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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat is the strangest thing you have seen in someone's house? In the kitchen of a neighbor, I saw a room full of
strawberry decorations--wallpaper, cookie jars, curtains. dishes. etc. How about you?
EYESORE 9001
(29,793 posts)between a stretched Harley in this guys living room (some assembly/disassembly required) and a cyclotron in another guys living room, where we were trying to get it working.

That is not me.
debm55
(61,054 posts)
debm55
(61,054 posts)Deuxcents
(27,170 posts)I walked in and on the living room wall was a giant confederate flag hanging on the wall..end to end. I thought I was gonna puke and the guy was scary, to boot.
debm55
(61,054 posts)Endlessmike56
(204 posts)He had a relative in Alabama in the 60s and she was practiced voodoo. He said they were sitting in the living room one day with her and a couple of other relatives when a goat , a pig and a chicken walked through the room all at the same time. No one batted an eye and just kept talking like nothing was happening
debm55
(61,054 posts)kimbutgar
(27,327 posts)Or we clear out a home after a senior has died.
The stories I can tell of things Ive seen would be an epic essay.
I saw the largest collection of dildos and a whipping room with restraints. A room filled with scary looking dolls ( some of my co workers refused to clear out that room) and I moved an 83 year old woman who had pet rats!
debm55
(61,054 posts)SWBTATTReg
(26,303 posts)living room/sitting area was shaped like a pyramid, from top to bottom. Talk about eccentric, but I though it was pretty neat. I belonged to a group of artists and their friends, and so the things we all would run into and do were just off the wall, and eccentric. It was neat. Most of us are now over the hill, don't party as much as we used to, but when we do see each other, it's like the heavens opened up, and the joy in our faces to see each other again after years is something to behold.
Treasure those special moments w/ your friends, you never know when something may happen and you may never see them again (people move elsewhere, etc. (a common thing in STLMO), everyone moves to the big city (STLMO), and then ends up moving out of state, e.g., Calif., east coast, FL, etc. Now I am seeing some of these friends move back into the STLMO area again, getting too expensive for many to live elsewhere other than the rural part of STLMO.
debm55
(61,054 posts)Advice.
SWBTATTReg
(26,303 posts)of sitting area, I seem to recall that they did this to increase the karma and good will, among all of us visiting. That's why I've always enjoyed seeing other people's homes, and seeing what they did w/ their places.
Coventina
(29,784 posts)Not only is it super awkward, but it also isn't really flattering either.
We frequently take care of their home while they are away, so my husband and I are kind of used to it.
Well, once we were away at the same time the neighbors were, so we asked my brother to do the chores in our place.
Afterwards he said, "I wish you had warned me about the painting!"
3catwoman3
(29,531 posts)What's that old saying - many things are too strange to believe, but few things are too strange not to have happened.
Coventina
(29,784 posts)They are both in college, and they frequently have friends over!
I'd be mortified if it were my parents!!!
I certainly wouldn't have friends over!!
3catwoman3
(29,531 posts)And no, there would be no friends coming over. Sheesh!
pansypoo53219
(23,083 posts)many collections, or lack of anything. 1 house had a pipe organ + the pipes were in different spots. a deco xray machine in a dr's house who had a home office.
Ziggysmom
(4,137 posts)One kid he hid under the parents bed. His brother found him alright - holding his parents vibrator and calling it busy buzz buzz. To make matters worse, the item was shaped anatomically correct
Brother Buzz
(40,063 posts)some_of_us_are_sane
(3,326 posts)One such home was in a VERY VERY wealthy part of Pittsburgh and there was a Christmas Party gong on, all the men in suits and the women in long gowns. The priest was dressed as Santa and we were his elves.
'The rich homeowner asked if anyone could identify what one particular item was in their living room and she pointed to an old sturdy- looking but odd small wooden bench. She said the winner would receive fifty dollars.
No one could name it.
It was a CAMEL SADDLE she bought ini Saudi Arabia. LOL!!!! (Crap... I could almost TASTE that fifty bucks!)