Woman across the street staring into my house

[Littlejayx]

I live on a busy road in a large village, over the past few weeks I have been home more due to home working starting up again. I used to get alerts from my lighting system that ‘living room had been triggered’ and thought it must be passing traffic, until I was sat down working today to see a neighbour stood scouring my whole living room (not seeing me due to positioning) then light sensor turned on (was off as I hadn’t moved)

I’ve had quite a few run ins with her about letting her dog foul outside my front door/drive, using my bins and trying to stop my Gardner trimming hedges. What do I do? 😩 last time I spoke to her she shouted at me on the street and threatened to report me for assault!

I’m living alone with two young children and hate the thought of her stood looking in my house

Where does she stand? Outside your garden or do you not have a garden so she's right outside your house?

I have a small wall and pointless 3ft yard to the window so she’s walking past the front door into the pointless yard to stare in 😩

Shut the curtains!

Go out and ask her what she wants

Get blinds

Or put some reflective film up. She'll soon get bored

Put your hands on your hips and go stare her out.

I would position desk in front of window for a while. Then maybe get some blinds 😆

I don’t want my house plants to suffer because she wants to stare in!

My brothrr has spoken to her about staring into my car when she was dropping something off before but her response was a few four word expletives

So she’s actually right outside your window within touching distance? Next time she does it stand up suddenly and scare the Shiite out of her, that should stop her. How weird though, maybe get a ring doorbell? She sounds very odd!

I don't see why you should add blinds etc if you don't want them. Make a log of every time you see her and any run ins you have. It may be a one off any nothing further comes of it but if it's the start of harassment...

Put a little sign up, not in the window, but somewhere that once she's in position she'll be able to see, saying something like 'nosy!' or 'is my life really so interesting?' or 'i see you out there looking in'.

I second the scare the crap out of her suggestions.

Nosy mare!

Google, or search on Amazon, for "rabbitgoo" window film. It's reusable, the light gets through, but she can't see in. We use it because we are at street level, near the pavement and have that goldfish bowl experience.

Get up and wave at her

Play her at her own game. Make it as weird as possible, and see who gives up first

Honestly it’s just surreal, I’ve just found my house alarm has a mobile activate option so next time I might just set the alarm off 🤷🏻‍♀️

Reflective window film, for sure!

Also possibly a sign saying 'Stop looking in my house, it's not that interesting'

She sounds unhinged so you can’t reason with her. Perhaps stopping her from doing it altogether is the only way. Definitely install window film. It looks smart and won’t affect your levels of lighting and plants. It’s much nicer than net curtains and you can get cut out patterns that let you see out but people can’t see in. We have it in our hall as we have a glass front and people used to come right up to it and peer in. Shameless.

Setting the alarm off is a brilliant idea.

@Littlejayx

Honestly it’s just surreal, I’ve just found my house alarm has a mobile activate option so next time I might just set the alarm off 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yes! Do that. Every time!

@Littlejayx

Honestly it’s just surreal, I’ve just found my house alarm has a mobile activate option so next time I might just set the alarm off 🤷🏻‍♀️

Oh yes! 🤣

Could you pop upstairs whilst she's staring in and tip out the contents of your "Chamber pot" on her?

Looking at my sensors it’s been happening about 3/4 times a week 🥺. I don’t have anything interesting to look at! Thinking about it my dog has been very interested in the area near the window recently so she must be looking when walking her dog 😩.

I'd go out and ask her what she wants.