What's the weirdest thing you've found when moving in to a new home? Talk to MoneySuperMarket and you could win a £300 Love2Shop voucher NOW CLOSED

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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.

MoneySuperMarket say "We know moving home can be a stressful experience and sometimes it can be accompanied a few unexpected and 'interesting' surprises at the other end! Whether you've recently moved home or not, we'd love to hear your stories on the thread below.

Also - for those of you in the process of moving right now, don't forget to check out our Home Mover's hub, where you'll find a wealth of articles, videos and tools designed to get you to your own personal 'Happily Ever After' just that little bit quicker..."

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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Some very large leapard print knickers under a tree in our new garden followed by a very large thong down the bathroom radiators. In the bedroom was lisa loves gav writen on the wall and some very big dints in the wall where the headboard would have been! Very funny stuff

Nothing too weird, but they did leave a cute Buddha doorstop!

While stripping wallpaper, we discovered a hole in the wall that had been packed with socks! very odd

We found a child's letter and drawing to Santa on top of one of the kitchen cupboards. That was sweet.

And a porn mag under the bathroom floor. That was not.

We found several leather jackets in the loft, not that weird really!

Under a carpet, found that the 'underlay' was 100s of sheets of computer listing containing people's name, date of birth, salary, NI number. (This was a long time ago, well before the Data Protection Act!)

We were left an small hedgehog ornament with a note wishing us luck in our new home. The note went on to say that it had been left for them by the previous occupants and they thought it would be nice to carry on the tradition.

I have kept it safe and will do the same when we eventually move.

We bought a converted dentist surgery. In the living room cupboard there was a full set of dentist impression teeth

At our first house we moved in during the winter. The following summer we noticed a patch appearing on the lawn.
The neighbour said it appears when the ground is dry. We decided to dig up the lawn to see what it was...a full size cast iron fireplace buried under the lawn!!

nothing- i feel very boring now!

We are lucky not to have moved house much, only been in a couple of houses. But nothing weird. The last one could have done with a good clean though, took a week to get it cleaned and get cat fur out of the carpets. DH has allergy too!

Not so much of a find as such, but we'd just moved into our new home, the majority of the unpacking had been done and we were sat down with a cup of tea. We heard the back door open and someone come into the kitchen and put the kettle on! It was only the previous owner, he had come home from work and had forgotten he had moved.

Not really a found in, but in one old house the cupboard under the stairs had been used as a coal shed. It took simply ages to clean all the coal dust out.

A ring in the toilet cistern!!

A box in the garden shed full of left shoes only. Weird.

A solitary plastic prawn languishing in the lean-to. I have no idea.

I don't think we have found anything strange when moving house but surely that's a good thing

A dead bird in the old heating system.

A stuffed head of a deer in the loft. Very creepy.

The flat we bought was left as if the owners had done a moonlight flit- we found many things including a bank card.
However when l set about cleaning the cooker and pulled the door down on the grill, l found 3 cold cooked sausages and a piece of fruit pudding . Funny l seemed to lose my appetite at that minute.

Me and my husband found a brand new fridge freezer in the cellar! We decide to use at Christmas when there's a little extra food in the house otherwise we turn it off because we had one when we moved there :P

When I moved in my old house I opened a kitchen cupboard and found a plastic tub with what looked like sick in!!

When I was a student the tenants before us stuffed clothes with newspaper and arranged them to look them like a body. They then hid it in the outhouse. When we had an explore on moving day we nearly had heart attacks when we saw it in the dingy shed thinking there was an actual dead man in there!

A random switch that does not appear to be attached to anything under a shelf in breakfast room. Also found a blocked up window between two rooms in previous house.

an old piano that had lots of frilly ladies underwear stuffed in it!