To ask for strange things your neighbours have requested to borrow...

[Mrscropley]

Years ago my neighbour asked if she could borrow some pj's as hers were dirty and she could find spares. . Yeah no problem, nice black satin pair never really wore as always felt like a wet fish wearing them.
Week later asked again - specifying the same ones as he bf liked her wearing them during sex. . Told her to keep them!!

I once borrowed a tin opened, glass serving bowl and saucepan from my neighbour when I was hosting a dinner party but didn't have the first two items (typical student understocked kitchen) and my flatmate had accidentally set fire to our saucepan. I returned the stuff the following day with a helping of tiramisu to say thanks.

About half a year later that same neighbour knocked on my door and asked me if I could give her young DS some beans on toast or something for dinner because she didn't have anything in. She declined to come in too so I fed him and let him watch the Simpsons on my laptop for 4 hours. When I asked where he reckoned she was he replied "she was arguing with daddy so she's probably ran away so he doesn't hit her again"! I was gobsmacked, thought several times about calling the police but the kid said not to bother because they don't usually turn up! I wasn't about to go around by myself to see what was happening (20 year old woman with all the strength of a damp noodle and no backup) so in the end I did call the police who said there was nothing they could do if I wasn't able to go round and see if she actually needed their help. I lent the kid a tshirt and blanket and tucked him up on the sofa, and at about 6 the following morning the neighbour turned up again to take him to school. I asked if she was okay, she avoided the question and never spoke about it again. My flatmate and I moved a little while later so I don't know how they are now

*tin opener

Where do I start?
First neighbours when DH and I were very young,
Foil, cling, fags, lighters, for me to call them a taxi every monday at 5:15pm. They'd been banned from ringing Delta in Liverpool. They always sent the kids too.
They came themselves when they wanted lifts to the shop though. He stood in my kitchen once begging me for a lift to the shop to buy booze for longer than it would have taken to walk. I stopped answering the door after that.
Second lot, tweezers, (seems common on this thread) toner, a tv, our tumble dryer, a bed, expected us to pay for a shared fence. Oh and requested we sell the house to "white people". We inherited the house and lived in it until our new house was ready for six miserable months. DH's auntie was the neighbour. We never got the tv back either.

Tin foil and marmite.

When eldest son was a newborn a neighbour came to the door to ask to borrow his car seat for her toddler. Her husband had gone to work and their car seat was in his car. Well, our car seat was in our car at my husbands work, it would have been too small anyway. It seemed very strange that she'd even ask.
I was looking out the window later and she put her child in the backseat with just the adult seatbelt on him. Later, when I was telling my husband about it, I realised she probably wanted me to just keep her child while she went out but didn't want to ask.

In my previous house I had a druggie a few doors down. She borrowed everything

Cat and dog food
Coffee, sugar and milk (daily)
Lighters
Foil
Her gas had been cut off so she would go round house to house to have a shower, I never let her in! She also asked another neighbour to keep all her dog ends from fags so she could split them to make a roll up urggg. She even asked for fag papers!

When I was a student, my housemate was going to study abroad for six months and had his suitcase packed ready. NDN had said he could borrow her bathroom scales to weigh it and make sure it was within the luggage allowance. He went round a few days later, the door was answered by a woman who we'd never met before so he explained why he was there. She turned out to be NDN's DD, and quietly told him that NDN wasn't up to visitors at the moment as her DH had died that morning. An awkward pause, followed by "...but wait there, I'll go and get the scales."

She disappeared inside before housemate could say anything and he was left shuffling awkwardly on the doorstep!