Would you?

[CallmeAngelina]

Storm Ciara. If your bin lid whipped open and the contents were strewn all over your neighbours' gardens, would you just leave it all there?
Or go out and pick it up?

What a silly question go out and pick all YOUR rubbish up!

I would pick it up at next convenient time after I noticed it.

I seem to have got half a street’s worth blown in to the front, and doubt very much anyone will spot it’s theirs, do I’ll be clearing it away myself idc (not going out in the howling rain - might do it when it eases off and see if I can persuade puppy to poo outside whilst I’m about it)

Presumably your neighbour hasn't noticed and will need a little nudge and permission to go in your garden.

Oh course I'd go and pick it up. Have you got your neighbour's rubbish strewn all over your garden, by any chance?

No it's fucking next door's rubbish all over mine (and others). Some comes from their builder's skip. The rest from their recycling bin.
He came out earlier, glanced at it, and went out in his car. Has since returned and ignored it all. It is very obviously theirs as lots of it is builders wrappers etc.

No permission needed. All open plan.

I would ask him to collect his rubbish from your garden.

Mind, it's still tipping down here, I wouldn't expect him to do it until the storm was over.

I suspect they might be waiting until the builders arrive tomorrow morning and get them to do it.
Some hope.

"He'll" be at work and "she" would never do it.

Go round there and tell them to pick it up now. It will have blown all over by tomorrow.

I read a lot of speculation and thinking about how you think scenarios might play out but didn’t read anything about you actually going to your neighbours and telling them their rubbish is in your garden and you would like them to remove it. Did you?

How do you know which bin it's come from? It could be any bin really.

It could be any bin really.

No, it "really" couldn't. They're the only ones having building works, and it's building rubbish. And they're the only ones who have a small daughter, and there's Barbie wrappings.
Plus, their wheelie bin and skip are unsecured and the bin lid had blown open. The other half of the polystyrene all over my lawn is still in the top of their bin. No one else has their bin out at the front because bin day is Thursday and today is Sunday and everyone else's have long since been put away around the back. Theirs are out because of their building works.
And it's also all over their own garden but they don't appear to give a shit about that either.

I get on with my neighbours, so this wouldn't be a problem for me. So I'd either just pick or up or let them know and offer to help.

Pick it up

I get on with mine too. I mow their lawns whilst I'm out there doing mine, and I gave a gift for their baby and take in parcels and other good neighbourly things. We're superficially matey.
But that doesn't mean I don't inwardly tut when their rubbish comes my way (and it's happened before).

But there's an update. Ds has just informed me that most of it has been picked up! Despite the fact that Ciara is still blowing hard out there (so it may be back in the morning!)

And I didn't want to go round and ask them to pick it up when they might have intended to (as in fact happened) at some point down the line.
And it seemed churlish to do so and would have potentially spoiled our otherwise pleasant rapport. I would probably have picked it up tomorrow but grumpily.
Mind you, thinking about it, it might have been the lovely neighbours the other side who picked it up!!
Gah!! Now I have guilt!