What's the weirdst thing you found when someone died?

[ferriswheel]

I was thinking of writing a diary. Something to help me figure out why i sabotage my weight loss success and why i tolerated the bad behaviour of my husband for so long.

I dont at all expect anything untoward happening to me but the idea of my inner most thoughts being read by whoever...

Anyway, have you ever found anything that you shouldnt have, but had to deal with because of the circumstances?

Oh cock off. Link?

Yup you're all fay mouse

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Frigging DM

Done an angry tweet. Dickheads.

When my Nana died, we found literally a WHOLE cupboard full of all her Christmas and birthday presents we had all got her - gift sets of smellies, hand creams, scarfs, literally everything. I think she'd lost the enjoyment of life in her last 5 years and just wasn't interested in anything nice

This is a public forum. Yes, people don't want stuff in the Mail, but as this is in the public domain you can't really stop it.

There is one dm reporter on here
All I can say to them, you’ve spent your uni years studying to be a journalist and all you’ve got to do is trawl through mumsnet on a BH weekend
Pretty sad for you.
I’ve a friend who does this, spends hours watching Jeremy Kyle to get stories for a newspaper. I know she’s sad and unhappy with her crap job

Yeah you’d have to be a prettt crap ‘journalist’ to write that article. Well done, I hope they paid you peanuts.

My gran died last year and my GF in 2010 so mum and dad were cleaning house out etc.

Found millions of old photos of family, a Death penny marker from ww1 and a Mizpah broach too.

Loads of old letters and my grandfather's military record and photos of him in uniform etc
(Coxwain on Dday)

Also found a suit case full of Wade Wimsies and a full bag full of Half Hunters and full gentlemen's vest watches- my favourite being the horse one.

Toilets! When we cleared my darling grandparents' house, we found two brand new toilets in the loft, plus an extra seat. Then there was a fourth seat in the garage. The Daily Mail is welcome to file its latest scoop in any of them. 💩

I'm always weirdly disappointed when I'm not quoted.

Message to DM journalist - very poor journalism. Although not strictly plagiarism, please can you create original .articles

I couldn’t be sadder if I was a journalist and all my parents saw was some shit from Mumsnet
Tragic

That "journalist" has somehow managed to make this fascinating, moving thread sound as dull as dishwasher. I suppose that's kind of a skill...?

ny20005 Did he do it?

Not necessarily a weird item but my dad's flat was strangely empty, not much in the way of clothes and virtually no personal items. And only one pair of pants!! Where were the rest of them?! And LOTS and LOTS of condiments. Like every condiment you could think of.

Not me but on a similar theme. I recently read a book about Princess Margaret. According to her long time driver, she regularly used to go to the Queen Mother's House to 'sort' through old papers and organise stuff. She would leave with large bags of letters and papers which she would then burn on a bonfire in the garden of her own home. Some of these letters were clearly to and from Princess Diana.

Makes you wonder what on earth they contained! How much history has gone up in flames...

It's a shame the DM stole it, very lazy journalism.

@Borris My granny kept her hip joint in a jar of formaldehyde in the wardrobe in her spare room. Where we slept as children. It freaked the bejeezus out of me.

God knows what the family did with it when she died. Maybe cremated it with her.

@quercus maybe it was the thing to do in those days!! I can't imagine the NHS today letting you take various appendages home with you

@QuackPorridgeBacon must have done but no idea where in the garden & house was sold 😢

ny20005 Jesus, that’s awful. I don’t know if I could cope. I know I’m a stranger but that has really got to me. What a nasty thing to do.

Fruitbat1980

She was basically supplying the whole nursing home! wine

That’s brilliant. It reminds me of an old gent that I used to nurse in hospital. It was a rehab/respite ward, but some of the patients stayed with us for years. One of our ‘unofficial’ (never shared with outsiders) duties, when all the patients were settled for the night, was to give this gent a drink of whiskey or vodka, with a splash of Poitín. You moved a pile of books in the bottom of his wardrobe to get to the stock of alcohol. Those were the days. 😁

@chockaholic72 my parents' neighbour found a Nazi SA dagger in her husband's things when he died, which he must have picked up as a war trophy when he was in Germany in WW2. It creeped her out to have it in the house so she asked my parents to look after it. It turns out millions were made so it's of no interest to museums and they have no idea what to do with it!

Just read the “article”
Christ it’s absolutely pathetic and the Daily fail are the living embodiment of self parody.

My three very young children could do a better job and they can’t even write yet