I left a part of me in my old house(s)! :(

[Briony32]

Just realised I have left a lovely old galvanised watering can in my old house. Must have been tucked down the side of the shed. This was 2 years ago. I'd had the watering can when I lived on my own, and it was so much better than any new can. I'll never find one the same with the same dents and feel to it. :(

We have moved again since then. This time we left 2 very exppensive Maglites and a very sentimental brick in the garden.

I don't know why I am telling anyone. Just feel sad about it. Moving has always been such a rush for us with 2 young children. Just hope I won't leave anything else.

I love my old houses. This new house feels like it will take a long time to get right. In fact, I don't think it will. No character and tonnes to be done.
I've got a feeling we'll be moving again in 2 years time.

I can't ever move because list somewhere in this house is a v special necklace. Have been expecting it to reappear for years now. I'm not going until its found

Sorry but at a sentimental brick.

Would it help to think of all the bad things you left behind to balance it out?

Yes I know a sentimental brick sounds very very silly, but....hey.
Yes, glad to leave the damp and tiny rooms.
It's probably more of a mourning of a leaving a certain time of my life, and a simpler way of being.
Possessions shouldn't be important but it's always the obscure things that are.
Hope you find your necklace MF. Maybe lift up the edges of the carpets if it fell down the back of something.

I could offer you a replacement brick. Would that help?

Oh yes, we left out kitchen clock behind. I miss it 1. And my pyracantha and hanging basket. Now sitting neglected in my old garden.

Done have any sentimental attachment to the bricks we left concealed behind the shed though

Someone threw away my sentimental brick, then gave me a rubbish new brick when I complained. Sad times - I'm with you on this one. Brick love is the deepest.

I moved a month ago and left a couple of things accidentally

I'm thinking about sneaking back under cover of darkness

seriously, i can't believe you thought this post was worth the effort. i thought it was going to be about how perhaps you'd changed in some way since you moved, that you'd metaphorically left part of you in the old house. but a sentimental brick? this must be a joke.

Last time I sold a house, I left my mum in the garden. Best place for her.

Mind you, she was in a small urn.

Just to be clear OP, are you sentimental about the brick, or the the brick itself have feelings and a personality that lend itself to sentimentality? I read it as the latter...!

I still wonder whether the buyer of my last house is using the best tin opener in the world. 8 years, and 5 crap tin openers later it still hurts.

Now, the watering can I would be very sad about.

And I have to admit, I'm still pissed off I didn't take my favourite doorstop when I moved. It was a family heirloom (of sorts) as well...

Bookaboo, you are being ironic, right? Sometimes it's hard to tell?

Just to be clear OP, are you sentimental about the brick, or the the brick itself have feelings and a personality that lend itself to sentimentality? I read it as the latter...! shagging