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Originally Posted by Cheesehead92
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My wife has a collection of those masks. She even has some of the same ones. They were very popular in the 1980s. Problem is the feathers and silk hats and veils get loaded with dust and cannot be cleaned.
There was a big pile of trash in the backyard of a house that we bought as-is. It took a full day to remove it. At the bottom of the pile were two broken motorcycles. One of them ran but had no seat or handlebars. THat same house had a room filled floor to ceiling with boxes labled "Heads" Eyes" "arms" "hair" legs: . . . It was called the doll hospital house. There were a lot of creepy dools around too but they had a big sale and people came from all over the country and bought all the dolls and doll parts. They made $20K on the sale, so there is a demand for creepy dolls and parts.
There was also a toilet next to the washing machine on the enclosed back porch.
Also a sink upstairs with dirty dishes in it fromt he 1940s.
THe master bedroom was furnished and looked like somone had just left it. There was a silver brush and mirror sitting on the beside table. Makeup on the makeup dresser thing, etc. Turned out Grandma lived in that room and had died there and the grandkids thought it was too creepy to go in there to clean anything up. We got some really nice furniture from that room. And we sold the silver handled brush and mirror for $300.
In the kitchen there was a morning glory flower vine growing up through the cabinets from underneath the house. Open the cabinet and it was full of vines and flowers. Not sure how it lived without light. This was an old "California cooler" cabinet that had grating for shelves and the floor of the cabinet. The idea was that convection would draw cool air from under the house up through the cabinet and keep produce cool. It worked pretty well.
In one bedroom the walls and the back of the door had been hacked up with a hatchet. The hatchet was still stuck in the wall. Another room (back parlor) the window had been covered with plywood to hold layers of shelving that was filled with old broken computer stuff.
they had to haul 7 tons of junk to the dump, and still left a lot for us to deal with. When they ran out of time, they shoved everything int he garage and padlocked the doors apparently thinking they could come back for it.
Yes, the realtors included pictures of most of this in the listing.Pretty sure the grand kids were hoping the house would not sell.
It was a weird house, but affordable when nothing else was.
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