Mumsnet users share with HomeAway the strangest thing they've found or left behind in a holiday home

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The chance to spend time away from home and in a new environment is a treat that many of us look forward to. Occasionally, however, we can forget to take everything back home with us once the holiday is over. HomeAway would love to hear about the strangest things that you have left behind or found from former guests in a holiday home.

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Have you ever found unusual items in the fridge? Maybe you managed to leave just one shoe in the wardrobe? Or your underwear in a strange location? Perhaps you’ve even found something as random as a walking stick or a diary? Share them all on the thread below...no matter how strange!

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I've only ever seen socks left behind

We stayed in an old cottage near the sea in Devon. Whilst there we heard a story of a previous owner who had hung himself in the garden! When walking in the garden we found lots of very old Bovril jars! I don't think there is any connection....

My friend left all her underwear behind, had to ask the male owner to retrieve the items and post them back to her.

I stayed in a caravan once that didn't get cleared out properly from the previous people staying there. We found 1 shoe (how do you not realise you are missing a shoe?!), a nearly full case of beer in the fridge and some unopened snacks in the cupboard :D

A plate of cheese and biscuits were under the bed :P

We once stayed in a holiday cottage stuffed to the rafters with knick knacks and found a file where the owners had documented the history of them - where they had come from, etc. I was expecting a quiz at the end of the week.

I think the guests before us had been on a stag or hen weekend as there were a few interesting inflatables left behind in cupboards! :)

left behind a multi plug we used to charge our electricals, I thought my friend had packed and she thought same of me, worse thing was I borrowed it from another friend

I left my Tamagotchi behind, after pestering my parents to buy me one all week (obviously this was in the 1990's)!

Left my iPad before 😩 Got it back thank goodness

We went to a house in Exmouth on holiday 2 years running. It had some strange things but I think the most random was a jelly cook book ....

A half eaten plastic bat

A miniature statue of the Virgin Mary hidden amongst a storage box full of lilos and arm-bands.

We always stock up with every medicine you could possibly need to take on holiday. Plasters, bandages, eye bath, corn plasters (well you never know) Aspirin, paracetamol, things to make you go and things to stop you going. One year we left our medicine box behind, what the new holiday makers made of that I am not at all sure :D

Happened not too long ago - we arrived at a splendid holiday homes n Cornwall and all looked superbly clean, until we entered the bathroom, where someone had taken a 'number two' inside the shower enclosure and just left it everywhere! We were not impressed!

I left my cheese wedge shaped under the bump pillow when I was pregnant with my third daughter! They must have wondered what it was!

Left my special porridge scoop in a holiday bungalow. Re booked following year and it was in the draw so I took it home.

was in blackpool few years ago for a long weekend i dropped something on the floor it rolled under the bed so hubby and i moved the bed to get it big stack of porn magazines we really laughed we put the bed back and left them , must of had a good cleaner in that room before we got there LOL

My daughter was very keen on a small spider plant she had been given at nursery when she was little. Sadly "spidey" was left behind at our holiday cottage in Wales. Goodness knows what the next guests made of it!

Ky jelly in the bathroom of a holiday home i stayed at 😅😅

I've never found anything interesting or left anything more interesting than my childhood toy which they kindly posted back!

In our bedroom, at the top of the steepest stairs I've seen, in a B+B in France, a lidded bucket - the only toilet was the outside loo 4 floors down, the bucket had been used a previous occupant and not emptied. For the record, both number ones and two.

A half eaten McDonalds burger.. eck!

A holiday cottage we stayed at lots of lovely puzzles unfortunately every puzzle had pieces missing!

lots of toys have been left behind over the years devastated at the time but means they learn to check they have everything packed