to be coveting my neighbours apples?

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They're beautiful and ripe and lovely and just falling into next door's garden and rotting. I half thought about asking if they had any spare but DH thinks this is shockingly rude. He'd rather go scrumping.

It's just the waste - and they look like lovely apples!

Isn't that in the Ten Commandments?
Or am I thinking of Eve's fall from grace?
I would knock on their door and ask if they'd mind if you had some - most people with abundant fruit trees have no use for all the fruit they produce.

Make an apple pie and take it around - you might be allowed to help yourself to them

We're all fairly friendly with each other and I didn't think it would be too terrible to just knock on and ask but DH thought it was super cheeky so now I'm not sure!

God, please go round and ask. I would snog you if you knocked on my door and offered to pick our apples - they're falling from the tree too quickly for me to keep up and the damn dog keeps eating them and giving himself the runs!

(so maybe wear wellies if they have a pet!)

Go around and ask.

I just given 12lbs of eating apples away to people at school as we have a fridge full and I have to where to store them without them going bad.

I would rather have given the away then have them rot on the tree.

why on earth is it rude?

you could always offer to share the ones you pick, thus saving them a job.

30 - apples and a snog!

Right, am convinced. Will just knock on and ask. Thanks!

I have seen two apple trees close by me which are groaning with lovely looking apples. I am too chicken to knock and ask if I can take some though, what if they said "OK as long as you pay by the pound!"

If somebody had offered to pick my apples before they fell off the tree I'd have snogged them too. The trouble is all the old biddies my neighbours want the apples, but expect me to break my neck picking them.

For the record, I do give some of the old folk apples, (and other allotment produce), but they do seem to take it for granted, not appreciating the hard work and time involved.

clearly OP's dh's real agenda is that he just doesn't want the neighbours to snog his wife.
Not unreasonably.

I hope you do ask - we always have far too many and if you were actually offering to go and collect them yourself you could do it every day if you wanted to!!

The bugger of it is, that I love apples, eat one most days but I can't eat our apples uncooked (they do nasty things to my tummy) so we are inundated with apples and yet I still have to buy them!!

(They are eating apples, not cooking apples as well).

Around here people put all their fallers in a box outside for people to help themselves.
One lady up the road did the same with her victoria plums a few weeks ago

Our apples always go to waste too - maybe ask if they mind you taking some "windfall apples" - chances are they will ask you to take as many as you want off the tree!