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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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Loving this thread. No oddities to report here unless you count a feral cat and kittens in the shed.

Two flattish boxes which held Masonic aprons and special certificate/deed type things from the Masons.

A load of porn in the attic! (shocking I tell you!!)

We found a ready made Christmas tree in the basement of our first rented home together. It actually looked like it had been put up for Christmas and retired after the festivities complete with dusty tinsel and working lights!

Still retching about the toenails :(
In one house I rented, I found a pair of mens pants behind the radiator.
When I was in a student house - the property was furnished - when I moved the bed, there was a load of porn mags underneath. My male housemates were delighted!
In our current house - when we removed the skirting boards - there was a Sun newspaper from 1990.
Spotting a theme here??

We found a CROWBAR!!! it really did make us wonder. There was also this weird stick with a tiny hole in the end and it literally took us years to figure out what it was for. The previous owners had made it as a way of lighting the fire without having to get too close so the little hole was perfect for a match to fit in it and then you could use the stick to reach over to light the fire - strange but true!

A can opener in the loo!

first house i moved into in the loft i found a unusual looking shape of which looked like a dried watermelon it was brown in colour which i think had a address on it with the year which had 1968 i thought it was very unique as i hadnt seen anything like it before i was going to keep it when i moved out only i forgot about it wished i had now as it might of been worth something

just got the keys to a house and amongst a range of tat was a rain damaged piano thats wheels have seized in the dinning room and rotting food in the kitchen cupboards

Gin it might have been one of those seeds that appear on antiques roadshow from time to time - they only come from one specific island and are rare. Can't think of what they are called.

I do love the inventory and photo of the ladybirds. . so cute!

Not weird, but really unexpected - the old people had left 'brand new toys for the new children to enjoy in their new home' when we moved in. How very thoughtful! Kids thought it was great!!

A stopcock that was unrelated to any of the water pipes, and a water pipe that spurted water into the kitchen whenever someone ran the sink taps.

Our kitchen sink overflow hole that is just a hole leading straight into the cupboard beneath. Genius

In a previous place: a big turd in the loo

Not my story but my grandparents moved in 1940 to the house I remember as a child and one day they opened a cupboard that had been overlooked, and found 200 jars of honey. As it was wartime, and sugar was rationed for the next six years, it came in handy.

We found a suitcase full of old clothes in the shed with stains on them and some of them had stuff growing on the stains so I think some stains may have been food.

Odd socks down the back of every radiator - hundreds of 'em. And a whole kitchen drawer stuffed full of keys; we couldn't see the bottom because there were so many. Not a single one fitted the only room I would ever want to lock though!

When I painted the kitchen in my first flat I found a wedding cake hidden away on top of a cupboard. It looked like a cheap one, not custom made, with a little plasticky couple on top, it wasn't wrapped and covered in a thick layer of dust.

Not weird, but nice - we found a notecard with 'Recipe for a happy home' addressed to the previous elderly occupants when they moved in. I hope it was happy for them, it certainly has been for us.

I'd love to say an original piece by Monet but I'd be lying!!

I went upstairs and in the back bedroom there was a little doll which looked as though it had been left behind.At closer inspection it has horrendous!! almost a witch like ugly voodoo type doll, black scraggly hair and black torn clothes and with an evil face. i recall picking it up very quickly and throwing it out of the back window as far as I could!

I kid you not, a dolphin shaped vibrator in the back of a drawer.

Under the floorboards in the bedroom of one house I moved to there was old newspapers, empty drink cans and sweet and crisp packets. We only found it as the boards squeaked and we went to med them otherwise we would never have known

A massive pair of white knickers behind one of the radiators.

A mattress, buried in the garden. We wondered why the patch of grass was springy. So thoughtful of them!

Twelve enormous glass bottles/jars in the attic - the kind that would be used for making home brew I think. Each one would've held at least 50l, they were massive. We've lived here ten years and they're still there, would seem a shame to chuck them out.