To die on this pathetic hill? Neighbour related.

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Semi detached. Neighbours are dicks. They are the type to cut their tree and throw it over my side of the fence, specially tell their work men to park over my drive. They’ve done so much more but it’s generally small petty things like that but it builds up.

Our front doors are on the side of the house and we have bay windows facing the front onto the street with a gap in between. This gap is small and definitely where the boundary line is. They have now started using this area to store their bin - so that it’s pressed up against my window.

I’m just so fed up of it that I’ve started googling fences. I can’t go talk to them because there is no reasoning with them.

Put your bin on the other side of their bin in front of their window? Would that work?

And post a picture 😂

Id put my bin on their side of their bin 🤣 right in the middle of their window, when they mention it just say there's no room on your own side for some reason.... Another bin 🤷🏻‍♀️ but I'm petty AF

I’d be “accidentally” kicking that bin in front of their door till they got the message.

Are you going to be putting Christmas decorations up? If so, it's a good opportunity to put something Christmassy there on your half so their bin can't go there. It gives you an excuse to not look petty if you want that.

I’d move the bin every time. Get a fence there, even just a few foot of fencing along so the bin can’t go in that space.
Every time they chuck stuff in your garden, throw it back over.

Do you even need a fence? Could you get one of those plant pots that contains a tree with a bare thin trunk and a bit of greenery at the top? Those ones like people put either side of front doors.

With the tree cuttings, they legally have to give the parts that overhang your garden to you, even if the trunk's on their side. It's some old law that's still in force about your right to the firewood and also stands for any fruit growing your side too. My mother in law's neighbours used to take all the plums off their side of her tree and rather cheekily reach through and try to grab the ones in arms reach on her side too, greedy sods!

Move it to the other side of their window. Tell them “please don’t do that again, you might not mind but it’s quite disgusting for us.”

How about a giant inflatable Santa giving them the moon?

Absolutely get a fence to at the very least define your boundaries, I sometimes see front gardens where it’s almost a communal space and it makes me shudder 😂, would always avoid buying one like that.

But that aside, even if you put a fence up, they may still keep their bins there, they would have a right to really. There is a house near me that has an enormous garden, they have put their kids high playhouse right against the boundary fence far from their own house to another house that has a small garden, their kids would clearly be able to look in next door. This like your bin situation is selfish on the part of the neighbour not considering your space, but unfortunately for some reason people always situate things right up against their boundary, the furthest point from them, there must be something in the human nature that means we do this.

Im on your side OP, but I’ve had things like this and I’ve learned you have to become blind to it otherwise you will go round the twist. Whether they are doing it on purpose to annoy you or it’s completely innocent, you’ve got to let other people’s weird habits go over your head, otherwise they will fester. You can read so many examples of neighbour disputes that start over something like your bin situation and because everyone gets their backs up, they end up in court.

Im not saying we should all become walkovers, but it’s good to try and think ‘bloody weirdos’ about folk around us and try to let it wash over us, folk are weird, put a fence up, try and have your curtains positioned to block the view of them and their bins and go on your way.

Could you mvoe it and put a plant pot there?

Just realised if it's only big enough for one bin then it's probably too small for. A plant pot only on your side. Fence it is.

Also what a fucking weird place to put your bi, in a tiny gap between two bay windows??

No - that's incorrect. They have to offer them to you; you don't have to accept. If you don't accept, it's up to them to dispose of appropriately.

I’d be putting a high fence up, less chance of seeing the fuckers then, we did exactly that.

Wheel it round and shove it against their window. Or empty it all over their front garden:

Fence, all the way. I street-googled my old terraced house, that sits right up to the pavement, the other day. I was sad to see that the owners of my old house put their bins right next to lovely neighbour's front door. To be fair, it is still in front of my old house, so not on shared or ther other's land, but still. It's a rude PA gesture.

Good fences make good neighbours

Nice arrow!

Whose boundary is it? My deeds say I who is responsible for which ie on the left-hand side of my house I am responsible for fencing etc. So if it's not your boundary, I would have though you can't put a fence up? Worth checking.

Excellent diagram. 👏🏻

You are definitely not petty. Agree a fence. Shame it can’t be electric.

Do check your property deeds/title first

Good fences make good neighbours.

I've had neighbours like this. It was awful.

I wouldn't arse around with planters, I'd go straight to a fence.

You need a nice heavy planter with a very spikey Holly growing in it! Evergreen, birds love it and it will spike your neighbours if they get too close...