To ask this woman to stop?!

You would if you had booked for someone to come and collect it.

My nephew had a skip outside his house. As he was looking through the window late afternoon, unfriendly neight sidles up with a vacuum cleaner in her hands. Looks around and spots Sean looking at his skip through his window.

She scuttled off down the street. It was a cul de sac so he had no idea where she was going. 🤣

Oops. Neighbour.

I went to a recycling centre the other week to dispose of tins of opened and used old paint. The workers didn’t have a clue and said “wait until the boss isn’t looking and just chuck it in the general waste” 🙃

I’ve left stuff out on occasion, it’s always gone the same day, the scrap men seem to come round daily but you can post on FB if you have something large. When we had our radiators replaced a scrap man passed and asked if he could take the old ones when they had been removed. They’re always on the look out for metal.

Maybe you should ask your recycling centre to start a area for it. Or will you just leave it to someone else to think of/action?

I think this trend of leaving junk out for random people to take may be partly responsible for the large increase of fly tipping in the countryside.Junk is taken, sorted and what isn’t wanted is thrown into fields, left on bridleways or thrown in rivers and canals. Freecycle anything reusable and take the rest to a proper recycling tip.Be responsible.

Perhaps she’s trying to give you the message that broken stuff left out near the street for days on end is not a good look for a neighbourhood.

This. I also think it's hilarious that OP just refuses to see any other perspective and tells people to improve their comprehension. People understand you OP and you need to accept criticism.

This scruffy mess you are describing would really annoy me.
I know it’s your property, but it’s my eyes and my neighbourhood.

So glad this isn’t the done thing where I live !

What’s a ‘tat man’?

It is definitely an accepted thing here. I'm clearing out my house room by room. I have hired several skips (on the end of my drive) and do regular tip runs. But there are some things - books, household things, tools and toys that aren't broken, etc that I put on the bench outside my front door (my drive is quite long) and I put them for free on the local FB page. The only things that haven't gone were a set of car-related magazines, a vase and a cutlery tray - honestly I have put LOADS out and neighbours have always just come and taken them. I have put so much stuff out that I am now a top contributor on my local FB page. 😁Even when I had skips, I still got skip divers rummaging through.

Big things like radiators or other scrap metal I put at the front of my garden (still on my property but visible from the road. I usually message a scrapper on FB but quite often they are gone within hours - but certainly a couple of days.

I have got rid of actual bulky rubbish fridge-freezers, beds, mattresses etc by paying the council. Here is it £21 for the first item and £11 for additional ones. So it cost me £32 to get rid of my bed and mattress. I also have to leave these on my drive as you don't know what day they will come, and irritatingly, it is these things which take the longest to be moved - yes the ones I'm actually paying for.

If anyone objected to what I temporarily put on my own property, I would tell them to MYOB.

And are there any tat women?

Yes this is the norm in the UK in the Cities I have lived in. Where I am we put furniture, appliances, books No need for a note, it gets snapped up. I seems to me that she's actually trying to get you to stop. She sounds like a busybody.

100% this! Some of our relatives left their sleeping bags on the front wall while they were packing to leave and couldn't understand where they'd gone. I also was halfway down the road with a mirror left next to some dustbins when I realised some people were just moving in and had to park well away from the house. I returned it and explained to them that round here this was asking people to take stuff away.

Oh no, not the tone of the road! Clutches pearls

Haha! Spot on.

Totally the norm where I live in east London. You leave things on your front wall / front yard and passersby or tat men take it. If no-one takes it within 48 hours then charity shop / bin. Trying to take things to the tip is a nightmare as many here don't have a car. Council only doing pick-ups of limited types of bulky items.

OP next time I'd ask her 'why do you keep asking me, I have told you the reason.' Make her give an actual response.

But that’s truly annoying though, not being able to leave stuff on your own property for a second before someone steals it?

Well, if you live in a shit tip then the value of the houses will decrease. So she's doing herself a disservice too!

Apologies if this has already been said, but it sounds like passive aggression; she doesn't like you leaving stuff to be taken so she's going to make sure you're inconvenienced by having to answer the door every time you "dare" to make the neighbourhood look untidy.

Just tell her to stop touching your stuff that’s on your property and the next time she knocks your door you will call the police as she is clearly harassing you. Say this is her warning that she steps foot on your property she is trespassing and you will also defend your home by any means necessary.

Whether you disagree or not, she clearly doesn't think it's obvious. You want her to stop and sticking a note on it will be the one thing most likely to make her stop, in which case why wouldn't you do it if you want her to stop knocking? At least try it. If it works then happy days. If it doesn't just tell her to stop knocking.

''Please leave my stuff alone' should do it

No, I would be a native Bristolian. And it simply has never occurred to me in my life to put things outside and leave them there. I have always taken them down the tip or paid the council to take them away. Guess I am a bit dim.