The things people leave behind
Sep 4th 2004, 1:29 pm
#1
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The things people leave behind
We went up to the new house with a fair few things today
sunny day here - view as you approach our house a real ripper...we're on the end of a road along a ridge line...bloody idyllic ..with views over the Harkaway valley.
previous owners too busy - they run the local pub - to clear out our shed/house...when we said 'when do you finish clearing', paid me 25 bucks to take their gear to the skip - I have a ute so it is easy...2nd thoughts won't bother - inventoryfrom memory)
1) BBQ
2) harpoon gun
3) axe
4) splitter
5) double bed * 2 (one good enough to use, one not)
6) pool chemicals
7) rakes * 2
8) crowbar
9) safety goggles
10) pool equipment
11) spare pump for pool which heats it
12) wheelbarrow
13) bucket and 20 litre water barrel
14) shears
not bad really..!
BM
sunny day here - view as you approach our house a real ripper...we're on the end of a road along a ridge line...bloody idyllic ..with views over the Harkaway valley.
previous owners too busy - they run the local pub - to clear out our shed/house...when we said 'when do you finish clearing', paid me 25 bucks to take their gear to the skip - I have a ute so it is easy...2nd thoughts won't bother - inventoryfrom memory)
1) BBQ
2) harpoon gun
3) axe
4) splitter
5) double bed * 2 (one good enough to use, one not)
6) pool chemicals
7) rakes * 2
8) crowbar
9) safety goggles
10) pool equipment
11) spare pump for pool which heats it
12) wheelbarrow
13) bucket and 20 litre water barrel
14) shears
not bad really..!
BM
Sep 4th 2004, 1:39 pm
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Joined: Dec 2003
Location: Hillarys, Perth
Posts: 3,973
Re: The things people leave behind
Originally Posted by Badge
We went up to the new house with a fair few things today
sunny day here - view as you approach our house a real ripper...we're on the end of a road along a ridge line...bloody idyllic ..with views over the Harkaway valley.
previous owners too busy - they run the local pub - to clear out our shed/house...when we said 'when do you finish clearing', paid me 25 bucks to take their gear to the skip - I have a ute so it is easy...2nd thoughts won't bother - inventoryfrom memory)
1) BBQ
2) harpoon gun
3) axe
4) splitter
5) double bed * 2 (one good enough to use, one not)
6) pool chemicals
7) rakes * 2
8) crowbar
9) safety goggles
10) pool equipment
11) spare pump for pool which heats it
12) wheelbarrow
13) bucket and 20 litre water barrel
14) shears
not bad really..!
BM
sunny day here - view as you approach our house a real ripper...we're on the end of a road along a ridge line...bloody idyllic ..with views over the Harkaway valley.
previous owners too busy - they run the local pub - to clear out our shed/house...when we said 'when do you finish clearing', paid me 25 bucks to take their gear to the skip - I have a ute so it is easy...2nd thoughts won't bother - inventoryfrom memory)
1) BBQ
2) harpoon gun
3) axe
4) splitter
5) double bed * 2 (one good enough to use, one not)
6) pool chemicals
7) rakes * 2
8) crowbar
9) safety goggles
10) pool equipment
11) spare pump for pool which heats it
12) wheelbarrow
13) bucket and 20 litre water barrel
14) shears
not bad really..!
BM
as I have the Mother In Law coming over..... :scared:
Sep 4th 2004, 1:42 pm
#3
High in the Dandenongs
Joined: Apr 2003
Location: Listening to Puffing Billy
Posts: 9,183
Re: The things people leave behind
Originally Posted by Badge
...we're on the end of a road along a ridge line...bloody idyllic ..with views over the Harkaway valley.
PS when you bob up and down, whats that thing that appears between your legs
Sep 4th 2004, 1:44 pm
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Re: The things people leave behind
Originally Posted by hevs
shite, you can't see my house can you??
PS when you bob up and down, whats that thing that appears between your legs
PS when you bob up and down, whats that thing that appears between your legs
Sep 4th 2004, 1:48 pm
#5
High in the Dandenongs
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Location: Listening to Puffing Billy
Posts: 9,183
Re: The things people leave behind
LOL! Now i know why Mrs B puts up with your witterings
Sep 4th 2004, 1:54 pm
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Re: The things people leave behind
we couldn't afford the views overlooking your house me old mucker... 
Sep 4th 2004, 1:56 pm
#7
High in the Dandenongs
Joined: Apr 2003
Location: Listening to Puffing Billy
Posts: 9,183
Re: The things people leave behind
Nor could we!! Thats why the posh folk get our povo house as their view. Ha!! there is a god
Sep 4th 2004, 2:00 pm
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Re: The things people leave behind
Originally Posted by Siren
Can I borrow the bed (the one not good enough to use)
as I have the Mother In Law coming over..... :scared:
as I have the Mother In Law coming over..... :scared:
- oh! - ....and a lawn mower (not too confident on this one)!!!
Sep 5th 2004, 8:07 am
#9
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Joined: Feb 2004
Location: Essex, England, UK
Posts: 378
Re: The things people leave behind
Along the same kind of lines...
We bought our house 7 years ago from on old dear, she must have been in her 80's and had been living alone since her husband had died some years beforehand. She was a gentle old soul, all wolly jumpers and blue rinse hair.
Anyway, just this year I decided to redo our bedroom. First job was to get rid of the old brown shagpile carpet, a remnant from the 1970's. It all lifted up okay apart from the last couple of inches which were wedged underneath the wardrobes. I pulled one corner of the carpet for all I was worth when a collection of items shot past me from underneath the cupboard and came to rest on the other side of the room.
Brushing off 7 years worth of dust revealed the following :-
> 7 inch toy
> 10 inch toy
> some kind of ring device ???
> chinese eggs connected by piece of string
That 80 year old dear sure knew how to party !
We bought our house 7 years ago from on old dear, she must have been in her 80's and had been living alone since her husband had died some years beforehand. She was a gentle old soul, all wolly jumpers and blue rinse hair.
Anyway, just this year I decided to redo our bedroom. First job was to get rid of the old brown shagpile carpet, a remnant from the 1970's. It all lifted up okay apart from the last couple of inches which were wedged underneath the wardrobes. I pulled one corner of the carpet for all I was worth when a collection of items shot past me from underneath the cupboard and came to rest on the other side of the room.
Brushing off 7 years worth of dust revealed the following :-
> 7 inch toy
> 10 inch toy
> some kind of ring device ???
> chinese eggs connected by piece of string
That 80 year old dear sure knew how to party !
Sep 5th 2004, 8:38 am
#10
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Joined: Apr 2003
Location: South East, Perth (was Holland)
Posts: 5,789
Re: The things people leave behind
lol!
My dad was a builder. A year or so after we migrated to Perth he was renovating a house, and under the old carpet he found Krommenie linoleum, which is the factory in the town of Krommenie in Holland, where we lived before we migrated! What was dutch linoleum doing in a house in Perth???!!!
There's all sorts of junk in our shed at this rental house. A table, drying rack, wood and someother crap. Good thing we don't need to use it!
Full of spiders and webs too.
My dad was a builder. A year or so after we migrated to Perth he was renovating a house, and under the old carpet he found Krommenie linoleum, which is the factory in the town of Krommenie in Holland, where we lived before we migrated! What was dutch linoleum doing in a house in Perth???!!!
There's all sorts of junk in our shed at this rental house. A table, drying rack, wood and someother crap. Good thing we don't need to use it!
Full of spiders and webs too.
Sep 5th 2004, 9:53 am
#11
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Joined: Feb 2004
Location: South East Suburbs of Melbourne
Posts: 7,336
Re: The things people leave behind
Originally Posted by Badge
bloody hell now you mention it, I do appear to have what can only be described as a fair old package..
So its Badger the Tadger now.
Sep 5th 2004, 10:03 am
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Joined: Nov 2003
Location: Brisbane at last!
Posts: 84
Re: The things people leave behind
Originally Posted by Badge
We went up to the new house with a fair few things today
sunny day here - view as you approach our house a real ripper...we're on the end of a road along a ridge line...bloody idyllic ..with views over the Harkaway valley.
previous owners too busy - they run the local pub - to clear out our shed/house...when we said 'when do you finish clearing', paid me 25 bucks to take their gear to the skip - I have a ute so it is easy...2nd thoughts won't bother - inventoryfrom memory)
1) BBQ
2) harpoon gun
3) axe
4) splitter
5) double bed * 2 (one good enough to use, one not)
6) pool chemicals
7) rakes * 2
8) crowbar
9) safety goggles
10) pool equipment
11) spare pump for pool which heats it
12) wheelbarrow
13) bucket and 20 litre water barrel
14) shears
not bad really..!
BM
sunny day here - view as you approach our house a real ripper...we're on the end of a road along a ridge line...bloody idyllic ..with views over the Harkaway valley.
previous owners too busy - they run the local pub - to clear out our shed/house...when we said 'when do you finish clearing', paid me 25 bucks to take their gear to the skip - I have a ute so it is easy...2nd thoughts won't bother - inventoryfrom memory)
1) BBQ
2) harpoon gun
3) axe
4) splitter
5) double bed * 2 (one good enough to use, one not)
6) pool chemicals
7) rakes * 2
8) crowbar
9) safety goggles
10) pool equipment
11) spare pump for pool which heats it
12) wheelbarrow
13) bucket and 20 litre water barrel
14) shears
not bad really..!
BM
Sep 5th 2004, 10:50 am
#13
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Joined: Mar 2004
Location: I'm right here
Posts: 380
Re: The things people leave behind
Originally Posted by EssexNobby
Along the same kind of lines...
We bought our house 7 years ago from on old dear, she must have been in her 80's and had been living alone since her husband had died some years beforehand. She was a gentle old soul, all wolly jumpers and blue rinse hair.
Anyway, just this year I decided to redo our bedroom. First job was to get rid of the old brown shagpile carpet, a remnant from the 1970's. It all lifted up okay apart from the last couple of inches which were wedged underneath the wardrobes. I pulled one corner of the carpet for all I was worth when a collection of items shot past me from underneath the cupboard and came to rest on the other side of the room.
Brushing off 7 years worth of dust revealed the following :-
> 7 inch toy
> 10 inch toy
> some kind of ring device ???
> chinese eggs connected by piece of string
That 80 year old dear sure knew how to party !
We bought our house 7 years ago from on old dear, she must have been in her 80's and had been living alone since her husband had died some years beforehand. She was a gentle old soul, all wolly jumpers and blue rinse hair.
Anyway, just this year I decided to redo our bedroom. First job was to get rid of the old brown shagpile carpet, a remnant from the 1970's. It all lifted up okay apart from the last couple of inches which were wedged underneath the wardrobes. I pulled one corner of the carpet for all I was worth when a collection of items shot past me from underneath the cupboard and came to rest on the other side of the room.
Brushing off 7 years worth of dust revealed the following :-
> 7 inch toy
> 10 inch toy
> some kind of ring device ???
> chinese eggs connected by piece of string
That 80 year old dear sure knew how to party !
Did her husband die with a smile on he's face
jib
Sep 5th 2004, 12:54 pm
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Re: The things people leave behind
Originally Posted by fimart
I don't know how much of this is urban legend but a woman in an antiques shop was telling us about a couple who bought a rundown house in Maryborough as a deceased estate and the children of the old dear couldn't be bothered clearing away these massive piles of newspapers. Anyway apparently as the new owners were going through the pile they found $25,000! Probably a myth but intersting any way
