What did you inherit when you moved?

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the last time we moved house we got:

• 4 old dirty horse feeding boxes
• tin of freshly spilt emulsion paint (5ltr tin) on garage floor
• 12 bags of rubbish, some must have had dog poo (very stinky)
• 4ft stuffed teddy bear in the loft full of mites and cobwebs

some other bits too, but nothing of value!

Filthy oven that could have been on How Clean is your house

Radiator knobs COVERED with cat hair!!

What a dirty, minging slattern leaving it in that state!!!

all the curtain that I actually liked too!

oooo you need to track down 'eddas' she had loads left when she moved !!

sorry that should say curtains - there are more than one for the whole hosue

TnOgu had a donkey!

Have only moved into new build, so nithing apart from builder's rubble in the gardens so far.

a beautiful very old but very cared for seat/coat stand, very tall, dark wood.we saw similar ones in museum at weekend, very beautifully carved with seat and hidden storage..i think it will actually be worth something, dp despises it but i and all or guests have lurved it

Three rolls of anaglypta wallpaper.
A strip of vomit-green carpet which didn't seem to match any of the rooms, and which was too narrow to use in any of them either.
An almost completely knackered computer desk.
A tiny bottle of paint, which we guessed was for the fake coals on the gas fire.
An oven which was so encrusted with crap that the muck was the only thing holding the door on - when we cleaned it, the door fell off.
A box of 1920s and 1930s record books for Warwickshire Cricket Club

new build!, check under your kick boards in kitchen we found all sorts, food, litter concrete, bricks, they shove it under as they cant be arsed moving it and could give you mousy probs!

a few french 1947 5 franc notes
horse hair plaster
a leak the next morning - leaving a huge hole in the ceiling
rubbish dumped at the end of the garden
ceilings not properly supported - needing rsj's
rotten windows
naf boiler
wasps nest
winston churchill coin
shed full of old paint/tools etc
lights that didnt work
wood rot in some beams

basically, it was like the 'money pit' movie!

Always been in council places, flat had dodgy walls where the council had ripped out the fitted wardrobe, first house was very overgrown, 2nd house was very very very overgrown, and am now in a newbuild so nothing.

this time not a lot

Last time

Brand new bosch washing machine and fridge freezer and siemens washing machine and a crappy old drying machine

A barbeque

Lots of lovely stone garden troughs and plinths

Some vile shelving that we chucked out

Two wheely bins overflowing with rubbish (green AND Blue).

A broken washer/dryer.

dodgy electrics

But on the plus side - some gorgeous poppies in the garden and a big bbq!

A tin of mini treats, about 10 mini Twix's.
Now on mature adult reflection, I should have known this was an oversight.

They took all the curtain hooks, I could go on but I won't bore you.

Anyway, in we move.....see decrepit old tin and think how very nice of them. We had left champagne and activity packs for the people who had bought ours. So the tin seemed a bit tight, but we need not have worried. The next day I find a note in the door asking for the tin and it's contents back.

FFS would you let yourself down for a decrepit tin and about £2 worth of sugar ??

1. Tasteful curtains in all rooms

2. Cushion covers to match curtains in lounge 3. Duvet cover cos it matched curtains in main bedroom 4. Lampshades cos they matched curtains in rooms (except one which they want to keep). 5. bedside cabinets because they matched the fitted wardrobes 6. Bottle of wine in kitchen cupboards to welcome us to new home.

We joked about them leaving three piece as it matched the curtains (we had no furniture so thought it was worth a try ). They said actually they would if they didn't have to wait 6 weeks for their new one .

Still could have een worse I suppose .

In one rented place - some raunchy underwear

In current house - entire shed contents incl lawnmover, strimmer
in the loft we found lots of tiles, wallpaper & a disconnected gas meter

-some "creative" wiring (eg. the light in the understairs cupboard would only work if the dining room light was on)
-some off-cuts of 1960s wallpaper "incase you need to patch any bits" (we knocked down and/or replastered most walls so paper thankfully not required_
-ditto off-cuts of carpet
-4 unused grow bags and an old folding nursing chair found in the hayloft

• a fantastic and very productive patch of raspberry bushes

Large outdoor fishpond. With Fish.
ONE curtain. (Not a pair)
Faulty cooker
Faulty lawnmower
Avocado Suite bathroom, with brown carpet.

Oh, I forgot something from my list.

Hidden in the airing cupboard, under some of the insulation, were three or four packets of contraceptive pills dated two or three months earlier.

The people we bought the house from were Catholics, and I often wonder if they were hidden because the husband didn't know that his wife was taking them!

we left a glass fish that mil had given us. i thought it was hideous so left it on a bookcase. it was murano glass and worth quite a bit d'oh

A dead pigeon in a bedroom.

We had an enormous exercise machine in the middle of the bedroom floor that I was told she would come back and collect (they did about 3 weeks later).

A shed piled high with rubbish, a freezer still full of food.

A drainage system that didn't work as the pipes under the house had collapsed.

Oh and recently we found the loft above the garage is still full of crap too.

A freezer landlocked in a shed 100ft down the garden with no opening large enough to remove it! 100ft of untamed, uneven garden. Assorted furniture and appliances which EA had removed. Odds and ends of spare skirting and tiles. Leaky guttering and plumbing. 2 bottles of Robinsons Barley Water

A pair of step ladders
2 tins of paint