What's the oddest thing your seller has left in your new home?

cloo

The previous owner was Italian and we kept of find 'stealth Marys' and crucifixes in cupboards!

ssparks2003

I don't know about odd but i do seem to gain items whenever i move into a house. When we brought the current house the seller said they had left a chest of draws as the van was full, they were going to take it to the tip but if we were ok they would leave it with us, fine i said; it turned out to be 2 chest of draws, 2 free standing wardrobes, a dressing table, and a large side board. All well made solid wood furniture, thank you very much.

The previous house was a garage full of tool as it was a deceased estate, 90% of them i kept as they were well made british hand tools. I almost look forward to the next move.

Slinky

Just remembered, OH inherited a filing cabinet left behind in an outhouse, we still have it in our shed. Scruffy but full of stuff. There was also a toy monkey hanging on a nail in the outhouse, OH found it quite funny when he unpacked what the removals people had packed and found the monkey had moved with him. It's now hanging on a nail in our garage, 2 moves from where it was found.

Clairabella

We had a box of laxatives :eek: along with a briefcase full of share certificates! The laxatives went in the bin, the briefcase to the estate agent to be returned to the elderly vendor.

Slinky

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Several huge stashes of !!!!!! mags in the loft lol (if that's filtered out, 'dirty mags' will do).

My friend moved into a room which had previously been rented by friends of hers in a house share. She was not best impressed on finding mags and dirty knickers under the bed. I think they fell out over it and never spoke again.

Viking_mfw

I 'inherited' my clothes pegs and bag from my previous house's deceased owner and that was really useful. In my current house, I learned late in the day that the previous owners had been hoarders before renting out. The loft was absolutely packed with stuff. Largest proportion was cardboard boxes containing the empty boxes of things like model cars and Tetley figurines - boxes and boxes of them. Also in the loft an entire green plastic garden set, two deckchairs with cushions, an elderly hi-fi, an ornate and ancient carved needlework frame and two entire car bucket seats. Two suitcases of glass and ceramics which mostlt went to Oxfam. Filled a skip plus a load of goes to the tip in addition to the odds and sods we kept.

It really made me think about what was actually worth keeping hold of!

Fosterdog

We found the back of the cupboard in the utility room pushed back and no longer attached to the unit so a few things had fallen behind and under. Most random was a travel hair dryer in a little case.

A friend bought a probate sale house and found a commode left there

Mr_da

Coat hangers, over 300 of them

keith969

I found a working clothes mangle, probably of similar age to the house (1860's).

aneary

A health workers uniform in the washing machine, two broken sets of drawers and a filthy flat in general.
(Renting btw)