What items did you find in your new house?

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All I had was a little action figure that I found months later buried in the garden.

I listen to a podcast and someone on there find two names written on the attic that had their birth and death dates - death dates being the same.

Every DIY bitch job imaginable.

The previous owners certainly didn't lack... ambition.

Should say DIY botch job lol 😂

Although a lot of it was a bitch to put right.

A giant candle which, as it burnt down the inside, revealed a sex orgy!

Alas, us too.

also several mannequins, left lying in the garden. Gave us a right fright, they looked like bodies lying naked out in the shrubbery.

Different house: several garden ornaments they look tasteful at a glance but when you inspect them closely turn out to all be sex themed. Which I didn’t realise until several months and numerous visitors later.

Six pairs of big black knickers in a cupboard and a box with several dead bats in it

Dried blood and nail clippings in a kitchen drawer.
Lots of litter and dust and shit everywhere.
Caked on grease and grime all over kitchen.
I mean I'm most definitely not winning any prizes for tidiness but this made me wanna puke.
I would never ever leave a house for anybody in this state. I'd be far too embarrassed.

fascinating

A live corn snake slithering around the living room, inches of cat fur on every carpet and the cooker was indescribably filthy.

Wedding dress in thé loft in a black bin bah. Think it belonged to thé daughter - we left it there.

Current house rental thé cellar had a case of numbered bottles of sw French wine. These have been subject to natural wastage. Quite good, too.

5 different types of tiles
Ancient wallpaper in the loft
A slightly creepy painting of a boy delivering something (that's staying in the attic where I found it for fear of curses!(
A garage door
3 internal doors in a shed
A Thomas the tank engine figure
A children's book case
Old sheets and duvet covers
Building materials
Loads of broken kids toys in the garden

2.5 years in still working on getting rid of it all

Dessicated rats under the kitchen units, a bomb shelter in the bushes, a set of ancient badminton rackets in a wardrobe and a wartime nurses uniform complete with starched cuffs in a box in the loft with two paris of very dainty c1940s shoes. As we have removed the wallpaper someone has also written SHIT on the plaster in pencil in various places around the house, with seemingly no reason.

Some very tacky garden ornaments (frog holding an umbrella, etc). But I have embraced them as adding personality and have even added to them when I've seen similar at the recycling centre.

Not me but my brother when he moved in to his new house in 2019. We reckon the previous owners had hired "a man with a van" type of thing and misjudged how much stuff they had, because loads of things that they were obviously intending to take were just left in a huge pile in the middle of the living room.

He got:
6 pairs of excellent quality curtains (they'd been specifically excluded from the sale).
11 lampshades and 2 lamps.
A dining table and 4 chairs.
The contents of the undersink cupboard.
3 unopened bottles of Jo Malone handwash (I took them!)
A huge mirror for above the fireplace.

He tried to get in touch with the vendors via the solicitors but they just never replied. Oh well, their loss is his gain!

We also had to hire a skip. 1950s house that was lived in by the same couple until their deaths 5 yrs ago. Polystyrene ceiling tiles, ammunition (he belonged to a shooting club), cathode ray tubes from old tvs, clothes, magazines from decades ago. We did sell some of it. Plus a family of foxes in the garden.