I bought a foreclosure and the people who lived in it before me were utter slobs. When they were booted out, the house sat vacant for 2 years and it became somewhat of a party spot (the area around the house, not the inside of it thank god) before I bought it.
The amount of weird shit is unbelievable.
- They poured what I can only hope is aquarium gravel down a toilet. Like. A lot of it. That and other unidentifiable shit made the toilet unrecoverable - though we tried.
- The last owners apparently tried to renovate the house themselves. A lot could be said there, but the most surprising thing to me to be honest was that I guess they didn't feel like buying real insulation in several spots, so shoved the walls/floor full of toilet paper, tissue, newspaper, just whatever trash I guess.
- There's floor vents and every single one of them was filled with dirt, trash, and toys. mini cars were pulled out, one full size RC car and 1 full size teddybear, some shoes, coloring pages, markers, these were the most memorable things anyway.
- in the crawlspace beneath the house and grounds directly surrounding the house: women's underwear, whatever you call those spoons that've clearly been used for drugs, other random silverware, thankfully no needles
- On the whole property: random trash, seriously just could be anything. But also toys. Like lots of baby plastic toys. There's a Sully from Monsters Inc arm still buried near the back porch because I can't be arsed, there's also a lot of like, plastic tonka trucks and parts in various other spots. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- There was a Ben 10 nintendo DS game under the original (totally trashed) refrigerator, and a Frozen movie DVD trapped between some wall siding and drywall, which is still there because I kept that siding and wasn't able to pull the disc out.
I've owned the house for a year officially now. I'm still finding random stuff.