Weirdest thing youve found in your new home?

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Just been talking to a friend who got the keys to her new home yesterday and it got me thinking it'd be a good monday afternoon thread..probably done before but 🤷‍♀️.

For us, when we moved in it became clear very quickly that the guy who lived there before was a bit of a bodge it and scarper...

Anyway, there was a strange smell in the bathroom. We assumed it was because the previous family had a carpet in a small bathroom that probably got damp. 3 weeks in we finally had the new flooring delivered so went to rip up the carpet.. had to remove the bath panel and there was our shock... the bath wasnt fixed to the floor at all, instead it was just sat there on a whole hay bale!!! How it didnt move and break the silicone seal when we got in and out is still a mystery to this day!!!

We found a pair of ladies tights, a child's t-shirt and an empty flag packet. All stuffed down behind a radiator in a child's bedroom, the mind boggled.

A hamster cage, complete with straw, little house with a hamster skeleton in. Poor thing was either put up there to die or died and they just put the cage up there with it in.
People are weird.

A message on my mobile from the 20 year whose mum had bought our old house. For him. IN CASH.

Apparently he had ‘seen a mouse’ and was wondering what to do. 🙄
(I didn’t ring back. Our old dog was a mouser and I think they’d sensed his absence).

Oh. And when we moved into DH’s grandmas bungalow we discovered that the ‘side extension’ (lean to) was almost entirely constructed of roofing felt and empty boxes of ‘Trill’.

A very rusty salmon mould behind the kitchen cabinets the house was only built in the 90 so way after such things were fashionable anyway. Previous owner was a fan of sellotape, taped wallpaper to walls, tiles to floors, broken sinks back together

On stripping decades of wallpaper, a pencil portrait of a little boy, his name and the year 1959. Unfortunately it ran off with the steamer and then we painted over it but took a photo for prosperity.

Not really strange but annoying, previous tenant had used some sort of sealer or wood glue to glue some hideous wood chip wallpaper to the bathroom ceiling. Absolute bugger to get off, haven't got round to doing the downstairs toilet yet which is the same.

When we moved into our house we found a suitcase stashed at the back of a cupboard full to capacity with mini toiletries that you’d get in hotels. It was a full sized suitcase too, not like an overnight/weekend one we were totally puzzled by it

A porn mag in which every single woman's face had a picture of Princess Diana stuck over it!

We hired builders to knock down a dividing wall the previous owner had installed, only for them to come and inform us 5 mins into the job that there was no need to pay them as the "wall" was actually large flattened cardboard boxes that had been sellotaped to the side walls, and wallpapered over 🤣🤣🤣 probably the biggest bodge job ever, and we'd even fixed a floating shelf onto this "wall", and had a heavy mirror attached to the other side! How on earth the shelf stayed up I'll never know.

Big heaping piles of toenails behind a cabin bed they ‘kindly’ left for us to tip. Also bacon.

Said this before but a small piece of graffiti I've kept in the cupboard simply saying "trudy's a slag" 😂

JuniperNarni - score it with a knife, mix up some wallpaper paste a bit more sloppy than you normally wood, slather it all over the woodchip, have a cup of tea while you let it soak in for about 30 minutes, and then it should peel off easily.

Gah, 'would' not 'wood'. Woodchip on the brain at the moment!

a man's diary about how he knows his girlfriend is cheating it was very gross reading how he used to inspect her knickers 🤮

Our house had previously been rented and had a full clean before we moved in. All was lovely but the attic room had a weird musty smell. About a week after moving in a went to put some boxes into the lift to find no loft insulation, just dirty nappies in its place. At first I thought there was just one but I went back in with a bigger torch to find hundreds.
I should have known but the top of the bay window being covered in empty wine glasses and cigarette ends.

An Adams family record.

We found £300 in the basement wide store, which went towards paying for boiler - water was and house heated burning coal and wood in basement. No radiators

Wood*

A whole cupboard of pickled onion jars.

Weird was pill box containing skin shavings

We moved to a new build a few years ago and the tv and phone points weren’t wired to the services at all. Just the face plates screwed to the wall. Builders had also swept rubble and rubbish under the bath and kitchen units and most power points were wired the wrong way around. Totally shoddy workmanship.

We found a pickaxe and a newspaper printed on the day I was born. That was a bit peculiar.

We also found that the partially removed chimney breast was being held up by only a peice of 2x4 timber, and could very easily have instantly killed anyone standing underneath it if it so happened to collapse. That was a bit scary.

The pervious owners had been sleeping with the head of her bed underneath the thing

A vibrator had been left in the built in wardrobe and also a large jar of coins under the kitchen sink.

We were left a pair of waders and the canvas, but not the frame, of a gazebo! I've hung onto both as there's a big pond and I've got a feeling we'll find the frame somewhere. There's a garage with a back room full of junk which we haven't got round to sorting through yet.

Also multiple tins of paints in all the hideous colours they'd used and loads of other crap. The details could potentially be outing - we actually sold quite a lot of it and paid for the kitchen tiling with the proceeds.