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

[KentMum2008]

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?

Marvin - you should sell those airfix models on ebay, £10 each minumum, that woudl pay for a nice holiday!

Ex was a hoarder. He collected old magazines, bits of wire, bits of wood, old (bent) nails - yes of course you can straighten them - and anything else he felt 'might come in useful'. It was one of the reasons I left him.

Mine brought a collection of comics from his parents house- because "they might be worth something ". They went straight into the loft at our first house in 1991 and straight into the loft at our current house. They're still up there.
Yes dear, they might be worth something if you'd bothered to protect them and not left them in an open box to fade .

Out home is full of eclectic nonsense, and we both have collections of random crap. I'm probably worse than he is...I collect Star Wars stuff...and anything owl related. The only thing he has that I really hate is a statue of St Martin de Porres. We're not religious, I hate anything religious in my house, and it's tacky as ever...but his gran got him it after his confirmation, so it's going nowhere. He may not be a believer, but it's got sentimental value.

Some retro 70s hideous furniture...

My DP has the opposite problem. He moved in about 4 years ago and would tell you bitterly that he "lives out of a drawer and half a wardrobe" because I have so much stuff

A car radio with tape deck from an old banger he had as a teenager, a Hoover that didn't work plus bags (at the time we had a dyson), a gas BBQ and a box of fireworks (we lived in a flat). He is obviously a hoarder as 15 years later his parents are still bringing round the crap he left behind (mainly hidden in their loft!). Last week we had a box which tucked at the bottom was his gran's medication ..... she died 11 years ago!

Im suddenly feeling very grateful!

Dh only brought a massive suitcase filled with his clothes and tv.

A 1992 Buds 'n' Babes calendar. Yes, ladies in their undercrackers posing with marijuana plants. I was embarrassed to put in my recycling bin, but in it went.

A Silver Cross Balmoral Pram

Three flying ducks

Several monstrosity, not silver, big clumpy lighters

Various odd ornaments

Lots of very 90's clothes (now gone)

Lots and lots of books

We have boxes of comics in the attic that are apparently "collectable". Except that they are not in complete sets and not even in great condition.
We also have a couple of hundred vinyl records. We don't have a record player and haven't for at least 10 years.
I would ditch it all in a blink!

His old comic and Dr Who figure collections 😩
They're all in the garage thankfully

His rock collection
nearly 200 mini pokemon figurines
his hat collection
his collection of superhero bobble heads
a selection of ugly "hologram" pictures of superheroes
Halo posters
a life sized replica of the "master chiefs" helmet
replica's of the weapons the avengers use
halo mega blocks
3 of those weird aliens in goo
a lab coat covered in his pin collection
dinosaur posters
chemistry posters
cuddly toys from various points in his childhood
a camping spoon/fork/knife tool
one plastic camping plate
1000 mugs

A suitcase full of all his odd socks from the 7 years he'd lived at his previous flat. About 50 obscure board games that apparently can't go in the loft under any circumstances in case the boxes get damp. A collection of jumpers that would put Noel Edmonds to shame.

Our garage has several boxes of books DH used when he was studying Law at University - 20 years ago! He is in the military now so they are of no use to him, and they've been through at least 3 house moves.

He will not part with them

an entire shed-full of Things That Will Be Worth a Fortune One Day*

a lot of WW2 uniforms and kit, a lot of Star Wars, beanie babies, hideous ornaments and miscellaneous metal things. oh, and an 80s issue of Hustler.

• they will never be worth a single penny more than he paid for them

I present to you....

Monstrosity lighters cant bring myself to dust them

Weird ornaments

Really weird but strangely lovable glass dragon

A shit ton of crap from an old business venture that he closed down and will never resurrect again. He could sell it, but he won't.

Ditto equal shit tons of stuff from old hobbies that all have bits that magically get everywhere if you so much as even look at the boxes, let alone try and move them to get to the stuff behind.

this is funny- for me it was the other way round as I moved into his place so couldn't really ask him to get rid of his random crap.

He didn't, he left it all at his mum's house (he'd split from his wife, stayed at his mum's for a short while, rented a place but left all the 'unwanted' stuff at his mum's then moved in with me).
It's still there 4+ years after he moved in with me - and now he's died and eventually someone will have to go through it!

A collection of Corgi and Dinky cars, all immaculate and in their original boxes

About 15 owner's manuals for motorbikes that long have since gone to the great breaker's yard in the sky

A really naff painting of boats bought by his ex as a gift

A motorbike that hasn't run since 2011 but the parts will raise a lot of money when he gets round to breaking it

A "spare" crash helmet that is so old the inside stinks to high heaven but "might come in handy" (presumably, on the day he grows a second head)

Lots of jeans that are now 2 sizes too big for him, due to my refusal to buy 3 packets of biscuits a day

A broken foot pump

A collection of grotty, faded, stiff-as-a-board towels that are barely fit for using on the dog

A pair of Mission speakers, about 3' high, that blew up some time in the late 1980s but "will be fantastic" when he replaces the speaker cones

Most of this shite is going on ebay, apparently, although some of the jeans have mysteriously found their way to the recycling centre ...

We have ... a horses head

Is anyone else humming the tune to The Godfather?

Mine brought years and years' worth of educational magazines, insisting they were "a resource". Worse still he continued to collect them and refused - even when it all became available on the net - to scrap even the oldest

They've gone now, but then so has the DH

I like lava lamps

My exH filled our spare room with figures from the Alien series of films but the worst had to be a taxidermy bat he bought off ebay when he was pissed.

A gigantic framed picture of some random skier jumping over a car. And I mean gigantic. 10 fucking years I've looked at it.

It's been lovingly exhibited in the bathroom, behind the toilet

I moved into DH's flat so he didn't bring his crap into my space but a large portion of my living room wall is taken up by an ugly AC/DC flat that Brian Johnson plucked from DH's hands at a gig, waved and wiped his face on < definitely not envy.