AIBU to be upset by this letter.

[welshcath]

I got home today to find this letter, which had been sent in the post. Yes our garden has a few stray bits of rubbish in it as it goes straight on to the road and it's been very windy the last few days. It was on my list of things to do this weekend but now I feel like not tidying, in the manner of a truculent child. WWYD?

Picture of it and we'll tell you if YABU or not.

We need to see the garden.

It's not worded v nicely though.

I would feel like leaving it to if I got a note like that!

Person who sent it is a dick.

Whether your garden is a disgrace or not, I can't say without a picture.

I wouldn't tidy but I'm petty. Don't think too much of it, it'll be some nosy busybody trying to get a reaction. Are your neighbours generally nice? Or are they expecting someone from the 'well kept town/village' to turn up and are scared they won't win?
A house across the street from us looks like a bombs hit it, no one cares as we all have other stuff to worry about.

That is horrible. Yes, it's nice if the whole street's front gardens are lovely etc etc, but it's your garden, not a communal space, and whether you have the time/energy or even the inclination to tend to it is none of your neighbours' business. What a horrible snob.

Unless it stinks to high heaven and is causing distress to the neighbours by attracting flies and vermin it's nobody's bloody business. How rude.

Do not tidy your garden until you're good and ready to. That person has no right to speak to you like that.

I would leave it completely if it were me!

Does tha mean it isn't even your rubbish? There's one front garden locally that might deserve a letter, but it's had a decaying car in the garden for a number of years and they appear to cut the dandilions grass annually. Unless that sounds like you then just ignore it.

I'd be erecting a ten foot middle finger statue but I'm an arsehole

Stick a sofa out there and go drink beer on it

There is a sandwich wrapper and a small piece of cardboard by our side gate that had blown there in the wind. Neither of which are ours. Too dark for photo now WellErrr.

Horrible. Who gives a shit about someone else's garden, or "the street"? They should get a life.

I wonder if someone is trying to sell their house and flailing round looking for excuses as to why it's not selling.

If it's literally one sandwich wrapper and a piece of cardboard then it sounds batshit crazy.

What an arse hole the letter writer is

That note would make me want to empty the contents of my bins into the garden and put up a sign saying 'To the cowardly anonymous note writer. I'll have what the fuck I like in my garden. Thanks'

I probably wouldn't but I certainly wouldn't tidy it up for at least a week and possibly longer.

The AIBU is whether to be upset by the letter or not, not whether the letter is justified, so I'm not sure why (as per typical AIBU) people are fishing for irrelevant details such as pictures of the garden.

YANBU to be upset, the letter is rude.

Hate the "clean it up!" bit.

I hate being told what to do. That would piss me off to high heaven.

Our next door neighbours like to throw pie tins and plastic bottles in to their garden. Yes it's odd and I wouldn't do it, but it's up to them. I certainly wouldn't leave them a shitty note.

Oh no, 1 whole sandwich wrapper and a piece of cardboard?!?!

Forshame!!!

The letter is rude and cowardly.

But I still really want to see what your garden looks like.

We had a Christmas card from one of our neighbours that concluded with "PS your front garden is looking cluttered"

Our "front garden" is 1m wide and planted with roses and shrubs. I haven't done any pruning for a few months as a) I work 3 full days a week; b) I have a toddler to look after the other 4 days; c) DH works away Mon-Fri and d) I'm 6 months pregnant and frankly can't be arsed!

Said neighbour is a retired gentleman in his 70s. DH had to restrain me from marching round to his house and telling him if it bothers him that much he can prune the bloody roses himself!

YANBU!

Throw the letter in the garden! How rude!

Put the letter in the garden with the rubbish OP 😂
Only joking of course !
Any ideas as to whom may have posted it ?
Whoever they are, they are cowards.

Draw out a middle finger salute, paint it red and display it in an upstairs window for a day?

I had an opposite neighbour berate me once loudly because I had net curtains up. It was the most bizarre aggressive conversation about window displays I've ever had

She then offered to 'give me a hiding' because I was pregnant rather than go for an abortion though so I knew she was batshit and slightly scary.

I'd be sorely tempted to start adding things to the front garden. Start with something small and move up to sofas and the like.

Even if your garden was messy, it's nobody else's business but yours. I'd be outraged if anyone sent me a letter like that