The is up for sale, so maybe the real estate agent did some tidying up

What you said is very likely, but the sentence that "people wouldn't leave so many personal items behind" reminds of something I heard about the post ex-Yugoslavian war era (mid-1990s). I don't remember exactly which of the ex-yu countries it was, but it's about a region that needed some re-establishment, you know, culturally rebuilding the place after the war was over. They needed teachers, so the offer was a free home granted to the teachers who'd come and work there. A teacher saw it as pretty cool deal and applied, but was shocked when s/he came into the promised home - all the personal items were there, even the plates were ready on the table, for a meal. Depicting in his/her head the scene of a family fleeing for their lives, or being forcefully kicked away, right before their meal even... That teacher couldn't take that home because s/he couldn't take the heart breaking environment. I hope this family who lived in this house had a happier story.

Thank you Bobbi, for the logical explanation. The staging added even more atmosphere to these beautiful photos, good job!

It may not be staged. When I bought my last house, the owner's kid was the last one to live there. She packed up her car and left. There were a lot of personal belonging and there was no effort for them to come collect them. Also, when my grandmother left her house, she left by ambulance. All of her stuff was there, except the cloths she had on. My grandfather had already passed, so the house was basically left alone for a few months until she came home for hospice care. In both cases, it looked similar to these pictures. Sometimes people can't get to family houses, because they've moved away, or don't have time to clean things out before they sell. Sometimes old people don't keep the house up that well either. It's possible someone was living in this house a year ago, but it needed work done, they passed, and the family didn't come to get stuff. It looks like mold in some places, that could have happened quickly after the house stopped being used and there wasn't air circulating.

Tnx Bobbi

I watch urbex videos and people do just leave things behind. It is the wonderment.