Things your neighbours do which are reasonable but irritate the bejesus out of you

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Mine trundle their bins out at 11pm. Under my bedroom window. Wakes me up every week.

He has a banjo which he plays badly. He's playing it now. At least he practices?

Not the crimes of the century but I do want to give them the stink eye.

Fairy lights around the fence left on all night which flicker. Unfortunately they flash up into my bedroom through the gap in the curtain so I'm currently covering the curtain rails with towels to block it out as it keeps me awake

Mows the lawn on a Saturday morning eventhough they're retired so could do it in the week....but no! Choose to mow the lawn out the front on a saturday morning around 8am. Lovely wake up after a night shift

Neighbour at the rear’s stupid dog barks all the time. When I used to put my baby down at 7:00pm they would put the dog out to bark nonstop exactly at that time. Only spoke to them once in many years. My husband said over the fence “excuse me, can you do something about your dog barking?” A lady immediately answered “he’s barking because you’re out here.” That was nonsense because my husband went downstairs, unlocked the door and went outside because of the barking. He wouldn’t have been out there otherwise. And the dog does it all the time. Must have mental problems. My husband didn’t say another word to her and that’s that. We live with it.

Constantly washes his car and any other car belonging to family members on their driveway. You walk out and he just pops up with a chamois.

Because they have a small soft top they burn all their garden rubbish. No one should light fires in a residential area anymore. No need. We call him Flaming Phil.

Ours are absolutely lovely, but he tinkers in his garage all day every day (retired engineer) and he clears his throat really loudly about once every seventeen seconds. He makes up for it by passing a steady supply of home-grown veg over the fence all summer though.

Starts his diesel pick up at 5.45am then leaves it running for 10-15 minutes to warm up! Put a jumper on you irritating bag of pus!

Put a gazebo up on their fence but use it as a smoking area and chat chat chat to all hours !

Park outside our house. Firstly they have a drive that will easily take four cars, and a garage, which are both unused, secondly there is ample space outside their house to park. And thirdly, and most importantly, they openly admit they park there as it’s a high prestige car and potential thieves would not know it belonged to them, so won’t break in for the keys. No you twats, they’ll think it’s ours and break into our house. Fucking thanks.

@Aposterhasnoname I’d stick a note on the inside of my window, saying it doesn’t belong to my house, but to number such’n’such. When they complain, just tell them you don’t want someone breaking into you house looking for keys.

We have possibly the most annoying neighbours ever. They are in their late 60's and their behaviour over the last 10 years has resulted in them getting an ASBO from the police.
They have been relatively normal for the last 6 months, but every weekend they both get dressed in white boiler suits to do outside jobs. They will wash the cars, vacuum the cars, dry the cars, wax the cars. Then cut their small lawn, vacuum the lawn and then go around the edges with small clippers. This starts at 9am and finishes at 4 . They have sandwiches on the front step of the house at lunch time, all the time dressed as white tellytubbies.
They also put an airer with their pants and socks hanging from it, like Y front peace flags on the front step.

Park very badly over one and half spaces in our communal car park. In fairness to them, they are new-have only been here a week, and the spaces aren't marked properly. I'm hoping they get the message when the other two neighbours park in their spaces neatly, otherwise ferocious neighbour 4 will have a go at them when she returns from holiday on Friday.

Hoovers driveway and practically uses scissors to trim the lawn!!! Also never looked my way bizarre!!

Cjpark- I think we may have the same neighbour

Next door (not attached) have wind chimes and they have now put Christmas lights all over the house and garden. Otherwise lovely people.
Man attached washes his car every single day. He has sometimes washed our car and his other neighbours, he likes washing cars so much, but hardly mows his lawn.

Celine Dion. Years ago I lived in a semi, next door played the same Celine Dion album in a loop on weekends, and sometimes one or two songs on a loop, 5, 6, 7, 8 times. Very loudly.

I find it hard enough to look at her as it is (her thinness scares me a little...), but I cannot bring myself to listen to her either because of this. I'm sure she's a very nice lady btw.

Have 6 (possibly 7) cars and only two of them living there. Terraced house with no driveway or garage.

Mine live above me and there little girl is up at 6am running up and down the hallway screaming at the top of her voice every morning and my little boy sleeps late but wakes whenever she does this. Also we don't have a driveway and they constantly park outside the our house and we never get a chance to park there and have to use the next street over

Chats to me every time he sees me, friendly bastard.

Owns 4 cars. No drive way.
One driver in the whole house.

Smoke outside my bedroom window. My whole house stinks of their fumes even with the windows shut.

Teen daughter plays god awful music ALL THE TIME, has a house full of loud friends over every weekend who seems to like body slamming the floor at all hours causing my whole flat to shake.
Has the cheek to scream ‘shut up’ and throw things out the window at my dog if it barks at their noise even if just once.

My former NDN (he's not dead, we've moved) was a delight. He was affronted that an average income couple with children were able to afford a house on his exclusive (in his eyes) lane.

He used to ask me to tell the children not to play so noisily in the paddling pool on a hot summer afternoon, because he liked to sit and read in his garden, in peace and quiet.
He reported us to the RSPCA for keeping hamsters outside and not feeding them. They were guinea pigs, very well fed and happy in an outdoor cage and run, but they did squeak a lot, completely unrelated to food availability.
He reported the bloke on the other side to him for running a business from home - a retired motor mechanic who enjoyed doing up old cars as a hobby, not for money.
He ringed my cherry tree across the wall from his drive, and killed it. He complained if anyone dared park outside his house, and once rang our doorbell at 1am, demanding that our DD's boyfriend move his car. DD didn't have a boyfriend and was away at uni at the time.

There are dozens of other examples of his unpleasant behaviour, including him clearing out his gutters in the summer, enabling him to look directly into our back garden and watch my preteen DDs sunbathing. I called the police that time and he got a caution for voyeurism.

My revenge was to sell our house to a local builder who has converted it into 5 flats for low income families. I sometimes think of him and wonder who he's harassing now.

Has a dog , and goes out to work all day
Sodding animal barks
And barks
Animal daycare turn up , and it calms down for 10 minutes
Then barks and barks again.
And they complained about our cockerel !!!!

Walk up the stairs.......

Their stairs creak like mad! Weirdly the people there before them I heard them arguing/fighting/etc etc (noisy as hell) but never heard them going up stairs.

This new lot, I can hear every step creek, day and night, it's very very annoying

They also have a flag stone in their front path that isn't fixed down properly, so when you step on one end it makes a really loud clunking noise.......just fix it!!!

Endless “work” on house. Projects always on the go which they think I really want to hear about in excruciating detail. Deafeningly loud and inexplicable work in garden. I phoned one sunny Saturday morning as even in the house it was ear splitting. “Oh yes” they said without apology, “we’ve gone out to get away from it...”

Put their trampoline against my garden fence so their kids can jump up and look into my garden. Then move trampoline (after I had planted some very expensive mature trees to block it out) to a different part of the fence which means that the kids can now jump up and look directly through my kitchen window

My next door neighbour cooks and fries garlic every single day at 7:00 am in the morning. The smell completely floods my house. I hate it.

Ours are lovely.