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These bloody toys!!!

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ballerinabelle · 10/10/2015 18:39

Okay so I'm fully aware that I'm probably ring slightly unreasonable but it's annoying me.

I have a 15 month old DS who is too young to go out and play in my front garden. It's sloped and he just runs and falls down it. Anyway, my neighbour's son aged 6 and about 5 of his friends have started playing in my garden and the path next to it. No matter how many times I ask them to play elsewhere I look up and they're still in my bloody garden! Every night their toys (scooters, plastic guns and a big pink teddy thing) are strewn across the grass and I go out and pick them up because I don't want my house looking untidy outside it's a bombsite on the inside and leave them in my neighbours garden. Tonight was the final straw. My DS wouldn't eat dinner because he was distracted by the chaos in the garden. What would you ladies do with the toys that have now inevitably been left? I feel like putting them all in my bloody wheelie bin and when they come out the morning they'll get a bloody shock. Sorry I know it's not the right thing to do but they're doing my box in.

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Leeds2 · 10/10/2015 18:41

Have you spoken to their parents at all?

dementedpixie · 10/10/2015 18:42

Hide them somewhere?

SevenSeconds · 10/10/2015 18:43

This would drive me mad OP!

goawayalready · 10/10/2015 18:43

fence it off? i agree talk to the parents i hope they dont think your supervising their children in your garden

ballerinabelle · 10/10/2015 18:44

I mentioned it in passing to the boy who lives next door's mum and she was apologetic but it's not improved anything. My DP went out tonight eventually after I'd been out twice and they finally moved. Toys are still there though.

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ballerinabelle · 10/10/2015 18:44

demented I'm considering going under a cloak of darkness and binning them all Grin

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gamerchick · 10/10/2015 18:46

Take them and put them in the back garden? When the parents knock for them you can say you thought they had been left for your child.

Or in reality, gather them up and knock on the door. Since you've not said anything and along the toys over the fence they probably think you don't mind.

gamerchick · 10/10/2015 18:47

*sling

PaulAnkaTheDog · 10/10/2015 18:48

Put them in a black bag and dump them in front of your neighbours door. Whether or not you have spoken to her about it, she should know her children leaving their toys in someone else's garden is bloody ridiculous!

ballerinabelle · 10/10/2015 18:53

paul i was thinking about doing some sort of sacrificial with the teddy and leaving it on her doorstep...too far? Grin

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VinylScratch · 10/10/2015 18:53

Put the toys in a black bag and hide them round the back. When they come asking for them tell them next time they're left in your garden they go to the charity shop.

ballerinabelle · 10/10/2015 19:02

Btw I hope I don't come across like some Scrooge Blush I wouldn't allow my son to play in the garden of someone's garden if it wasn't one of the children's homes and my neighbour on the other side is a man in his 80s who is unwell and The toys all over his garden as well

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NotMyMonkey · 10/10/2015 19:03

Have another word with the parents, tell them it's distracting your child and if they still do nothing bin the toys.

LIZS · 10/10/2015 19:05

Why are they playing in your garden?

SurlyCue · 10/10/2015 19:05

I would hide them.

RandomMess · 10/10/2015 19:08

I'd have fenced off the garden by now tbh!!!

ballerinabelle · 10/10/2015 19:11

Lizs I have no idea. They started a few weeks ago. I just can't be bothered with it anymore

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MajesticSeaFlapFlap · 10/10/2015 19:13

Big lawn bonfire, Chuck on toys then Laugh like a mad woman as the neighbour kids look on in horror.

ijustwannadance · 10/10/2015 19:13

Why isn't their parent telling them to bring their toys in?! Do they drive? If so dump them in the empty space when they go out. Or pile on doorstep so they fall over them/have to move them when they leave.

LIZS · 10/10/2015 19:14

Put the toys on the street or in their gardens and tell them , and their parents, not to play there when they reappear.

ballerinabelle · 10/10/2015 19:16

majestic I'm chuckling away here Grin I've got my bin bag ready and the toys are getting dumped in it. What do I do with the scooters though? Hmm

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TheWitTank · 10/10/2015 19:18

I would go out later, gather it all up and hide it all/chuck it in a black bag on neighbours doorstep. I would be VERY tempted to bin the lot, but it's probably not the right thing to do unfortunately. Then go and buy some fencing -even the little picket fencing panels -to shut off your garden. You can get edging/small fences from the cheap shops like poundstretcher for very little money. Sounds like a worthwhile investment!

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beetrootpickle · 10/10/2015 19:29

I'd have another word with the parents, and if that didn't work, I'd scoop up any abandoned toys and give them to your local children's hospital.

WipsGlitter · 10/10/2015 19:41

Are the gardens not fenced off?

ballerinabelle · 10/10/2015 19:44

No wips there are paths separating them and it's quite clear whose garden belongs to who.

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