AIBU to regret leaving a doormat behind when moving house?

[Flowersforyourchocolateprettyplease]

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.

Oh yay, all's well that ends well ❄️.

Never leave it behind, pack it first if you ever move 😅.

I know - yet another abandoned doormat out there wondering why it was left behind… it’s like Toy Story but just worse. And yes the sodding garden!! Nevermind the fact I was forced to pay for gardeners to adhere to the T&Cs of my tenancy - clearly they don’t have the same wording in theirs given the state of it now. But my poor trees too…. I’m shit at gardening but those trees were so easy to keep in shape

Serious advice - just steal the doormat back. Get one of those bush outfits off amazon and discretely sneak along the road and run off with it. I believe in you

I can see why, after looking after it ao well.

Please tell your buyers, otherwise they'll be in shock like @Alaap 😅.

I may be buried with it lol

Well, sod's law means if you had left anything, they wouldn't have turned out to be nice. So don't feel bad.
Your recycling bag is in our thoughts. Hopefully not in some landfill.

I left a really nice sculpture of a heron looking over our garden pond. I had meant to take it, but it got forgotten in the removal. When I went back a couple of years later, it was still there - I hope the new owners were enjoying it.

That's the thing, you jump through hoops and yet the next person gives 0%!

Haha, may well do. It was 8 years ago though, but I belive in it's powers, so it's probably still going strong 😅.

😅.

I'm taking them off and replacing them with cheaper Wickes versions before we even put the house up for sale 😂

Oh, great it's still there and not chucked out. Doesn't make it right of course.

Makes me wonder if some people go back and ask steal things back.

Great plan. That's what I'm doing with my lampshades 😅.

This my friend is exactly why I dug up all my dahlia tubers, no way was some fecker getting the chance to ruin them when they brought so much joy.

Is it the bee lovely bath and shower gel? If so they have it on ebay
Edited ...just realised you wanted the peppermint one🙄

😂

Problem is communism didn't do any better, they designed the product and stopped developing it - I give you the Trabant and the Lada, both with near 30 year production spans, both shite and no improvements.

Two things spring to mind.

Left a set of gorgeous expensive curtains behind. They had been made to measure and huge. We were moving into rented whilst looking to buy. Then found a house where they would have been perfect.

Second is also a rug. My mum left behind as downsizing and was too big and I couldn’t fit it in my car. I do miss that rug.

I’m on the other side of this as when I bought my first house in 1994, the owner (who was a painter decorator I believe) left behind an aluminium stepladder with his name painted on the side. I still have it, 32 years later and every time I use it I go “thank you G Moon”. Some left behind things are cherished.

OMG! Curtains!!! Almost forgot about this!! Had an ex who had a gorgeous set of grey curtains in the living room. Full length. Perfectly matched with the room.

He sold the house and I went round a few weeks later to collect post and they had removed them for - a set of BRIGHT RED velvet curtains. Bloody awful. They had also added a load of really shit pine furniture. It looked like a really naff 1980s ski lodge

My friend gave me the perfect doormat when I moved house. It’s a a lovely tan brush mat that has big black letters reading, “GO AWAY.”

It was perfect, funny and I loved it - but it was too high. It blocked the door when you tried to open it. So I had to place it beside the actual doormat where it lost a bit of its punch.

I still love it, though.

@Flowersforyourchocolateprettyplease I have this doormat which is quite astroturfy and has grooves? Could it be a replacement for your long-lost doormat?
www.diy.com/departments/jvl-mud-grabber-spaghetti-scraper-doormat-40x60cm-black-square/5017440511039_BQ.prd

I got a beautiful tea and dinner set from M&S as wedding presents and I was unreasonably proud of it. I had the whole thing, even the useless bits like the gravy boat and graded milk jugs.
When I left I had to just take what I could fit in my car and so my exH got it all. It was just china but 40 years later I still regret that I couldn’t take it all with me. I can’t even remember what the pattern was called so I could replace it from second hand shops.

L'occitane rose oil in a pump bottle sigh......

mine is a really really large slab of limestone, with ripple marks, we left it in the garden where it lay in front of our compost bin, made a good standing area. we thought it too heavy to shift but I wish we had made the effort.

I left my Laura Ashley curtains in a house that I sold to a friend, as they had been made to fit a big window. I didn’t expect her to keep them if they weren’t her style, but it was lovely material and could have gone to a charity shop when she was ready to redecorate. Instead, she replaced them with curtains too short, and used them as painting dust sheets before binning them.