Weirdest thing (or things!) you found when moving house

This is what I was thinking - I remember moving out of my last house with a dustpan filled with the last bit of sweeping up because I was so worried about getting charged for any mess! 😂

This is one of my worst nightmares. Aren't there rules about leaving a place empty when it's sold?

They were fairly ok about it to be fair, but they said they didn't think we would start smashing the house up quite so soon. I think the humungous skip that was delivered, literally minutes after the moving van pulled up, should have been their first clue as to our intentions.

A porno, a shell suit jacket and half a packet of fags in the crawl space above the bathroom. Obviously someone must have been enjoying some personal time.

Crikey...how did they react when you said it was gone?

When we moved in, there was a hideous orange pine dresser wedged solid into an alcove. The only way to get it out seemed to involve a sledge hammer, so that is what we deployed, first thing the following morning. On removal it was apparent that it had been screwed to the wall.

A couple of days later the previous owners turned up to collect their "heirloom dresser"

The weird thing is, when we arrived at the house to move in, they were still there. If they'd asked we would have waited before smashing it up, but they never said a word about it.

We moved into a flat that came with DDads job in the 1980's. We were assured it had been professionally deep cleaned before we got the keys. One of the things that Dmum loved was the smoked glass windows over the bedroom doors. I got up on a ladder to out a new light bulb in my room and saw that it was actually just thickly coated with nicotine. They'd just painted over the nicotine covered walls and ceilings and as the paint was still drying it covered the smell 🤢. The company had to put us up in a hotel while the whole flat was properly cleaned and re- re painted.

About a million keys that don’t fit any of the doors in the house and yet there are several doors in the house that don’t have any keys at all.
Obviously we’ve kept the random keys and they are cluttering up a kitchen drawer.
A locked safe and no code. It’s very small and the previous owners said they bought the house with it in situ and don’t know the code.
its bolted to the wall from the inside so its staying there until someone decides to demolish the wall.

We moved into a Victorian terraced house in the early eighties. In the loft, we found a beautiful spinning wheel. It had obviously been there a long time as the loft hatch was too small to get it out. We ended up leaving it there because it would have needed to be cut somehow, and we didn't want to risk damaging it.

Some previous occupant of our last house had re-installed the old 1970s kitchen at the back of the garage for storage. They left lots of mechanical tools, tyre jacks, jump leads etc. We only lived there 18 months and didn't get round to clearing it until we moved. That's when we discovered one of the cupboards had a false back, behind which was a very extensive VHS porn collection. It was fairly mortifying taking that lot to the tip!

In the same house we discovered a bin bag in the attic with someone's birth certificate, passport, bank statements, professional exam certificates etc. Every important document we could have used to steal his identity. I don't know if he was just careless, or was there a backstory in which his partner had thrown him out after discovering the porn stash and shoved all his things up there?

House 1: Some boxes of rifle ammunition in loft (handed to police)
House 2: Serveral bags of well used porn mags in loft (straight to dump)
House 3: A full set of deer antlers in loft (left for the next owners)
House 4: Two full size fake plastic sheep in woodshed (DH has adopted them)

A 2x life-size mural of spiderman behind the wallpaper in the master bedroom.

A stash of 60s/70s Mills & Boon Dr/Nurse romances in the loft.

According to our new neighbours, the previous occupants had an interesting and very audible sex life.

The only thing I found was a packet of frozen ham that had fallen down the back of the drawers in the freezer!

Chickens were probably dinner for the eagle but were saved.

Moving into the house, lots of books on the Third Reich and some miniature spy cameras were amongst some other tat left in the loft.

You win 🤣 although the eagle in the cupboard comes close. Poor eagle, what a way to live 😬

Glad you explained this! I thought it was going to go down the route of 'There's a small elderly Korean woman in my garden' or whatever that classic Mumsnet thread was titled years ago!

In the cellar of my last 1930s house. An unused anderson shelter which I donated to the local museum.
A massive amount of sloe gin which was beautiful. No idea how old it was but it tasted lovely.

There was a high up beam running the length of the hallway, clad in light coloured laminate wood effect flooring (in an 1860s house). We carefully removed it wondering if it might be boxed in pipes or some architectural feature, but no, nada, they’d just randomly created a fake wood six meter long beam.

A micro SD card that had fallen down between a kitchen shelf/counter. Many explicit photos of the ex tenant and her girlfriend. I just binned it. A few weeks later a taxi driver who picked me up said that his brothers ex girlfriend used to live here but she’d kicked him out and moved her girlfriend in and told me her name. Mutual friends on Facebook 🙈

Ha I did it deliberately as wasn’t sure if the real spelling would get flagged

Never found anything but whilst a male friend was helping me move house he picked up a small bedside table and the draw swung open and my dildo collection was in it !!! 😳

Whoever bought the house my family left when I was 4 will have found half the pieces of my old cot. From what I understand the packing got a bit behind as Mum got ill right before the move. I don’t know what else got left, but I don’t think the pieces of cot were the only things.

In the very first house I bought, a dildo was found in the airing cupboard (it wasn’t particularly hidden, just left on the top shelf) and when I came to renew the bedroom carpet there was a used condom under the underlay. Not sure if the vendors laid the carpet themselves (the place was full of crap DIY) or whether one of them had had some fun with the carpet fitters?

When we moved to our present, rather rural house it was empty of any items but I don't think the folks we bought it from ( they had only lived in it a couple of years) had ever investigated the shed. For instance there was a huge wooden chest full of Kilner jars carefully wrapped in pages from early 1960s Radio Times'.
We also found a set of blueprints which were plans from when the shed was built in 1931 (it is a solid brick building with 2 small rooms). Evidently one room originally held a generator, the other a water pump. Lo and behold, under a slab in that room was a borehole. DH measured the depth to the water as 125 feet.