To ask this woman to stop?!

Before it had time to lower the tone of the neighbourhood.

Hopefully.

Sign would get taken....

If you have a local Facebook group you could probably post it on there free for collection, or there might be a scrap person advertising on there who will collect it for free. I turn to Facebook if my metal hasn’t been collected within a day or two

I've lived all over UK and as we don't drive had to pay council to take rubbish over the years - everywhere put it at the end of your drive/property highly visible sometimes on a day sometimes few days timescale.for them to take.

Same with charity bags - I've family member doing huge clear outs with those and you put them at the end of the property highly visible to be taken.

Some areas we live had had rag and bone men - more usually they just want scarp metal- so it can be worth seeing if they take. Here they knocked and left a card for the future to ring them they like appliances though not fridge.freezer as they also have a repair shop and if they can't repair it and then sell on it's spare part - they also have a proper waste licence.

Last house moving so many kids books - we'd dropped many of at school and charity and pack bulk - we were running out of time so DH put them in box out front as we were on school run - please take - and people did till bin lorry came round and they put them in their cab.

Only time I've had people knock is to offer to put it in skip they have - next door builder so has them frequently -or to ask if it's really okay they take it.

I think if she been told more than once - it's not that she doesn't realise she making some kind of point.

Surely it depends on what the tone of the neighbourhood already is. But would the woman also knock on the door of someone who had a skip in their driveway or a roll of carpet or a boiler they’ve just replaced - things that are obviously on their way to the tip and there’s nowhere else to store them. In a very rich area perhaps people wouldn’t be “common” like that but in “average” areas one or two things every now and then seems pretty normal. It’s not like it’s piles of broken junk out there for months (like one house on my street 🙈)

Open the door.

Listen to her telling you that you left stuff at the end of your drive.

Say 'thanks for the update '

Close the door.

It sounds like she’s passively aggressively telling you it makes your driveway and therefore the neighbourhood look a mess?

I personally don’t care about this sort of thing, but every neighbour in my road keeps there front very tidy/plants immaculate and they get in uproar if somebody does this sort of thing! In fact one told me off because a side window (not visible from anybody’s house but there’s) needed repainting…

It’s your property/driveway you are within your right
I could see if it was bags of rubbish that laythere for weeks and blew around and made the street a mess.

Id ask her to stop touching your property and leave it alone for someone who wants it and please not to knock on your door about it again .

I want a tat man. Sick of taking my own tat to the dump. Currently looking at a washing machine machine and toaster in my back yard(en).

@MarriedMama23 Can you define 'often?' How often do you leave tat for the tat man? I can't imagine it being that often. Have to say it is not a thing where I live (doing what you do) or anywhere I have ever lived. Still, the woman is a bit annoying.

I don’t think you realise that the tat thing is also a very common thing across many other parts of the UK.

And if you don’t want condescending replies, then try not asking bloody stupid and condescending questions like ‘Who leaves stuff regularly in the drive for ‘tat’ men?’ and ‘Do you live in a Steptoe style junkyard?’ and accusing the OP of making the post up simply because it’s outside your experience. What sort of response did you think you were going to get when you say things like that?

Does she think it's 'lowering the tone', do you think?

😀Seriously?

We have scrap men drive round several times a week, they take anything metal left on the boundary and cash it in. Pots, pans, old radiators, electrical appliances, piping, anything they can weigh in.

It's no different from the old rag and bone man with his flat bed cart and horse.

If they are saving me a tip run and making some money good on them.

actually I did check, its not difficult.

not round here. The people I have given things to have a licence which can be checked online.

Is it just me, or is this bizarre 🤔!! What country do you live in?
You leave your unwanted/crap items on your driveway and a "tat" man removes it?
Why would anyone want a broken speaker?

Exactly. I'd never heard of it before reading this thread. I'm old and have lived in various places and this hasn't happened in any of them.

She's obviously trying to make the point that you dispose of rubbish more appropriately instead of throwing it in your front garden to look unsightly. Good for her.

This is completely normal in my street, a scrapie is usually around a couple of times a week, so people just leave things on their front for it to be collected. Honestly some people will get their knickers in a twist about anything.

She probably has a problem with you leaving your tatty shit in your garden
Not surprised tbh

Are you checking the person collecting your rubbish has an appropriate waste license??

Oh fuck off, as if anyone does this.

The last time I left something out - a massive radiator - the scrap man was literally round in less than an hour, don't know if someone told him it was there but it was uncanny.

@MarriedMama23 Next time I think just be completely forthright and tell her it's there for the scrap man, if she doesn't want it to just leave it.

These are the people that wrinkle their noses at wheelie bins being visible.

Not where I live - or have ever lived - either.

It really isn't. It's very area dependent. I've never lived anywhere where this happens since I was a student. It doesn't happen in many many areas.
It's not 'think of the house prices'. It looks unpleasant - and if you live somewhere that has a pleasant environment - leaving junk lying around for days is spoiling it for other people in the same way that graffiti or dog shit does.

It's not environmentally sound because you have no idea how long it will sit there, whether it is going to rain over night, whether passing kids/teenagers will choose to muck about with it get injured and so it.

If you live in an area where this goes on all the time, then it may be acceptable. Anywhere else it really is not.

Exactly they just dump the parts they don't need

Her actions are passive aggressive.
You can only be clear. State please return it back to where you found it for collection and recycling. We have spoken about this many times, stop bringing these items to my door. I will not open the door to you again.

Tbf, I think it looks a bit scruffy. It is commonplace where I live. It is better than items going straight to landfill.

She sounds like a pita.