What crap have people left behind?

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Inspired by the thread about what people have taken from a property.

We moved in 3 months ago and they left:

A bed - made up complete with sheets and blanket (not sure if they thought we were just going to hop into it to sleep)
A wardrobe
About 4 wheely bins worth of squashed diet coke cans
lots of dirt
lots and lots of rubbish
A garage full of stuff
2 sheds FULL of stuff

It was a complete mess and when i got in touch with Solicitors their response was
"they told us to leave whatever we wanted"

They were pains though - i turned up on completion day at 2.30pm and they hadnt even started packing

The previous house we bought was lived in by a nearly retired chap and his elderly father. Thankfully the solicitors got them to pay for the two LORRY loads of rubbish we had to get cleared. Layers of carpets and lino with chips squashed between, dustbins of compost, old furniture... gives me chills remembering. The garden was liberally "planted" with things like knitting needles and wooden spoons . And a disabled bay outside the front so we couldn't park for six months.

The house was originally so stuffed with junk, Life of Grime style, that I have to concede they had done quite well given where they started though.

Fortunately there was so much rubbish they didn't notice they'd left a Black & Decker workmate and a good quality steel ladder that came in handy for the ensuing 3 years renovation project.

dilemma I feel for you!

The first house we lived in after getting married was a repossession so when we moved in all the furniture (most of it manky) was still there along with boxes and boxes piled up in a back bedroom that must have been packed by....dunno, a representative of the mortgage company maybe?

We took most of the furniture to the tip apart from a couple of chests of drawers that we still use now 11 years later. I was all for chucking the boxes on the tip too without opening them but DH insisted we did.....

So whilst most of them contained crap - old clothes and dishes that had egg crusted onto them (whoever packed them obviously didnt bother to wash them up), there was one that came up trumps - an 8 piece Wedgwood dinner service that we treasure to this day and will be eating our Christmas dinner off!

First flat we bought they left an incredibly grotty three piece suite behind. When we phoned to remonstrate, they said unapologetically that they had "run out of time to pack".

This flat we found the obligatory dressing gown on the back of the bedroom door, plus about a decade's worth of old christmas trees stuffed behind the back of the shed. No porn or axes.

My friend found a vibrator,complete with box in the loft when she moved.The box had a picture of a lady using the vibrator to 'tone' her skin on her neck.

We bought our house from our now next door neighbours,it was her mother's house.The loft hatch is so tiny that I am the only person who can squeeze through it.When I did get up there,I found old school reports for my neighbour's brother,who was killed in a tragic accident aged 18,about 40 years ago.I took them around to her,because I couldn't bear to just chuck them.

An entire front garden's worth of garbage. Quite literally. Included stuff from their house as well as a half eaten quiche. So gross. I do have pictures on my mobile, which maybe I could figure out how to post. It has to be seen to be believed. We were doing a house swap and left ours in good shape. The movers were actually laughing when I arrived: "You're going to go ballistic." They did come and put the lot in the back of the seller's brother's Audi by the next morning. But really truly disgusting. Especially as she had been hasselling the estate agent about when we were going to be ready to leave our old house so she could move in, WTF. Can you not take the time to get a few bin bags out???

Strange, isn't it Our vendor hassled us to exchange and complete super-fast, then couldn't find time to empty the garden shed or give us his front door keys back...

I do remember my first flat, which had a small garage out the back FULL of 1960s stuff. Mostly garbage, but there was a gold lurex mini dress from a Kings Road shop called 'Kinkies'....wore it to a million parties

I 'accidentally' left a used nappy on top of a wardrobe when we sold our house to a man who insisted that we reduce the price by £20k on the day of exchange. I was pg at the time and for all sorts of reasons had no choice, but to move so he had us. He used to come around and view the house a lot, but spend most of the time looking at my boobs, was generally a horrible man.

I hope it took him a long time to find it.

Good for you!

we had our loft cleaned out a few months ago and we had in it 2 dirty mattress,gay porn mags, a small two seat sofa ,3 mirrors ,old newspaper from 1971,tv, 3 small tables,wallpaper ,carpet,plastic pipes ,old water tanks.bags of old clothes ,magazines ,pictures ,old record player ,2 suitcases of dirty old clothes ,old lino and a pair of mens stained undies ,and the one that made me laugh a piture of a naked man [took from pron mag]in a frame ,eating some melon !!

what is it with the pants? We found a manky old grey bra in the airing cupboard.

Also found spare tiles/roof tiles/carpet/paint

Endless idiotic cabling throughout the entire house

Mat absolutely reeking of cat piss in the conservatory (had made the concrete smell it was that bad)

and for some reason our airing cupboard smells like beef on random evenings.