Lighthearted Help me out, Mumsnet. I’ve become obsessed with the unusual repetitive litter in my neighbour’s front garden. (Name changed for this thread cos outing)
Who would be leaving a burnt out tea light and two pieces of neatly folded kitchen roll in a bush every day, and WHY?? Can you help me uncover the reason for it?
Here’s the context. I live in a naice small town outside a larger standard English town. My road leads to a main road, and one of my neighbours has a house on the corner, with its large front garden facing the main road. The garden has a big hedge, trees, lots of vegetation and is bordered by a low brick wall. In a small gap surrounded on the inside be vegetation (thus screening from the view of the house) someone is leaving the same pieces of litter every day! Every day, one or two pieces of neatly folded kitchen roll (no food stains…yes I’ve checked) appear in the same place… sometimes accompanied by a burnt out tea light. This has been going on for months!
I often pick up litter from my road/surrounding roads because, you know, right thing to do etc, and so I often pick this litter up and dispose of it. Then it keeps coming back! Every day! This week I’ve been planning to ask you lot - and it’s just the kitchen roll and no tea light. Last few weeks I’ve seen paper every day and a tea light every week or so. It’s on the walk back from the school drop off so I see it every morning.
And yes…here’s a photo!
The owner of the house is a frail old man I know to say hello to but that’s all.
So…what could it be? Give me the reasons!