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

When we had ridiculous conifers removed a few years ago in our own place, a previous owner had obviously used the space between the trees and next door’s fence as a dumping ground. We found coil springs from a car, knives (cutlery, not weapons), breeze blocks-enough for a small extension, broken cups, kilos of branches that they’d just dumped, fence posts, empty builders’ type bags-cement, old council fence concrete posts, etc. At one point, we cleared a ground covering creeping plant to extend the lawn and hit something solid. It was a beach ball size lump of concrete. We reckon they’d mixed up too much then just dumped it into a hole they’d dug in the original lawn. Took 2 skips.

When we moved in we kept finding an elderly Bengali woman.

Bit grim but a fleshlight in the loft - everything else was clear up there so found it odd that was the only thing they decided to leave behind!

I found quite a nice hoodie in a cupboard and some other little kids craft thing so messaged the seller to say I’ve got a couple of bits of yours for you to pick up. He was dropping off some tiles for the house also so it was no bother. He never answered me and I saw him sheepishly dropping off the tiles. They had trouble getting out on time on the moving day so I assumed it was down to this.
Weeks maybe months later we found a teddy and a pile of photos - a mix of wedding day and incredibly explicit photos of the owner and a partner. Also a framed picture of his …

I lost an engagement ring in a previous house
So hopefully somebody found that, sold it & it gave them happiness. Sigh.

When my grandad died, me & my mum cleared his house & found 2 necklaces (only cheap ones but pretty, sparkly heart shapes) in 2 of those little like velvet mini drawstring bags. We took one each & I wore mine with love until it discoloured. I still have it. My mum has no idea where they came from.

I've not found anything myself whilst moving house, despite moving house 10 times as an adult!

(There was once a MASSIVE spider, dead across the plughole in a rented house I went to view, & I refused to move in until somebody had removed it)

How lovely.

Rental. Jar of mayonnaise in the loft, plus lots of the kids’ school photos, 2 Christmas trees, lots of half empty cans of lager, about 30 gift bags, dog shit on the bedroom carpet. Cigarette butts everywhere. Lots of empty boxes. Multiple watches. An almost full box of Kellogs’ cornflakes. A blender. Cuddly toy (I’m kidding! 🤣)

6 car loads and no parking. That was fun.

When my parents moved into their first home there was a mattress rolled up in the small bedroom. As they took it outside the string broke and it unrolled spilling thousands of maggots on the stairs.

@Arlanymor I hope you'll be very happy in your new home.

We’ve recently moved and have visited the local recycling centre nearly 20 times as we clear out stuff we keep finding. We investigated the gully between the house and garage as water was entering the garage where we found a pair of swimming trunks, several non matching socks and a toy tardis!! That, along with a bucket of dirt, moss and general rubbish was causing the rain to overflow.

Those socks were the 7th ones we have found throughout the garden, along with 8 rugby and footballs, lightshades in the trees, and even dolls heads and detached bodies screwed to the inside of the shed wall a bit like those toys mistreated in Toy Story!!

We also founds handwritten notes in the attic tucked between joists with various sums of money written on them - £1,000, £5,000, etc but sadly no money. We also found 2 tins stuffed deeper in the attic which clearly had held money, but again sadly empty.

When I bought my first place the previous owners had left behind an ugly, ancient wooden cabinet which I kept as it had drawers and little cupboards for useful storage. Inside one of the drawers was a small grey remote control device of some sort, with no markings on any of the buttons. Not a tv remote, something simpler, but I never fathomed what. Even though there was nothing in the property that it could have been linked to, I had a notion it might be ‘important’, and kept it in the drawer. For 8 years!! 😂

I wonder how they ended up there @pinkstripeycat ?

When we moved to our first house in the early 80s we found porn everywhere. Under carpets, in the loft, the cellar, cupboards and behind the kitchen kick panels.

The previous owner left us a hideous old mustard coloured plastic sofa which we badly wanted gone. DH and my dad dragged out into the garden to cut up into pieces small enough to get into our Ford Escort and take to the tip. When they sawed into it out fell an absolute mother load of porn the bloke had obviously stuffed down the sides. 0

The whole time we lived there we regularly got catalogues addressed to the previous bloke trying to sell him all kinds of dubious magazines and 'accessories'.

a copy of some kind of dodgy wife swapping type mag in an envelope( opened) behind a wardrobe that was left -

My parents downsized to a lovely house but the dining room had a strange smell. The only thing it could have been was the carpet so they took it up. Underneath, the beautiful parquet floor was damp in big patches and the smell was terrible. The neighbours told them the people that sold them the house had a big dog that was left shut in the room all day while they were at work. Poor thing had to do its business on the floor and it soaked through into the wood. Strangely, the carpet didn't feel wet on top.
They had to have the floor sanded and refinished but I thought it always smelled faintly.

We moved in to our house to find the previous owners (adult kids of deceased) had left everything used teabags in the sink, a woman's wig in the dining room cupboard and a secret cupboard in the master bedroom with 2 windbreaks in. They left 2 sofas and a large 1980s sideboard, 2 beds and lots of kitchen bits (3 skip fulls plus many trips to the charity shop).

I can raise you on the keys as we were presented with 27 keys when we moved into our house, which is particularly odd as we have a victorian terrace with the original door in place. Only one or two of the keys actually fit said door.

Secondly in the attic was a wooden chair with a weird aztec print (I think) the legs are all half cut off. My husband is still convinced it's cursed.

A large collection of twigs in the airing cupboard, all with human hair wound around them, which appeared to be from several different people. Oh and a load of unwashed pants left in the washing machine - literally just pants and nothing else …

When we moved in I found some large metal sheets, which were something to do with newspaper printing years ago (I’ve been told).
I found a necklace with a coin in from (presumably) when the previous owners 1st daughter was born.
Then when we changed the kitchen we found paperwork from her boob job… 🤣