To think it's perfectly fine for passers by to use my outside bin?

[ElmerRocks]

My neighbour seems to think I should yell at everyone.
Occasionally people will walk past my house, and put their drink can or crisp packet or whatever into my outside wheelie bin. They do have to open a gate to get to it, but my front garden doesn't contain anything at the moment, other than my two bins, they walk maybe one step to my bin, rubbish in, and off they go again sometimes closing the gate
She says it's an invasion of privacy, and trespassing. I think she is being dramatic, they are only using my bin, not casing the place, and I'd far rather they used my bin than dropped rubbish on the floor.

we also have a difference of opinion on kids walking on my wall (it stretches from the just by the front door, in an L shape to the back of my house)
She thinks I shouldn't let them, again I don't see the harm.

Am I too soft on these people, or is she a worrier?

My neighbour gets all sorts of aggro when people stop to sniff my gorgeous lilac blossoms. She actually shouts out her window and then usually texts me to report the sniffers.

I feel mildly irritated when this happens but then I tell myself that if they'd dropped it in the street outside my house, I'd be out there picking it up and putting it in the bin anyway (and feeling virtuous for so doing) - so sit firmly on any bad feelings.

I just wish they'd close the gate, though.

I don't have a problem with people using my bin - our street has dog poo bins but not many regular bins, and I'd rather people put their crisp packets in the bin than on the street. It's very unusual for our wheely bin to be full, and it's close to the fence so people can reach over without entering our yard, so it's not inconveniencing me in any way. Isn't littering worse than the odd can in your bin?

She texts you to report the sniffers??? That's wonderfully bizarre.

Using my bin is fine. I'd rather you did that than throw the rubbish on the floor and it's no skin off my nose for you to put a crisp wrapper in my bin to save having to walk around with it dispensing crumbs in your pocket until you get home.

Allowing your children to walk on my wall is arrogant and serves no real purpose. I them to get off.

Sukie, yup all through May I get updates like Lady in white hat with child stopped for two minutes, pulled branches down for child to sniff. On more than one occasion she has reported my mum to me as being an illicit sniffer.
My dh thinks she is very jealous of lilac and probably sniffs when no one is looking.

I'd rather they didn't come in garden to use bin but no issue with walking on wall. I think walking on walls is a rite of passage for little ones like puddle jumping & tree climbing. It's such a natural instinct it's lovely to see.
I probably wouldn't let DD1 who's 4 walk on other people's wall though in case they didn't like it

Would it be wrong to ask your mother to go past in a series of increasing elaborate disguises?

Oh that would be brilliant! On May 1, I will have mum come round in a Dolly Parton wig and huge sunglasses and ask her to spend at least 5 minutes sniffing!

Sorry for thread hijack, if my bin is outside, I do not care what people toss in it...but dh might feel differently as he is in charge of bins, as they are too difficult for me to haul up and down our steep path.

Wall walking toddlers and children make people cross? Why?

I have a sunhat, have often sniffed lilac and even climbed onto walls to sniff special old roses ...I am not a spring chicken!

Oh dear!!( will be glancing furtively over shoulder this summer)!

The only problem I have is if people throw rubbish into the wrong bin on collection day. My parents bin men will put a sticker on the bin and will not empty it if there is a visible drinks can in the grey bin.

at Dolly Parton mother.

Using bin is ok - gets annoying when folk put non-recyclables into recycling bin though...

Why do some people think the only option other than people using private bins, is littering the street ? Genuinely don't understand. I have never used someone else's bin and I've never dropped rubbish. I use public bins or take it home with me. It's not difficult.

I won't allow children to walk on my front wall as there's little crack in it and walking on top of it may make it worse. (It's a very low wall and we are going to get it repaired soon)

Love the lilac sniffing.

No readily accessible public bins here, waithorse, even though it's quite a heavily traversed street. Besides which, many people seem to just drop their litter as they're walking without thought of the consequences.

gotthemoon

we had people shouting at us through their fence to "get your kids off our wall, they will damage it@"

i argued back that little children are not heavy enough to make any impact and if they did the wall is crap and built insufficiently.
ffs they were only walking on top of it, not even jumping!
it was about a foot high brick "wall". you'd think they were bulldozing the Great Wall of China and destroying amazing historical property!

Some people have no respect for other's property and I think it starts with letting DC walk on walls. I see a Mother and her probably 6 year old son walking home from school here daily and she always allows him to enter a neighbour's garden via a broken fence panel, walk across their patio and then come out through another broken panel. Wtf? I think it's incredibly rude!

moon it's just not necassary to let toddlers walk on private walls! Sure if it's a public wall...but along someone's private one? No way! It's not your wall....it's someone else's.

Mind you...I let my dd climb onto the wall outside our dentist last week and it's about maybe 5 feet tall and shew was standing there...a man in a suit 9very smart} came along and looked horrified...he went up to her and held out his hand to allow her to jump off and turned to me and said "She could fall off that and break something!"

I just said "Thank you." because I was so embarrased.

I have respect for other people's property! and I have no idea if a low wal between a garden and pavement is private or public property.
but surely letting little kids enjoy walking on them is not a crime! they did no damage whatsoever.

quite different from entering a garden or climbing on something already broken.
ffs

your neighbour needs to mind her business and get a life

I let my DD jump on the shales on my neighbours driveways because she loves the crunching. In return I tidy the shales that have strayed onto the pavement (either through DD jumping or just general driveway usage) as I'm watching her jump. I see that as a no harm done, and potentially provide a benefit with tidier shales than when she started jumping. I would never let her walk on a wall because it could damage the wall or she could fall off and the homeowner might feel guilty (although it would be entirely my fault). I don't put rubbish in people's bins because I always have somewhere to put it or consider it my responsibility to take home but on balance I'd rather someone put it in my bin than on the floor. But that's not really the only 2 options. It's putting it in my bin or carrying it home are the real 2 choices.

I wouldn't be overjoyed with people coming onto my property to put stuff in but leaning over a wall or fence if necessary (round here there often isnt even that) is fine IMO. They're council property, I really don't see the issue. Carrying rubbish around is annoying - obviously I do it if the only alternative is littering! But putting something in a bin is fine in my eyes!

I wouldn't be overjoyed with people coming onto my property to put stuff in but leaning over a wall or fence if necessary (round here there often isnt even that) is fine IMO. They're council property, I really don't see the issue. Carrying rubbish around is annoying - obviously I do it if the only alternative is littering! But putting something in a bin is fine in my eyes!