From the explanatory entry on the House in Progress blog:
We bought this 1917 bungalow from a woman whose family owned it for 60 years. With all that history and an interest in collecting, they'd developed quite a houseful. As a result, we gave the seller a 30-day rent-back period after closing to remove her family possessions. Then, one week before she was to be out we received the letter...
The seller had not removed their things and didn't intend to. Surprise!! We were caught a bit off guard, as you might expect. That night we went through the house and found that 50% of what was originally there still remained. Books, furniture, kitchenware, rocks (really) and boxes and boxes and boxes.
After some discussion we ended up negotiating an agreement. We were rather inconvenienced (we had to rent storage for our own things for an additional month) but figured we could rent a dumpster still quickly get to the task of renovating our new home. But then came the second surprise--the stuff in the house was really cool! So, we're going to start posting photos of the items we've found. Well, some of the 1000's. We'll just keep plugging away until you have no more patience to peek in there with us. [full page]
What an amazing collection of stuff! Some of the items are for sale here.
Found at Linkfilter.
Posted on November 1, 2003 12:19 PM. Filed under: strange stuff.