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

SquirrelSmall

When I moved onto my boat earlier this year I had to dispose of: assorted y-fronts; very battered pans; several sets of broken fairy lights; enough bedding to fill two cars (Battersea Dogs Home was v grateful). It took two weekends to clean the boat; if anyone noticed a bleach shortage in London, you can blame me.
(And there were hairs of the non-head variety in the cutlery drawer).

Brighty

When we moved into a rented place about 9yrs ago, we found loads of junk up in the loft. The most interesting find was a large holdall filled to the brim with pornographic magazines, some of it of quite a strong exotic and erm 'specialist' nature. Also in the holdall were a number of old boarding passes for ferry trips to Amsterdam, the names on them matched the name written on the holdall nametag, which also happened to match with the name of our landlords. Lol

Callie22

Little stashes of pills and razorblades all over the house The previous owner was an elderly gentleman who had suffered from dementia, and we bought the house after he'd gone into a home. The house was in a really filthy state with loads of stuff left everywhere, but it was the pills and razorblades that really upset me. There were about half a dozen small stashes on top of cabinets and hidden at the back of shelves.

Murphybear

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.

You should have sold the champagne instead

Murphybear

Callie22 wrote: »

Little stashes of pills and razorblades all over the house The previous owner was an elderly gentleman who had suffered from dementia, and we bought the house after he'd gone into a home. The house was in a really filthy state with loads of stuff left everywhere, but it was the pills and razorblades that really upset me. There were about half a dozen small stashes on top of cabinets and hidden at the back of shelves.

When we moved into our present house we found a huge bag of pills. No idea what they were as the previous occupants were Polish and all the pills had obviously been obtained there. We dropped them off at the pharmacy for safe disposal

Murphybear

We are moving soon and the current occupants are downsizing so they will be leaving a few things including a piano. Is it to late to learn? I'm 65 2 weeks after we move :rotfl:

Red-Squirrel_2

Murphybear wrote: »

We are moving soon and the current occupants are downsizing so they will be leaving a few things including a piano. Is it to late to learn? I'm 65 2 weeks after we move :rotfl:

That's a bit cheeky, it costs a fortune to move a piano so they're just making it your problem!

Caroline_a

Murphybear wrote: »

We are moving soon and the current occupants are downsizing so they will be leaving a few things including a piano. Is it to late to learn? I'm 65 2 weeks after we move :rotfl:

Please get them to dispose of this! As Red Squirrel said it costs a lot of money to move a piano and there is little if any resale price because it is outweighed by the removal costs.

oystercatcher

My son bought a house from a single man. In the loft he found photographs and paperwork relating to a stillbirth . Very sad

Following on from the person with the toy monkey that has moved with them. When we bought our first house in 1984 there was a tiny wooden penguin sitting on the dining room windowsill. Three houses later and we still have a little wooden penguin looking out of the dining room window. When I tried to explain to my cleaner she though I was mad !

tori.k

NelliePie wrote: »

Our sellers only had the house 15 months before selling to us, the lady before them had a cat... WE found the half a mouse behind the cooker....
h.

We had the cat left in our previous home, the tennent's had been squatting for some time when the owners decided to give up and sell, when they finally left they had pretty much stripped the place bare which was fine as we had planned to anyway, but the miserable !!!!!! had trapped there cat in the kitchen when moving out and left the poor thing there, it was two days before we entered the property and found her. After a trip to the vets our new next door neighbor took the little mite in and nursed her back to health, and she lived happily between our two houses for the next twelve years until she past away.