Neighbours. I don't know why it bothers me. Would you be bothered?

[Serena1977]

We live in a semi detached house. In the back gardens of both houses there is a bit of a patio and then lawn.

The neighbours have 2 DC. One at the same village school as my dc, and a 1 year old.

We have a low fence that separates the back gardens. On their side, all over the patio are yellow nappy bags. They get cleared away every 2 weeks just before bin day.
Now I've seen them, I sort of keep looking now.

I don't know why it bothers me, I think it is because we are garden and house proud and love gardening where as they are always indoors whatever the weather.

Should I just ignore?

God that’s absolutely rank. When are you getting your patio furniture out? I’d mention it on the very first day that the smell is awful and they really must clean up. Repeat every time you sit out even if you cannot smell anything yet. The longer you are accepting the situation the more difficultly you’ll find bring it up.

Yeah I’d go with saying you’ve seen rats looking interested.

Eurgh. Send an anonymous delivery of a nappy bin and liners. If they realise there’s a better option they might use it!

Yes put up a higher fence and report if it starts to stink. Utterly gross.

That’s horrendous. I would buy them a nappy bin and take it round all smiles. Hopefully it will shame them into changing their approach.

Yuck. When DS was in nappies I used empty firm poo down the loo before disposing of the nappy which meant no smell most of the time. We had a nappy bin in the nursery. I can't imagine throwing them out of the window.
I think you have to tackle this before the good weather starts. Do some gardening at the weekend and mention you could smell the sacks. Hope you sort it.

Urgh so they just throw out the window then on bin day collect them together and put in the bin ? what a weirdo.
Wouldn’t it make sense to maybe put the bin near window if they are too lazy to walk to outside bin .
They sound grim !!!

“It didnt happen last year, presumably the mum had more time to deal with the rubbish as she was on maternity leave.”

Don’t make excuses for her. If she genuinely cannot manage to take a nappy bag to the wheelie bin (which is presumably in the garden and could if necessary be put next to the door) 4-6 times a day, or use a lidded receptacle inside her house and empty it periodically, she doesn’t have time to have children. No one “doesn’t have time” to bin a nappy. It’s just laziness and it’s gross. I find myself wondering what the inside of their house looks like...