A friend moved into new property - FTB really excited - to discover that the previous owner had left her a welcome present. Not just pots of face cream and a wok amongst other items but also a bed that they had to dismantle complete with bed bugs! Anyone else had any other unwanted gifts in their new abodes?
We got lots of stuff...a heavily stained mattress a tasteless metal headboard, lots of charity shop style brown crockery, a christmas tree, some hoover attachments and a bag of clothes in the loft, ooooh and a whole lot of divorce paperwork
Our house has only had 2 owners since new, built in 1889, so when we peeled back the few layers of wallpaper and old paint that was still hanging in what was the childrens room, we got wall after wall of graffeti, through a time period of about 15 years from the 1st part of the 20th C. That room was the last one we did, we didnt want to remove that history.
Our house had been empty for 15 years when we bought it and we only found a tape measure! (it's a good 'un though, one of those big retractable jobs). Couldn't sleep for the excitement.......
2 oversized settees. These were taking up valuable room from my computer table. I had to dismantle the window to get them out! I got someone to take them away for me for free. But the neighbour's dog p****d up the side of one of them! And they almost declined the free offer because of it.
We got left a load of manky old kitchen units in the cellar and an enormous mirror - in the shed!
___________________________________________________________________________ strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
You never know maybe it's the same Ford Anglia that Harry Potter flew to Hogwarts in and it'll be worth a fortune (I think it was a Ford Anglia anyway)
Not a house I bought but.... some years ago I moved into a rented flat in London which had a cellar. Flatmate & I went down to inspect and discovered: various old computers, clothes and...2 plates full of half eaten food (baked beans mostly) and forks. Looked liked whoever had been living in the cellar had left in a hurry!
Piles and piles of old magazines, I remember getting, and lots of other rubbish which required a trip to the tip with full car. The vendor also left a massive wooden table in the garden, with a note on saying that he'd be back to collect it that afternoon. He never did return for it and in the end I had to cut that up and take it to the tip as well.
Originally posted by lovelylady24: and we got left a used bar of soap!
Straying slightly off-topic - does anyone remember the episode of 'How Clean is Your House' where they were chastising the householder for the manky soap embedded in her soap dish and her excuse was it had been there when she moved in (several years earlier)?
Our current house was a new build and we were left a load of crud, plaster and offcuts, packaging, a ladder and a hard hat. As the developers had all just cleared off site for the two week Christmas break we either had to clear it up ourselves or eat our turkey and sprouts surrounded by muck waiting for them to come back in the New Year to deal with it
We did tell them several times about the ladder and hard hat but no-one ever came for them so they're still in the garage - anyone want them?
Originally posted by TRISHWISH: You never know maybe it's the same Ford Anglia that Harry Potter flew to Hogwarts in and it'll be worth a fortune (I think it was a Ford Anglia anyway)
Yes Trish thats the one! I have a pair of headlamp cowells (?) that are painted blue and an air cleaner.
We did tell them several times about the ladder and hard hat but no-one ever came for them so they're still in the garage - anyone want them?
So, does that mean that you've got a stepladder then
We found kiddies wellies, a box of family photographs (which we tried to return via the solicitor, but we got no response ), the plug for the washing machine, still plugged in at the wall, but they'd obviously just cut the flex at the back of the machine, so it was lying bare and extremely dangerous!!! - a loft full of old rubbish and a shed full of even more rubbish
I was left a magnum of Asti Spumante didn't know such a thing even existed! Drank it one drunken afternoon and could feel my teeth rotting by the end of the first glass.
In desperation, having been left with two bottles of booze which no-ne wanted, I invented a new cocktail a few Christmasses back.
It consists of a slug of sloe gin, topped up with Asti. Yes I know, I know, but it worked rather well and has proved very popular since. It has to be a fairly sharp sloe gin - some of them are too sweet.
a tasteless metal headboard, lots of charity shop style brown crockery, a christmas tree, some hoover attachments and a bag of clothes in the loft, ooooh and a whole lot of divorce paperwork 
And they almost declined the free offer because of it.
