To complain to my neighbour?

[nightowlmostly]

My next door neighbour has an annoying habit of hanging her dog's blankets over our fence. Sometimes they even smell bad! It's either just outside our back door which means when we go outside we're faced with a bloody great smelly blanket in front of our faces, or over the fence further down which means we have to look at them in our garden. We've just got home and she's hung two of them over the front fence so they're in our driveway.

I don't know who's fence it technically is, but not sure that matters as when she hangs them over surely they are then on our property?

AIBU to be annoyed about this? My view on it is that they're essentially in our garden, and I don't want to look at them! I'm tempted to ask her not to but wanted your verdict on whether I'm being unreasonable first!

You can ask her about the smelly ones OP, who wants to be hit be a wall of smell. Otherwise, febreeze the crap out of them and she'll get the hint.

Don't waste energy getting annoyed. Just ask politely if they could hang them a little further away.

I would say it depends how often.

If she's doing it once a week to dry after a wash then yabu. Just put up with it every so often.

If it's every day though I can see why that would be a pita.

Does your neighbour have a washing line in her garden she could hang the blankets on instead?

Tell her you have an allergy to pet hair and the blankets are making her sneeze.

Or just sneak out and chuck the blankets over into her garden. Repeat every time she puts them back on the fence.

Eugh...I think that's gross. I genuinely feel a bit ill thinking about it. I'd tell her the truth and wouldn't care less what she thought.

There must be a hundred other places she could hang smelly dog blankets... Over a tree branch, a bush, a washing line, a chair in her back garden.

Have a word, tell her you you're sorry but the blankets smell and you'd rather not have them hanging on your side of the fence and in your face when you step out your back door.

If she carries on, then every time she does it, go and lift them off your fence and drop them in her garden - it's very windy this time of year after all .

These sort of threads make me want to live in a detatched house far away from anyone :) To be honest, i dont think this would bother me in the winter, but in the summer i'd be pissed off and ask her not to do it.

just knock them off the fence? is windy after all.....

Tell her.

Ok thanks everyone, seems IANBU! I thought so but needed to check. I'll say something the next time!