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

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Bignosenobum · 22/02/2019 16:30

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.

OP posts:
SoupDragon · 22/02/2019 19:25

when did it become hilarious to be a dick?

This.

The fact that the thread asks for "cheeky" things which shows the OP knows it isn't right.

pobsgirl · 22/02/2019 19:25

@Asdfghjklll was I your buyer? (The other big bay tree is going strong)

MyNameIsArthur · 22/02/2019 19:28

I took our door bell Grin

PocaMiseria · 22/02/2019 19:41

*@Alsohuman Fri *

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

I'd better join you on the naughty step, Alsohuman.

PoliticalBiscuit · 22/02/2019 19:48

Make room for me on the naughty step!

dontticklethetoad · 22/02/2019 20:12

Slightly off topic. When we moved from rented to bought, we left a gleaming and pristine house! The landlord owned a row of 3 in a terrace (and numerous others in the town) and was notorious for being difficult with deposit refunds, he would fight tooth and nail to keep as much back as possible.

We had budgeted for an end of tenancy cleaner. The estate agents we rented through had a company they recommended. They did everything. Carpets, oven, windows etc.
Honestly, it looked like no one had ever lived there Grin

We got our substantial deposit back in under two weeks. Although he did quibble that the curtains from the living room were in the bedroom and vice versa.
I will take my victories where I can Grin

GreenWingers · 22/02/2019 21:22

I'm going to assume that Op's taking the tree because she likes the tree, not because it's her ambition to make life harder for the people moving in. OP, I don't think you're a dick or a terrible person, your mistake was addmitting to Mumsnet that you made a decision that wasn't optimal.

Guineapiglet345 · 22/02/2019 21:56

Ours took plants from the garden and left a great big hole, they could’ve at least filled it in! And the CFs tried to sell us the manky 20 year old cooker for £100, it was their dead mother’s house so it’s not like they actually needed it, it must’ve cost them more to remove it than it was worth, they were just pathetic.

PalmTree101 · 22/02/2019 22:05

I'm going to assume that Op's taking the tree because she likes the tree, not because it's her ambition to make life harder for the people moving in.

Moving even a small tree is a serious undertaking, you have to take a huge amount of earth with the roots to make it viable. It is unlikely to survive.

If the Op cared so much about the tree should have been made clear the tree was going from the outset. Not mislead about taking a ‘few sentimental plants’.

MereDintofPandiculation · 22/02/2019 22:23

We took a flowering cherry and a jaquemontii birch, presents from my parents, as well as number of smaller shrubs that were gifts (Of course we specified before the sale that we were taking these). Both survived, and are flourishing 30 years later.

The buyer was an arrogant sod - we were quite pleased when he agreed to pay for a carpet slightly more than we had paid for it ourselves. and he wasn't a gardener - when we went past the house a year or so later the greenhouse was empty except for a tumble dryer - so it would have been a complete waste leaving him the "special" trees.

Our seller was delightful, and left small toys in hidden around the house for our children to find. Although they left quite a lot of stuff in the house, then kept changing their mind and saying "I wonder if we could have X back?"

Hittapotamus · 22/02/2019 22:31

2 moveable bedside tables that matched the fitted furniture. The buyer kept pretending she thought they were included but we made it clear in every document they were specifically excluded. They're beautiful and now in each of DDs rooms.

Funnily enough I was called to my old house through work and the person who bought it off my buyer ripped out all the fitted furniture and had their own style of bedside tables!

BartonHollow · 22/02/2019 22:33

Not me,

But when I was still living with my DM we moved and discovered they'd damaged the perfectly wallpaper to remove the toilet roll holder in the only bathroom

CaptainCabinets · 22/02/2019 22:37

When my Mum sold her house, her buyers messed her about so badly and kept stalling, randomly turning up without invitation and generally being absolute shits.

Mum spread cheap sandwich paste and jam between the floorboards the day she moved out to a) make it stink and b) encourage ants.

Glad she had the last laugh because her neighbour saw the new owners emptying the hoover all over the kitchen floor when they first moved in, blamed Mum but didn’t realise the neighbour had seen told the estate agent first Wink

Crappywife · 22/02/2019 22:47

My dh bought me a lovely blossom tree after I’d had my 6th miscarriage. Two years later we moved. Damn right I took my tree. It was still quite young, the white blossom is beautiful and it has huge sentimental value to me. It’s survived the moved and took quite well in my new garden.

Maelstrop · 22/02/2019 22:54

I would take an aster and a clematis, obviously I would specify these on the forms. I’d probably take the curtain poles too, they were expensive!

Oddly, I’d also take the threshold bars, they’re not your bog standard metal strips, but patterned. There was one left when we moved in, we bought the same for the upstairs, don’t think they’re made anymore.

PCohle · 22/02/2019 22:56

I don't think anyone has said the OP was unreasonable for taking as many plants as she wanted (although a few have mentioned that the trees might not survive). Or that anyone else would be unreasonable for taking plants, whether for sentimental reasons or not.

People's issue is that she has deliberately mislead the buyer about it.

sunshineandshowers21 · 22/02/2019 23:00

when we moved into our first house we discovered that the seller had taken the garden fence and took up the patio. he’d also removed all of the door handles, but only from the upstairs doors.

Santaclarita · 22/02/2019 23:03

You should tell your buyers specifically about the tree op. It's fine to take it if they know. You're being cheeky not telling them. Plants is too broad a term, and I wouldn't think you meant a tree in that to be honest.

frazzledasarock · 22/02/2019 23:25

Current house the vendors took everything, including curtain curtain poles and lights, they did replace lights with bare bulbs tho.

I thought it very bizarre but they did make good where the curtain pole fitting had been removed. And left the place pristine.

They also took the fitted dishwasher and washing machine, which I wasn’t too fussed about as I wanted my own ones, however they left plumbing so that it leaked, we had to buy new appliances and plumb them in almost immediately to be able to use the kitchen sink without flooding the kitchen.

When we left our house we left curtains and poles and offered to leave the wardrobes if the wanted (which they did), also left toilet roll in the loo and hand wash m. I don’t see the point of being mean.

winsinbin · 22/02/2019 23:38

I collect vintage glass ceiling lights which come with us from house to house. When we sell they are specifically excluded from the sale and I have them replaced with brand new standard white pendant lights. As long as you are specific about what you are taking it’s not CF-ery.

BingLiveisRubbish · 23/02/2019 00:13

My Mum's buyer got annoyed that she didn't leave her Miniature Schnauzer!!!!!! 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ Crazy woman. My Mum adores her dog he's part of the family!!

BrizzleMint · 23/02/2019 00:20

We took a couple of small trees which were of sentimental value. They were small and fitted in our (large) cars and we specifically put them on document of what was included as excluded from the sale. I don't think they was cheeky.

BrizzleMint · 23/02/2019 00:21

^ that was

raffle · 23/02/2019 00:25

OP, just relax. I can’t imagine buying a house and being so annoyed/upset that a tree in the garden had been removed! Surely no one buys a house based on a garden feature?

Walkingthedog46 · 23/02/2019 00:29

A friend planted a lilac tree in the garden and shortly afterwards sold the house. They would like to have taken the tree with them, but felt it would be wrong to do so and left it. Some time later they took a walk past their old house and saw that the lilac tree had been ripped out!