AIBU to regret leaving a doormat behind when moving house?

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Inspired by another thread about leaving light shades when moving house.

I left an outdoor mat when I moved. Figured, it's just a mat and would be lovely for the new tenants to have one less thing to worry about.

What I didn't appreciate was how impossible it would prove to replace said mat. It's since been discontinued and no one else is silly enough to get rid, so nothing on the resale sites.

I've since purchased many disappointing ones and have almost given up.

What's your one seemingly non-important thing you left behind and lived to regret?

YABU - It's just a mat, it wasn't .
YANBU - Regret some things.

Op literally said “non-important thing” not everything has to be the struggle olympics

Oh, it's the sort of thing you wouldn't expect to forget as it's right by the front door.
Hope you find a good enough replacement.

I don't need to. Thread is about things, not animals.

The taps! 😱. Gosh, that's savage! The gate may also not fit at the new place.
Sorry about your blueberry bush.

This isnt necessary. OP has not in any way compared this to a pet.

I think you should move on from this post and have a good day

I laugh now looking back (as wtf) the neighbours were not surprised as apparently this type of behaviour was very on brand!

it was a glorious bush, i hope the couple who bought the house looked after it, I also left my tomato plants, but I had less love for them, I do not miss having to baby them for a handful of tomatoes.

If you are a Costco member when I was last in they had some chunky outside doormats for sale

We just moved last weekend, went to visit the old neighbours on Friday and all my spring bulbs are sprouting. So I'll say them as this gardens a fucking shithole. Although we also left our outdoor mat, which funnily enough just randomly appeared on our doorstep one morning, must've been one of the old folks next door but they never confessed.

I'm now wondering if the old folks in here are missing there buckets of oil, tyres, hundreds of random bricks or the eleventy billion socks that I've found so far. Dirty bastards, seriously.

That's the only reaction as so unexpectedly bonkers 😂.
Thank you, will have a look at Costco 🤞.

Oh, shame the new garden not so great, but good to somewhat enjoy the bulbs.

Strange about the mat.

So annoying when people leave their rubbish, hope you get rid soon.

I’m glad I saw this thread, I always thought I was being ridiculous for still regretting leaving things when we moved house 4 years ago! (I mean I obviously am ridiculous but at least I’m not alone!). We left the lovely oak curtain rail, which when we arrived at the new house realised would have fit the new window perfectly. To rub salt in the wound, the house was back on the market within a year and on the Rightmove photos we could see they’d removed the curtain pole and replaced with some chrome monstrosity. Ditto for the beautifully planted garden full of mature roses etc - replaced with fake grass fence to fence. I often think of my poor plants chucked in a skip 😫

I left plants behind - 2 well cared for healthy Flamingo Salix. Id just had enough of moving bulky things. They were in large pots to allow them to grow

Wish I’d took them. Drove past my old house in the last 6 months and the outside is rife with weeds so god knows what the back garden is like or indeed my trees. I bet they are dead

Weirdly I also left a doormat too. A really nice one. And a few months of living at my new house ended up buying a similar one. Although I did consider driving past old house in the middle of the night and stealing mine back 😂technically wouldn’t be theft since they didn’t ’buy’ my old house/fixtures and fittings - it’s a rental

I didn't leave it but the removal company lost my best washing line prop, i had that prop in seven different gardens. I still miss it 3 decades later.

A butter knife. It was a gift from the jeweller when we bought my second hand wedding ring almost 50 years ago. I left it behind when I moved out. I have bought something similar but it's not as good and I'm sure the knife is not being appreciated where it is.

I didn't leave it behind but I had to get rid of it - a Bosch fridge freezer that I bought when my arsehole landlord refused to replace the one in the house that broke. So I bought the Bosch thinking I'll pay for quality and it'll last. Less than a year later, arsehole landlord evicted us so he could turn the house into an HMO. New landlord wouldn't let me bring my fridge freezer as there was already one there. Tried selling sites but no joy so I sold it to the removal company I booked for moving house. Fifty quid knocked off my removal bill. For a £450 fridge freezer. Six months after I moved into the new place the fridge freezer there broke. New arsehole landlord again refused to replace it saying "well you've got one of your own". Not any more I don't, you fucking gimp, because unlike you I don't have a spare fucking house to store random white goods in. Cunt.

Stop being so out of keeping with the spirit of the thread. The OP made it clear that they were asking for light hearted examples of seemingly inconsequential things.

Don’t comment if you don’t understand the tone of the thread.

Sorry, mine was also not light-hearted and I've surprised myself at the fury behind it. It was a stressful time, in my defence.

And I do now have a nice home with a nice fridge freezer.

I use actual Astroturf as an outdoor mat. Works brilliantly and easy to cut to size. Also looks like grass

Welcome, we are not alone.
Oh that hurts, it's a shame it was chucked too.
As for the garden, no words!
Hopefully you've made the new one nice and lush.

Sorry about your plants and garden.
A friend left plants and I didn't appreciate how reasonable she was to regret it until I started gardening.

Another poor door mat 😅. You should have, gone and got it, as punishment for mistreating the plants.

It's always the hard to replace things isn't it. At least it wasn't of your own doing ans hope you find a decent one one day.

Sentimental too! Sorry to hear that.
Butter knives especially are not made equally.

I paid a fortune for a mat for inside the door at one of those parties people hold to sell you stuff
Its amazing. Will never be able to get another one.

The stupidest thing I regretted leaving at our old house was the gorgeous thick Victorian wrought iron gate - I was really houseproud and used to sit and de-rust and lovingly paint that gate every single Spring (still even remember it had 32 curls that were a bugger to paint because they curled into proper spiral curls) - I sometimes have to go past our old house and the gate is still there but totally rusty and in such a bad state and it's such a shame as it was the original to the house (a Victorian terrace) and was the only original gate on the street.

Such a stupid thing to regret but I'm massively into traditional/vintage and especially the Victorian era - when we bought this house, it had a plain front which I turned into a traditional garden and after much searching, I found two gorgeous Victorian wrought iron gates - if we sell this house, those buggers are coming with me lol

Ouch! What are the chances hey. Hope you're now rid of the new landlord too.

I'm a petty twat so I literally left nothing at my last house. The new owners have turned out to be actually quite nice so I feel a bit bad.

Actually. I left the recycling bag and at our new house the bin men nicked it and they no longer provide bags but boxes which don't fit where the bag fitted.

Thoughts and prayers for my recycling bag 😞