what is the cheekiest thing you have taken when moving house.

[Bignosenobum]

We are moving next week and we are planning to dig up a tree and take it with us, plus other stuff. Did say we would take one or two setimental plants...
What have you taken and what happened. Funny stories please.

Just to clarify nobody was moving into our old house it actually remained empty for 4 years after we left whilst being totally renovated

I think it’s sneaky and cheap to take a tree if you said you were only taking a few plants. I’d be irritated with you. I don’t understand why you didn’t you mention it?

It’s good you are going to leave the house clean but that’s by the bye. 🤷🏻‍♀️

We lived in a very grotty flat in my student days. Landlord was an utter cunt. There was a lovely Victorian sideboard in there. We offered to buy it. He refused. We thought long and hard, but decided not to take it (it was a very long time ago, no inventoryno heating, lots of damp, no real contract, he wasn't about when we moved) The guy next door was collecting mail and he told us the miserable old fucker skipped it, but smashed it up first. I wish we'd not been so honest.

I'm a professional gardener.

The tree is very unlikely to survive being moved.

Why don't you just go to the garden centre & buy a sapling of the same variety & plant it in your new home. Much more likely to establish well.

And then you won't look like a twat either.

The ends off the TV Ariel and some blind slats! Our landlord wanted to move his newly separated daughter into the house meaning we had to move out! (We loved that house!!)

I'd also advise you to get some advice from your conveyancing solicitor about the legality of this.

Have you excluded the tree from the sale on the fixtures and fittings list your solicitor will have asked you to complete?
The last owners of our house took integrated appliances and various large shrubs from the garden which cost us hubdereds to rectify. Our solicitor soon got us our money back though as they weren’t excluded from the sale
If taking the tree is going to mean cost for the new owners to make good you may find yourself with a letter from their solicitor

Most of the pots were taken from my present house. I know the seller didn’t take them as she was very old and going into a home so friends and family must have come and taken their favourites. Not an issue as they were not included in the contents list and were all free standing.
I bought my own pots and garden plints as well as I didn’t include them in the list of contents either.

Debruary my Mum has got a mirror like that. I know I need to cut down a bit if I ever look fat in my Mum's skinny mirror!

Most of the pots were taken from my present house

I would expect pot plants in the garden to be taken TBH

When we bought our house it was a repossession and everything, and I mean everything was left behind. It took us two weeks to clear out their stuff before we could move our stuff in. We managed to track down a relation and was able to return at least all their photographs and home videos. It was quite sad really. Two months after we moved in, the previous owners contacted my solicitor to ask where there things were but everything was gone by then.

"One or two sentimental plants" isn't the same as four plants and two trees though, which is what you are actually taking.

I would expect to hear from your purchaser's solicitor.

Your glee at pissing them off seems bit off to me tbh. Especially when the poor trees are unlikely to survive.

is that generally the done things? Pots move house but stuff in the ground stays put?

That sounds fair to me since they're "free standing", so to speak

I recall my old solicitor's advice about reasonable expectations: "imagine you've picked the property up and shaken it - on the whole, that which falls loose can be taken and everything that stays put should be left"

Nothing cheeky because I'm not a horrible person when did it become hilarious to be a dick?

This is very outing so I apologise to them if they recognise it but a number of years ago I moved house when pregnant and my husband wanted to take the doors of the bookcases

I was picking my battles at the time so decided to let him win that one but wtf at taking bookcase doors. We did inform the new buyers before we did so and I had a burning shame

When we moved into a new home in childhood the contract said the sale included carpets and curtains. You guessed it, the sellers swapped them all before we moved in for horrendous ones.

If you read this - I hope you realise you weren't being clever. You're scum. Circumstances changed a matter of months after we moved in, finances went rock tight and we had to live with your disgusting shitty choice for about 5 years before we could even replace one set. I can still remember the texture and lurid colour of my bedroom curtains that didn't just let the sunlight in but amplified it a thousand times.

You're bad people.

It never fails to amaze me what people will do to each other for in most cases no reason. We left our very happy home to move "up" the ladder we sold to first time buyers and brought from a deceased estate. We left carpets less than 12 months old and a house that had been fully redecorated within 18 months. We also left light fittings, curtains, blinds etc. We moved into a house stripped bare, no lights, no lightbulbs, sockets ripped out (I assume they were worth something antique wise as they would have had to be replaced anyway due to H&S), built in wardrobes ripped out, ladybird infestation but a load of personal photos left and the poor lady's handbag. They basically left a lot of personal stuff that we were uncomfortable dealing with as it was in effect someone's life and they took anything they felt was of monetary value - including the wheelie bins!

I feel the old adage applies when moving house - treat others as you would want to be treated.

I sold a house to an incredibly irritating couple once - they'd been weapons grade arseoles throughout the process. I spent my last few days in the house 'detuning' it. It was very cathartic. I adjusted the kitchen cabinets so the doors didn't quite shut right. I replaced the double switch at the top of the stairs with a single one, so you could only control the upstairs landing light from by the front door. I replaced the doorbell batteries with flat ones, and painted the bedroom sash windows shut. The bathroom taps dripped, thanks to a slightly adjusted washer. My piece de resistance was replumbing the toilet so that it fed off the hot water rather than cold. It steamed pleasingly after being flushed.

When I moved, I discovered my vendors had taken the lawn. This was probably karma in action.

@evilkitten, I feel like a very bad person for having laughed at that.

The wine, flowers and card we bought for the new people. She was a bitch the day of the move and they short paid us.

We were charged for a hideous bathroom cabinet and 1960 lights in the conservatory we told them to take them and make good the wall underneath. They left the lot but took the key to open the electricity meter cupboard

We've never taken anything but the vendors of our current house were total dicks.

Took all curtain poles but left the brackets despite us agreeing we'd pay an additional £100 for them to save effort all round.

And most annoying they took the wine cooler which was built into the kitchen and listed on all particulars leaving a gap.

House was disgustingly filthy too.

Last time we moved at the very last moment our buyers went into arse mode, trying to get us to drop another £10K.

We'd done a short inventory of items that would be left as part of the purchase, and we'd planned to leave a fair amount of fitted stuff behind anyway, but after that bit of CFery everything that wasn't on that list was packed up and taken.

Hope evil witch had fun hanging curtains on non-existent curtain poles and switching lights on and off with non-existent light pulls.

They made a bit at the car boot sale. It all went into the Children's University Slush Fund.

Some years ago, Mrs Double Barrel sold her Tudor manor house and made off with the garden paving. Not returned without the assistance of an expensive court case. Definitely CF behaviour.