To ask this woman to stop?!

Yeah not sure I would be overly keen on a neighbour leaving tat on their drive for 24 hours. Tumble dryers, pots and pans, broken speakers. It must look like Steptoe’s yard. It’s her way of saying ‘bring your crap in, I know you don’t want it, but I don’t want to look at it either? Have you heard of the tip?’

Well she obviously is sorting herself out surely.

@MarriedMama23 your property, your choice. Ignore the ndn.

I can understand if you're clearing a house. Or a room but why aren't you disposing of broken washing machines properly?? Pay the council to uplift and recycle if possible

Stop dumping your crap on the end of your drive where people can see it. This would drive me nuts.
Take it to the tip or take it to the charity shop, it’s not hard.

Here in South London you daren't leave anything in your front garden unattended for more than 5 minutes or one of the scrap men will have it!
One neighbour was gardening and popped round the back for an extra tool. On return he saw the scrap man pulling away having collected his tools.
Another neighbor had a new boiler and paid extra for the old one to be recycled. By the time the recycling company arrived, the old boiler had been taken by scrap men (space if 2 hours!).
It's a very common concept here.

In true Mumsnet (or anti-Mumsnet?) style...I wouldn't answer the door to her.

It's really normal round me. Stuff goes out for 24 hours and if it is not collected then we throw away.

Your neighbour is nuts.

Alternatively dose with anthrax. That should do the job.

Why would it drive you nuts?

Next time she does it just tell her look, I put stuff out there regularly because I want it to go and it does go. I know it's there because I put it there. Don't knock again.

Yeh, I'm in Ireland and sometimes I get a cloth skip and before too long there will be a traveller rooting through the skip, so even though it's a known understood concept here, I still apologise to neighbours. "Skip being collected in 3 days"

I would be surprised by a neighbour not hiring a skip but permanently leaving tumble driers or speakers on their drive.

You wouldn't do that in my estate and it's not a "nice" estate. 80s terraces, very basic. But even though we're all familiar with travellers taking scrap if they think they could sell it, nobody just leaves a permanent pile of crap in their drive. For context, I own my house but it'd be priced at the lower end of the cost of houses in my town.

So your neighbour is wondering why you don't get that!!

No, not little things like pots and pans, or speakers, people usually take those to a tip or charity shop if still in good condition.
Leaving things out for the scrap man is usual but it's usually on a set day of the week and large metal items, like a tumble dryer, a metal swing frame etc, so doesn't happen regularly because how often do you have a big chunk of scrap metal lying about. OP seems to just leave rubbish on her drive which is irritating her neighbour

What is it you think the "tat man" does with it?

The guys that collect it must be scrapping it or what would be the point?

If they charged for collection then I see the fly tipping issue without proper licence but if you collect it for nothing you want the value of the metal otherwise you are a volunteer flytipper which would make no sense.

This! For it to happen enough to annoy you you must be leaving a lot out. 😬

This. So glad my neighbours don’t do this.

Stare her out.

She trots up to your door with your stuff, don't speak to her, just look at her, look at what she's holding and slowly close the door remaining eye contact with her till the last second.

That should freak the silly woman out enough to stop.

I think it is unreasonable to leave junk on your front lawn every couple of weeks. If every did this the neighbourhood would look very messy. If you need it collected I think it would be more reasonable to store it and arrange it every 3 months or so.

Even if the homeowner had told you repeatedly that it was?

But surely if you paid the council to take away for recycling you'd have to leave it at the front of your house for collection? My local certainly wouldn't come into the house to collect any items, unless the householder was disabled or elderly.

It’s not a set day where I live, and people leave our all sorts for them, including pots and pans!

I know them as ‘scrap men’ or ‘rag and bone men’.
Before cars they used to come on horse and carts to collect unwanted items. Mostly scrap metal nowadays. So been around a long time. Google is free if you want to gander.

The scrap men come round my street at least once a fortnight. OP’s post is entirely plausible.

Have people really not got or heard of scrap men coming round? We regularly get them coming round shouting 'any old iron'. I have to be honest, I'd never thought to check their credentials but fly tipping round here never seems to consist of 'any old iron' so I don't think it's an issue.

I agree she's probably trying to make a point though. You don't seem remotely scared to stick up for yourself on here so take some of that energy and blast it at her when she next knocks on your door.

I was meaning how often do you put stuff out, not how often she knocks. Every couple of weeks does not sound too bad. But people can spend a lot of time making their gardens look nice and then random bits of junk will do nothing for the kerb appeal! Maybe she wants to sell her house?