a few years ago I was joking with my young cousin about plague victims being buried there (completely untrue!) and the next shovel-full of earth he took exposed a pig jawbone and ribs/foreleg. He screamed!

We also found a giant metal sign for a local dairy in some brambles. It's quite cool, so we propped it up in the garden

Ah yes, you reminded me, loads and loads of buried glass perfume bottles!

jeckerdrawers

False teeth and their wedding album.
And a few declarations of love under the wallpaper

jamie11

If the next owners of this house ever remove the gazebo I built 8 years ago, they will find the broken bedstead I used as reinforcement in the concrete beneath.

Mallotum_X

Last house had some random things.

In the loft was a toilet, no seat, looked new but covered in dust. Probably been there 10 years plus.

In the space under the drawers in a built in bedside cabinet was a wig.

In the garden pond was an old deep fat fryer...

Plus the left huge amounts of debts that debt collectors turned up looking for them for a couple of years afterwards.

pinkteapot

An unopened Muller yoghurt.

I found it three years after moving in, when I took a kickboard off in the kitchen to do some work. It was under the kitchen unit.

No smell as the lid was still on and sealed, but it had gone out of date five years previously. I was sorely tempted to open it (scientific curiosity) but decided against it...

onomatopoeia99

When I bought my current place, in the garages were:

A reasonable size metalworking lathe, perhaps 3' bed
Fairly substantial pillar drill
Arc welder
Petrol mower
electric chainsaw and hedge trimmer

Plus miscellaneous junk in the garages, sheds and the loft that I had to take down the tip in several loads in my camper van.

rdr

a Kayak in the garden, online clothes purchase a week after completion and live electrical wires sticking out of the wall, more extension leads than you've ever seen. Redundant wiring everywhere.

tumbledowngirl

Our vendors (well, the male of the couple) left a shed full of pencil wood (pencils minus the lead), a huge diving knife and a fireplace full of beach pebbles. In the loft was all the couple's wedding cards (each one containing details of what present the sender had given them) and her personal diaries with details of his sperm count throughout.

He did, however, manage to remove the fixed loft ladder and every single lightbulb.