Best gift for unknown new neighbour?

[JigglyPokery]

What is the best gift to get for an unknown new neighbour? I was thinking wine? Since if they don’t drink they can easily regift?
other ideas welcome!

@SergeMarge just so you’re clear - I said nothing about being “annoyed” about another person’s attempt at a friendly gesture.

If you reread my post it was the “welcome pack” that another PP said they put together for their new neighbour, that I find has territorial connotations.

Rather like a welcome pack you receive when you go to stay somewhere & from the owner of the property you’re visiting. Not from a person who lives on the same street.

Your offence taken that anyone could interpret others’ gestures in any way different to your own somewhat proves my point.

I would much rather organic introductions & relations are built that way, than neighbours knocking & introducing themselves with gifts. But we are all different & entitled to our own opinions.

Aren’t we?

And again, you’re still not getting you.

You interpreted it as being territorial and said that the neighbour is being territorial.

They’re not. Giving someone the bin schedule isn’t being territorial. That’s your perception of it, but you need to be careful not to place your perception of things into their motivation for doing it.

You’re calling people territorial for an action which isn’t, because you are making that up in your own head and then applying it to them.

It’s unfair and really quite rude.

I’ve lived somewhere before where this happened and it was 1000% territorial and about finding out who had moved in and if you were the ‘right fit’ to be their neighbour. It came with questions galore about where we had come from, what we did for a living, had we moved with children, how old were the kids, do we have family locally, are we going to be quiet neighbours as they liked their garden to remain peaceful. I felt so uncomfortable and what followed was a couple of years of them gawping through windows at us, approaching us to say they’d seen us doing x, y, z and to ask stuff about it. It was horrible and we ended up having to move.

If I had a new neighbour, I’d simply say ‘welcome’ when I saw them and that if they needed anything, to knock and I’d be happy to help. I think giving gifts to someone you don’t know, is often a way to create an in-road for being quite nosy and intrusive personally - a bit Mrs Bucket-esque. Next will be inviting them to a candlelight supper.