My MIL moved into a condo she had just bought. My wife and I arranged to get it painted for her. The painters removed fixtures to paint, and when they took out the toilet paper roll holder there was a handgun hidden behind in the wall.
Obviously the prior owner wasn’t going to take shit from anyone. Or… wait…
I’ll see if there is enough ro…
Ahem.
Thanks.
white kitchen floor:smack:
Tossed it all. My car didn’t use diesel (bio or otherwise) and the Fry Daddy itself was just disgusting.
Many years ago, my sister and (then) brother-in-law bought a very old home in North Minneapolis. After they moved in, they found a small false ceiling in one of the bedroom closets, which led to the massive attic.
The previous owners left everything in the attic. There were new-in-box GI Joe dolls from the 60’s, a decades worth of Architectural Digest magazine, a slew of Tonka trucks, Legos, a full china set.
The weirdest things were the dresses. Not current dresses. Boxed from companies our mom remembered from the 40-50’s, long out of business. There were at least a dozen dresses, from simple day dresses to full crinoline fancy gowns. The previous owners of the house were a young couple, neither who would have been around when the dresses would’ve been worn.
Nothing particularly wrong with that unless it was carpet. And if it was carpet, it was wrong in any color.
Before I bought the house I’m in now, I rented a house that had carpet in the kitchen and bathroom. I was told that older people do that so their feet don’t get cold. I ended up putting some plastic down in the kitchen so the carpet wouldn’t get stained from spillage.
One of the coolest things, which I still have to this day (moved into that house in '91), is a large spool of very thin string (like this). Probably from an industrial bag sewer or something like that.
Too thin to use for kites or tying up plants, so I don’t get a lot of use out of it, but very cool the one time a friend asked if I had any string and I plunked that thing down in front of him.
The kitchen and bathrooms in the house I grew up in were carpeted. I would not recommend it.
well I was pleased to see a brown hardwood in the kitchen of the apt I recently moved into:)
Never really understood string theory before. Thanks!
Sounds like stuff left long before the previous owners, who just never discovered the attic.
The little old lady who owned our house before us was a borderline hoarder. She was supposed to entirely clean out the house before we took possession, but didn’t. Among other interesting things, we found a very small shrub growing up from the drain in a seldom-used shower, a jar of 15-year-old (according the label) soup in the fridge, and several nasty wigs.
I just moved into an apartment in Waikiki and nothing earthshaking, but the previous tenant left behind a jar containing 43 pennies and a dime.
Bump! We moved in to a new house this weekend and found this in the attic. Please, contain your envy!
I hope you told that guy he can’t live in your attic anymore!
Dinner for 8!
When the realtor showed us the rental house (2 days before we moved in), she drew our attention to a ‘panic’ button in the bedroom that the previous owner had installed. She pressed the button, which sounded an alarm, like an old school bell or fire alarm. It was really loud. Loud enough to disturb our new neighbors. One of them called the cops.
And realtor couldn’t turn it off. She found a number for a security company…that had went out of business years before. It rang through the night till an electrician came out in the morning.
Oh, him I’m keeping.