to ask my neighbour why in the hell they are constantly drying black bin bags

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My next door neighbours constantly have black bin bags on their washing line. Not in their main garden but in the side return, right next to our house. Our kitchens look into the other but we have a fence up which just about blocks us from seeing each other. However day and night for the past 2-3 months they have had black bin bags on their washing line. I wouldn't give a crap about what people have on their washing line ordinarily but it makes a right din, especially in the wind we have had recently. DS13's bedroom is at that end of the house and says he can hear them rustling really loudly all night long (which I know sounds ridiculous but they must have 4-5 bin bags rustling away at any one time).
These bin bags keep blowing up in the air too and our dogs are losing the plot about it, they don't usually bark much but 15ft glossy black apparitions springing up is sending them mad.

Every morning, when I'm in the office (we have an office annex in the garden so can see directly up their garden without effort) I can see her taking bags off the line and replacing them with new bags.

Come on, what am I missing here? Have a missed a bizarre trend? They are bizarre people as it is but I can't figure out wtf is going on here.

Thanks did if you could put that on a t-shirt for me I would be much obliged.

Does she have a neighbour the other side who you could enlist in your quest?

Does she also hang out lots of sheets? surely if being used for incontinence purposes she'd still have lots of sheets to wash anyway? assuming you'd put the bin liners UNDER the sheets as opposed to just sleeping on them directly?

"A project on the colour of your soul"

Norma They do have a neighbour on the other side but they are on holiday at the moment (I'm feeding their cat). They have to deal with a lot more crap from them than we do as their houses have adjoining reception rooms and we are connected the stairs/hallway/landing.

Did you mean to be so rude Didyoumeantobesorude?

I'll get me coat.

What family members are there next door? Is there an elderly relative or primary aged child where bed wetting might be a posibility? What a random reply though.

Maybe they act out naked scenes in the house and they dont want you to look in and these are a diversion.

There is her, her husband (I would say they are 45-50) and the daughter who is 13. Sometimes a boy of about 9 is in the garden (he has asked for his ball back a couple of times) and also a woman in her late teens/early twenties is often there, smoking in the garden and when she is around we hear a baby crying.

I'm guessing an incontinent adult. Sheets can be washed and dried indoors. You can't put bin bags in a tumble drier. I feel sorry for this family.

Of course if it's a cannabis farm after all that's a different matter.

But surely if it was an incontinence issue they would use waterproof sheets - easy to wash, less likely to draw the attention of neighbours ( ) and widely available?

Also it isn't as interesting for us thread watchers as something more elaborate and strange that involves sex or drugs .

XXXXL condoms

Incontinence supplies are expensive.

Bin bags under a sheet are at least cheap, if not particularly comfortable!

I don't want to make light of any possible incontinence problems, but the only way this thread could be any better, is an update through the medium of Diagrams....

Sorry, obviously you have already updated (and I admire your dedication to the cause) but we kind of need a diagram to really make this clear...

OP, you approached this all wrong, you know... You should have carried on the conversation about flooding/schools ('what do you/does she think of that school' would have been a good one, especially if the DD doesn't go to it!) and then paused for a second, looked at the bin bags and said 'oh are you collecting bin bags? We have some we've just finished storing clothes in but they might have a couple of little tears so no good for rubbish - any good to you?' She might well still have called you a nosy bugger, or you might have found out that she only uses a particular kind of bin bag, or only intact ones, or...

What a rude lady.

I think she has a toilet phobia and shits on a binliner. For fear of being eaten by the toilet monster. Nice. God help you on a windy day. I'd inspect the windows for nuggets

Just read all the way through this - legend!

My guess is waterproof sleeping bags.

I would say kinky purposes. A "friend" of DH used to have a lot of dirty videos that he would lend and one of those involved a couple dressed in bin bags with slits for their eyes, mouths etc....... Just leaving that image with you

one of those involved a couple dressed in bin bags with slits for their eyes, mouths etc Thanks for the nightmares ...

No, it's not incontinence. I can't imagine why anyone would bother to was the bin bags instead of chucking them out or buying a plastic sheet. You can order them in boots for goodness sake. Plus the wearing of gloves when pegging out. I think it's mental illness or she is colluding with someone who has mental illness. She was very aggressive towards you. Do you wish you had gone with the fact that the noise is really effecting you and ds?

Please don't ask the teenage girl. She might be the bedwetter.

Maybe her dh is very well endowed and condoms don't come in his size??

Wash not was and Boots the chemist I mean!