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?

First thing tomorrow get the lawnmower out and shave "FUCK YOU" into the grass?

Cowardly arsehole.

I'd order a new sign for the garden: "DISGRACE TO THE STREET" in hideous neon colours.

Put a poster up in the garden with that note stapled to it, and write in big "I was going to tidy my garden, but fuck you rude letter writer, you should apologise for being rude" and put an old toilet and some random crap about the garden, and leave it there for a few weeks.

I think it may be my neighbour opposite. When he had a lawn he used to mow it twice a week, he just has a gravel car park now. He is always offering to do jobs like paint your fence etc. I used to think it was because he was friendly but maybe it's because he thinks our house is letting the side down.

Things like this give me proper rage! So bloody rude. Do you have any idea which neighbour it is?

There's no way I'd be tidying up after that note! It'd make me want to leave it even longer. It's nobody else's business.

Buy a shit load of tacky beautiful discount store gnomes, windmills and other assorted garden ornaments and put them all out in your front garden to 'improve' it.

The bastard will wish that they had never said anything!

I think you need to spend a few hours on freecycle this evening OP.

Am sure you will find a manky mattress, a fridge, a broken sofa, some rusting bikes and a box of miscellaneous junk to dump out there.

And I would sit on the sofa with a rolly up fag and a crate of lager in the manky fridge blasting out Brittany Spears 'Whoops I did it again' for a few hours. If Brit isn't to your taste some nice speed garage should just about push them over the edge I reckon.

All these ideas I agree put the letter in the garden!

I would really struggle to keep my passive aggressive side under control here.

I would make my garden (if I had one) a whole lot worse. Rubbish everywhere. Just to spite the fecker.

Why don't you go and ask him? Just be straight and gauge his reaction. Say I've received this letter, is it from you and if it's not, do you know who might have sent it.
I find that behaviour totally sinister and cowardly. I'd have to get to the bottom of it. How dare they?

Love some of these suggestions. My front yard is like this. There's always bits of rubbish blowing in, and we are close enough to the centre of town that people have finished their drink or chips by the time they get to us and chuck the rubbish over our fence. I usually pick it up as I come in, but it has been a bit cold and slippy over the last few days and things are looking a bit manly at the moment. Haven't ever had a rude note, though.

Well if it's just two bits of rubbish as you say - the note writer is clearly bonkers so just ignore.

Yes yes to chucking the letter in the garden and then putting a fuck tonne of 99p store garden ornaments with wind chimes and horrible solar lights in it. Sit on your front step smoking and supping on a can of special brew

Get onto Ebay and buy one of those rusty old bangers which are for sale for spares.

Stick it in the front garden and paint 'our garden is a fucking disgrace' down the side.

Watch neighbour spontaneously combust.

Who the fuck are these people that have so much spare time that a piece of paper in a garden warrants a note through the door?

Whoever it is needs to get a life.

Dh has been over twice now to speak to him llhj but despite him and the other 4 people that live in the house being in, he didn't answer the door. 🤔

If I got a note like that, I'd mess up my front garden on purpose. Nasty curtain twitchers.

just as well I live behind a big hedge and a high gate and a long drive

I would seriously consider posting a not through everyone's door saying.

Dear Neighbours

I am very sorry to have to write to you like this. However, I have been the recipient of some threatening anonymous mail from someone who claims to live on this street, critiquing my house.

I have found it extremely unfair, and upsetting. Please contact me directly if you would like to discuss any matter. Or at least have the courage to sign your name, to do this anonymously is cowardly.

If I receive any other communications, I will be going straight to the police.

As I can only say, I am so sorry to the majority of my neighbours that you have to be bothered by this. However, since the coward who thought it would be best to not sign his name I have been left with no choice.

kind regards CHECK

I cannot stand passive aggressive note senders. I've been on the receiving end of it from my previous neighbours and it's fucking awful.

What a creep. I'd pursue it though, could be guilty conscience if not opening door.

I had something very similar happen to me. Except I knew who it was and ordered a pack of 1000 dandelion seeds from Ebay to scatter over said persons precious lawn in the night. I didn't actually go through with it though, I was too terrified of being caught on their lawn in my dressing gown and slippers at 2am!

Oh but I still have the packet should you find the letter writer and would be more than happy to send them out to you!