Would you leave the toilet brush??

BrandNewDay

Well, I was thinking of this thread when we went into our house after becoming the owners on Friday....

They left the bog brush. But! They also left a bottle of champagne in the fridge!

cuteusmaximus

Flowers, wine, bog roll, wow!

The previous owner of our place stripped it bare ... with the exception of a wardrobe sized box full of rubbish at the top of the stairs and left loads of other rubbish in the back garden for us to have to deal with. Her excuse was that she didn't have time to finish it all since she'd been on holiday!

moj1966

i love this thread

mjdh1957

My sister moved into her current house in north London in 1987 (the day of the hurricane in fact). In her previous house she stripped everything out, including lightbulbs, the wooden handle on the bathroom light pull, and replaced the wooden toilet seat with a cheap plastic one.

Her buyer was furious but there wasn't anything he could do.

And she didn't even want the wooden toilet seat for herself but gave it to my mother...

Agent_C

I had the bog brush debate with Mr Agent_C. He suggested leaving it, I thought not - I wouldn't want to move into a new home and find someone else's bog brush there. In the end, Mr Agent_C won - but it was a clean bog brush.

I also left wine, manuals for all the appliances, some leftover paint from decorating in case anywhere needed touching up, and some blinds I'd bought to fit the kitchen and had never got around to putting up!

timnicebutdim_2

UPDATE:

OK so we moved out last Friday, cleaned the place from top to bottom, left it almost spotless. Even painted a few walls to rectify my dim-tim DIY moments (didn't do the electrics as planned although thats another story). Thanks to people's suggestions we did take the toilet brush, left some tea, coffee, sugar etc. We even took the 3 bags of rubbish outside!!

But when we arrived at our new place, the vendor hadn't finished packing let alone the cleaning, he kindly left us his toilet brush, 2 wheelie bins crammed full of rubbish, and a shed full of **** !!!:mad:

But hey, were in now and happier than ever and our first baby is due in December so it's chill out time, and were 1 bog brush up!! :j

Bogof_Babe

Perhaps the really generous thing to do would be to purchase a new (cheap) loo brush, and leave the sticky tape from the DIY store on it - the tape that attaches the brush to the holder. That way your purchasers will think you are wonderful, and it will only cost you about £1.

I can't understand people who strip the place bare when they move out. Maybe if it is a rental and they haven't been there long, I could understand them taking their expensive curtain poles, but the light bulbs :eek: .

wherediditallgo

Neither can I, Bogof_Babe. Even if you hated the place when you lived there, the new person is taking it off your hands & allowing you to move on, so I think it's worth spending even £5 on a few bits to make them feel welcome. Round my way, standard bayonet cap light-bulbs are 3 for £1 - no way would I remove a used standard light-bulb from the socket & potentially cause someone moving in inconvenience. I'd probably swop my low-energy ones for new standard ones though, as the low-energy ones are a lot more expensive.

mjdh1957

My sister (who took the lightbulbs when she moved) was completely unrepentant about it and had the attitude, 'well I paid for them so I can take them and s*d the buyer'. But the house she moved into had lightbulbs so it seems a daft thing to do. Back then, there were only old-fashioned bulbs, but now even energy-saving ones are cheap in Tesco so why bother taking them?


If there is such thing as Karma then she might come back as a cockroach or something She has been cursed with a pig of a husband though so that might balance it out

olly300

mjdh1957 wrote: »

If there is such thing as Karma then she might come back as a cockroach or something She has been cursed with a pig of a husband though so that might balance it out

Nah she will move house in about 20 years and the person before her will strip all the curtain rails, toilet roll holder and toilet seat as well as all light bulbs.:rolleyes: