[quote MakeMathsFun]@aspoonfulofyourownmedicine
I am empathetic to to the person posting this main thread.
However, with regard to your comment, I do understand the point of the neighbour selling the house. If they asked politely, then it is a reasonable request. Even if they were rude, then putting an old freezer outside sounds spiteful and unnecessary. Losing a potential buyer because of a joke act like that could reduce the selling price by thousands of pounds. Hardly fair, given that they asked you not to and gave a valid reason why.
I had an old beaten up vintage car rotting on its chassis for years. When my neighbours asked me to hide it so they could sell their house, I ordered a large camouflaged tarpaulin for £25 and it 'disappeared'. I did not take offence to their request, and I did not add an old freezer to make their selling situation worse.
With regard to a busybody complaining about 'line of sight' of a bike, a carriage and a dog blanket during a temporary clearout, I have little sympathy. Its not her garden afterall.[/quote]
@MakeMathsFun
Absolutely nothing spiteful about it at all, my new fridge freezer was being delivered 'imminently' as in within a 2hour slot and my old one being collected within the same 2 hour slot by a friend who needed a fridge freezer. We moved it outside because we have a teeny tiny kitchen and wouldn't fit 2 in there in order to get one in one out. With regards to the other stuff in the garden at the time they complained - we were busy in the house, furniture was a tv cabinet, chest of drawers, bedside cabinets and carpet - all which I'd given away for free on a local FB group helping people with nothing to start out & were awaiting collection over those 2 days, they were covered with tarpaulin but they still weren't happy. Even if they weren't being given away and being collected, I couldn't get anything to the tip anyway as
a) my car isn't big enough for large pieces of furniture
b) our local tip has a bizarre rule of you can only attend on an even date if your car reg is even, and odd date if reg is odd and it wasn't our day
c) I couldn't lift anything on my own even if I wanted to as I have a back injury so could only go when DH home and he was working on our 'tip day'
d) our council collection waiting list is 6 weeks long for bulky collection - so it was either put up with it for 2 days or 6 weeks.
Why should I put a hold on my life and the chance to do home improvements to appease other people? I'm neither spiteful nor an awful person and had their request been reasonable I may have seen their point, but expecting us to stop work on our home so they can sell theirs is unreasonable, the items were there less than 2 days and were not causing any issues, anyone with sense could see we were busy working on the house whilst both of us were home.
FWIW the house hasn't sold due to them asking £20k over the value price and refusing reasonable offers but that's a whole new thread, not because we renovated and redecorated some of our home and they didn't like the timescales. After all, the thread is about busybody neighbours who can't mind their own business.