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Suggestions please : re nextdoors mess !

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thenewmeone · 14/03/2009 12:27

Please can anyone help at all ??

For 8 years now we have put up with nextdoors "mess".

Neither of us you would class as in the weatlhy bracket but we have have decent/smart tidy houses - apart from nextdoors.

I admit to being a bit of neat freak, but would never dream of leaving me house in the state that they do. We are talking rubbish bags that have been left there since november weeds/general street litter/very untidy garden dirt etc etc etc. They also have four wheelie bins on the drive, which we politely asked them to put at the back of the house, when they first moved in(which is where all the bins in the street are kept) and they refused.

PLEASE HELP ME !!!!!!!!!!!!

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MaureenMLove · 14/03/2009 12:33

Oh dear! I'm not sure there's anything you can do, especially if you've already asked them to move the bins and they refused. Some people just don't see that sort of thing as an issue and it doesn't bother them. I think, however hard it might be, you're gonna have to get over it.

It would bug the hell out of me too btw!

thenewmeone · 14/03/2009 12:45

It does bug the hell out of me maureen.

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beanieb · 14/03/2009 12:46

why does it bug the hell out of you?

thenewmeone · 14/03/2009 12:51

Because it does. Wouldn't it bug you ??

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nailpolish · 14/03/2009 12:52

there si nothng you can do so try to chill out
are they good neighbours otherwise?

perhaps your constant nosing in to their garden si bugging the hell out f them

seeker · 14/03/2009 12:55

If it bothers you ask if you can do their gardening for them. There's no reason why they should do it because you want them to!

StarlightMcKenzie · 14/03/2009 12:59

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foxinsocks · 14/03/2009 13:03

you are kidding me

OhYouBadBadKitten · 14/03/2009 13:04

if rubbish bags have been left there for months then you could contact environmental health. Theres a big difference between an untidily kept garden and one that is very likely to attract vermin.

fizzbuzz · 14/03/2009 13:07

Our house still has cardboard boxes outside from Christmmas But if someone asked me to move them I think I would deliberatly leave them there for longer.

As for wheelie bins, perhaps they can't get round the back, we can't get ours round there.

Perhaps they don't have the time to move stuff either. My dp and I work full time, with 3 kids. It is bloody hard, and shifting bin bags is bottom of our priority list tbh

Ohforfoxsake · 14/03/2009 13:11

Could you get some tall plants, in pots if necessary and hide it all?

Its up to them. The only real problem would be rubbish bags because of rats. But saying that, if there are rats and they have the neighbours bins as a food source they aren't going to come and bother you.

But all you can do is ignore or hide it I'm afraid.

foxinsocks · 14/03/2009 13:13

maybe the bin bags are not full of food rubbish but something like cardboard?

(I looked out the window to see if you were my neighbour...our front garden is full of weeds and sometimes there is rubbish there because the bin man spills stuff and we don't get around to tidying it up but I don't think 'smart/tidy' describes where we live )

thenewmeone · 14/03/2009 13:46

I am quite chilled (honest) .

I don't constantly nose into their garden. You only have to look out of our front window to see their crap all over the place.

Seeker - I had thought about asking them tbh, but thought that would be taking it slightly too far, but I would be only too happy to do it - and take the litter to the skip.

As for calling the environmental health that I would see that as taking it too far the other way?

Starlight - why am I looking at their house.
I'm not. You can't not notice it. It's full of crap. The first thing I see when I look out my front window is four ugly wheelie bins.

The bins easily go round the back. All the bins in the whole street go round the back.

I think whether you privately own your own home or are a council tenant plays a huge part as to whether you would be bothered or not. Would you choose to move in nextdoor to a house full of litter and wheelie bins.

Both my partner and myself worked really really hard to buy this house in the first place, when it comes to selling it, I would like it to sell for as much as possible .

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StarlightMcKenzie · 14/03/2009 13:54

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seeker · 14/03/2009 14:34
bronze · 14/03/2009 14:39

I do have some sympathy as the people over the road always have junk all over their garden. Ok ours isnt immaculately gardened like some of our neighbours (they say dont worry theyre retired we have smalluns) but over the roads looks like the rag and bone man has just delivered a load. (ok not just as the weeds have had time to grow everything into the ground.
Normally it doesnt bother me but we want to sell our house and I really don't think its going to help give an good impression of the area.

HerBeatitudeLittleBella · 14/03/2009 14:40

oh you lost me at the snobby council tenants bit.

thenewmeone · 14/03/2009 15:36

"Normally it doesnt bother me but we want to sell our house and I really don't think its going to help give an good impression of the area. "

The point I am trying to make.

Couldn't really give a stuff whether a house is privately owned/council/cardboard box/bus shelter.

If I lived in a bus shelter I would keep it clean and tidy and put my litter in the bin provided.

If I lived in a council house I would make every effort to keep it clean and tidy.

If I lived in a privately owned house I would make every effort to keep it clean and tidy.

If I worked and earnt x thousand pounds and bought my my house for x thousand pounds I would make sure it was clean and tidy, because one day I would like to sell it.

Nobody would like to buy a house full of crap/litter/filfth.

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StarlightMcKenzie · 14/03/2009 15:45

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NotPlayingAnyMore · 14/03/2009 16:04

"I think whether you privately own your own home or are a council tenant plays a huge part as to whether you would be bothered or not."

Even if I owned my home rather than renting it from the housing association, the fact is that I have better things to do to prioritise other things such as my own (poor) health and the care of my autistic son - the reason we're in social housing - rather than on tasks I'm not obliged to do for the benefit of my neighbours.

Actually, between myself and my neighbours, the only time anyway has had to call Environmental Health was when my former privately owning neighbour had so many maggots in her bin that I couldn't open my windows due to the smell, as well as when she took to throwing all her bagged cat's faeces into my garden

hobbgoblin · 14/03/2009 16:20

It won't be as bad as my parents' place. Is a 4 bed detached house, in nice residential road. ACORN score of 10, but it is like steptoe's yard.

There is a car that my mum drove circa 1978 sitting on the drive (rusted and with flat tyres) and it is stacked full of crap, such as wood, and cement bags. The garage is so full the door has sprung open and is literally bursting with shite.

The back garden is full of plastic buckets for some reason, these contain bits of brick, tiles, sand, greenery, creatures, stagnant water. More sand bags and cement bags, full of water and plant life. There is more wood and metal and stuff dotted about. Huge areas of nettles and weeds, bits of delapidated greenhouse, glass, mounds of, um, mud. There is a shed which is also bursting with crap. Interior doors, scaffolding poles..

Oh and my Dad also likes to be considerate and feed the wildlife with bird seed, bread, lamb chop remains so there is at least one resident rat.

The wndows don't match, some are hardwood leaded lights, others are 70s painted wood plain glass. The garage and doors and windows are turquoise. All intentional greenery is overgrown to the extreme.

It is dire. I cannot bear it, so is a good job I no longer visit.

I won't go into the details of inside, but suffice to say there is evidence from the outside that some rooms are impassable.

Be thankful, not only that they are not your neighbours, but also that you are not me age 19 taking fiancee to meet parents, or my mother.

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thenewmeone · 14/03/2009 16:59

Starlight.

It is the right way. Of course it's the right way.

And who says so. I do.

Would you really want your kids growing up in filfth.

OCD no. But clean and tidy yes. How does your impression of generally clean and tidy equate to OCD .

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StarlightMcKenzie · 14/03/2009 17:12

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hobbgoblin · 14/03/2009 17:12

Mess is not filth and filth is not mess.