To ask this woman to stop?!

Why would the charity shop want broken stuff? Are you the type of person that takes all your useless shit to charity shops?

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.

But if people take them, it’s not rubbish, is it? It’s useful to someone.

You own your house? What on earth has that got to do with anything? What are you suggesting about the OP?

Jesus sodding wept.

I read on MN a while ago about a woman who took a nice bowl that was on a wall in front of a house. The next day there was a new bowl and she realised she had stolen their cat’s water bowl. 😂 I think she somehow brought it back..

They’re known as Tatettes.

😂😂

Unfortunately you need a vehicle to get to our recycling centre. The stuff is picked up before I’d have time to arrange a lift here.

Jesus, I'd hate it if my neighbours left out their old crap.
Imagine you were trying to sell your home!

Don't answer the door for a few weeks! (Unless you are expecting someone!) Just ignore her. Silly, nosey, intrusive woman.

Reminds me of a bloke who lives up the road from us - who goes for 3-4 walks a day around the village. He HAS to say - EVERY single time we put the bins out (on Tuesday evening for Wednesday morning,) 'the binmen don't come til tomorrow!' (It's when he sees the bin out and happens to catch us in the garden/on the drive! Which is at least twice a month!)

Really fucking grates on me. I KNOW that. But I am not getting up at 6.30am to put the bins out. They come anywhere between 7am, and 10am. We are told by the council to put them out before 7am, OR the night before. Some people just HAVE to say something, it really does boil my piss! Get on with your own life and stay out of mine!

Why would the collector need a waste licence? It’s not as if they’re being paid to take it away!

Make arrangements to get your rubbish picked up by the council , you may be charged but it's better than leaving out and making the place look unkempt and environmentally bad

And how do you think the council collects it - by telekinesis?

Also known as a rag and bone men, been in Britain for hundreds of years.

God i would hate if people did this where i live. A road full of driveways with sofas and washing machines and other broken crap looks unbelievably scruffy. Willing to bet there are times its there 2-3 days as well.

Exactly. Wherever I have lived I’ve never seen anyone leave anything for the ‘tat’ man (whatever that is). People take their broken stuff to the tip.

God forbid we lower the tone! Won't someone think of the house prices 😢

Badburyrings its not just you. This doesn't happen at all where i live, and if you did try it you would definitely get disgruntled neighbours/parish council complaining. The estate i live next too has loads of rules designed to ensure it looks nice (you can't have a caravan on your drive or washing out front etc).

Never heard of a "tat man".

Exactly. It’s the done thing where l live. Only comment here is how quickly you can shift stuff and envy if you off load a crap item especially quick. We got rid of a Next2me frame in less than 2 hours

I would shut down her bullshit “confusion”. E.g. “we’ve talked about this Marjorie, like l said someone comes by and takes it?!”. It’s your property and you can do what you want. It’s hardly as if it’s out there for 2 weeks

She's probably trying to say this without saying it:

This is really scuzzy behaviour, close to fly tipping, and please stop doing it because no one wants to keep walking past neighbours junk. Use freecycle, take it to the tip or sell it on ebay but stop dragging down the tone of this neighbourhood.

It’s literally a hundreds of years old tradition. Only on Mumsnet would it not be usual. Pearl clutching “won’t someone think of the house prices!”

I used to put my old washing machine and dryer out for scrap. But they break up what they need and fly tip the non metal parts like the door and the plastic parts. Had someone knocking at my door when I had my new cooker delivered before Christmas asking if they could take my old one. Told them no I've paid for recycling.

You’re making this unnecessarily difficult for yourself. After the second time, surely you should have just said, “Yes, I KNOW I left it there. I left it for the same reason I left the other things you asked about. You don’t need to keep coming here”.

Next time tell her that if she doesn’t fuck off and stop bothering you, you’ll take great pleasure in grabbing the pan from her and beating her over the head with it.

one of my dc lives in Bristol for example, where it’s really commonplace

I'm from Bristol and if its commonplace its not everywhere, its not in the nice areas.

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.