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

I think it’s a piss take on mumsnet generally

My neighbour has a weekly sainos delivery. As do we

A neighbour of mine on the first time we met said oh it's so nice to meet you I thought only children lived in your house. He had seen the kids coming and going but he hadn't noticed me. Which is strange as I was always with them 🤔

Yes, nobody wants to hear about nosey curtain twitchers.

I never see my neighbours walk their dog, and guess they've never seen me. Then I did the other day - really odd as I could have sworn she had a jack Russell but it was a cocker. Made me feel totally different towards her...

I never see anyone bringing bags in and I'm home a lot as i work as a CM. I do notice delivery vans though, well the toddlers do. I have a 2yr old 2 days a week and none of my neighbours stand a chance of getting a delivery without me knowing on his days as he literally squeals with excitement at every passing van or truck 😂😂

I have noticed one neighbour often gets an ocado order not long after I do. I tend to order once a month (or however often they send me a money off vouchers 😂)
I'm not sure if she sees mine and it reminds her to use them or if she gets similar vouchers just after me but the vast majority of the time I get an order and 2 or 3 days later she gets an order from them 😂
I've been using sainsbury's a lot lately and nobody else seems to get them though, apart from one time when I stood impatiently waiting for the driver to come knock only to realise he was delivering opposite before us! Without realising we had both ordered from them for the same time slot amd it had come on the same van!
Ive also seen morrisons come down my street when I had an order due but then he delivered down the road and left again. Ours turned up in a different van 20 mins later!

whats strange for me is the elderly woman on my street who gets an Asda delivery twice a week, plus she is out to the shops everyday. How much food does she need?

I've only ever seen one of my neighbours bringing shopping in. I have never seen anyone else doing it. I've always thought it was weird.
They must do, or they'd starve, but I've never seen them.

The woman next door has 3 dogs so she must get their food from somewhere. I've never seen parcels arriving for her either so she can't be doing big shops online.

It just doesn't take that long to bring in shopping, it's no conspiracy.

I see it happen sometimes as we have a lift so if you're putting crates of shopping in the lift it holds it up for a few minutes.

This is Mn. It’s perfectly possible there are not a few people who never leave the house but ‘pride themselves on their detective skills’ on neighbourly activities.

Am I the only one here thinking that some people has too much time? Give me some, please. My 24 hrs turns in a minute with my toddler, can you spare me yours so I'll be able to run all my errands. Obviously you have too many.

She’s elderly, as you said, so maybe the daily bits and bobs make up her life and social interaction. Bit lonely, I would surmise.

Oh no she’s quite a forceful thing. I wouldn’t call her lonely, she’s very active in her church.
She has a pull along shopping bag that is quite full when I see it.
My only explanation is she has someone shut in the shed she’s feeding.

😂😂 - lovely!! Very good explanation for her antics, bless her 😂!!

This is such a good point! Pretty much all my neighbours have seen me bring my shopping in though!

We are in a cul-de-sac of 10 houses. There are a few delivery vans a week... Tesco, Asda, Sainsbury, Ocado, Waitrose and Iceland... neighbour gets Tesco whoosh and Morrisons from Amazon too.

We appear to have well above average visuals of neighbour food shopping.

You can always tell which delivery service has sent out vouchers, as all the vans that week are from the same place.

@Fortheloveofgodwoman I’m only telling you this because you sound like you might appreciate it 😃 A couple of weeks ago my Asda grocery delivery was late on a Tuesday, 9-11pm slot and it was past 10 o’clock when it arrived, as I was putting it into bags a second Asda van rolled up and parked next to the one with my shopping.
it was next door’s delivery. same time slot, same delivery time, separate van 😮😃

They just might eat out every day.

However you flip it, you could buy two sandwiches a day and live a perfectly normal life, fed.

You're not suggesting they're morbidly obese and therefore must be inhaling food at every opportunity.

You need to up your curtain twitching hours..obviously not paying enough attention

There was a thread not long ago from a poster who was obsessed with why her next door neighbour, male, married, got up and left the house on foot in the middle of the right for an hour or two every night. I thought that was quite dedicated curtain twitching.

@mdinbc your sister sounds like me! I didn't actually realise how much I knew until my husband asked me some questions recently and then my son and I could answer them all and I didn't even know how I knew. I'm far too busy to be a nosy neighbour and tbh really not that interested ... but I do have an eye for detail. Everyone hates watching detective films with me because I suss the plot out long before the end normally. LSS family are starting to think that I am working for MI5!?* 😂

They probably don't notice you either, I certainly don't with my neighbours. Then again I'm out at work but even when you wfh surely you can't be looking out the window all the time? Do you have cctv to check? X

We had neighbours, two adults and two children and every week the shopping came in from the car in a box measuring about 15” by 12” and that was the shopping for the week. They were all very thin.

youve to mutch time on youre hands stop being nosy

I think we are surrounded by aliens. I have have lived next door or opposite people who never seem to bring shopping home. We are bringing bags of stuff everyday. We have so many bags for life the have their own annexe. I have seen my next door neighbour leave for work come back go running welcolm guests. But I have never seen 1 bag of food enter her home. Her bins have 1 black bag of rubbish and barley any recycling. Alien? She's very slim though unlike me!