Husband and outdoor light

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We have an exterior light that is motion sensored.
Our neighbours (students) wave in front of the light to turn it on so that they can see their front door in the dark or put their bins out.
I think this is perfectly reasonable.
Husband thinks it's not theirs to use and that we shouldn't be paying for them to illuminate their front garden. He keeps turning the light off when they need it on.

AIBU to think this is incredibly tight and unnecessary?

Yeah, he's being proper mean!

Yeah thats petty.

Is that all he has to worry about or are other things bothering him?

Are they really harming anyone? He'll soon start shouting if his car gets broken into when he turned the light off.

What a meanypeg....

I couldn't bring myself to mind this, he's being excessively petty.

This will be the tip of the iceberg of what is I suspect a very unpleasant man

So they wave it on

your husband sees them do it

and then rushes to switch it off?

op - my mind boggles

What a miserable bugger

What a grump. Bet he's the sort who'd pop a kid's ball if it came over the fence too.

how embarrassing (to be him, and for you to be married to someone so cheap!)

It costs approx half a penny to run an average lightbulb FOR AN HOUR, if they are only using it to take their bins out that's, what, a few minutes, max?
Even if they sat out there every evening from 6-10pms using YOUR light it would cost about 2p!

What on earth would he do if a neighbour asked to borrow some sugar, make them take out a high rate interest loan?

That’s an Olympic standard of stinginess. How unattractive.

Unless your husband's sleep is being disturbed by the light coming on, it is very unreasonable to begrudge your neighbours a brief moment of illumination.

He should definitely invoice them one pence per activation. In fact, given that the local cat turns on ours as it struts past, he should also look to charge any local feline owners.

Mine comes on every time someone walks past the house.

We have no street lights where I live so people's sensor lights coming on is the only way you can see where you're going after dark, unless you have a torch. I think most people are more than happy to allow people to see by their lights.

Can't believe anyone would be so mean they'd be bothered by someone using their light to see by.

YANBU. Ask him how he would feel if that was his child and someone was doing that to them

hes a real meany and should be ashamed of himself

My outside light comes on at dusk and stays on till sunrise, whether there's anyone around or not. I'm sure your husband would be horrified.

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I genuinely hope this is a joke thread.

If it’s not then it’s frightening to be married to someone like this!

Potentially dangerous precedent. He might get a bill for smelling the neighbours' roses.

Reminds me of my FIL who takes great delight in turning every single light off whenever we visited with the DC, even when they're babies/toddlers and ..need to see where they're walking..... When confronted, all he had to say for himself was how many lights were "left on" and how much he thought they cost to run 🙃 We stopped visiting.

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@Ibravedaflood bravo 🤣