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.

I don't think its dodgy, they would just throw the bags away if they where. I think they're overly frugal and reuse binbags

It's sploshing, I knew it.

OP,

(Whatever scenario gives her cause to dry them/ air them, she has no excuse for not caring that her bloody bin bags have been frightening your poor dogs for weeks).

Dare you to peg out a one-off 'festive' washing line in mid-May...that'll perplex 'em:

Watersports.

End of.

OP you get a for sheer courage; I'm very impressed you managed to squeeze in that nonchalant but oh so important question Nothing more you can do but move far far away

Loving the xmas pudding bags. Perhaps fill them with blown up balloons so they have some body to them? Not body in them although that would be quite a good idea if you could find a volunteer

Sploshing! That's the one

I've obviously been reading the fronts of the cheap magazines they try and entice you with in the queue at Morrisons too much

Note : I'm obviously not as posh as you OP I don't get mine delivered

I'm thinking embarrassing AND criminal , hence the 20p a show line the room binbags.
I wonder how much profit you'd make.....

"Her mother's black plastic habit" I think you might have inadvertantly hit on it. Clearly your neighbour is involved in a breakaway nun coven, or whatever they are called. They are probably known as the little sisters of the immaculate incontinence , and she is Sister KidneyStone in charge of the black plastic habits.

What an update 😱

Now I'm more suspicious intrigued!!

Blimey! I'm speechless. Neighbour behaves oddly. Next door neighbour asks light hearted question re oddness. Next door neighbour receives abuse!
So, I can get the incontinence thing, however a waterproof matress would be more effective/less hassle so I don't think it's that... and if it IS something embarrassing you're hardly likely to make it more of an issue by doing something odd like hanging bin liners on the line!
Your only hope is the daughter... or the father.... does he leave the house???

I've had a face on all day but "why don't you fuck off you nosy bitch ?" is even fuller, has had me roaring so thanks for that.

Good luck with your neighbour it will be an awkward few months.

I meant waterproof matress protector.

I'm loving this thread so hard!

I just want to say that I am delighted that I just recently discovered Mumsnet - if only for this thread alone!
You're all very funny and very real!

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Well done OP
I am more confused by the lie about the school than anything else! Why just why
ask the daughter go on go on

OP, pleeease get some of these (fake!) Louis Vuitton bin bags, since they think you're posh, and peg a line out yourself.

When is the other neighbour back from holiday? You MUST ask them what they think and to take over the task of finding out .

I need some LV bin bags in my life Teslas where can you buy them??

I think somewhere back around page 9 of this thread someone mentioned gardening...

I reckon it's a rubbish cannabis factory. Someone's already mentioned this but...They could use the plastic so help cover areas where weeds (not weed lol) is growing, cut holes in etc to only allow weed to grow. If these bags smell too much of the plant as it grows maybe she's scared of being smelled out (smelt out?)

Oh, boo. Apparently they're from an American site and out of stock.

The Christmas ones are on Amazon, though.

They do smoke weed on a regular basis, you are making me wonder if something is going on there. Would they be able to get away with it with a teenager in the house?

Loving those tacky bin bags, I wish I was brave enough to put them on the line. Maybe I should paint a couple of Chanel Cs on some bin bags and hang them up? No I think my courage limit expired this lunch time.

The answer surely to 'why don't you fuck off you nosey bitch' is obviously 'because all of mumsnet have waited for 18 pages to find out what the hell you are doing with those bin bags'

I appreciate you may not have wanted to mention that in your conversation with her

can you ask your teen to ask her teen?

Oooh I have a thought! Is she pregnant? If she is, she might be craving the smell of bin bags so buys them, washes them and re-uses for sniffing purposes...

Ok it doesn't sound at all very plausible but when I was pregnant I had the strongest craving for rubber Obviously I couldn't eat it, so carried around a new pair of boys plimsolls everywhere (luckily before Mumsnet or there well would have been a thread about me )

At one point DH bought a rubber basketball and punctured it and moulded it to fit my face like a mask so I could breathe it all in, but I only did this in the privacy of my own home...

Fuck sake, I've just name changed and now I'll have to do it again...

OP,

www.theguardian.com/society/shortcuts/2013/oct/15/spot-if-cannabis-farm-next-door

Personally I'd just call Police and let them investigate! Tell them you're convinced there's a Cannabis farm next door and get comfy whilst you watch the show!!