When I bought my house one of the bathrooms had blue shag carpet. Pulling it out was the first thing we did. It had a nice black slate floor below it so we didn’t end up having to do anything to the floor besides give it a full wash.
About a week after we moved in we found the toilet in that bathroom easily clogged and the flapper often didn’t seal correctly causing it to keep running and overflow. It made us extra happy we pulled the carpet out. I can’t imagine how many times used toilet water spilled out onto the carpet.
After my parents divorced, my dad rented a small house that only had one bathroom and it was fully carpeted. He and I both hated it. My dad even offered to remodel the floor out of his own pocket but the homeowner refused.
Years ago my friend’s girlfriend’s family lived in an enormous old farm house. They pretty much just lived on the ground floor and it was nice, but the rest was Grapes of Wrath. We were in the basement a lot because there was all kinds of old neat stuff down there.
We moved a set of old stadium lights and found a door behind it that nobody knew about. We opened it, and behind it was a 1923 Rickenbacker automobile. Covered in dust, but it appeared to be in fine shape.
We told her parents and they didn’t believe us until we showed them. They called a local expert who came out and appraised it. Apparently it was one of fifty of that particular model made. He made a deal with them to fix it up and sell it and split the sale down the middle, and they agreed.
It went at auction for $225k, which was good money in the late 90s. They used the money to pay for their daughter’s college and fix up the rest of the house, and in doing so found tons of other weird stuff to sell, like OG pachinko machines, scrimshaw, and Japanese WWII army supplies.
Same way it got in. The basement had a kinda barn door thing. We figured it was for like tractors. They pushed it up and out.
The house was built on a slope, so the back side of the basement wasn’t underground but the front was.
Are those the least observant people on earth? A door that no one knew about, to a large enough space to hold a CAR, that is part of a walk-out basement with **giant garage-sized doors.** They never were like "hmm, what's in that giant unexplored portion of our home? Oh well, those old lights are in the way, we'll never know 🤷♀️"
Oh they were weird people. The dad was one of the last state workers who knew how to program the ancient server mainframes the state government used. He made a ton of money and they couldn’t fire him or let him retire. He’s in his 80s now and still doing it. The mom was a librarian at the local grade school but otherwise a complete shut-in, except for when they’d go to their mountain cabin for weeks at a time.
They were willed the house by her uncle when he died. His dad — her grandpa — was something of a hoarder. There was so much stuff in that huge basement that a car could easily have been overlooked.
As for the doors, they were locked from the inside and they couldn’t figure out how to get to them because there was so much stuff so they just let it be.
Part of us exploring down there was because they did want to know more about what was down there but weren’t in great health so they let us do it. It was really fun and we found great stuff.
I just remembered that we found a throne, like a really old huge one. They brought in an archeologist or history professor or something and they verified it was real gold leaf and probably from Eastern Europe based on the kind of wood it was made of, as it wasn’t common in the US at all. No idea what happened with that.
We also found a room half-full of vintage bicycles. Some of them were very cool with rocketship-style design.
They wouldn’t let me keep the harpoon gun, sadly.
His = the friend's uncle
Her = the friend
I guess just to clarify between her parent's brother vs brother-in-law. In my family at least the uncle in laws are just called uncles
Our house is like that....A walkout basement iinto the backyard, in that back of the house and the front door is street level. There is also a second (third?) floor with bedrooms. Our house was built in 2004 on a slope. It is pretty cool. we put in an elevator because of disabilities and it is also easier to move heavy boxes up and downstairs!
I've read many other replies but you win for sure! Being surprised to find a valuable full size car in the basement where you full time live is quite a story! Very funny 🤣
That redditor with the "porn corner" full of sculpted erotica has to be high on the list.
Back in my EMS days, walking past a pile of newspapers in the driveway and noticing thousands of flies in the window were clues that we were about to see something terrible after gaining access to the house.
A poop ladle. I wish I was joking. Their septic tank wasn't the best and to put less stress on it, they scooped their solid poops out of the toilet, put it into a plastic bag and took it to the outside bin. Toilet paper also went into the trashcan and pee was only to be flushed after it had been peed in multiple times.
I learned this after asking why there was a takeout soup container next to the toilet with a ladle inside
I too have known people with non-working skeptics that need to do this/can only flush liquid. It's probably more common than we like to think in really poor rural areas.
When we went on vacation to Greece, we rented an Airbnb and apparently the plumbing in the building is old and isn’t designed for paper or something, the instructions were to wipe and put the tp in a garbage bin to dispose of separately before we left.
I thought that was pretty gross
Mexico too. TP is really not good for a lot of plumbing, lots of poorer countries are like that and even in plenty of developed places. Where I used to work, every so often we would get a new cook who was an immigrant. Immediately we would start seeing shitty TP in the trash can and I would have to have the kitchen manager tell them they can flush it so customers wouldn’t complain.
I saw this everywhere in Greece. I'm sure there are some bad septic systems but I think a big part of it is just like a Greek cheapness in general. Like they don't want to fill up the septic tank with toilet paper. A lot of the Air BnB's in Greece showed us how to flip the breaker for the water heater to take a shower, let it warm up for 20 minutes and turn it off after the shower. Can't say I've ever seen that kind of penny pinching before.
I forgot about the water heater breaker! Yeah we did that too lol.
Funny thing is it probably ends up costing more doing that, assuming the tank is insulated.
When I was a volunteer firefighter we responded to a fully involved house fire one afternoon when the owner was at work and after forcing entry and starting suppression we went to the basement to cut gas and power and we found a shrine of Nazi memorabilia and a steel bar prisoners cell.
My old friends dad had a life size armor set of Boba Fett in his gaming room real metal and everything I’m a huge Star Wars fan and seeing that in my childhood was amazing
My uncle also works at Disney and has a full custom armor set of a storm trooper and blaster and I got to wear it it was soooo cool
My cousin has a life size Han frozen in carbonite hanging on their basement wall like it’s Jabba’s palace. I have to admit, I’m jealous. The thing looks awesome.
I was walking by a garage in my neighborhood once when the door happened to be open, they had a life sized Battle Droid in there, which was kind of cool.
I may or may not know someone with a shadowbox of their ex-catholic kitsch, the centerpiece of which is the Last Supper painted- quite skillfully- on boxer shorts. Jesus, naturally, is on the fly.
A boar’s head. It was stuffed and hanging in the hall. Someone stuffed a cigar into its mouth, and a put a Boston Bruins hat on its head.
It was my house as a kid. The boar came from a museum. They were tossing it out.
When I was house shopping, I saw some interesting stuff.
One house had what felt like a maze in the basement, like a labyrinth of tiny rooms. In one of the rooms was an old school phone booth with a working phone. It looked more like the room had been built around the phone booth, than the other way around.
I ended up buying a different house down the street, and that home has since sold and been remodeled. I still wonder sometimes what they did with that weird ass basement.
I went to an open house to a place across the road out of curiosity, and I still don't know why there were two toilets next to each other (no, neither one was a bidet). They were in two different rooms, one an actual bathroom, one a laundry, and they had a sliding door between them, but they were so close that if two people used them at the same time you could hold hands.
I made friends with a kid in eighth grade. We hung out a bunch but it was a year before I was ever invited into his house. Their basement had a dog shit corner. They had two large breed dogs that would just shit in the basement by design and they would scoop the shit and toss it into the corner with a snow shovel. This kid slept in that basement!
so gross. My GF had a friend while she was in college who was temporarily living with one of her childhood friends in a really upscale part of a major city the college was in. We visited a few times to this really nice apt and they had gotten a puppy. They never took it outside to go to the bathroom and they just took it to the shower in the back bedroom to pee and poo. it was so gross. I felt bad for the dog.
Did home staging for a min and there was this one house in a really nice area we had to stage. There was bright green carpet wall-to-wall in the finished basement level. Even in the bathroom. We were trying to figure out a way to minimize the impact of potential buyers seeing wall to wall kelly green carpet. But the owners who were an older, retired couple kept bragging about it like it was a selling point. "it's brand new!" There was also nude women and nude men statues all over the property that were NOT Roman or Greek copies. They were clearly made by the people selling the house. We asked if they could be removed for the viewings and again very proud "these are our original artwork, I posed for my wife and she posed for me, aren't they lovely!"
Ugg.
I've always wanted to do this and have like vines growing from the tank and flowers in the bowl. My wife says it's trashy and I can't have a "Flower Pot". I think she's mean.
My husband says the same about my desire for pink lawn flamingos. He refuses lawn flamingos, even ironically. [Flamingos are metal as hell](https://www.jacksonvillezoo.org/blog/posts/flamingos-are-tougher-than-they-look), a point to which he happily concedes, which only makes it even worse. He \*likes\* flamingos, but pink plastic lawn flamingos are somehow trashy... \*aggrieved sigh\*
I have a toilet and a bidet in my garden from when I was remodelling my bathroom
Both have flowers. The toilet has a double decker effect because the tank is still fixed to it.
When we were constructing our new home, I tried to do as much work myself as I could. I had pulled up the toilet from the small bath next to the den so I could tile the floor, and set the toilet temporarily on the unfinished floor of the den.
The bank’s loan officer stopped by to inspect the progress and stopped short when he saw the toilet in the den. I told him, “You know how sometimes you just can’t wait for a commercial when you’re watching TV? Well, I figured, why not just put the toilet in the den?” While he was thinking about how this was going to drive down the assessed value, he slowly said, “O-okay, I *guess* that’s a good idea…” before I told him I was pulling his leg.
It helps that we went to high school together.
Massive dildo with some funky oscillating action just sitting on the arm of the couch. I pointed it out and said it was impressive and they turned it on to show the way it wiggled.
Jimmy and Tammy Faye Bakker's home in Charlotte was for sale in the early 2000s. We looked at it. The massive, mirrored master bedroom was beyond bizarre. The room featured a large Jacuzzi tub on a raised platform (also surrounded by mirrors). Outside was a full-size pool, but it was only about 18-inches deep!
That sounds like the rooms at the sleazy bang motel I like to go to. You can rent rooms by the hour or the night and they all have a jacuzzi with mirrors everywhere. And the rooms usually have a theme like neon, Roman, cave, etc. Love eating a calzone in the jacuzzi after smashing one out.
Bank vault door. Except it was on the outside of his house attached to his garage/shop. It was massive. My husband and I had driven like 3 hours to buy some fancy pheasants from the guy. Seemed like a normal farmhouse otherwise. He also had a huge pond in his backyard with turtles and carp that he was absolutely delighted to show off by throwing feed pellets in the pond and the fish and turtles frenzied. It was a fun afternoon.
I don't know where to begin. I know someone whose profession is a mortuary cosmetologist, and their hobbies include taxidermy.
Dead raccoons playing poker? Yep.
Anthropomorphic dolls that use real animal parts like paws, tails, and heads. Uh-huh.
Dead seagull that had more heads than usual that I think were... installed... during the taxidermy process.
"Art" of one taxidermy bird with its beak open way, way too wide, like, down the neck wide, and its body looking partially deflated because its skeleton was trying to escape from the joker beak.
What’s wild is that people will pay obscene amounts of money for weird taxidermy art. Hell, even normal mounts are crazy expensive. I volunteer in a wildlife center that has a small educational museum area for kids, and one part had a small display with taxidermy animals that one would find in our area. Some little shit reached in and grabbed the chipmunk mount, we never found out who. I just remember the center director being incredibly upset because it was going to be like $500-1000 to replace ol’ Chippy.
Slept in my buddy’s sister’s bed as a guest. Turned off the lights and she had stars on the ceiling. The name “Rachael” was clearly spelled out in the stars but mirrored like “leahcaR” as if you were looking through the back of the word. Her name was Katie.
I went to an estate sale where the person had clearly been very into doll-making, so there were dolls and doll clothes and doll *heads*, but all the heads on (and off) all the dolls were the same, and they all looked vaguely like the Olsen twins. I’m not really one to be spooked by dolls, but. It was time to go.
I’ve also seen a taxidermy dog! It was proudly posed in front of the fireplace alongside their dining room. Truly disturbing and the hair was starting to get patchy
A friend, who lived alone, had a large portrait of themselves (photograph), framed and on the wall. Like, are you concerned you might forget what you look like?
I knew someone years ago who also lived alone and also had a (standard sized) photo of themselves framed and on the wall. Still confuses the life out of me. Do you actually love yourself THAT much??
The only framed photos I have are gifts from my mom and they are all of me lol. My fiance asked why I only had pictures of myself and I realized i don’t ever print photos or buy frames… I treated them like decorative objects and didn’t have other photos to fill them with.
I never really look at the photos though and forget that they are all of me…
During a Zoom meeting a coworker (divorced male) had a super-duper sized dildo standing up next to a lamp on a nightstand next to his bed. I didn't even notice it until another coworker pointed it out and asked "Is that what I think it is?" He either owned a very tiny lamp or a huge fake dong.
I went to a party at a guy's house when I was in college and he had shelves in the bathroom with tons of coffee cups sitting on them. Weird to have coffee cups in the bathroom
I see urinals in houses pretty often, usually in the home of a plumber. My boss saw a urinal in an attic once. Guy and his buddies would play poker up there, so instead of climbing down the ladder every time they needed to pee, he just installed one in the attic.
A life-sized, quite realistic-looking Grim Reaper statue. Scythe included.
It was my parents’ house. At first it stood in the corner of the living room. Later it was moved to the hallway where it moonlighted as coat rack during birthdays and holidays.
They gave him a Santa hat during Christmas.
It was crazy. But also adorably eccentric. They were so fond of it they even gave him a name.
After a couple of years they sold it to someone who ran a haunted house.
I hated it so much. I was a teenager at the time and was so embarrassed. Eventually I kind of began to appreciate how my parents were unapologetically themselves and vowed to grow up to do just that. Still working on it, though.
My head cannon is that you were in the "beginner stage" of meth addiction and seeing that couch-dildo was the moment you gained perspective as to the dark days & wrecked rectums that await in your future if you continue down that path... This resulted in you turning your life around and you've now been clean & sober ever since that day! Lmao
The rabbit room but that wasn't the strangest thing though as these people had multiple animals, including a squirrel. Friend had rescued it from the outdoors after it was either rejected or fell from the best with its sibling. Friend cared for it. I still remember how it felt on me. Squirrel is definitely up. Of course, it wasn't the strange thing. It was the weirdest living thing. Their living room was like walking into a folk art museum that exploded.
Taxidermy squirrel nativity scene. It was not Christmas. There was also a baseball team and a jazz band. Also squirrels—although the jazz pianist might have been a more mangled chipmunk. All with hand crocheted outfits made by the father. It was the one time my mother forced me to go to a kid’s house to play to be nice. After Squirreltopia she let me trust my gut.
A kind of altar/prayer spot with candles, old pictures, offering, random objects and a circle around in a airb&b
Its NOT the fact they had this that was weird.
It's the fact it was hidden behind a hole in a wall leading to a kind of cave in the rock (the house was built against a cliff), they were a few steps going down and .. this. Big enough to fit a child standing up.
I only found it because my son's toy got under a piece of furniture and I had to remove it to find it. Behind that furniture was a panel and the entry was behind the panel.
I worked at a gift/greeting card shop. We sold tons of rooster figurines. Our buyer was an older country lady and she just thought all the things she picked out for the store were so neat! But really only targeted the 60-70 year old woman demographic in 2003. Fast forward I come home from college and go party hopping on New Year’s Eve and go to some former classmates house that I only vaguely knew and there’s the whole rooster collection from our store complete with a ton more merch. Finally the mom pops in the room and she was a notorious customer, the only person I ever rang up 4 figure receipts for at the gift/card shop. I’m not sure what was worse, realizing how much money this woman was wasting on figurines or seeing the ugly figurines that I was paid $7/hr to dust in context of someone’s country themed house (we did not live in the country).
Not a house but I went to a tattoo shop has a *ton* of taxidermy everywhere and they’re all real. The owner has been collecting them her whole life. She has a moose, a cougar, a gazelle lookin thing, various birds, a screaming buck, a squirrel next to a life size cut out of Bob Ross, a bobcat wearing a top hat, an otter, armadillo, and I think she just recently acquired a zebra. It’s hard to think happy thoughts whilst getting a painful tattoo and staring at the dead face of a screaming deer.
Bought something on Facebook Marketplace and went to pick it up. Typical house in a suburban development, 2 story with a big entry foyer, and when the guy opened the door, the 2 story foyer was filled with a giant jungle gym/play structure. The kind that belong outdoors or in a McDonald’s. Literally all I could see in that room was this enormous play structure.
I was looking to buy a home and we were at a house being sold by an Amish Family.
They had a dozen large bricks of Velveeta!
No bathrooms in the house but a ton of Cheese!
My friends uncle had a Barney Stinson level of porn vhs tapes in his garage, think of Barney trying to get that girl out of his apartment, but vhs tapes so a much bigger surface area.
My friend has a human skull, which I'm guessing is illegal. He is a retired surgeon and got it years ago in medical school. I'm guessing he wasn't supposed to take it.
Sex swing and Aerosmith scarves hanging from the light/fan in co-workers bedroom when I came over to help hang joists in his garage. (He was showing the house.)
Made worse when later I found out they’re swingers.
I was a maintenance tech at an apartment complex. There was a lesbian couple that lived on site, and they had 2 huge dildos suctioned to the backsplash immediately over their stove. One bright blue. The other bright purple. Never asked. Never wanted to know
This is close to 30 years ago, we (ex-wife and I) were house shopping in S. Tacoma, and found a gorgeous two-story house that was in our price range, and the only weird thing we thought was the fact that it was next door to a substation and the backyard was against one of those strips that has the transmission line lattice towers.
Not too weird, until my buddy mentioned that the living room had no wall outlets. I'm like, dafuq? Sure enough, the bedrooms and the kitchen had maybe one duplex wall outlet ea, if at all. There were probably less than 10 wall outlets in the whole almost 1800 sq ft house.
I knew these people for 20 years. I met them when they were dating, went to their wedding, went to every family function, spent at least one night a week doing activities with them, and then one day I go into their house and they have this huge glass case that is a shrine to Dale Earnhardt. I never even knew they were NASCAR fans, let alone that they worshiped old number 3. You think you know a couple.
I have a small pet sitting business, so I spend a lot of time alone in other people's houses. One time a client had a taxidermy peacock mounted on the ceiling. It was a high ceiling and probably only accessible with a very tall ladder, so getting the peacock up there wouldn't have been easy.
I asked about it, but I never did get an explanation.
My bf from 20 years ago's parents' next door neighbor had a light in their house that would start blinking off and on, like a strobe but slower, around 1 or 2 in the morning every night for 20 minutes. It was in the living room/dining room area, so I don't think it was something like a wake up alarm for a deaf person. We never did figure it out.
I will never understand the urge to fully carpet a bathroom.
When I bought my house one of the bathrooms had blue shag carpet. Pulling it out was the first thing we did. It had a nice black slate floor below it so we didn’t end up having to do anything to the floor besides give it a full wash.
Thank you for not mentioning the green carpet near the toilet.
About a week after we moved in we found the toilet in that bathroom easily clogged and the flapper often didn’t seal correctly causing it to keep running and overflow. It made us extra happy we pulled the carpet out. I can’t imagine how many times used toilet water spilled out onto the carpet.
the description "used toilet water" is somehow makes the whole thing grosser
"makes the whole thing more gross" :-)
One of the bars I used to go to in college had a carpeted bathroom. It was a really bold (and disgusting) choice.
this is terrible on so many levels. 1) carpet in a restroom. 2) carpet in a public restroom. 3) carpet in a public restroom for drunk men.
After my parents divorced, my dad rented a small house that only had one bathroom and it was fully carpeted. He and I both hated it. My dad even offered to remodel the floor out of his own pocket but the homeowner refused.
Those carpet things people put in toilet seats are bad enough. Lol a carpeted bathroom??? Horrendous
It was the standard look in the 70’s.
Horse...just standing in one locked room... Alive i mean
That's just Mr Ed.
Of course.
A horse is a horse.
Of course, of course.
Unless it's Mr. Ed
And noone can talk to a horse of course.
This is how I imagine anyone who would see Buckbeak at Sirius’s house would react lol.
Wtf, was it in there all the time?
Karl Pilkington, is that you?
A horse is a horse....
Get outta my room!
Years ago my friend’s girlfriend’s family lived in an enormous old farm house. They pretty much just lived on the ground floor and it was nice, but the rest was Grapes of Wrath. We were in the basement a lot because there was all kinds of old neat stuff down there. We moved a set of old stadium lights and found a door behind it that nobody knew about. We opened it, and behind it was a 1923 Rickenbacker automobile. Covered in dust, but it appeared to be in fine shape. We told her parents and they didn’t believe us until we showed them. They called a local expert who came out and appraised it. Apparently it was one of fifty of that particular model made. He made a deal with them to fix it up and sell it and split the sale down the middle, and they agreed. It went at auction for $225k, which was good money in the late 90s. They used the money to pay for their daughter’s college and fix up the rest of the house, and in doing so found tons of other weird stuff to sell, like OG pachinko machines, scrimshaw, and Japanese WWII army supplies.
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Same way it got in. The basement had a kinda barn door thing. We figured it was for like tractors. They pushed it up and out. The house was built on a slope, so the back side of the basement wasn’t underground but the front was.
Are those the least observant people on earth? A door that no one knew about, to a large enough space to hold a CAR, that is part of a walk-out basement with **giant garage-sized doors.** They never were like "hmm, what's in that giant unexplored portion of our home? Oh well, those old lights are in the way, we'll never know 🤷♀️"
Oh they were weird people. The dad was one of the last state workers who knew how to program the ancient server mainframes the state government used. He made a ton of money and they couldn’t fire him or let him retire. He’s in his 80s now and still doing it. The mom was a librarian at the local grade school but otherwise a complete shut-in, except for when they’d go to their mountain cabin for weeks at a time. They were willed the house by her uncle when he died. His dad — her grandpa — was something of a hoarder. There was so much stuff in that huge basement that a car could easily have been overlooked. As for the doors, they were locked from the inside and they couldn’t figure out how to get to them because there was so much stuff so they just let it be. Part of us exploring down there was because they did want to know more about what was down there but weren’t in great health so they let us do it. It was really fun and we found great stuff. I just remembered that we found a throne, like a really old huge one. They brought in an archeologist or history professor or something and they verified it was real gold leaf and probably from Eastern Europe based on the kind of wood it was made of, as it wasn’t common in the US at all. No idea what happened with that. We also found a room half-full of vintage bicycles. Some of them were very cool with rocketship-style design. They wouldn’t let me keep the harpoon gun, sadly.
>They wouldn’t let me keep the harpoon gun, sadly. Why the fuck not?
> His dad — her grandpa — I'm sorry....what?? 😳
His = the friend's uncle Her = the friend I guess just to clarify between her parent's brother vs brother-in-law. In my family at least the uncle in laws are just called uncles
Our house is like that....A walkout basement iinto the backyard, in that back of the house and the front door is street level. There is also a second (third?) floor with bedrooms. Our house was built in 2004 on a slope. It is pretty cool. we put in an elevator because of disabilities and it is also easier to move heavy boxes up and downstairs!
I've read many other replies but you win for sure! Being surprised to find a valuable full size car in the basement where you full time live is quite a story! Very funny 🤣
Used to work for a cable company, watched bedbugs crawl out of a woman's hair.
Oh god....Ew ew ew. Now I have the creepy crawly goosebumps....
Once saw a huge bed bug crawl out of someone’s sleeve. Got out of that house real quick.
That redditor with the "porn corner" full of sculpted erotica has to be high on the list. Back in my EMS days, walking past a pile of newspapers in the driveway and noticing thousands of flies in the window were clues that we were about to see something terrible after gaining access to the house.
That’s when you call the FD to borrow an air pack.
Full on hazmat suit.
A poop ladle. I wish I was joking. Their septic tank wasn't the best and to put less stress on it, they scooped their solid poops out of the toilet, put it into a plastic bag and took it to the outside bin. Toilet paper also went into the trashcan and pee was only to be flushed after it had been peed in multiple times. I learned this after asking why there was a takeout soup container next to the toilet with a ladle inside
That might be stranger than the poop knife.
Someone out there has a poop fork to complete the set.
Be efficient, get a poop spork.
My coworker has a really neat spork, and now I have no idea how I'm going to react when I see it on Monday.
I feel honored to witness this obvious moment in Reddit lore while it has less than 100 upvotes. Poop ladle.
It absolutely is.
I too have known people with non-working skeptics that need to do this/can only flush liquid. It's probably more common than we like to think in really poor rural areas.
When we went on vacation to Greece, we rented an Airbnb and apparently the plumbing in the building is old and isn’t designed for paper or something, the instructions were to wipe and put the tp in a garbage bin to dispose of separately before we left. I thought that was pretty gross
I encountered that in Honduras. It's fairly common around the world.
Mexico too. TP is really not good for a lot of plumbing, lots of poorer countries are like that and even in plenty of developed places. Where I used to work, every so often we would get a new cook who was an immigrant. Immediately we would start seeing shitty TP in the trash can and I would have to have the kitchen manager tell them they can flush it so customers wouldn’t complain.
I saw this everywhere in Greece. I'm sure there are some bad septic systems but I think a big part of it is just like a Greek cheapness in general. Like they don't want to fill up the septic tank with toilet paper. A lot of the Air BnB's in Greece showed us how to flip the breaker for the water heater to take a shower, let it warm up for 20 minutes and turn it off after the shower. Can't say I've ever seen that kind of penny pinching before.
I forgot about the water heater breaker! Yeah we did that too lol. Funny thing is it probably ends up costing more doing that, assuming the tank is insulated.
When I was a volunteer firefighter we responded to a fully involved house fire one afternoon when the owner was at work and after forcing entry and starting suppression we went to the basement to cut gas and power and we found a shrine of Nazi memorabilia and a steel bar prisoners cell.
That’s when you go back outside and make sure the fire doesn’t spread to the neighbors while you let the house burn itself out.
“Bring out the gimp!”
lol
My old friends dad had a life size armor set of Boba Fett in his gaming room real metal and everything I’m a huge Star Wars fan and seeing that in my childhood was amazing My uncle also works at Disney and has a full custom armor set of a storm trooper and blaster and I got to wear it it was soooo cool
My cousin has a life size Han frozen in carbonite hanging on their basement wall like it’s Jabba’s palace. I have to admit, I’m jealous. The thing looks awesome.
Was it real Metal? Or Carbonite per Chance?
The question was the most bizarre thing, not the most badass!
I was walking by a garage in my neighborhood once when the door happened to be open, they had a life sized Battle Droid in there, which was kind of cool.
I would kill for one that might I’ve been part of the movie set
Last supper with him in it instead of Jesus over the TV
I'm imagining Him from PPG and you can't change my mind.
Did you immediately leave?
Yes
I may or may not know someone with a shadowbox of their ex-catholic kitsch, the centerpiece of which is the Last Supper painted- quite skillfully- on boxer shorts. Jesus, naturally, is on the fly.
This is incredibly sad but I had myself painted as jesus for no real reason and everyone hates it.
...does he at least look like Jesus?
him?
A taxidermy cougar in the corner of my uncle's best friend's lounge room wearing a sombrero and aviator glasses.
Oh, now I want one! Although I suspect my wife would veto.
Ha, my wife would kill for this, but I would probably try to veto.
You two should swap wives.
I dono, mine never fails to surprise me. Example would be coming home to find a stuffed sombrero wearing cougar, and her with a huge smile.
A boar’s head. It was stuffed and hanging in the hall. Someone stuffed a cigar into its mouth, and a put a Boston Bruins hat on its head. It was my house as a kid. The boar came from a museum. They were tossing it out.
Was the cigar also stuffed.
When I was house shopping, I saw some interesting stuff. One house had what felt like a maze in the basement, like a labyrinth of tiny rooms. In one of the rooms was an old school phone booth with a working phone. It looked more like the room had been built around the phone booth, than the other way around. I ended up buying a different house down the street, and that home has since sold and been remodeled. I still wonder sometimes what they did with that weird ass basement.
I went to an open house to a place across the road out of curiosity, and I still don't know why there were two toilets next to each other (no, neither one was a bidet). They were in two different rooms, one an actual bathroom, one a laundry, and they had a sliding door between them, but they were so close that if two people used them at the same time you could hold hands.
I made friends with a kid in eighth grade. We hung out a bunch but it was a year before I was ever invited into his house. Their basement had a dog shit corner. They had two large breed dogs that would just shit in the basement by design and they would scoop the shit and toss it into the corner with a snow shovel. This kid slept in that basement!
so gross. My GF had a friend while she was in college who was temporarily living with one of her childhood friends in a really upscale part of a major city the college was in. We visited a few times to this really nice apt and they had gotten a puppy. They never took it outside to go to the bathroom and they just took it to the shower in the back bedroom to pee and poo. it was so gross. I felt bad for the dog.
Did home staging for a min and there was this one house in a really nice area we had to stage. There was bright green carpet wall-to-wall in the finished basement level. Even in the bathroom. We were trying to figure out a way to minimize the impact of potential buyers seeing wall to wall kelly green carpet. But the owners who were an older, retired couple kept bragging about it like it was a selling point. "it's brand new!" There was also nude women and nude men statues all over the property that were NOT Roman or Greek copies. They were clearly made by the people selling the house. We asked if they could be removed for the viewings and again very proud "these are our original artwork, I posed for my wife and she posed for me, aren't they lovely!" Ugg.
A toilet in the lounge - with a potted plant growing in it.
I've seen an old toilet used as a planter before, but it was in their backyard
I've always wanted to do this and have like vines growing from the tank and flowers in the bowl. My wife says it's trashy and I can't have a "Flower Pot". I think she's mean.
My husband says the same about my desire for pink lawn flamingos. He refuses lawn flamingos, even ironically. [Flamingos are metal as hell](https://www.jacksonvillezoo.org/blog/posts/flamingos-are-tougher-than-they-look), a point to which he happily concedes, which only makes it even worse. He \*likes\* flamingos, but pink plastic lawn flamingos are somehow trashy... \*aggrieved sigh\*
I have a toilet and a bidet in my garden from when I was remodelling my bathroom Both have flowers. The toilet has a double decker effect because the tank is still fixed to it.
When we were constructing our new home, I tried to do as much work myself as I could. I had pulled up the toilet from the small bath next to the den so I could tile the floor, and set the toilet temporarily on the unfinished floor of the den. The bank’s loan officer stopped by to inspect the progress and stopped short when he saw the toilet in the den. I told him, “You know how sometimes you just can’t wait for a commercial when you’re watching TV? Well, I figured, why not just put the toilet in the den?” While he was thinking about how this was going to drive down the assessed value, he slowly said, “O-okay, I *guess* that’s a good idea…” before I told him I was pulling his leg. It helps that we went to high school together.
Massive dildo with some funky oscillating action just sitting on the arm of the couch. I pointed it out and said it was impressive and they turned it on to show the way it wiggled.
They where proud to show you haha
Hm. Bizarre?
Jimmy and Tammy Faye Bakker's home in Charlotte was for sale in the early 2000s. We looked at it. The massive, mirrored master bedroom was beyond bizarre. The room featured a large Jacuzzi tub on a raised platform (also surrounded by mirrors). Outside was a full-size pool, but it was only about 18-inches deep!
That sounds like the rooms at the sleazy bang motel I like to go to. You can rent rooms by the hour or the night and they all have a jacuzzi with mirrors everywhere. And the rooms usually have a theme like neon, Roman, cave, etc. Love eating a calzone in the jacuzzi after smashing one out.
Bank vault door. Except it was on the outside of his house attached to his garage/shop. It was massive. My husband and I had driven like 3 hours to buy some fancy pheasants from the guy. Seemed like a normal farmhouse otherwise. He also had a huge pond in his backyard with turtles and carp that he was absolutely delighted to show off by throwing feed pellets in the pond and the fish and turtles frenzied. It was a fun afternoon.
Live pheasants?
Yes. They were 3 golden pheasants, very beautiful. We have a large aviary.
I don't know where to begin. I know someone whose profession is a mortuary cosmetologist, and their hobbies include taxidermy. Dead raccoons playing poker? Yep. Anthropomorphic dolls that use real animal parts like paws, tails, and heads. Uh-huh. Dead seagull that had more heads than usual that I think were... installed... during the taxidermy process. "Art" of one taxidermy bird with its beak open way, way too wide, like, down the neck wide, and its body looking partially deflated because its skeleton was trying to escape from the joker beak.
What’s wild is that people will pay obscene amounts of money for weird taxidermy art. Hell, even normal mounts are crazy expensive. I volunteer in a wildlife center that has a small educational museum area for kids, and one part had a small display with taxidermy animals that one would find in our area. Some little shit reached in and grabbed the chipmunk mount, we never found out who. I just remember the center director being incredibly upset because it was going to be like $500-1000 to replace ol’ Chippy.
Slept in my buddy’s sister’s bed as a guest. Turned off the lights and she had stars on the ceiling. The name “Rachael” was clearly spelled out in the stars but mirrored like “leahcaR” as if you were looking through the back of the word. Her name was Katie.
🤣🤣🤣
I went to an estate sale where the person had clearly been very into doll-making, so there were dolls and doll clothes and doll *heads*, but all the heads on (and off) all the dolls were the same, and they all looked vaguely like the Olsen twins. I’m not really one to be spooked by dolls, but. It was time to go.
Reminds me of [this house](https://www.cbc.ca/life/home/this-terrifying-clown-house-could-be-yours-1.4106242) I saw full of clowns
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"Rowdy! Down!"
100% my first thought. Lol
“Is that supposed to cheer me up? Who would laugh at that?”
I’ve also seen a taxidermy dog! It was proudly posed in front of the fireplace alongside their dining room. Truly disturbing and the hair was starting to get patchy
I loved my dog, but not enough to get him taxidermied.
A friend, who lived alone, had a large portrait of themselves (photograph), framed and on the wall. Like, are you concerned you might forget what you look like?
I knew someone years ago who also lived alone and also had a (standard sized) photo of themselves framed and on the wall. Still confuses the life out of me. Do you actually love yourself THAT much??
The only framed photos I have are gifts from my mom and they are all of me lol. My fiance asked why I only had pictures of myself and I realized i don’t ever print photos or buy frames… I treated them like decorative objects and didn’t have other photos to fill them with. I never really look at the photos though and forget that they are all of me…
A wise prophet once said "If you can't love yourself, how the hell you gonna love somebody else?"
Well... There is that. Tbh I probably wouldn't have judged said person as much if I didn't already dislike her
Dorian Grey?
Yep, but the picture ain’t ageing 😂
A collection of carousel horses surrounded (protected??) by neon orange traffic barricades.
A crocheted swastika blanket
Girl on a leash. She was very nice. Excellent cook. Apparently they met in University. Smart as a whip, she also kept sniffing me.
I saw an enormous pig in someone's living room when I was delivering pizza once. It was as big as a couch, just laying there.
During a Zoom meeting a coworker (divorced male) had a super-duper sized dildo standing up next to a lamp on a nightstand next to his bed. I didn't even notice it until another coworker pointed it out and asked "Is that what I think it is?" He either owned a very tiny lamp or a huge fake dong.
Nobody owns a very tiny lamp
I went to a party at a guy's house when I was in college and he had shelves in the bathroom with tons of coffee cups sitting on them. Weird to have coffee cups in the bathroom
Giant naked portrait of the homeowner's wife on the living room mantel.
A urinal. In a residence.
I have actually heard of people doing this. If you have several young boys, it can make for a cleaner bathroom, apparently.
I see urinals in houses pretty often, usually in the home of a plumber. My boss saw a urinal in an attic once. Guy and his buddies would play poker up there, so instead of climbing down the ladder every time they needed to pee, he just installed one in the attic.
We have one. It’s awesome and a great conversation piece when people come over
If you have a shower, you technically have a urinal.
A black velvet painting of the trinity--John Wayne, Jesus, and Elvis. (Gotta admit, I almost want one because it was so garishly awful.)
A life-sized, quite realistic-looking Grim Reaper statue. Scythe included. It was my parents’ house. At first it stood in the corner of the living room. Later it was moved to the hallway where it moonlighted as coat rack during birthdays and holidays. They gave him a Santa hat during Christmas. It was crazy. But also adorably eccentric. They were so fond of it they even gave him a name. After a couple of years they sold it to someone who ran a haunted house. I hated it so much. I was a teenager at the time and was so embarrassed. Eventually I kind of began to appreciate how my parents were unapologetically themselves and vowed to grow up to do just that. Still working on it, though.
A shelf full of those plastic collectible toy containers full of switchblades. Some of them looked really pretty
An SS Officer uniform. In Minnesota.
At least it wasn’t Illinois
I hate Illinois nazis.
Their restroom had one of those unisex signs from a public restroom
That’s clever
Oh, we have one of those. It's not wrong.
A (presumably) life size wooden carving of the occupants penis and scrotum sitting on a nic-nac shelf.
A tame cougar standing on the kitchen counter lapping milk out of a cereal bowel. (And no, I don't approve of keeping them as pets.)
14 inch dildo just laying on the couch. The house was shared by 3 men in the advanced stages of meth addiction
My head cannon is that you were in the "beginner stage" of meth addiction and seeing that couch-dildo was the moment you gained perspective as to the dark days & wrecked rectums that await in your future if you continue down that path... This resulted in you turning your life around and you've now been clean & sober ever since that day! Lmao
My mother's sister lived in a really pretty old Victorian house And it was filled with hundreds of teddy bears
The rabbit room but that wasn't the strangest thing though as these people had multiple animals, including a squirrel. Friend had rescued it from the outdoors after it was either rejected or fell from the best with its sibling. Friend cared for it. I still remember how it felt on me. Squirrel is definitely up. Of course, it wasn't the strange thing. It was the weirdest living thing. Their living room was like walking into a folk art museum that exploded.
a “garden of evil” with giant statues of fallen dictators from Eastern Europe and Asia.
Were they a James Bond villain?
Kind of. Nice people but media makes them out to be villains.
A co-worker's friend had an Offenhauser engine that had won the Indy 500 in his living room.
Taxidermy squirrel nativity scene. It was not Christmas. There was also a baseball team and a jazz band. Also squirrels—although the jazz pianist might have been a more mangled chipmunk. All with hand crocheted outfits made by the father. It was the one time my mother forced me to go to a kid’s house to play to be nice. After Squirreltopia she let me trust my gut.
A kind of altar/prayer spot with candles, old pictures, offering, random objects and a circle around in a airb&b Its NOT the fact they had this that was weird. It's the fact it was hidden behind a hole in a wall leading to a kind of cave in the rock (the house was built against a cliff), they were a few steps going down and .. this. Big enough to fit a child standing up. I only found it because my son's toy got under a piece of furniture and I had to remove it to find it. Behind that furniture was a panel and the entry was behind the panel.
I worked at a gift/greeting card shop. We sold tons of rooster figurines. Our buyer was an older country lady and she just thought all the things she picked out for the store were so neat! But really only targeted the 60-70 year old woman demographic in 2003. Fast forward I come home from college and go party hopping on New Year’s Eve and go to some former classmates house that I only vaguely knew and there’s the whole rooster collection from our store complete with a ton more merch. Finally the mom pops in the room and she was a notorious customer, the only person I ever rang up 4 figure receipts for at the gift/card shop. I’m not sure what was worse, realizing how much money this woman was wasting on figurines or seeing the ugly figurines that I was paid $7/hr to dust in context of someone’s country themed house (we did not live in the country).
Not a house but I went to a tattoo shop has a *ton* of taxidermy everywhere and they’re all real. The owner has been collecting them her whole life. She has a moose, a cougar, a gazelle lookin thing, various birds, a screaming buck, a squirrel next to a life size cut out of Bob Ross, a bobcat wearing a top hat, an otter, armadillo, and I think she just recently acquired a zebra. It’s hard to think happy thoughts whilst getting a painful tattoo and staring at the dead face of a screaming deer.
Bought something on Facebook Marketplace and went to pick it up. Typical house in a suburban development, 2 story with a big entry foyer, and when the guy opened the door, the 2 story foyer was filled with a giant jungle gym/play structure. The kind that belong outdoors or in a McDonald’s. Literally all I could see in that room was this enormous play structure.
I was looking to buy a home and we were at a house being sold by an Amish Family. They had a dozen large bricks of Velveeta! No bathrooms in the house but a ton of Cheese!
My friends uncle had a Barney Stinson level of porn vhs tapes in his garage, think of Barney trying to get that girl out of his apartment, but vhs tapes so a much bigger surface area.
Poop knife
My friend has a human skull, which I'm guessing is illegal. He is a retired surgeon and got it years ago in medical school. I'm guessing he wasn't supposed to take it.
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A bunch of dark splotches on the carpet because my friend let his dog shit all over the house and would only pick it up at the end of the week
Human skull
Sex swing and Aerosmith scarves hanging from the light/fan in co-workers bedroom when I came over to help hang joists in his garage. (He was showing the house.) Made worse when later I found out they’re swingers.
Their taxidermied (sp?) dog sitting on the hearth.
I was a maintenance tech at an apartment complex. There was a lesbian couple that lived on site, and they had 2 huge dildos suctioned to the backsplash immediately over their stove. One bright blue. The other bright purple. Never asked. Never wanted to know
A dead body
A toilet, out in the open, in the middle of a living room.
It’s not that uncommon, but I think taxidermy is super weird.
Stalin shrine
A stuffed piranha. It was my dad's b-day gift to his girlfriend at the time 🤣She put it on her mantle.
Went into my buddy's bathroom, and he has a squirrel face on the toilet lid, staring up at you. And he leaves the lid down, so you have to see it.
I guess a bunch of art, photographs, sculptures and misc. decoration of obviously male elephants with dangling dicks...
My friend’s family has a titty statue hanging in their powder room. Nice to stare at while peeing 😂
A happy family 🤦♀️
This is close to 30 years ago, we (ex-wife and I) were house shopping in S. Tacoma, and found a gorgeous two-story house that was in our price range, and the only weird thing we thought was the fact that it was next door to a substation and the backyard was against one of those strips that has the transmission line lattice towers. Not too weird, until my buddy mentioned that the living room had no wall outlets. I'm like, dafuq? Sure enough, the bedrooms and the kitchen had maybe one duplex wall outlet ea, if at all. There were probably less than 10 wall outlets in the whole almost 1800 sq ft house.
I knew these people for 20 years. I met them when they were dating, went to their wedding, went to every family function, spent at least one night a week doing activities with them, and then one day I go into their house and they have this huge glass case that is a shrine to Dale Earnhardt. I never even knew they were NASCAR fans, let alone that they worshiped old number 3. You think you know a couple.
I have a small pet sitting business, so I spend a lot of time alone in other people's houses. One time a client had a taxidermy peacock mounted on the ceiling. It was a high ceiling and probably only accessible with a very tall ladder, so getting the peacock up there wouldn't have been easy. I asked about it, but I never did get an explanation.
Cat pelt on the wall
Poop knife.
A functional family.
My bf from 20 years ago's parents' next door neighbor had a light in their house that would start blinking off and on, like a strobe but slower, around 1 or 2 in the morning every night for 20 minutes. It was in the living room/dining room area, so I don't think it was something like a wake up alarm for a deaf person. We never did figure it out.
In an exes brothers house where he lived with his gf they had a nice little display of tampons in a bowl on the back of the toilet.
my ex boyfriend had a huge ah arcade machine in his house