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We've been asked by the team at MoneySuperMarket to find out about the weirdest things Mumsnetters have found when moving in to a new home, which the previous owners or tenants left behind.

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So, what weird or wonderful things have you found when moving? Maybe the previous owner of your house left behind a particularly impressive stamp collection? Or perhaps you found a stack of old diaries? Or maybe you found a wig hidden in the back of the wardrobe?

Whatever you've found, MoneySuperMarket would love to hear about it!

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We found a metal detector in the loft alongside a load of school workbooks from the 1920's.

I found a box in the shed marked " small pieces of string". each one was far too short to be of any use but had obviously been collected for a reason

Weirdest thing was hooks screwed into the ceiling in the corners. God knows what (or who!) they hung from them...

A whole load of half empty bottles of booze - very little I'd ever heard of, it was all the sort of thing you'd buy on holiday because it was the local speciality and decide it wasn't such a good idea when you got home.

It is safe to say our house had previously been 'done up' by Bodgeit & Scarper. We found gaps between 'fitted' furniture packed with carrier bags and what have you.
There was a lump in the lounge wall. When we peeled off several well painted layers of wallpaper we found the lump was actually a hole in the wall. It had been packed with a few twigs, sheets of crumpled up newspaper dated 1978 and the lump was fist sized clumps of polyfiller. We knew they were fist sized from the finger prints perfectly preserved in them.
It would have made more sense if the junk had been at least pushed in to the hole and the polyfiler had been used to try and pack it in. Nope just slung in and wallpapered over despite the fact the lump protruded a good 4 inches out into the room.
We bought the house in 2004.

An untouched, fresh-looking pumpkin pie. No note or anything from the landlords, who had been the previous tenants. We were a bunch of 20 year olds so we just took it as a housewarming gift and ate it!

My ex and I bought a repossessed house which was an utter mess! We found hundreds of used cotton buds stuffed down nearly every gap in the floorboords in every room. The neighbours later told us that the former tenants had Alsatians and the cotton buds were from where the tenants used to clean out their dog's ears

Loving the 'small pieces of string'!!

We had to take up a lot of the floor boards in our Victorian flat, to do a rewire, and aside from all the old lead piping and old dust and shavings, on he top floor there was one place where someone had stuffed around 20 little cardboard pie packets - various different flavours, cherry, apple and so on - my Dad says they look like they're from the 1960s.

I think someone must have had a secret pie fetish - bu they hid the evidence quite effectively for around 50 years, apart from a possibly mysteriously bulging waistline of course

Noeuf - Christmas card strings? We have rows of blu tack presumably for cards but hooks - I'm copying that!

i found wedding album in the loft

We found a WW2 bomb shelter!

Chris Amoo from the real thing, in our kitchen. Wearing the full regalia of afghan coat and sun glasses.

It turned out he was our new landlord.

Just the usual: 7 layers of wallpaper to scrape off, missing bits of carpet from where the previous occupier had carpeted around the furniture but then taken the furniture when he moved.
Built in cupboards which were nailed shut (no hinges) but did have three layers of carpet in the bottom (none matching the missing patches though!).
Some newspapers dating back to the 1970s under the floorboards, but sadly no treasure :-)

When we moved into our house we found a horrible looking doll with most of its hair cut off.

Serin wins!!

A kukri knife in the loft - obvs from the days when there weren't such tight controls on buying weapons or stowing them away in luggage after a holiday! (would hope so anyway...)

carrier bags in the shed full or childrens magazines however the owners had no children !the toy gifts were all missing, maybe thats what they brought them for haha

A nice bottle of champagne chilling in the fridge - and some bikini bottoms in the wardrobe!

My parents found a large rolled up carpet in the loft. It was in good condition so they brought it down and used it for many years. They also found a life size blow up sex doll stuffed right at the back of the cupboard under the stairs. My very straightlaced dm didn't know what it was used for.

We found about 8 or so jars of various things from food to Lego that had all had there lids glued on, a stuffed owl wearing a name tag and a bra hanging over the shower head.

We have only ever moved into rented, but we are just in the process of buying our first home (yippee and double yippee!). The strangest things we have found are a complete new bath, as yet to be installed by the landlord and we moved in eighteen months ago - it probably won't be done before we move out!

When we removed a built in waredrobe from our daughters bedroom we found a cliff Richard calender from 1984 and some posters of him underneath

Pretty horrible carpet which smelt of cat Pee!

When my boyfriend and I moved into our first bought flat we got there with our gear and found the previous owner (an old man) and all his possessions ! We had to move him out first and finally got moved in about 7 hours later.