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.

[JustDanceAddict]

Am sure years ago - talking 1970s here - you took everything with (carpets, light fittings etc). My parents did as I can tell from old photos!!

[purpleelk]

We bought our current house and it had standard (cheap feeling) door handles. We’ve replaced them with some antique looking ones that cost over £600. I justified this by stating these are “for life”. The standard door handles are meticulously labelled in garage and will be put back on the doors, should we sell the house. I’m happy to offer the future buyer to buy them off us, but I doubt they’ll want to pay for them and I’m not spending another £600 on door handles

[QuirkyQuark]

JustDance when we moved around 1976 we most certainly didn't take any carpets or light fightings. I remember my mum moaning about the smelly carpet because the previous owners had dogs, they ripped the whole lot out, chucked the curtains and started afresh.

[QuirkyQuark]

Fittings not fightings obviously 🙄

[Veeta]

When I bought my current house the vendors took the made to measure blinds, leaving holes in the walls (in addition to all the other holes they left from curtain rails and pictures removed).
Plus, they took the shed.

[42andcounting]

This is reminding me of the thread where the buyer moved in and found the vendor had taken the bathroom with them. Anyone remember how that ended up? I need to know now I've remembered about it

[QuirkyQuark]

42andcounting yes I remember that and can't remember how it ended up either 🤔

[Bignosenobum]

Thank you to GreenWingers

[Bignosenobum]

JustDanceAddict very true. When you moved nothing was included in the sale. You did take everything. I want the tree as it is young. In fact, the buyers want a minimalistic garden. I said on the form We would leave some plants and take others for sentimental reaons. I wondeted how many others took stuff and wondeted what kind of things. So far we are leavoing everything. Except what I said..

[Bignosenobum]

Veeta this was normal years ago. Did they say on the form that they would leave the blinds.

[Bignosenobum]

42andcounting jesus. The toilet as well?

[Bignosenobum]

harpersbazrre what lawn?

[turncloak]

We did the same as you when we sold our last house OP.

I dug up and potted loads most of our perennials ready for our new home. Our buyer was a young, single lad who made it clear he was going to gravel the entire garden, and I wasn't letting hundreds of pounds worth of plants go to waste. I mentioned on his second viewing that we would take "some" of them and he didn't seem remotely bothered. I took most of them, in the end. It meant we had a lovely garden within a few weeks of moving to our new home, which we couldn't have afforded otherwise.

[MaybeitsMaybelline]

If I moved I would take my much loved and adored pets from the garden.

I doubt the new owners would bothered about my dearly departed cats, but I couldn’t leave them there.

[Mmmmbrekkie]

@MaybeitsMaybelline

To be clear, you would dig up your cats’ bones and take them with you?

[missbatmeg]

My mum took her small willow tree from the back garden when she moved. Good thing too since the new owners dug the garden up and paved it!!

[Hobbesmanc]

To be clear, you would dig up your cats’ bones and take them with you?

My in laws dug up their dead dogs when they relocated North- when I'm hoping they were just bones. We have a few much loved and missed cats buried in ours. I'm not sure I'd disinter them if we move though

[PCohle]

Obviously each to their own but isn't digging up animals bones a little unusual? You wouldn't dig up a human if you were, say, moving abroad so that visiting their grave would be difficult.

[DirtyDennis]

About 12 years ago, a flat I rented was filthy and still had loads of the previous tenant's stuff in it when I turned up to move in.

I was furious until I opened the wardrobe and saw the previous tenant had left loads of absolutely gorgeous designer clothes and handbags, and expensive perfumes.

I genuinely intended to return the stuff (well, some of it) to her if she showed up but she never did. My mum got a nearly-full bottle of Chanel No 5 for Christmas that year and twelve years later, I'm still wearing a lot of the clothes

[longwayoff]

2 of my previous beautifully planted gardens now just car parking. If I move again, plants coming with me.

[ShabbyAbby]

I did consider taking the toilet seat once
Private rental the LL had refused to replace it (broken when I moved in) and I had put one with an integrated child seat on it. I left it in the end because he was such an arse I doubt he'd have bought one for a new tenant and because the new place had a toilet seat anyway

[42andcounting]

I've found it!
www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3320747-Bathroom-comes-with-the-house?pg=1&order=

[TheViceOfReason]

So to cut a long and bizarre story short, you know the buyers, they are the previous owners of the house buying it back. They are well aware the plants were all planted by you as they didn't leave them the first time, and they WANT you to take any plants you want as they'll be ripping them out.

So how is this cheeky?

What an odd post OP.

[lerrimknowyouretheyir]

We took a pair of bespoke floating cupboards from one of the sitting rooms. I didn’t think it was that cheeky but I doubt the buyer even noticed.

[HurtyAtThirty]

Our vendors took the ledge of a windowsill...I kid you not! We moved in and were so baffled by it, not to mention the 2 inch gap in the floor where their supply of flooring obviously ran out and they packed it with offcuts of wood they had laying around (hidden by their bookcases previously).

They were kind enough to leave us a broken swing, a rotting Wendy house, all their old crap in our loft, dog hair everywhere, dust that looked like it was years old, and some old onion skin and celebrations wrappers in the back of the corner cupboard.

I was 3months pregnant, they took forever to leave (she was literally carrying single pots and pans out of the house when we turned up), and I spent well into the early hours of the morning cleaning the filth they left behind.

Oh and there are two massive holes in our bedroom wall that they’d obviously used as access to the pipes for the bath in the family bathroom. This was our first home so we were ridiculously naive about it all tbh, next time we’ll be like bloodhounds and I’ll definitely be sending a bill for professional cleaning if I’m in that situation ever again!