Yahoo Lifestyle People Who Cleaned Out Homes After Their Owner Died Are Sharing What They Discovered
Some people say you don't truly know a person until you see the inside of their home.
This makes sense because if you think about it, a home is an extension of the person who lives in it. Homes are full of knick-knacks, mementos, and other personal items.
In this Reddit thread, people who cleaned out their relatives' homes shared some of the wildest things they found, and well, I'm speechless. Let's just say they got to know their family members a little better. Here are the 19 best stories, in no particular order:
1."Helped a friend clean out his Grandma's old house. We found a dead cat that over the years hardened up into a petrified statue. The awkward thing is, she never owned a cat."
2."My mother used to do this, and once I was suspended from school, she made me come with her. I found a 9mm, stacks of cash, and two GIANT bags of cocaine in a bedroom closet."
3."I don't do it for a living, but I've done it a few times (family of friends, relatives, neighbors, etc.). There was one woman who was in her '90s, and in her basement was a perfectly organized food storage, all ready for doomsday, but not a single thing with an OK expiration date. (A lot expired in the '70s or early '80s, we were cleaning it out in, I think, the late '90s or early '00s.) However, she also kept a very clean house, so a lot of it was like a mint-condition time warp to the '50s/'60s."
4."Clearing out my Uncle's house, we found shopping bags full of money all over his house, to the tune of six figures when done. In the end, we shared it amongst the entire family as he didn't leave a will."
5."A hole in the wall behind the refrigerator, full of hundreds of silver dollars sitting in the space between the studs. The guy worked as a bartender and it was known that whenever somebody passed a silver dollar – it occasionally happens even now – he'd take it home. That's what he did with them."
6."An entire room full of period blood-stained underwear. I'm talking wall to wall, floor to ceiling, crammed full of years of accumulated bloody panties. Could not open the door without raking them out into the adjacent room."
7."When my great-grandmother died, we found a newspaper from the Lincoln assassination. There was some scuttle about the legitimacy but it was cool as hell. Also found a personal letter from Ronald Reagan to my great-grandma. There was a giant stack of every Life magazine ever printed. This along with an entire basement of a Victorian house filled floor to ceiling with well-organized junk."
8."We walked into a house once where it was an old lady who was OBSESSED with owls. It was hilarious. Every single time you moved your head, there would be another pair of owl eyes staring at you. Either from the hundreds of figurines, the painting, the statues, or the photographs of owls. Even the damn spoons had owls on the handles. She had stained glass put in her bedroom with an owl on it."
9."My sister and I cleaned out my grandma's apartment after she died. She had an affection for Snoopy and Jesus. Every drawer, every shelf had at least one picture of each stashed away."
10."I work with an estate company and there's a dildo of some kind in most houses. Some are really gross, we found a whole box of well-used dicks carved from candles. I mean it was obvious they were used by how worn they were, and the hair stuck to them."
11."I helped a friend who did this for a living once. Lady was a chain smoker and I was just there to help scrub the surfaces of residue. What we found were really nice wall-to-wall hardwood floors. We thought the rooms were carpeted; they looked like weird patchwork carpet patterns in the bedrooms, but apparently, after the floors became too sticky, the old lady just threw down little rugs all over the place."
12."The worst was a guy's booger room. Wall to wall and even the ceiling just covered with snot rockets."
13."Cleaning out my now dead grandfather's room when I was going through the drawers looking at all his knives and Korean War (he was infantry) memorabilia, when I find a box of johnnies that had expired in 1997. This was back in 2013."
14."Helped clean up a house that my grandmother had rented out. I found an NES Zapper and two games."
15."We found some black and white homemade porn pics when my grandfather passed. Looked like they were from the '40s or '50s. They weren't of him, mind you. He was a photographer by trade, but I don't think he took the photos. The subjects were a dude and two girls but there were only ever two people in each photo. We figure he probably developed the film for someone and made copies for himself."
16."A perfectly looking cake! It had to be about 20 years old and looked new. Never tasted it though."
17."My parents used to do this, and they would often bring me along. I don't have the best memory, though, but there were some strange things."
"-A women who pooped in only Tupperware, and stored them all in a room near her kitchen. We still dont know why.
-My mum later told that she did the same with her period blood.
-Whale Bone Cane
-Demonic Ritual Room
-Completely empty rooms (more then you'd think)
-One time I found several $2 coins in this ladies potted plants"
18."I don't do this as a job, but there were a few years where a lot of family members passed. Things I've found..."
"-A sealed fruit cellar with canned (jarred) fruit so old it had liquefied.
-A Stevens rifle from the late 1800s
-A large bottle of Oxycontin (that certainly helped me not be sad for awhile)
-An old medical water bottle made by Goodyear, still in the box.
-What I guess is a Nazi penny, a reichspfenning I think."
19.And finally, "I did a stint working on rental homes, as well as abandoned/foreclosed properties. Hidden in one closet was an intricately carved phallus, evidently made from a table leg, 10 inches or so long, maybe 3 inches diameter. It had something in Spanish written on it in fancy script that I never could figure out ("El" something). I, in turn, left it hidden in the house I was renting, just prior to leaving."
Have you ever had to clean out a relative's house? Share the wildest thing you found in the comments below!
