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?

Y don't they knock on the door and tell u, letter is pathetic ignore it! Tidy ur garden when u want!!

get a couple of those huge gnomes they have in Asda.

A friend of mine had something similar (several notes over three weeks), So we moved a car that another friend had bought to do stock car racing with on to her lawn. with the notes, photocopied to A3, and laminated stuck to it.

It was only there about 3 weeks before we moved it. Strangely enough she never had another problem.

cavemum, perhaps it was his way of offering to do it for you.

welshcath, as for the note writer, they clearly have very sad narrow lives. Put a post up with a note on it asking them if they would like to assist as they have nothing better to do. Leave it a month then do it under your own steam.

I dread receiving one of these.
Our neighbours are mostly spiteful, gossipy, retired people with nothing to do all day. One complained that the single Mum of two children - one severely disabled - hadn't trimmed her hedges. She was trying to rally my support for her bitching session but I said that I hadn't even noticed and the hedges didn't bother me.
Another complained that we had put bags of sawdust in her bin - 'It must be you, you have chickens!' We kept the hens on straw. I told her. She's probably thrilled that the local fox ate all the hens last summer.
A third old bat complained that we'd left nappies all over the path. There were nappies. Our youngest child was 4 years old at the time and two years out of nappies.
Our front garden has long grass and straggly shrubs. I work very long hours - dark when I leave, dark when I return. Someone is bound to complain soon.
I aim to be like my Godmother once I'm old - she's in her 70s and very active, out all the time, volunteers at a charity shop a few days a week. Funnily enough she doesn't ever say anything bitchy about anybody - too busy living her life and being a useful member of society.

How rude. It puts me in mind of an incident that happened to me a few years ago. We had some neighbours from hellnot very nice neighbours,who had been there only a year,but had made our lives a misery in that time. I had put a black sack of rubbish on the floor next to the communal wheelie bins as neighbours from hellsomeone had filled the bins with decorating rubbish (bags of scraped off wallpaper). A dog,or a fox,or rats,I don't know which,had ripped open the bag and scattered the contents over the bin store floor. Next thing I knew,I had a stroppy note pushed through my door in the early hours of rthe morning before I was up,so I didn't witness who had posted it. It said words to the effect of 'clear up your disgusting rubbish,otherwise I will report you to the council and the local newspaper. We are sick of your mess.' My reaction was total shock. I had never,in my 20 years of living there,had anyone complain to me,or about me to the council and I had never had any complaints from the council about my conduct. I dithered about what to do. Eventually, I put a note through their door,suggesting that they come and talk to me if they had a problem with anything. Surprise surprise I heard nothing.

Ever tried topiary? Think this would be apt

In my front garden

Rotting Car

Fridge

Skip

Big Van

A couple of cars

Pile of hardcore

Covered in weeds As no one has done anything on it since 2015.

Don't think I will get any notes disapproving of my garden as there are enough derelict houses around here because the local committee stopped any building work on them.

Or this... Sorry haven't rtft btw do apologies if it's already been suggested

I would just write "NO" underneath, then pop it in a sealed polypocket, or clear bag and attach it to something so it's visible.

Update. Not neighbour across the road so no idea who it is.
As others have mentioned, we live on the same road as a school and have all sorts of detritus on our lawn everyday. Dh and myself both leave in the dark and come home in the dark with ds(5) in tow so don't always have time to pick up after other thoughtless people everyday.
Tomorrow there will be extra rubbish as it's bin day.
As for the mystery letter writer, they obviously need to get a life.

That note is written by an older person, I would say between the ages of 45 and 65 but likely not much older. And it's a female, right handed. Her lexical choices shows suppressed rage and has issues with face to face confrontation.

Sellotape the note to the window facing outwards and add your own reply that if its that messy it is affecting their mundane lives, they can clear it up themselves. Then add a little " this area is covered by CCTV" sign. It is the only way to go!

Ffs. Unless you are causing vermin or the like to visit...it is YOUR HOUSE!

My front garden is in a right state and I leave in fear of getting a letter like that, since my neighbours are great ones for leaving parking rebukes on cars. I'm not in such fear that I'm actually going to tidy it up any quicker tho and if I did get one I'd put it off for at least a year in fury.

That's just bloody rude. What's it got to do with them?

One of my neighbours asked me to stop leaving my ironing board up in front of the living room window. She said it could be seen from the street and it looked common. I left it there for a month. I'm a passive aggressive

A note like that would bring out every petty impulse in my body, so I'd be tempted to "store" some corrugated iron and a few old mattresses in my front garden for a few weeks...

Marmalizes we are of one mind.

When I was a kid, we had a really nosey neighbour opposite. My eldest sister (still a teenager then) paraded up and down in front of the living room window in a wedding dress with a pillow stuffed up it to give her something to be scandalised about.

I have to pick up rubbish out of our front garden on a daily basis, due mainly to wind and the builders over the road!
I think (haven't read thread sorry if duplicates someone else) you should put a sign up with

Please feel free to collect any rubbish that offends you.

I would not even give it head space since the author hasn't the balls to sign it.

A friend moved into a very select close. House cost an eyewatering sum. Had an ancient dog. Got a note through saying he had to get rid of the dog as this 'is a cat area'. He got a mate to park a rusting old digger on his drive and there it rotted with rivers of rust running into the gutter until the day before the estate agent came to take photos when he moved on. He used to put fairy lights on it at Christmas. Some people are beyond wankers!

TwoTwentyGowerRoad I salute your friend. The fairy lights were the perfect touch!

I had just had Dd2 (less than a week old) & Dd1 was a toddler when the old lady knocked on our door with her walking stick & rudely demanded I do something about the dandelions on our front lawn as they would spread to hers! I closed the door in her face. She remarked to Dh when he got home from work that I 'seemed a little upset about something'!
My money is on an elderly neighbor with too much time on their hands.
I left my dandelions until the seeds floated all over the neighbourhood...

I had an issue with an obsessed neighbour(now former neighbour) making a fuss about how often I cut the grass in my back garden. It turned out her husband was a perv and would have trampled on his wife and kids to have gotten a whiff of another woman's lady parts. She just wanted a reason to make my life difficult and to bully me out of the area.
I think you should get the horrible gnomes and not tidy the garden for at least another three weeks. Watch out for any men that might want to sniff your lady parts, it could have been sent by their wife!

Quite honestly if this person hasn't got the guts to tell you in person then ignore it. If I have a problem with a neighbour I never hide behind anonymous letters I go and sort it out in person and politely and calmly.