Probably petty as hell but AIBU? Diagram included!

[PettyCardboard]

Our brown bin was lost/stolen and I have ordered a replacement and waiting for it to come.

DC recently got a large birthday present that came in a tall cardboard box. I have put said box outside propped up against the wall in our back yard whilst I wait for the new bin as there was no where in the house for it and I don't have a car to tip it at the moment.

The yard at the back of our house is owned by us, it's in our title deeds but our neighbours have right of way to access their backdoor (diagram attached!).

My neighbour has taken it upon herself to move this cardboard, more than once, and literally stand it against our back door so it blocks the door/falls into the house whenever you open the door.

I have already explained that I'm waiting for a new bin so I can get rid of it just a few days ago. It's been out there for no more than 5 days.

I get it may be a bit of an eyesore but it is 100% not blocking their access when propped in-between our black bin and wall as per the picture.

As the yard is technically ours, AIBU for 1. Leaving it there until the bin comes and 2. Asking her to bloody leave it alone?! I'd understand if I'd shoved a load of rubbish into the middle of the yard and left it there for months but this is neatly tucked away and I've already explained why it's there!

[MrHodgeymaheg]

You could always take the box down the post office and mail it to her. It belongs to her now.

[PettyCardboard]

I'm loving all the suggestions of sitting in the box. If I manoeuvred myself properly I reckon I could get in there and shout 'what the hell are you doing?'

Alternatively, does anyone have any old cardboard boxes they need to get rid of that could send me? I'm trying something new with the landscaping in our back yard

[PettyCardboard]

I'd be a bit nervous of giving her heart failure though. How would I explain it to the police?

[xILikeJamx]

@MrHodgeymaheg wins the thread

[Fuss]

@ChicCroissant Just checked and ours doesn't. All it says is:

Cardboard (flattened)

It doesn't mention anything about damp at all so clearly not all councils guidelines are created equally.
In regards to having time to check. Come to my street on a Friday morning. Every lid is lifted.

[OldEvilOwl]

Get a black marker pan. Write 'stop moving my fucking box and mind your own business' or something similar on it in large writing

[stuffedpeppers]

I would offer to sell her her strip of access path to her front door at an extortionate price then fence both sides of the path in -personally!

[TheReluctantCountess]

Re-shape it into a box and fill it with black bags of rubbish, just to annoy her.

[BarbedBloom]

YANBU. It isn't her yard.

They have to take damp cardboard here otherwise none would be recycled. The boxes don't have a cover and if you put anything on top, even a plastic sheet to stop them getting wet, they won't be taken. They come anytime from 8 to 3PM when everyone has left for work.

[Hidingtonothing]

I like your thinking OP, I would collect lots of boxes and build a city out there now, but then I am incredibly petty

[MrHodgeymaheg]

Put the box back into it's box shape apart from the bottom.

Fill with pasta shapes or rice.

When she moves the box spilling the contents everywhere shout 'what the hell are you doing? Don't expect me to clean that up!"

[DontCallMeShitley]

Put one of these on it.

[LucyAutumn]

Lol to the hiding in the box and pasta shapes idea

[MrHodgeymaheg]

Yes, yes, to the toxic waste symbol!

You could always put a snake or a wasps nest in the bottomed out box. Although I guess it might take a while to source them.

[crapette]

In the olden days, you used to be able to order live locusts/similar buzzy things from Exchange and Mart don't ask why I know this

If that is still possible, fill the box with them and wait for her to move it.

[ATowelAndAPotato]

You can still order live ladybirds from Amazon!

[DontCallMeShitley]

Pets at Home sell insects, but not advisable to let them loose though. I often wanted to rescue them and let them free but I know they would destroy the word, or at least part of it. Poor little things, kept in boxes and then they have reduced stickers put on them.

[WiddlinDiddlin]

I am a bit baffled.. please confirm..

1: The entire yard is yours, you may if you wish, decorate yard with boxes all over, as long as they do not impede her access to her door.

2: You had tidied the box away for the sake of neat and tidyness, and she keeps moving it from whence it is neat and tidy, to place it elsewhere because... she doesn't like boxes to be put away tidy?

I think I would write FUCK THE FUCK OFF on one side of the box, and on the other 'STILL FUCK THE FUCK OFF' on the other.

I would also knock on the door and enquire as to whether she realises it IS your yard and you CAN put boxes where you'd like within it.

[Frenchw1fe]

I loved One Foot in the Grave when Victor got 100 gnomes instead of 1. They were everywhere waiting to be collected.
‘It’s like bloody Snow White’s Cottage in here.’

[MrHodgeymaheg]

My favourite one from OFITG was when he asked someone to put a plant that had been delivered in the downstairs loo and they actually planted it in the toilet.

I still think you should mail her the box and then when she inevitably puts it back by your door you can accuse her of littering your property.

[crapette]

Hmmmm - maybe not living creatures then.

I think maybe what you need is some sort of speaker that is in the box. Keep watch by the window with a mic, and everytime she goes near it just say "DON'T". You'd probably need a voice changer too.

If you are on a tight budget then the above solution isn't going to be possible, but you could either learn ventriloquism (from YouTube), or maybe you have a friend who is already a ventriloquist? That would have the added benefit of a deeply creepy doll too.

[thistimeofyear]

YANBU - 10/10 for diagram

[MB246]

1 tell it to leave alone
2 if it re-enters your property, sue it for tresspass

[CrisPbacon]

I would hover at the tip until someone dumps a shitty red carpet, lay it in the route she takes and make a cardboard arch with a gnome guard of honour all along it. I'd put a f**king movement sensor so that the whole thing lights up and plays "the stripper" at full volume every time she moves a muscle. She may have "access" but she'd not tell me what to keep in my yard 🤣

[Hayyancairo2]

I think the best I would do is, rip the box up into pieces and just put in a plastic bag!