To ask this woman to stop?!

You’re the neighbourhood Tat woman OP. How often are you leaving tat in your driveway to be removed? If she keeps doing it you must be powering through and breaking material possession at some rate.

I’m not sure as some have claimed you have a good sustainability argument if you’re forever throwing stuff away and hoping someone comes along to collect it.

youre creating an eyesore for the neighbours and she’s letting you know in a rather pathetic but polite way

Wow this is amazing. In Bristol you can't get anything taken away. You have to pay the council and book months ahead. If you don't I swear it would sit there forever. Maybe she comes from Bristol.

Not my dc’s experience. Stuff has been both got rid of and acquired - lives in the Cotham area of Bristol.

Basically this.

You're happy for the place to look like a dump with the justification "well it's on my drive so..." Essentially you can't be arsed to take anything to the tip and don't care that you're leaving rubbish out on the street (at the very end of your drive, same thing aesthetically)

It's your right to do so. And I get the "it's usually gone in 24hrs" but you're obviously doing this so repeatedly that it's becoming an eyesore. Inherently, she wouldn't be able to keep coming to your house if you weren't doing this a lot.

A tumble dryer once every two years, sure. Infrequent, heavy to move, large item.

Your pots and pans? That's just lazily dumping rubbish. And as I say, it's absolutely your entitlement to be this lazy, but she obviously cares about where she lives looking nice and very faux naive to pretend you can't work out this is the issue.

I wish you could have seen the fly tipping I saw behind a travelers site from scrap they'd collected.
About 1/2 square mile of knee deep debris. Metal, tyres, electronics being stripped, burnt out cars and stripped cars, domestic appliances, old oil cans and fridges dumped in a brook which caused pollution downstream into the river.
Cost the council extortionate amounts to clear the site and then it happened again.

If it's being collected by Romanians in an old van it is likely ending up at a traveller site and parts stripped and the rest dumped. It's easy to put stuff out thinking someone can make good use of it, but realistically that's not what's happening. Don't be part of the problem.

She’s probably sick of seeing shit dumped outside people’s houses. My neighbour does it and drives me insane

It's a slightly clumsy way of saying "please stop dumping your old broken shit outside - it's lowers the tone of the area."
I'm inclined to agree with her thoughts, if not the delivery. It sounds like you do it a lot, and it's pretty lazy just to dump stuff outside to be someone elses problem.

This is absurd. Has Covid ruined everyone’s social skills? Erm Yes just explain to her to her and ask her to stop. Why is this a post? Some of the replies are so outrageous 🤣 I swear everyone had lost the plot since Covid.

Is it more “socially responsible ” to dump useable but a bit tatty stuff into land fill (many things are not recyclable) than offer it free to someone passing who may have a use for it?

Our recycling centres do not have an area for passing on and all our local charity shops are big nationals which are very picky what they take. Brand new cat bed, unused with tag? No we can’t possibly take that.

There's lots of better ways to go around it. Let's face it. She could gather it all up and save it to put out on one day rather in dribs and drabs.

Recycling centres have areas for items that could be refurbished on passed on.

Yours may do. Not all tips do.
Our tip is open for very short hours - it's hard to get there sometimes.

Put a sign up for the lady saying please dont bring this to my door

Recycling centres have areas for items that could be refurbished on passed on.

And if everyone did what the OP is doing places would look horrific. Do you understand social responsibility?

You obviously don't live in the students areas! My DS has just finished 4 years studying in Bristol and he and his housemates have acquired numerous bits of furniture and a fridge from outside other houses over the years.

There is nothing ‘permanent’ about stuff being put out every few weeks to be gone in 24-48 hours.

Why is it any of your business what other people do on their property? And why take something to the dump if it can be recycled? In many places this is a recognised way of moving on things you don’t want

Sounds like you can't be bothered to dispose of stuff properly.
It would like really unpleasant seeing unwanted crap at the roadside.
Are you calling the people to take it or is it just when they might be passing?

It’s very much the “done thing” around me, quite often childrens toys or a garage cleanout. Generally accompanied by a FB post giving the location.

I lost my cat recently, and put out all the cat paraphernalia. It went very quickly.

One that says 'Stop knocking on my door you nutter'.

Wow this is amazing. In Bristol you can't get anything taken away. You have to pay the council and book months ahead. If you don't I swear it would sit there forever. Maybe she comes from Bristol.

@DustyLee123 Trespassing is a civil matter. Police won’t do anything

We have a scrap man who collects anything metal hence the shout of ‘any old iron’

When I was a child they came round in a horse and cart, ringing a hand bell. I used to run out to look at the horse.

I think you need to be a bit firmer with her.

Tell her that you are fully aware that you’ve put things out for the scrap men and that she needs to stop telling you about it.

I don’t know if she’ll listen as she seems a bit batshit but it’s worth a try.

Once or twice is fair enough but that sounds very annoying.

Does she seem mentally unwell?

Or is she trying to make a point because she doesn’t think you should throw things out/attract the scrap men?

I would never leave an old mattress out, for example.

Tat men, sometimes known as rag and bone men, have been around for centuries. Henry Mayhew in his 19th century survey of the poor in London depicts the life of the ‘rag men’ well. Rag was sold for paper making, bone for a variety of items including cutlery handles. In the 20th century their trade became more tied to metals as the prices of raw materials shot up worldwide. Leaving stuff out for them is perfectly normal.

Round here people only leave metal and useable stuff. Not rubbish.