6 weird and funny things we found in apartments
A Life Avitonomika / / January 06, 2021
1. Half a million rubles (almost)
“Several years ago I started working as a cleaner. About a month later, I was called to clean my recently purchased apartment. I cleaned up the rooms and set to work in the kitchen. They ordered a general cleaning, so it was necessary to pay attention to even the most inaccessible places. I climbed to wipe the surface of kitchen cabinets from dust. I put my hand into the gap between the cabinet and the ceiling and realized that there was something lying there. She took it out - and this is a wad of money, wrapped in a transparent bag!
I came to these clients for the first time and did not know: maybe they check me like that? Therefore, I immediately decided to give the find to the owner of the apartment. To say that she was glad is to say nothing! The bag contained 400,000 rubles. Apparently, the previous owners of the apartment put them on the locker. By the way, I also got a good bonus for finding and being honest. Frankly speaking, it was the highest paid cleaning of my career. "
Olga, Moscow.
2. Book in chinese
“In the fall I returned to Tomsk to graduate from the university. I rented a large apartment in the center with a friend and found a lot of beautiful things there. The best of them is a book in Chinese and a huge selection of Asian spices. Both finds amuse me to this day. On the cover of the book, her title - "Big Breasts and Wide Ass" - is duplicated in English. And it is also noted that the work received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012. But there are no more familiar symbols in the book, only hieroglyphs.
I remember that for two weeks I wondered why the previous tenants did not take such a masterpiece with them. Then I stopped and now I just show the book to all the guests.
Another joy is the mass of, to put it mildly, specifically smelling spices. Of course, I did not take them out of the bag, but wrapped them in three more bags and put them in the far drawer in the kitchen. But still I wonder what they cooked with them. I will definitely leave both things to the next tenants as an inheritance. Because the sensations from such finds are incredible. "
Semyon, Tomsk.
3. Reproduction of painting by Gustav Klimt
“I rented an apartment at Five Corners in the center of St. Petersburg, and I really disliked it. Everything was too simple and primitive there, there was nothing to catch the eye. Tiny little rooms, minimalistic renovation. And nothing could be changed. I love sleeping on a mattress and, in order to somehow diversify my life, I decided to move the closet to another part of the room, and put a mattress in its place. And so, when I moved the furniture, I saw that there was something lying around. To my surprise and delight, it was a painting by Gustav Klimt "The Kiss".
I just adore this artist, for me it was cooler than finding diamonds. I even “forgiven” this apartment - because now it was not some trivial dwelling, but the place where I found Klimt behind the closet! Triumphantly, I hung the picture on the wall above my mattress and was happy. Even though my find differed in color from the original. An authentic canvas of fresher and more golden hues, that period of Klimt's work is called exactly golden. When I moved, I took my Kiss with me and hung it in a new place. "
Lena, St. Petersburg.
4. Kilometers of scotch tape
“At the dawn of family life, my husband and I rented an apartment. We didn’t find fault at that time: we had just graduated from the university, and finances did not allow us to immediately rent luxury housing. We found the most ordinary apartment, upon a cursory examination it seemed to us that everything was in order, so we immediately settled in. The first thing I did was to wash and clean everything up. Then it turned out that the previous tenants had a brilliant life hack: if something went wrong, fasten it with tape. It literally held the whole apartment: wallpaper, baseboards, linoleum, bathroom taps, kitchen furniture, doors. Everything around was covered with scotch tape! When I peeled off the duct tape, everything fell off. In the end, we made a small but thorough renovation and were very happy to get rid of the tape. But most of all, the owner of the apartment was pleased - he did not know about this sticky surprise from the past tenants. "
Masha, Ulyanovsk.
5. Money. Lots of old money
“20 years ago we moved to Ulyanovsk and my parents bought a house from my grandmother. She was known among the neighbors as very tight-fisted and, however, during the sale she was very reluctant to bargain, trying to get more money out of us for each chair left in the house. But the deal took place, we checked in and started repairs.
And then something strange began: we began to find money all over the house. They lay literally in archaeological layers: from Soviet coins, three rubles and fives to early Russian hundreds and thousands, and even a couple of new hundred rubles. The money was under the floor, in the cracks in the wooden ceiling, behind the wallpaper, in the corners of the furniture, behind the gas boiler. In general, they have collected an impressive collection of irrelevant payment instruments. It remains a mystery to us what this mysterious system of storing savings is. Maybe the former mistress put her money in and forgot, or maybe her husband hid the stash like that and did not have time to reveal information about the treasures to her. "
Alexey, Ulyanovsk.
6. Piano and crocodiles
“My wife and I were looking for an apartment to move. We found a good three-ruble note with a renovation in the style of "well, you can live" - wallpaper, linoleum, no furniture, except for an iron sink in the kitchen. We walk with the owners, look and suddenly op - a piano! The standard is "Swallow". We asked: “Will you take him?” - but they said that the piano was given to us as a gift along with the apartment. We even clarified whether it is possible to do without gifts, but the owners joked - they say, sell on Avito. OK. As a result, I learned that such a piano has no value and is sold on the principle “free, only self-pickup”. And it weighs more than 200 kilograms. We were lucky - the head of the house turned out to be a musician and agreed to take him for himself. How the four of us pulled it out is another story.
Another funny incident was when I found small crocodiles in a rented apartment. They were placed everywhere. I called the owner, but it turned out that nobody forgot the crocodiles - they were a design element. "
Alexander, Yoshkar-Ola.
On Avito you can find both a huge apartment with a designer renovation and a studio without furniture. The site has the ability to conveniently sort both offers only from homeowners and options from real estate agents. If a room is enough for you, but you are not considering the whole apartment yet, you too are here: in the section Avito Real Estate you can find living space of any size.
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