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DP moved the last of his stuff in today....

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KentMum2008 · 15/06/2017 22:59

One final box that had been in his mum's spare room for donkeys years. It contained a lava lamp. He has put it on his bedside table, in our previously beautiful, immaculate, un-tainted by 90's shit, nautical-style bedroom. Also in the box was a special edition DVD of Highlander, a tartan cummerbund that doesn't fit around his dad bod anymore and more than 50 beer mats from various dives pubs around the country. AIBU to ask what bizarre/horrific/inexplicable shit stuff your DP brought when he moved in?

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Supersoaryflappypigeon · 16/06/2017 04:43

A box full of old car magazines from 1970's/80's (think they were his granddads) and a big full of random shit like MP3 players/old debit cards/pens (basically bed side drawer shit that he should've chucked away). Oh and this weird trick thing that you get someone to blow into and it covers them in chalk. Bizarre.

porridgetits · 16/06/2017 06:38

My ex;
Dungeons and Dragons type board games.
Warhammer figures.
A horrible ugly plastic box that he apparently had to keep for sentimental reasons, as it was his when a child.
A fucking beanie baby collection!
He collected more shite when we lived together, and god forbid I throw anything out. He used to do life modelling, and would bring home huge pictures of himself in various mediums. I threw one out once when we were moving and lied that it had got mixed up in old wallpaper. He was not happy. So glad he's an ex!!
Current DP brought a huge Victorian chest of drawers, filled with horror and sci fi dvds. Also a stuffed crow. He is called 'Mr Crow' and the kids like to stroke him (gently). Grin

glitterglitters · 16/06/2017 06:41

I'm pretty certain there are three suitcases filled with porn somewhere in our house. I've not found them in 6 years but I know they're somewhere.

glitterglitters · 16/06/2017 06:41

And a collection of 40 jackets for a man who doesn't get cold.

RainbowPastel · 16/06/2017 08:02

A signed photo of Steve Davis Hmm

liquidrevolution · 16/06/2017 08:04

A collection of vw camper van money boxes. Some of them accidentally smashed when i was hoovering. Shame.

I am now no longer allowed to hoover. Also a shame.

PixieMiss · 16/06/2017 08:07

2 guitars
A weight - never used!
Lots of model trains and cars
School certificates
A memento box of his time in Canada. With his ex.

redfairy · 16/06/2017 08:08

Airfix tank models, a Derby County football on a mahogony plinth and a motley collection of 'Best Dad' mugs/glasses. The tanks are in the garage as that is his special place (saddo) and the other items are on display as unobtrusively as possible.
He reckons I am gradually trying to ease his stuff out of the house (and he'd be rightGrin)

FlysInDreams · 16/06/2017 08:11

Reminds me of the When Harry met Sally scene:

anchor9 · 16/06/2017 08:26

a huge quantity of kite surfing equipment when he's not kite surfed for over 2 years. it's just piled up in our living room.

RB68 · 16/06/2017 08:31

Wires, wires and more wires - ex BT and IT engineer and just has a "collection" of fuckin wires - I have banished all wires to 3 crates. There is a still a room full of his shit at his Mums....she is 86...I will get a skip when the time comes...

RB68 · 16/06/2017 08:31

Oh yeah football programmes

Oh yeah Tin Tin books

tapes, vinyl CDs

just masses of crap

6demandingchildren · 16/06/2017 08:36

Mine came with his little Ellie (teddy)
A full set of garbage pail kids stickers
And a jar that contained a pickled mouse in some fluid and was told on very stern terms never to shake it.......... Why would I even want to go near it!

NoParticularPattern · 16/06/2017 08:44

My MIL is the one guilty of this. So far she has brought:
A table that WE DIDNT WANT AND TOLD HER SO
A dresser (see above!)
Four hundred boxes of stuff from when he last lived at home (the best part of 20 bloody years ago!)
We also have a lava lamp. That doesn't work
Two tents! Two!
A model of an internal combustion engine
His crockery and cutlery from when he was tiny
His bloody money box from when he was fuck knows how old (empty!)

And the crowning glory? Oh it's brilliant- you'll enjoy this.

The pot he had on his arm when he broke it aged about 4. Yes. You read that right. The actual pot from his actual broken arm.

And apparently I'm the one that makes the mess?!?!

GrassWillBeGreener · 16/06/2017 08:51

This summer I'm planning to help my mother in Australia - she needs to clear the house and move back to the UK. There's still too much of mine there that I will struggle to dispose of. There's furniture that has been in her family for ages that we all want to keep (yes shipped from the UK to Australia in the past). There's a record collection AND a new record player. The lovely speakers that my Dad made nearly 50 years ago which are great pieces of furniture but ...

We've transferred a lot of books over the 16 years since we moved but still lots to go. My husband transferred ALL his when we first had a house to move quantity into - not appreciating that I was being extremely selective at the time. He'd developed a taste in old science books as a student ... (not that I object to them it's just we never have managed to get our bookshelves organised, or enough of them!)

We are going to really struggle working out where to put things that really do need to come back, and persuading ourselves to get rid of things that will have no place they can belong. My sister's in London so you can imagine they don't have much spare space!

silkpyjamasallday · 16/06/2017 08:52

My DP didn't bring that much stuff when we initially moved in together, some posters and 'art' that I wasn't keen on but allowed him to have them up in our flat, he mostly just had mountains of clothes many with stains or holes in that he refuses to get rid of. However, since we are now in a house not a flat he has started to acquire random shite people he knows are giving away, we have an organ (like you'd find in a church) in our cellar now along with a saxophone. Neither have been used. We also haven't finished unpacking as we moved in two days after dd was born and the mountain of unpacked boxes must be full of crap I don't need as I haven't thought about any of it in 9 months. Boxes up to the ceiling and covering a fair amount of floor space. No idea what's in them other than one box of oil paints and other art stuff which is mine.

Mamabear14 · 16/06/2017 08:57

A load of football crap which is now in the garage. The worst though was a bright yellow monstrosity of a t-shirt that said 'I caught crabs on Barry Island' the second it came out of the bag I put it in the bin. He hasn't let me forget it years later too!

morningconstitutional2017 · 16/06/2017 09:00

I can only think of one item - a horrible large patterned shirt which I didn't like. I cut it up for cleaning cloths - DH was not impressed.

BeepBeepMOVE · 16/06/2017 09:00

Sold my lava lamp on eBay for £60!

Now I sort of miss it despite not using since I was about 12,

mumonashoestring · 16/06/2017 09:03

The problem for me wasn't when he moved in, it was when he went and collected all his other stuff from his granny's shed and attic. Oh god, where to start...

A huge bag of swords - not proper ones, the kind of ones you take the piss out of in films because the blade goes doiiiing when they hit someone with it

Entire boxes full of back issues of comics and fishing magazines (collectors items, apparently)

Horrible fugly ornaments that he won't get rid of because they were gifts (I can only assume he'd annoyed the givers quite badly)

Boxes full of model kits, models, bits for making kits into models, bits for sticking to the models or sticking the models to once they were finished (mostly still in the boxes and he expects me to be enthusiastic when he buys more bits)

CDs, DVDs, books...

Scribblegirl · 16/06/2017 09:05

liquid, we have a truly hideous poster of VW camper vans that looks like it belongs in a student house (most likely because it was in DPs student house..)

It's made all the more annoying by the fact that I would love for us to go on a VW camper van mini break, but DP won't, because he says he can't imagine that you get any decent sleep in one Hmm

I told him that if he never intended on staying in one he should get rid of the poster. It's still here half a decade and an engagement ring later

Wreckingball25 · 16/06/2017 09:06

These are brilliant.
Mine is a teacher and has his all of his A level and degree materials in case he ever needs to refer to them to lesson plan. I think a couple of days with a scanner would be a fine idea but he got very grumpy when I suggested it Hmm

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IHeartDodo · 16/06/2017 09:07

Laughed at the didgeridoo! Mine has a rain stick - one of those where you tip it up and it sounds like rain. He's never used it, and it's propped up in the bedroom. A while ago I moved it to hoover and it's made a mark on the bloody carpet!

Also lots of horrible wool blankets (shudder). I'm sensitive to wool so can't even touch them... Hoping the moths destroy them!

Scribblegirl · 16/06/2017 09:07

Come to think of it, his mum is moving house next week and downsizing from his childhood home, so there's probably more shite on its way. So that'll be 100 old copies of the Beano, 5 half deflated footballs and every Aston Villa annual from 1987-2003 coming my way then. Confused