I saw my neighbours bringing food shopping in today

[Fortheloveofgodwoman]

The big shop

A post on another thread here reminded me. I often think about when on earth do my neighbours do food shopping as I never see them bringing food shopping in…ev😂
Whereas I’m always laden with bags
I wfh so notice lots, no delivery vans and never see (aside from this time) neighbours bringing food bags in.

Is this just me and my street

That's his food sorted, then. Does he have large freezer chests? 😳

Never seen two of our neighbours bring out or in bins, and never seen shopping come in from 2 out of 3 houses but see a Tesco van come to the other one every week, same bat time, same bat channel!! They definitely see us, with 4 kids the shopping coming in is like an occasion 😅

That's his food sorted, then. Does he have large freezer chests? 😳
😅

If you get an outside camera you'll see all the comings and goings if it's something you care about that much. I see all my neighbours' food shops, deliveries, visitors. And I also saw someone walk down our cul de sac at 2am and walk off with a giant broken clothes rail the neighbour had left outside. So really you'll have more info than you'd like.

Some may say that the cost of the camera is expensive, but really it's only a few months of a Netflix subscription and think how much more entertained you'll be 🙄

Oh wow! I saw my neighbour carrying a box once! I had never seen any of my neighbours carrying boxes before. The excitement!

I've never seen my neighbour with food shopping bags, yet I smell his food all the time when he's cooking with his windows open!

He also NEVER puts his bins out! EVER. 5 years I've lived there and he has never ONCE put his bins out.

He also keeps most of his blinds shut. I think he's a hoarder.

This is all going to be individual - some people will think 'oh that's pocket change' and others 'sheesh! That's a lot of money!'

But,

Yesterday, I did a weekly 'big shop', at my regular Sainsbury's, exactly like I used to pre pandemic & Cost of GREED Crisis.

NO alcohol, toiletries, cleaning products, loo & kitchen rolls or pet foods etc - just food - fresh fruit, veg, some meat & fish, milk, cheese, yoghurts, £10 worth of snacks & bits

It came to £172

Not so long ago, my Christmas food shop would barely have come to that!

Plenty of people can't afford to a big shop any more and I had Nectar vouchers off and only paid £110 but was still shocked at £172 for 3! Bags of shopping!

Well, I once saw my neighbours actually doing the food shop and it felt v weird. We studiously ignored each other although we say hello usually. I think it was the unexpectedness of seeing each other in Morrisons when for all these years we have just hurriedly waved hello when getting into our cars in the morning.

There’s nothing worse than seeing someone you know while trundling around the supermarket.

The first ‘hello’ is fine but then you keep meeting each other down various aisles and it becomes increasingly awkward.

I’m with those saying no one can possibly have their eyes on the street 24/7!!
What about sleeping? Dealing with DCs? Bathing and showering? Going out for hobbies and interests? And everyone keeps to
different schedules - up early? Stay up late? Different work rotas? Religious observance (important with Ramadan at the moment)?

That is so weird! I'm always unloading shopping from the car. Next door but one has a weekly delivery but no one else! I don't think my neighbours eat! Are they all robots!

I never see neighbours bring their shopping in, but if there’s a supermarket deliver van it always seems to pass when I’m walking past a window.

Poke nose

Since you are WFH maybe you should do more work and spend less time spying on your neighbours

I live in a big block of flats, if there isn't a supermarket delivery van downstairs when I'm coming or going then it's outside of delivery times.
And I see people wheeling shopping over the bridge from Morrisons.
And I see my neighbours in the little sainsburys in the bottom of one of the blocks.
We must just eat a lot here.

I've only just cottoned on 🙄that your neighbour is... HL! And those beans are fava beans!

As you work from.home you are in a prime position to document all the comings and goings in your street. I would suggest compiling a spreadsheet of the results and then after, say, a month analysing the results and perhaps creating a PowerPoint presentation with colourful pie charts etc.

At this point you might be temped to call a neighbourhood meeting to share your analysis DO NOT DO THIS. I saw a film once where there were similar questionable anomalies in a street and it turned out that the original residents had been replaced by aliens. Might this have happened where you live?

Just reading through all the replies now 😂 so many people v similar.
For the people that took the post seriously 🤷🏻‍♀️I don’t have no life or spend my time nosying, but I do work on my sofa with the patio doors/full length windows to the side of me, so can see comings & goings, but even so, it was just an observation that it’s something I never really see

WFH my arse…you are obviously not working that hard if you have the headspace to waste on this

This thread is funny because it’s very relatable to people like myself who are at home mainly. I’m constantly shopping as I spend a lot of time at home. I’ve never see once seen any neighbours bringing their food shop. There used to be a couple living opposite who had a dog. In the 10 years of knowing they lived there, i never once saw the dog & the only time the lady was seen was when someone parked in her driveway & she tried to locate the culprit. I heard the dog bark many times walking past the house but rarely ever saw her & only saw her partner once. Just something i noticed that’s all. Interesting to see others noticing these things too!

I have a relative that lives over the road from me. Logically I know they go food shopping (because they pick stuff up for me now and again). I’ve never seen them bring shopping into the house though.

I WFH and my window faces directly onto their drive.

I see next doors grocery deliveries all the time.

I just think sometimes people need to do something in their lives!

Ok now I'm obsesw

Oups! Obsessed by my neighbour's shopping!
Never saw them with bags.

But why do you care? I certainly don't worry about what my neighbours buy as long as it doesn't impinge on me. In fact, it wouldn't worry me if I didn't see one set of them at all!