The nicest thing a neighbour has ever done for you?

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Neighbours get a really bad rep on here. So I thought I might see if anyone else has lovely neighbours or is it just us?

So for starters not only did the neighbours stay completely positive, in the face of huge disruption during our recent building works, and look after our garden and pets while we were on holiday but they even dealt with the remains of a very pungent dead fox that crawled under our shed to die whilst we were away.

Anyone else have the antithesis of mums net neighbours?

My neighbour always shovels the snow off our driveway in winter! 😁

When I was still living at home my dad died very suddenly of cancer (like went to the doctor, was sent to hospital and died a week later). One nieghbour came round with a cake and asked how I was, I kind of stood there like an idiot because I couldn't really think of what to say. She just gave me a huge hug and for some reason it was just what I needed (I'm not usually a big hugger, especially with random neighbours).

Our neighbour at our last house were very active and the one was our local councillor. Always out and about so I'd take their parcels and let workmen in etc. In return they never once complained about my five feral noisy kids lol. Bought them chocolates every Christmas and Easter. But most touchingly when I was in hospital having had my youngest child my husband told her baby was very poorly and it was touch and go. She cooked meals everyday for 2 weeks so dh didn't have the added stress and then when I had to come home without baby as she was still in special care....she held me up as I went through that horrible trauma of walking through the door without your baby in your arms. Checked in on me everyday then threw a surprise welcome home party (balloons and banners and party food so I didn't have to cook the kids dinner) when we finally bought our baby home.

I cried buckets when they retired to the seaside. She was a mom to me when I really needed one 😍

Our ndn once reroofed our garage and replaced the door. They don't make them like him anymore. He was one in a million.

Dead fox 🤢 that’s disgusting.

We have absolutely lovely neighbours - we count ourselves lucky every day. We’re in a cul de sac which I think makes a difference. No massive gestures but lots of small acts of generosity all the time.

One brought my DD a teddy round after she was born and the other one takes the bins out for everyone and shovels all the snow in the walkways. Both incredibly lovely people.

Nope me neither. My neighbour was effing and blinding at us today, whacking our fence with a screwdriver.

However I’m the nice neighbour. In previous properties we’ve done all sorts from running a resident group, printing, being a key person, watering plants etc. I bought our NDN from hell some bubbly when we had patio doors fitted. And the other (very lovely quiet) neighbour fancy chocolate when he let us put scaffolding up against his house.

But this is a lovely thread and I’m very jealous of you all

Our former neighbour was lovely. We worked long hours out of the house and she used to put our bins back every week so they didn’t get blown away, knocked over and broken or advertise that we weren’t home.

That obviously wasn’t the only thing she did and we were good friends who socialised together too. But she just did it for years as a matter of course and when I said thank you, she was surprised that we considered it a favour as she just thought it was just normal neighbour behaviour.

Our neighbours used to be the heart of the neighbourhood, and one Easter she came to our door with £20 for the DC's. She used to buy the local kids Easter eggs but from that year onwards she gave the money to my kids instead because they were the only ones that still bothered to say 'hello' and ask how they were. She did that until they left school.

Not as an adult but as a child
Really turbulent home life and the lady who lived across the road was a nurse and I was the same age as her son she always kept an eye out for me.

My mum abandoned me and the house when I was 16 so I just muddled through I was clearly on the road to a breakdown and she would cook me tea and just make sure I was ok, she brought me Christmas decs over one year which was lovely. She also was the one to find me after a suicide attempt. Without a doubt she saved my life I will never ever forget her

What a lovely thread.

Yes! My birthday was soon after lockdown began and my neighbours got together and threw a socially distanced party. They decorated the shared driveway, baked cakes, hung fairy lights etc. We sat out at 2m distances drinking bubbly and eating cake. ☺ ☺

When heavily pregnant my neighbour weeded my garden because he thought i wasn’t in a fit state to do it. He never told me, I asked other neighbours if they had any idea who done it and they told me he did it.

Another neighbor got rid of a wasp nest in my attic.

Another neighbor drove me to hospital with a gallbladder infection as DH stayed at home with our newborn.

One of my best friends was a neighbor and was concerned that I had PND. She told a few of the older women in the cul de sac who kept popping into “help” me for some reason.

Next door neighbor brings us gifts at Christmas and food from her family Eid celebrations.

Neighbour across the road took our son for a few hours during lockdown to let us get a break

Childhood neighbour would pop in on me while parents were on holiday. She also let us use her credit card to order tickets when we didn’t have one!!

We’ve been very lucky !

My neighbours rescued me when I couldn't get up out of bed as hurt my back. Bought me food, hot water bottle. Came back at midnight with a fresh hot water bottle! Drove me to the doctors next day.

It was warm here last weekend and our neighbours were having a BBQ (not directly our neighbours but new build house so our garden backs onto a few others). I was sat down watching my kids play and trying not to melt in a puddle at 29 weeks pregnant. I remarked how yummy the BBQ smelt and the guy must have overheard and made me a plate. I had to decline as am muslim so couldn't eat it so they then made me a mocktail instead. I had been fanning myself with a paper fan and they passed me a battery powered handheld fan instead. Honestly I nearly cried.

My lovely neighbour came to a&e with me when my baby daughter had an ongoing condition and DH had to stay at home with older DC. We were there late into the night and I just needed company and she chatted away like it was a night out. It made a difficult time so much easier. I'm sure she would say it was nothing

I’ve thought of two nice neighbours... from a long time ago now who helped jump start our car and another fed our cat. There are lots of lovely people out there, think we’ve just been unlucky lately living next to difficult neighbours.

The story about the nurse looking out for a vulnerable young person left by their parent is lovely. We need more people like this in our communities

Came out to help when my dog was attacked by another dog that ran into my garden. He could hear me screaming and my dogs yelping and helped pull the attacking staffy's jaws open to get my little dog free, for which I am eternally grateful. He also used to mow our lawn sometimes when he did his, in return we let him borrow our petrol mower. We've moved now but he still comes round for a coffee sometimes.

When we finally arrived at our house after a particularly stressful sale/purchase, right up to move day, NDN turned up on the doorstep with flowers and a bottle of wine. They have moved on now but we are still great friends.

The new neighbours children made us a beautifully decorated poster for our wedding day last year.

My neighbour is ace! She is a great friend, lets my dog out during the day without me asking, spends hours at weekends or holidays chatting or playing with my dd...she is more like family.

I stupidly shut my front door with my keys inside, locked out and panicking because I was due to do the school run. My neighbour noticed me trying to frantically call someone to help and she ended up climbing through my front window to open the front door because my arse wouldn't fit.

I have gorgeous neighbours. On one side they bring us food for Eid, on the other she feeds my cat when I am away, coos over my baby, takes in parcels and is a delight to chat to. Neither side ever barbecues or has late parties. They’re quiet, tidy, kind, pleasant people. I never want to move because I’ve read so many horror stories on here and I honestly must live on one of the nicest streets in this country!

All my surrounding neighbours are lovely, they have bought gifts when my DC have been born and one often drops off home made jam/home grown vegetables. The others pretend they don't notice the noise the DC make!

My parents have the best neighbours though, they are so lovely and now their lawn, grow flowers for them and have 'adopted' our DC as their 'grandchildren'. My parents are good to them too. We are very lucky.