Old sofa in our new house!

[SquishTheWhale]

Originally Posted by Omega1

Wow, Sofagate!

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Definitely not what I intended with the original post- was only looking for advice on what people would do to get rid of it and if it was normal to be left junk in a house! Not start a debate about chavs and fridges on lawns...

[Omega1]

Originally Posted by SquishTheWhale

Definitely not what I intended with the original post- was only looking for advice on what people would do to get rid of it and if it was normal to be left junk in a house! Not start a debate about chavs and fridges on lawns...

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Wear it as a badge of honour - some threads have a life of their own. My mom always said, ‘Threads are like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.’

[Colette-S]

Originally Posted by Omega1

Wear it as a badge of honour - some threads have a life of their own. My mom always said, ‘Threads are like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get.’

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Indeed! Mrs Omega Snr sounds like a wise lady 😆

[Stitch & Smudge]

I like having my sofa in the front yard, it gives me an The dawg something to sit on when am a shooting the bud bottles of the top of the old fridge an tv.😂

[sammykitten]

Originally Posted by mitch84

We live near an old council estate in Warrington that is half council, and half privately owned.
They are lovely big semi’s, but I won’t buy one as ‘some’ of the neighbours have sofas/armchairs in their gardens.
Just wouldn’t be the impression I was wanting to make on my new neighbours

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You mean those sofas and armchairs live in their gardens all the time?

[marypoppins38]

Originally Posted by sammykitten

You mean those sofas and armchairs live in their gardens all the time?

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I’ve got an old school friend who lives on an estate like this. Her house is immaculate and beautifully decorated yet some of her neighbours seem to have no standards. Old sofas, broken toys and rusting bbq in the garden. Just left there to rot until they move on to their next property and the council comes in to do a big clearance and clean up before a new tenant can move in. Not only does it look awful but attracts vermin too no doubt. It’s like a set from Shameless.

[SquishTheWhale]

Originally Posted by marypoppins38

I’ve got an old school friend who lives on an estate like this. Her house is immaculate and beautifully decorated yet some of her neighbours seem to have no standards. Old sofas, broken toys and rusting bbq in the garden. Just left there to rot until they move on to their next property and the council comes in to do a big clearance and clean up before a new tenant can move in. Not only does it look awful but attracts vermin too no doubt. It’s like a set from Shameless.

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Oh yeah our current rental place is in a nice area but our neighbours are gross. They left this large paddling pool out for months with the water turning into green soup- you probably can't tell but there's a cm thick layer of flies on the top. Which of course meant we ended up with loads of flies in our garden too

They eventually let the water out and then left it crumpled up to rot in their garden for a whole year, 6 months of which it was joined by their Christmas tree.

[marypoppins38]

Originally Posted by SquishTheWhale

Oh yeah our current rental place is in a nice area but our neighbours are gross. They left this large paddling pool out for months with the water turning into green soup- you probably can't tell but there's a cm thick layer of flies on the top. Which of course meant we ended up with loads of flies in our garden too

They eventually let the water out and then left it crumpled up to rot in their garden for a whole year, 6 months of which it was joined by their Christmas tree.

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Oh dear god that is disgusting!

[simbamad]

Slightly different situation, the people buying our flat asked us to leave our sofa so they has somewhere to sit when the renovate it ( they are buying to let it )

[SquishTheWhale]

Originally Posted by simbamad

Slightly different situation, the people buying our flat asked us to leave our sofa so they has somewhere to sit when the renovate it ( they are buying to let it )

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It's great if leaving furniture can be mutually beneficial to the buyer and seller. When my sister bought their house they paid the seller £400 for pretty much a whole house full of furniture as the lady was moving into her partners house and needed rid of it all. Sister was living in furnished rented so needed everything! And it was all nice solid wood stuff so they got it for a steal.

We live in unfinished rented at the mo so just needed the white goods. We did enquire with the sellers if they were wanting to leave any of them/sell them to us but they wanted to take with which obviously is fair enough!