AIBU to ask what slightly odd things your neighbours do?

[Mycatpoops]

I'll go first. I moved to a new house a few months ago and my new neighbours obviously hate the fact my cat craps in their garden (understandable!) They pick the poop up and either hang it on my gatepost or on top of my wheelie bin. I totally understand they don't want cat crap in their garden, and my sister's neighbour just flings it over their fence so at least my neighbour is more courteous but....why on my gate (half a foot from my bin) or on top of the bin? Just open the lid and put it in the bin, surely?! I would dearly love if my cats would crap solely in my own garden but sadly I cannot train that!

Anybody else want to volunteer their neighbour's slightly odd behaviours?

My ndn doesn't have bins, he is too mean to pay for them. Every day he takes a little walk with a bag of rubbish and puts it in a public bin. He gets a new car every year but rarely drives it as he is retired and gets free travel. Every week he and his wife struggle on and off the bus with their shopping while his lovely new car sits in his driveway.

@ChesterDrawsDoesntExist

I hate drying outside. Soft, fluffy towels go hard, everything loses the lovely fabric conditioner smell and smells of outside instead 🤢, birds crap on it, bugs climb inside it and if you're real lucky some arse will fire up a bonfire nearby and make it really, really stink.

I only put a washing line up this year after 10 years of not having one because I need to cut back on my electric usage. My laundry is bleurgh now.

Must admit, in almost 30 years since leaving home/having my own home, (7 homes in total since I left my folks) I have not experienced these issues. I have had the occasional time when someone lights a fire, but it's rare, (and hasn't happened for maybe 10 years as most areas don't allow it in residential areas now.)

Birds crap on it never, bugs climb in it never, and occasionally I may have a fly stuck to it, but just flick it off. I also never have stiff towels when they dry outside. And I actually love the smell of the washing when it's dried outside.

Your reaction sounds a bit extreme tbh. Are you a bit stressy about other stuff (like refuse to open the windows in case a fly gets in, or won't eat a yogurt that's a single day out of date etc???)

It's dreadful for the environment to tumble dry everything, (all-year-round,) no matter how people make out the tumble dryers are more economical now.

@Disfordarkchocolate

My neighbour too bingbongnoise, no matter how sunny it is next door use their tumble dryer every day. It's next to our living room wall and some days the noise makes me murderous.

Well we were lucky that they had their tumble dryer in the garage, so we could only hear it when our windows were open, and we had nothing on (like the TV or radio.) If we shut the windows/had the TV on, we could hear the faint hum of it, but it never bothered us. I can see it would be awful if it was on a party wall though, or a room that is joined on to your house.

Oh, we also have a lad in our road, who spends 2 to 3 hours (outside) some days on his mobile phone, just walking up and down the road. I mean a solid 2 to 3 hours, without going in the house for anything...

Me and DH think 'just meet the person and talk to them in real life FGS!'

@Deadringer

My ndn doesn't have bins, he is too mean to pay for them.

Surely he pays for them via his council tax???

I love my line-dried towels. Really good shake before you hang them out, aim for a breeze, turn upside down halfway through.

bingbong we are in Ireland, bin charges are separate and bloody expensive
I love line dried clothes, love the fresh crispness of them. I only use the dryer when absolutely necessary, the clothes don't feel as clean imo.

White vinegar in the rinse keeps towels soft. Never use fabric conditioner with them

I think my neighbours must have some dodgey dealings with their energy company. They have SOOO many lights in their garden. A couple solar, fair enough, but many with wires trailing into the house. They also have theit heating on from the minute they wake up til the minute they go to bed, but have the doors and windows open all day. Baffles me.

One of my cats craps in my garden and I do a poo pick every day. My other cat goes in the garden of person living behind us. Person has put up wire fencing to stop my cat getting through a space in the fence. What he doesn’t know is that the hole my cat uses to get in his garden is hidden from his side by a huge bush. Unless he chops it down and fixes his fence he’ll not stop my cat. Next door neighbour had a go at me once about my cats pooping in his garden. He said he didn’t mind his other neighbours cat going in his garden but didn’t want mine to. Daft thing is it was his other neighbours cat doing the pooping!

If you fancy a few days in the North @ChesterDrawsDoesntExist I have a spare bed and a messy garden.

Ours Ignore us completely. We tried to be friendly when they first moved in but she wouldn't even speak to us. We've never met her or her husband before.
On the odd occasion she does look our way it is to give us a snug look, visitors have also said she's tried staring them out.

I had to get a new (old) car, when I parked she just stared at me with the same snug look. Two weeks later she had a brand new car I was tempted to also buy a brand new car but quite frankly I can't be arsed.

@Deadringer

Oh I didn't realise your bin/refuse charges were separate from council tax/rates in Ireland.

You must get some fly-tipping there!

The council charge for mattresses/beds/sofas etc to be taken away, in some counties in England, and sometimes you get people dumping them in a layby rather than pay the council to take it.

Baffles me why they don't just take it to the skips themselves if they have the transport to take it to a layby! (The skips are free pretty much everywhere I have ever been to take stuff.)

Our neighbour will wash both of his cars, rain or shine, daily with a watering can at 7.30am dressed in a t-shirt and shorts. Neither of them are particularly nice cars, and most days they don't get driven anywhere.

My 92 year old neighbor leaves a voice mail with a tally of how many people sniffed or pinched our lilacs in the spring. We have lived here 12 yrs and she has done this since we have owned our home.

Parks their car outside our house, even if the road is clear outside theirs. We both have big drives and space for at least 3 cars outside, but they always park outside OUR house.

Using a Kerscher pressurized water spray on their paths outside my study window during the day. I work from home, which she knows.

I don't think either are deliberate, just thoughtless.

My parents are the odd neighbours.

Their days revolve around their cat who harasses them and bullies them constantly. They can be heard in the garden loudly negotiating with the cat and eventually giving in to her increasingly ridiculous demands.

One of their neighbours told me that their cat is pretty infamous throughout the street.

@Disfordarkchocolate lol I'm pretty far up north already (right in the countryside hence the bugs and extra bird shite and presumably having different bonfire rules to @bingbongnoise,) but if I lived next door to you Dark I'd be happy to do up your garden so it would look nicer. No offence to my lovely neighbours but theirs looked 100x worse after I cleared up my own garden and now they match. Nothing fancy or owt, just neat

We've lived in our house over two years and have never seen the people/person that lives next door. We have occasionally heard them walking about at night but never in the day time. Although a few weeks ago they did decide to do some DIY (including drilling into the other side of our bedroom wall) at 7am on a Sunday & again at 7am on a bank holiday Monday.
I put a card through the door the first Xmas we where here and I've put notes through about the fence between us when it blew over in a storm (we can't get to it from our side because our conservatory is in the way) but they don't answer the door & have ignored the notes

Wow EmeraldEagle I'd be eaten up by curiosity.

They could be up to all sorts in there. Keeping a hostage/prisoner?

@ChesterDrawsDoesntExist

Living rural would not result in more more bird poo and insects than in the towns... I have lived in both, and there was no difference.

North but not rural here, I could she you the bright lights (maybe a slight exaggeration) of my market town @ChesterDrawsDoesntExist I could show you a lovely wall too.

Two words: nude gardening.

woman next door uses the dustpan and brush on her lawn.
also cuts the grass daiiky8

One of our neighbours is tight as fuck. Borrows everything he can from other neighbours. Tools, BBQs, etc.

Borrowed a tool from us and gave it back broken. We didn't realise until a few months later and it was too late to confront him.

Borrows his next door neighbour's lawn mower whenever his lawn needs cutting. It's a petrol mower and has never once in 5 years offered to even pay for a can of petrol!

I have an old lawn mower than we don't need. Offered it to him for £30 and he said "no thanks. I borrow next door's".

Not a neighbour, but before my grandfather in law got too frail, he used to sweep his lawn every morning.

Put their bins out a full 24 hours before they’re collected.

Yes! Ours do that too. Bin day is a Monday, usually collected early so no issue with doing it the night before. By 9am Sunday their bins are always out. If ours aren’t out by lunchtime they usually do them for us, which is very nice of them, if not slightly unnecessary. Trouble is, other neighbours see your bin is out and assume you’re done with it so they fill it with their own rubbish. Then Sunday evening when I’ve tidied round ready for the week and empty the bins, there’s no bloody room left in my bin!

I could ask them to stop doing it but it sounds so ungrateful.