What's the weirdest thing you've found left in a house you've just bought?

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In my case - a pet urn. A full one.

Amazed by how much ofthis stuff gets left in the kitchen. We also had thousands of dead flies in the attic.

[quote FurrySlipperBoots]@isthismylifenow

God that's terrible! Did you just walk in and find the poor things there?What happened to them?[/quote]
Yes, we got the keys about a week after he moved out. When we got here, the dogs came to meet us at the gate. He had left a bag of dry food open for them to help themselves to

As much as I wanted to we couldn't keep them as we were staying with family as we had to do a lot of work to the house before we moved in.

We reported him to the rspca, who collected the dogs. They were rehomed very quickly. The RR was only 8 months old.

I still don't understand it. If he couldn't keep them why didn't he just take them there himself. It was in the middle of winter too.

1 1970s Previous owner moved to a bungalow but still ripped out the stair carpet leaving all the tacks in the stir with little bits of carpet so he couldn't have re used it, garage full of ugly bathroom tiles, Dad did his whole bathroom with them.
2 2001 Previous tenant died in hospital, council cleared/cleaned house, threw away the central heating WIFI thermostat and the keys for the stair lift. When we did the kitchen found council had tiled over the existing wallpaper, several weird building bodges found over the years
3 2002 When we sold what was a new build when we moved in we left a folder with all the instructions/receipts/guarantees and jam jars clearly labelled with paint we'd decorated with and a bottle of fizz

We are about to leave our house. This thread has inspired me to leave behind something very odd for the new owner.

We were planning on leaving a card and instructions on things like the utilities but that seems bland now.

A ride on lawnmower in the shed. They were still here when I found it and pointed it out to them (and didn’t fuck off completely until 10pm, still leaving a skip worth of crap behind them). He looked perplexed and said that he thought it had been collected and would chase it up to be picked up. Annoying but really not the biggest pain in the arse of that particular move as they left horrendous problems behind for me.

Months and months passed with no pick up, at which point I got the mower out, discovered that it didn’t work and twigged that they had abandoned it for me to deal with. Took me and a mechanic buddy about an hour to get it going and start using it. They obviously still know the neighbours and found this out as they turned up to collect it within a week. That got a short sharp fuck off and a respectful request to let the bailiffs and other assorted debt collectors that I had been dealing with to know their new address!

I suspect that I left quite a lot of underwear behind for the new occupant!

I had to dry stuff on the radiators all over the house (no tumble drier) and it used to fall down the backs and get forgotten about. I've only moved three doors down, so I shall have to look in the face a man who may be wearing my bras....

Two suitcases in the cellar. Disappointingly, all they contained were lots of course books, many of which I already owned as they were for the same uni course as I'd studied in another city.

I'd been a bit scared to open the suitcases. I'd been imagining bodies...

They obviously still know the neighbours and found this out as they turned up to collect it within a week

The cheek of some people

We found a full hydroponic set in the loft when an electrician came to give us a quote for a re-wire. Lights, plant pots and shallow trays with hoses for irrigation. No weed though.

A bin full of dog shit.. and shit all over the lawn and patio 🤢

We found full kitchen cupboards. A load of paperwork from different shops and places banning the previous owner from them! I did wonder if he might need these to remember which places to avoid

I always think of that scene in the Harry Potter film where he gets thrown through the wall into the neighbouring house from Bathilda Bagshott's house by the snake, you never know what's going on on the other side of the wall!

The old owner's father! As in, we'd agreed to complete/exchange etc at 9am, 3pm I went and got the keys from the estate agents, went to the house and he was still sitting there on the sofa! Apparently they couldn't fit all their stuff in the lorry so were coming back. Luckily I was a first time buyer so wasn't planning on moving in that day, no idea what I or they would have done if I'd turned up with all my stuff six hours earlier when the house was legally mine!

And not an arriving but a leaving one....I still feel a bit guilty about what I left behind in a flat share once. I dressed up as Claudia from the Anne Rice vampire books for Halloween and trawled the charity shops for the creepiest china doll I could find to complete the ensemble. I then added some fake blood etc on her as a finishing je ne sais quoi and she ended up looking completely terrifying. Anyway when I moved out I didn't want to take her with me, couldn't gift back to the charity shop due to the amendments I'd made, and was too scared she'd haunt me if I chucked her in the bin, so just shoved her right in the back of a cupboard. I pity the person who found her!

Our first house had a child's desk and chair set up in the attic which had no windows and just a ladder to reach it. Text books were piled on the desk. I felt so sorry for any child sent to work there.

Our second had 50 glass ash trays but no sign the previous occupants had smoked.

Our third just a bottle of posh champagne and flowers. The previous occupants were lovely.

@FurrySlipperBoots we still have him.
He was a bit skittish at first but we've been here 5 years now and is part of our family.
He is a lovely cat.

An envelope full of human hair, with ‘this is my hair’ written on the front.

All I can think of is some old diaries with nothing interesting in them. Not really that weird.

@JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff

Going to drop this in, then read thread....

Our current house was really, properly filthy when we moved in.

Cleaning the kitchen, I noticed the previous owner had left a drawer with a generous scattering of rice in the bottom. Rice with long, thin, curved grains, a curious sort of greyish white colour.

Yes, they were fingernail clippings.

🤢

@Livpool

DH is telling porkies....
How an he not have opened them or brought them down??

We've hada few bits

This house, a lawnmower (did us for 6 years 👍🏻), some old paint tins, with dried paint....
In my first flat, a plate rack, one saucepan, and a drawer full of ketchup sachets

How boring

Literally all their furniture.

A dvd of dominatrix porn. Hidden in a cupboard.

A small green alien behind the bathroom sink in a house I rented a few years ago. I couldn’t reach him to get him out so he’s probably still there!

My friend found 2 cat skins in a cupboard. Apparently lying your head on one is a cure for toothache

When my parents moved into their first flat, they discovered a mattress with a knife sticking out of it

Our house was quite nice - Card, bubbly and a book on taking care of roses as our garden is full of them :) and plenty of cigarette butts left on the patio :/