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Leave Behinds
I was talking to my brother who just moved into a new house last weekend. He said they have been finding random things that the previous renters left behind, including breast milk in the freezer!!!! Gross!!!!
Have you ever moved into a new place and found anything the previous people left behind?
Re: Leave Behinds
He said it was labeled "mommy milk"
I was teasing him and asked if they kept it. Ya know in case they were cooking and realized they were out of milk
When we bought our house, the previous owners left behind some random stuff, like a box of dog biscuits (we don't have a dog); a large box of hot chocolate packets; the husband's high school year books; a bunch of crappy paintings/artwork (and yes... I checked for signatures, just in case!); old model train tracks; some gross Tupperware; and a large jar of Kraft Parmesan cheese... which was nestled into some weeds and dirt in the backyard.
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When we remodeled our kitchen we actually found some pretty cool stuff. Our house was built in the early 30s and the original owner was a baseball player and his wife - Marv Owen played for SCU and then the Detroit Tigers, the White Sox and the Red Sox. We also live 2 blocks from the Morse Mansion in Santa Clara.
Behind some cabinets was an envelope with a letter of credit to Mrs. Owen from some department store inviting her to bring in her charger plate to be punched (?), a minor league baseball card for Richie Morse (we assume he's part of the Morse Mansion family), some blue chip stamps and some other random black/white pictures of kids sitting on a porch.
Leave-behinds are some of my favorite things! (When it's not total junk.)
We inherited a piano and a deep-freeze in this house.
We have left behind skis before.
When we bought our house there were no leave behinds, they pretty much took everything.
They took the glass out of the over head lights in the family room, along with the gas fire place insert.
They took the stove, the dishwasher and the micro out of the kitchen.
They took all the light bulbs in the house along with some of the lighting fixtures.
Mind you we bought a foreclosure so the bank came in and "cleaned" the house before letting the real estate agent show it. I guess we should be glad they didn't take the toilets but they did take the shower heads.
Also the house was my parents, my dad had only left it a few months before, so we always joke that the previous owner wasn't very good at the up keep.
Breast milk?!
We've found a few things, which are especially creepy/endearing because the couple that owned our house is dead now. They left a toilet plunger (ew), Oil of Olay body wash (wtf?) and I've been finding various little things, like a plastic happy birthday thing that goes on a birthday cake, a little Christmas-themed painted clothespin with a little poem attached to it.
We got paint that matches interior, miscellaneous tools, and household items.
Nothing too big or strange. It was a bank owned foreclosure and it was cleaned up pretty well.
Ew ew eeeew!
The previous owner actually had a cleaning service come in before handing the house over to us. The seller was actually a colleague who worked in a different office, but I think she would have done this even if we weren't the buyers. So the only things left behind were useful: cans of paint, extra tiles, that sort of thing.
If we ever move though I can see my DH wanting to leave stuff behind "just in case the new people might want it" even though we'd throw it out otherwise.
The owner of our house passed away with no wife or children... so we got some interesting things and some hmmm things.
We got a bunch of his furniture--what was worth keeping at least. Plans to the house including photos of the house being built and the remodel. Light bulbs and filters for things. A pump--still don't know what that was for... some cleaning supplies. A huge train set under the garage. An armoir. And other stuff I am not thinking of.