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Original poster

To be really annoyed about my cooker being dumped?

109 replies

Typo · 17/06/2008 11:07

Basically, we sold our flat to some of DH's close friends.

We included some of the contents in the sale. We had a freestanding cooker in there, which was pretty new and we agreed to leave behind.

Anyway, long story short, the house we were going to buy with a built-in cooker fell through and so we ended up taking the cooker with us when we moved. BUT I left behind an older cooker in it's place, it used to belong to my grandmother who died a few years ago and had sentimental value to me.

I've just found out the "friends" who bought the house have dumped the cooker because apparently it broke! I can't believe it. How dare they junk my stuff, particularly when it means something to me, without asking?

OP posts:
StrictMachine · 17/06/2008 12:16

Is it not under 'mumsnet classics'

Twiglett · 17/06/2008 12:16

d'ya know I sold a flat about 8 years ago and I drove past it a few months back and you should have seen the state of my windows .. I mean they really relly needed a new paint job .. what on earth did they think they were doing? eh? eh?

Mutt · 17/06/2008 12:16

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

wannaBe · 17/06/2008 12:18

pirate sex

nametaken · 17/06/2008 12:19

thanks

Love2bake · 17/06/2008 12:37

Oh....why didn't I discover MN earlier...pirate sex is so funny!!!

MsDemeanor · 17/06/2008 12:38

I've just remembered. I drove past a flat I sold years and years ago, and they'd taken down some trellis I put on the roof terrace. I could have done with that trellis. They should have tracked me down and hand-delivered it. Bastards.

sloopjohnb · 17/06/2008 12:40

but would you really ever in your right mind think "right the cooker has broken down best get a new one. hold on though lets ring the people we bought it off, who took the good cooker and left this in its place, if they have any objections to us binning it."
you'd never be able to get rid of anything.
god help them when they paint the walls or change the curtains.

WendyWeber · 17/06/2008 12:40

Wind up.

expatinscotland · 17/06/2008 12:41

YABU

You sold it.

Please learn to let go of things, they tie you down and most of the time aren't worth the energy.

And the van. WTF? Why should you care how they move their things and where you put them?

Do they realise how crazy you are?

StrictMachine · 17/06/2008 12:43

ppppppppiiiiiiirrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaattttttteeeeeee ssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeexxxxxxxxxxxxx

bergentulip · 17/06/2008 12:48

That Pirate thread must have got steamy- there are two 'message withdrawn' 's on the first page alone!!..... I am going to keep reading!

StrictMachine · 17/06/2008 12:51

Don't do pages, they are such a drag! Get yourself mumsnet classic.

PheasantPlucker · 17/06/2008 13:35

Lovin' this hilarious thread! I wish I had a cooker I was so attached to!

rosmerta · 17/06/2008 13:52

I have to thank the op for starting this thread, because of that I've finally finally got to read the pirate sex thread I've heard so much about!

Original poster
Typo · 17/06/2008 14:03

Go and talk about pirate sex somewhere else. This is my thread.

OP posts:
bran · 17/06/2008 14:04

Yes, of course it's your thread. In exactly the same way as it was your cooker.

wannaBe · 17/06/2008 14:07

but pirate sex thread was legendary. .

And besides your thread is on an open forum so people are at liberty to change it into a discussion about whatever they like.

Pretty much in the same way as people are entitled to dump a cooker that belongs to them. .

lulumama · 17/06/2008 14:08

Get. A. Grip

you broke the terms of your sale contract

you are lucky they are not suing for the cost of removing and replacing the cooker

did you actually say... when the cooker breaks or needs replacing, please let me know as it has great sentimental value, or did you presume they would work it out via telepathy?

I would not worry, i doubt they are your friends anymore.

Kewcumber · 17/06/2008 14:31

People are being very unfair, I can quite see how your gandmothers old cooker has sentimental value. You probably kept it in the shed and used it to knock up the odd meal from time to time in honour of your grandmother. Its so unreasonable of your friends as its common knowledge that most people form a close and loving bond with their cookers.

But look on the bright side, you probably still have her washing machine?

I did try to find you a website for likeminded people so you don't have to suffer this ridicule but I wouldn't suggest that you google "people who love their cookers". At least not in work.

bran · 17/06/2008 14:32

LOL at Kewcumber.

Kewcumber · 17/06/2008 14:34

I have a sentimental ashtray of my grandmothers.

bran · 17/06/2008 14:41

And will you be leaving this ashtray behind when you move house Kew?

Kewcumber · 17/06/2008 14:45

wouldn't dream of it.

(Moving house that is, they'll be carrying me out of this one in my grandmothers ashtray).

Still getting mail for previous owner who died, hope she is not getting cross that I'm not forwarding her mail.

motheroftwoboys · 17/06/2008 15:07

I had the opposite problem when we moved house. My DH was away. We did have all the lists of what we were leaving and what we were taking but you know what it's like "on the day" - it all went a bit mad. I had a friend come round to take a load of stuff down off the walls but ended up leaving some stuff as we ran out of time and I nearly lost the will to live. When DH returned - and we were in the new house - he asked where his shaving mirror was. I had left it screwed into the wall in the bathroom. Apparently it was really, really expensive! I never did have the guts to ring the new people and ask if we could have it back!