Tell me about street WhatsApp group.

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I moved to my house in August and was put on the street WhatsApp group. So far the entire topic of conversation has been people trying to get rid of their old crap instead of taking it to charity/ the dump. Or the same people always wanting to ‘borrow’ stuff like bubble wrap, after sun, carpet cleaners, onions and other mundane things they can’t be bothered to buy for themselves.
i believe there is a more exciting group that involves a lot of alcohol but I’m not on that one ( sadly).
I bet you all have much more hip and exciting groups than mine.

Bins and more bloody bins!

@Oohooh you are the winner!
I see we are all pretty much the same. It is nice in the sense that we look out for each other. In my culdesac it is always the same person cadging stuff. I actually ( face to face) talked about it with my neighbour yesterday and she also thought it was crap.
This man is always asking for ‘the’ carpet cleaner as if it is a communal thing.
He also wanted the bubble wrap.

now I am thinking he his holding kinky wife swap parties and needing the cleaner to clear up the mess😮

People taking parcels in and sending cat pictures. Boring af

Lost mail, secondhand stuff, minor crimes, the wild parakeets in the park (UK)

Ours is generally useful and friendly although everyone now has ring doorbells and has become a bit obsessed with who is in the street at any given time. They will post screenshots that the ring doorbell took of youths in hoodies or a white van at 3am.

Because we like the sense of community and human beings are social creatures.

I love mine. Folk looking out for one another’s safety, and mainly recommending tradespeople. We have a wee street party every now and again.

One neighbour on mine was sending images from her cctv of men prowling round her house trying the doors. It was the middle of the night and DH was away and I was alone with my baby. I was terrified.

We haven't got one but we are all fairly old and retired up our street, we have the next door neighbours phone numbers and back gate lock codes and they have ours in case anything happens when any of us are on holiday.

We have one main one and a smaller sub group of the fun ones who organise drinks.

It's fun and I love our neighbours.

We have a nice chatty one with useful info, love our neighbours

We have the predictable complaints about missed bin collections (we're a bit off the main council area so think the bin men think we're pains!), lost glass recycling bags when it's windy, lost parcels, complaints about new housing developments nearby/pot holes/neighbouring estate then occasional requests for help (broken boiler, does anyone have any heaters we can borrow kind of thing). And occasionally one person will kick off that there's worse things in the world and everyone should grow up, then it goes quiet for a bit!

Could be worse and it's nice that if people do need help people are always quick to jump in and respond.

We also have a "ladies social group" that's actually lovely.

Oh hell no. Bad enough I have to see crazy fucker, batshit woman, tosser across the road and gossipy loud mouthed wench without being connected to them all on my phone.

Bins, lost cats, recommendations, asking to borrow things, parking issues and asking for help. The best one was the night that the cows could be heard mooing in a nearby barn. Someone decided that they had got out and might be loose on the estate. People then going out in the dark to look for cows and phoning the farmer. They were in the barn. Noise travels on a quiet evening.

Ours is normally very friendly and all bin reminders/parcels/warnings about thefts nearby.

It’s a bit less so atm as one of the teenagers in one of the houses recently passed their test and keeps coming into the street far, far too fast. Instead of reversing into their drive he drives in, which means when he’s leaving he can’t see the road so he just toots his horn loads and then pulls out - doing that every day pre 7am is seriously getting on people’s wick.

Ours has lots about theft of cars, and people message if there are door to door salesmen coming down.

Also used to organise the street parties. Not many jokes and stuff but people do offer stuff that they no longer want.

A street group? Couldn't think of anything worse. Although the 3 dealers in my street might find it useful when one of them is getting busted or getting their windows put in. Entertaining to watch on the cameras

No thankyou.

You mean you don't leave your doors unlocked like half of mumsnet?

Ours is lovely - we live in a small cul de sac and all get on well (but certainly don’t live in each other’s pockets). It’s usually boring stuff about bins, a tree blown over on a dog walking route, passing on stuff that one of the kids has outgrown, that kind of thing. I feel very lucky to live where we do.

Ours is generally mundane also, anything that impacts us all ie WiFi down etc, and some social invites if someone is having a get together. Also if a tree down or whatever and someone needs help. Really what you’d expect ie it is what it says on the tin.

Ours started during Covid - mainly people finding alternatives to supermarkets (we found a local fruit and veg merchant who normally supplied restaurants who was very happy to pick up some domestic business while they were shut, for instance). It's continued for mostly mundane useful things like recommendations for plumbers, and also organising a couple of street parties.
It's useful and not lots of silly stuff.

Ours is great! I know that’s not very cool to say..
Free hometown apples, veg and plant plugs, some old stuff which is highly sought after (like a treadmill or armchair), requests to borrow tables for a party, heads up on possible noise relating to said party etc. Lighthearted and neighbourly.

We have one. It was supposed to be specifically for recommendations for local tradespeople etc, but it’s degenerated into general gossip and chat. It drives DH mad (he’s quite disciplined about this sort of thing and thinks things should function as they’re supposed to) and he suggested a separate group for chat, but got squashed down by some of the more forceful members who apparently like this sort of thing. There's one person in particular who appears to use it as a medium for pouring out her every thought 🫤

I'm not aware of any WhatsApp group. It's a new development and our street isn't the friendliest although 4 of them are, but the remaining 18 have never spoken to anyone else!
Perhaps there is one but we're the only ones left out!

ours is great. We are a fairly small cul de sac of 7 houses. No complaining (except about all the rain!). I wish I’d kept a book if all random things that have been asked for and bowled. Everyone helps out and there’s not been much someone doesn’t have! I love the sense of community it has helped create.