People not showing pride in their homes

[Auburngal]

Talking about those who leave the front of their homes (owned) in a state.

For example there’s a house down my parents road who has an old fridge freezer on their driveway for 5 years! Don’t understand why people spend several hundred quid on white goods don’t buy them from a retailer who takes the old one for free or for £10. I paid the retailer £10 to take my old washer away and to recycle it accordingly.

Then there’s a house opposite me who had their bathroom replaced and left the old loo and other bits outside the home for several months. A decent bathroom fitter would take the old stuff away as part of the package.

Then another family down my parents road have old children’s toys in their garden- play house, sand pit etc. The kids are too old for these toys now.

Then are properties with hedges on the road and used as a ‘bin’. Unless the owners have mobility issues - then there’s no excuse to remove the rubbish from the hedge.

People spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on their homes but I hate it when they show no care.

People need to show pride.

I am a member of a community litter picking group.

I know there is a tip 5 minutes away because I am talking about my neighbours. A specific example.
(I also know is fully functional as i use it myself)

Im not talking about someone on Mumsnet.

Why is everyone turning this post about them?🤣

YANBU

@zinkywasher
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Or they're disabled and doing their best?^

That would be a very small percentage of people. We have some really ugly towns, streets and roads, from one end to the other.

Some people on here are confusing looking after your home with fake pretence (referencing Hyacinth Bouquet) and doing something housewife'y and old fashioned. So it appears people are now 'too cool' to live in tidy neighbourhoods.

I'm one of them.

In my case, I guess it's because I'm feeling defensive. I know that the outside of my home looks shabby and I'm doing the best I can to deal with it.

ETA I also took your comment to be a generalisation.

YANBU. Fortunately, we have neighbours who evidently agree.

What colour is your uniform?😂

Stupid comment. Hardly merits that smiley.

If you can't stand, perhaps you should throw caution to the wind and get yourself an armchair so you would have a great vantage point.

Thank you, I see that now.
😂😅😂🤓😋😉😆😃😆😂😂🤗

I can't mow my lawn. I depend on my gardener, and he hasn't started yet. So my lawns are a mess.

What am I supposed to do?

Nobody is mowing the lawn yet, are they? Gardener or no gardener, the ground is saturated.

@ZingyShaker walking in a nice, tidy neighbourhood gives you are safe, cosy feeling; looking through the window and seeing lovely front/ back gardens gives you joy every morning.

I think for the majority of people it will be not disability or extreme poverty, but that full-time work leaves very little time for maintaining a pristine front yard.

My house is the scruffiest on the street by far; however, all other neighbours but one are either retired, or have a stay-at-home parent. "But one" has two working parents, both with well paying jobs, but also a nanny, cleaner doing 15 hours per week, and a gardener.

I agree with you OP, unless you are elderly, ill, disabled, depressed or similar it really doesn't take long to keep on top of things. In fact, a lot of elderly people with back problems are the ones out there gardening and creating nice environments for their neighbours (and wildlife).

It wouldn't give me a safe, cosy feeling. I would feel on edge, worried that the residents were judging me for wearing trainers instead of proper smart shoes and possibly mistaking me for a cat burglar.

How am I supposed to do that? I can't bloody walk.

It’s really nice where I live, maybe the odd wondering chicken but no dumped rubbish .

Faded plastic toys on the lawn, or shoddy syntax?
Believe me, I am judging you, flutterby !😱

My late husband was one of the folk who would go out of his way to help others.

By the time he was infirm, there was no one around to help us. I did as much as I could until my shoulder problems and arthritis got in the way.

It's very difficult to find someone to do gardening work at a reasonable price. The last chap I spoke to wanted much more than I earn per hour when I'm supply teaching - he was looking for 100 quid for less than half an hour's work. [Cleaning the moss off my front path. I can do it myself, but only a little at a time.] I'm not sure whether he thought I was very wealthy, very naive or a combination of the two. When I declined, he then offered to do it for 50. I bid him good day.

A neighbour has suggested that I can employ her sons to help. I'm unwilling to do so - they sometimes work 'on the side' in order to supplement their benefits. One is an alcoholic and the other has a substance abuse problem: the neighbour has let slip that she doesn't trust them to be in her house unaccompanied and the thought of even having them in my garden leaves me uneasy.

Why should the OP take her neighbour's rubbish away?

I absolutely agree.

Why should I have to pay to remove rubbish that others have dumped in my front garden?

Wow, that's classy. What are they thinking about?

Blimey, I thought the weeds springing up in my driveway were bad! I feel much better after reading about junkyard front gardens! It's just been too wet to get out there when I'm not working.

This is gross what is wrong with people!