OK I have tried my hardest; I made light of the creepy hospital bed, I barely wispered a word about the tires, gas can, kiddie pools, shovels, hoses and various other items shoved under the tree in the back yard, and I have happily fixed MANY design flaws throughout this house with no complaint - BUT I have been pushed too far now - I am totally making judgements on the past owners of this house ...... I just spent the past 3 weekends getting the basement cleaned up ...... here are my revelations:
A) there was a closet alcoholic - or two living there
B) they were hoarders, big time
C) I think someone must have worked at a public school and stole things
D) they had no problem living with/in filth
E) they probably sold the house because they had respitory problems - partially from the mould and partially because they were smokers - evidence of BOTH in the basement F) they had NO idea how to properly build a shelf
G) they, at some point, operated what appears to be a butcher shop in their basement
H) bad children were sent to the basement
I) They would rather build a floor to hide the fireplace ash than clean it up!
J) They cared enough to keep things for 30 years but didn't care to take it with them
K) They required a freezer to hold water & plastic bags
L) The mess in the basement has produced 1 trailer full of metal, 2 trailers full of wood & 8 bags of garbage!
M) They didn't think it was too dirty to do their laundry down there, but it was too dirty for their child to wear his slippers down there (a note written on the door!)
N) There was a collection of childrens school pictures scattered on the floor - assuming these are the friends of the children, creepy regardless!
O) They collected rocks, large stones, bricks & multiple spare tiles (not found in their own decor!) in the basement
P) I found a glass shard dug into a wood beam - I have linked it to that bad child room
Q) There was a hidden spoon in a hole in the foundation - I assume a childs failed escape attempt
R) The basement may not have been only for children - there was also a shower stool down there - bad seniors?
S)They liked insects - evident from the multiple species they allowed to live there!
T) They mistook the sub-pump hole for a garbage can - multiple times
U) They collected fishing poles, and passed them down to us .... who passed them into the garbage!
V) They found it important to store empty boxes - not to package items in when they moved, but to give the mould a place to florish!
W) They owned a fake Christmas tree, and we all know I am a real tree person - that speaks volumes about these people!
X) They were high all winter - maybe not intentionally, but their old boiler (which they said "worked fine") was producing something like 4 times the recommended amount of CO2(?) - it was red flagged and we we not allowed to use it!
Y) It appears they though stapling pieces of insulation (the really itchy stuff) to the walls would make a difference - really, turns out just another place for mold to grow!
Z) Everytime after I spend a few hours down there I am wildly thirsty and need to drink ALOT of water - abnormal amounts. This is not a judgement on them, more of a curious fact on the basement!
..... ok, there you have it, and A-Z list of what we have uncovered in the basement! If these walls could talk I am really afraid of what they would tell me!
XO,
S
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