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

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  • z1a
    z1a Posts: 2,522 Forumite
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    All his tools, he was a joiner and avid DIYer. Bought house from his Son when he died, he didn't want or need anything so told us to keep or throw anything.
  • kerri_gt
    kerri_gt Posts: 11,202 Forumite
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    Ithaca wrote: »
    Conkers. Everywhere, all over the place, in literally every corner of the house. We still turn up the odd one or two over two years later.

    Apparently there's a folk myth that conkers keep spiders out of the house so I assume the previous owner (chap in his 80s) scattered them around to keep eight-legged beasties away (doesn't seem to have worked though!).

    We had conkers in an airing cupboard at a rental once too - I think I left them there when we moved out
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  • Zippeh
    Zippeh Posts: 108 Forumite
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    A cotton bud with blood on it. Yey.
  • DREKLY
    DREKLY Posts: 213 Forumite
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    an elephant, in a trunk, in the loft,
    prevoius owner was a magician....

    A week later, the elephant disappeared too... :)
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  • kilby_007
    kilby_007 Posts: 738 Forumite
    When we moved into our last house there were dozens of large boxes of school books (literally hundreds if not thousands of books - 40 or 50 copies of 20 or so titles). There was no identification for which school they belonged to so we donated them via a friend to a local high school.
  • Red-Squirrel_2
    Red-Squirrel_2 Posts: 4,341 Forumite
    I moved into a student house once that had so many toenail clippings on the carpets, in every single room, that I couldn't believe they'd come from just the previous inhabitants.

    I think they must have invited a few hundred of their friends round for a toenail cutting party on their last night in the place. Its the only explanation I can come up with.
  • Murphybear
    Murphybear Posts: 8,103 Forumite
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    What amazing things people find. :D
  • Harryp_24
    Harryp_24 Posts: 172 Forumite
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    A tree branch, glued to a wall in a corner. !!!!ing weird. Also an Nintendo, a Harry Potter book and a 29 year old bottle of champagne worth £150. We drank it and it was !!!!ing horrible.
  • Slinky
    Slinky Posts: 11,270 Forumite
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    Harryp_24 wrote: »
    A tree branch, glued to a wall in a corner. !!!!ing weird. Also an Nintendo, a Harry Potter book and a 29 year old bottle of champagne worth £150. We drank it and it was !!!!ing horrible.


    Hmm, we've still got a bottle of 1995 Moet our tenants left behind in the garage when they moved out. Hope it's still worth drinking, OH suggested we crack it open when we had our offer accepted on the next house, good job we didn't as the new purchase is taking forever.
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  • DumbMuscle
    DumbMuscle Posts: 244 Forumite
    DREKLY wrote: »
    an elephant, in a trunk, in the loft,
    prevoius owner was a magician....

    A week later, the elephant disappeared too... :)

    I hope you checked your fridge for footprints in the butter!
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