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Post by shelby on Jun 6, 2020 3:11:28 GMT
I'm sure the neighbors think we are the weird ones when they see my dh out walking our cat on a leash. We have two indoor cats but our Sophie thinks she should be an outside cat and is very vocal about getting her point across. We have a soft cotton harness with Velcro tabs that she will jump up and get and drag it to dh. They go out everyday and check things out. Its so cute the way she prances around with her tail straight in the air. Charlie hates the harness though and if we put it on him he just lays down an plays dead. At first dh was concerned about the neighbors seeing him but doesn't let it bother him anymore.
We put our cars in the garage as do most of our neighbors. For those that don't do you keep your garage door openers exposed in your car or do you not have one?
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Post by grammanisi on Jun 6, 2020 3:17:54 GMT
I don't know how weird it is, but our across the street neighbor checks his mail 4-5 times a day, even after he's already taken it out of the mailbox,7 days a week!!
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Post by papercrafteradvocate on Jun 6, 2020 11:35:24 GMT
Oh oh oh ! Maybe they have a weird pet in their home and they’re digging for worms or grubs!!!
And here, in my neighborhood , EVERYONE parks in their garage. It’s rare if they don’t, j less they have more cars than garage space (we have 3 cars and a 2-1/2 car garage so one us parked outside).
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Post by caangel on Jun 6, 2020 15:23:47 GMT
I live on a short street with a cul-de-sac at the end. Of the 17 houses we are 1 of 4 that can fit a vehicle in the 2 car garage (one neighbor stores a large boat in his garage). Everyone else either uses it for storage or an extra room. We are in So Cal with cement foundations so no basements, small yards so no room for a shed, although most (if not all) do have attic space. My Honda Odyssey barely fits lengthwise in our garage. We actually uses to fit my DH's car too but once we had kids and all the bikes and toys that came a long his car no longer fit. Most people also have their laundry in the garage too, that's just the way the house were build (1970s).
We have one older neighbor (80s+) who has caused a lot of drama. Her husband passed many years ago so it is just her in a two story house, with up stairs bedrooms. He was the one who was more with it and active always doing yard work. He passed due to complications after falling off his patio cover trying to fix it. The wife does have children who come by to visit but not so regularly that I've noticed a pattern.
Another neighbor/friend took pitty and befriended her only to have the older neighbor accuse my friend of stealing from her and having an affair. Then mentioned it to several other neighbors. My friend keeps her distance now while trying to keep an eye on her.
The older neighbor will occasionally ask me or DH if we are the new neighbors. We've live here for 17yrs. I am amazed that she is still living by herself. It just doesn't seem safe. We do our best to keep an eye on her.
Another newer neighbor bought one of the biggest houses on our street, 5 bedrooms. When it was for sale my kids were excited to see what kind of family would buy it and how many kids they would have. The new neighbor is a single woman in her 50s, no kids. She came from the Midwest, so not sure if that's why she bought a big house (the square foot size is probably considered more standard there). She mentioned in passing about selling or renting it out and moving closer to he beach, but she is still there.
All in all we LOVE our neighbors and our neighborhood. We know many families from school, have a wonderful trail, creek, park and horse stables that run along side our neighborhood, a shopping center at one end and are close to freeways and entertainment areas. Having to stay home just reenforces how much we love were we live, which we are grateful for.
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Post by maryland on Jun 6, 2020 15:41:55 GMT
At our old house, our neighbors complained to the hoa if we had a weed in the yard. True! We got a $600 fine because we had some weeds. They didn't like us because we had the biggest house in the neighborhood. It was terrible living there, so we moved. We have wonderful neighbors now!
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Post by artbabe on Jun 6, 2020 16:12:22 GMT
I live in a condo development that is supposed to have rules but my neighbors ignore most of them. They have planted in every common area around our condos- gardens all around the parking spaces, gardens between our condos and another set of condos, plants everywhere, none of this is their property, all of it is against the condo rules. They are very well taken care of but if you wanted to garden why the heck are you living in a condo? They also refuse to put their car in their parking space- like I said, they have lined it with beautiful gardens and they have patio furniture set up in it. They have two patios on their house- front and back- so why do they need to make a third one in their parking space? So they can't fit their car in their space. They've filled their garage up with garden stuff, too, so they can't park in the garage either. So they park both cars right in the middle of out drive area so the garbage trucks and snow plows can't do their job. I had to make 3, sometimes 4 point turns to get out of my garage. After 5 years I finally got the condo complex to put "no parking" signs around those areas so they've moved their cars somewhere else, but it is maddening.
The plants are beautiful (not thrilled with their gobs of lawn ornaments) but it is so strange.
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Post by gracieplusthree on Jun 6, 2020 17:27:02 GMT
well.. I'm on a blood thinner and so I'm always cold, I LOVE a hot car in the summer and will sit in mine a bit while it's hot outside before starting it up and getting on my way, especially after work, the heat from the seat feels SO good on my back..It's just nice to finally not be COLD, and it makes the fibro and the arthritis feel good, I literally will stop hurting while sitting in the hot car, once I get going though I do have AC on..
That said I dont bundle up to mow the grass really, but have mowed with a jacket or hoodie on many times at the beginning and end of the season. but she could just be cold,be on a blood thinner etc..
We dont park on our carport and have lived here 25 years. The only time we have a vehicle on the carport is when it's being worked on.. maybe her garage has been turned into a room, I knew someone who turned hers into a play room for her kids, sheetrocked/carpet the whole works but the garage door was still there..they never opened it and tbh I thnk they eventually put a wall up right there and took down the workings of the actual garage door--but left the door. or it could just be being used for storage. Maybe there are steps to get from the garage into the door at the house that are difficult for her to navigate and going in the other way is easier. Maybe the garage door doesnt work, and she doesnt find it necessary to fix.
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Post by pridemom on Jun 6, 2020 17:56:14 GMT
I think it’s weird that you think it’s weird to not park in the garage. NO ONE on my street parks in the garage. That would be a waste of space. Growing up, my parents and both sets of grandparents didn’t park in the garage. Maybe it’s regional, but that just isn’t the norm for me. Does your home not have any storage or do you have too much stuff for your house to hold? I park in my garage because 1) that’s what the space is there for, 2) I don’t like getting into a cold/hot car or scraping ice off my windshield, and 3) we get bad hail storms and I don’t want hail damage. |
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Post by jenjie on Jun 6, 2020 18:25:03 GMT
I don’t think you need a hobby, OP. I have a window over my kitchen sink and I can see most of our culdescac from the window. I’ll start washing my hands or a dish or whatever and realize I’ve been standing there watching the neighbors like they’re a tv show. Nothing too weird happening here (seems I may be the weird one). We used to have the loveliest next door neighbors who retired and moved away. But before they left I loved to watch them say goodbye to their kids and grandkids after a weekend visit. They would pack the car, pause, and hug goodbye. Then do something else and hug again. Then more hugs and kisses before they drove away. Then the neighbors would stand and wave until the car disappeared around the bend. I loved it so much. So sweet. That reminds me of my grandmother. She would keep waving until we turned the corner. it gave us the giggles that she kept waving but we always turned to watch. |
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Post by freecharlie on Jun 6, 2020 21:06:34 GMT
The people we used to live across the street from had a corded electric mower.
When he would mow, she would stand out there pulling the cord back and then letting out the slack...pull it back to her, the let out the slack for the entire yard.
I get why they were doing it, it just looked funny.
At least now I know when we get non gas yard tools to make the battery power3d
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Post by ~summer~ on Jun 6, 2020 21:27:06 GMT
I only have one - it’s a family I know a few blocks away. Very nice, perfectly manicured large home. The odd thing is every week they only put out their recycling can and compost can. No trash can. Where the heck is their trash??? It was actually another, mutual friend who pointed this out and was like “where is their trash?  ” Then I started noticing it and agree — where is their trash??? |
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Post by katlady on Jun 6, 2020 21:35:41 GMT
I only have one - it’s a family I know a few blocks away. Very nice, perfectly manicured large home. The odd thing is every week they only put out their recycling can and compost can. No trash can. Where the heck is their trash??? It was actually another, mutual friend who pointed this out and was like “where is their trash? ” Then I started noticing it and agree — where is their trash??? Maybe they are a zero-waste household. Everything they buy can be recycled or composted. |
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Post by ~summer~ on Jun 6, 2020 21:38:19 GMT
I only have one - it’s a family I know a few blocks away. Very nice, perfectly manicured large home. The odd thing is every week they only put out their recycling can and compost can. No trash can. Where the heck is their trash??? It was actually another, mutual friend who pointed this out and was like “where is their trash? ” Then I started noticing it and agree — where is their trash??? Maybe they are a zero-waste household. Everything they buy can be recycled or composted. I thought people would suggest that - but they really don’t seem like the type. It’s possible though. They aren’t “hippy” at all and frequently buy fancy new cars. But who knows. |
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Post by cakediva on Jun 6, 2020 21:47:29 GMT
Two weird things: she insists on wearing all black, and she walks in the middle of the street (we have sidewalks). If she even hugged the curb it would be fine but many of us have almost hit her because she insists on the middle of the street, in black. Since walking the neighborhood during these Stay Home times I've discovered it is easier on my knees and hips if I walk in the street over the sidewalk. The sidewalk means I have to deal with the constant uneven, sloped segments for driveways and the edge of the streets around here are sloped to facilitate water runoff. Things I'd never really thought about before when just taking a leisurely walk with the dog. I don't walk after dark, don't wear all black and move off the street for cars.  Also the asphalt on the road has some “give” to it, unlike the hard concrete of the sidewalk, so definitely easier on the joints. I had a runner tell me that when I first started. 😊 |
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Post by ~summer~ on Jun 6, 2020 21:52:31 GMT
As a runner - asphalt is much easier on knees than concrete. Impossible to run on concrete.
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Post by iteach3rdgrade on Jun 7, 2020 5:19:44 GMT
I only have one - it’s a family I know a few blocks away. Very nice, perfectly manicured large home. The odd thing is every week they only put out their recycling can and compost can. No trash can. Where the heck is their trash??? It was actually another, mutual friend who pointed this out and was like “where is their trash? ” Then I started noticing it and agree — where is their trash??? Maybe they are a zero-waste household. Everything they buy can be recycled or composted. We don’t put trash out. I wonder if our neighbors think it’s weird. We own a business and dh uses the dumpster there. |
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Post by pattyraindrops on Jun 7, 2020 5:42:29 GMT
We have one neighbor who has been mean and meddlesome the entire 15 years we’ve lived here. She’s in her 70s. She walks 4 times a day, including before dawn and after dark. The joke is that she does it to see who she can call the city or the cops on. Two weird things: she insists on wearing all black, and she walks in the middle of the street (we have sidewalks). If she even hugged the curb it would be fine but many of us have almost hit her because she insists on the middle of the street, in black. But since quarantine started, she’s become super nice. 15 years of meanness and now she’s friendly, chatty, and leaving the kids treats. I'm laughing at how closely I fit this description! And since we live in the same city...lol! I wear a lot of black. From August to April I was walking 10,000+ steps a day. I did it in multiple walks throughout the day, many days every hour when my fitbit gave me a time to walk buzz. I rarely walk on the sidewalk because it is harder than the road and my feet often hurt. I like to walk closer to the middle because I broke my leg 20 years ago and the way my ankle now turns out sometimes hurts if the slope is too much in the wrong direction. But I'm only 52, I try to me nice to everyone and I've only lived here 6 years. I think I'm safe from being your neighbor! If you want to add another odd thing into the mix - we have a pile of larger rocks on the side of our house. I finally decided they might look nice lining our sidewalk to the door. So I started grabbing one each time I walked and placing it on the way in. If I wanted to keep listening to Netflix on wifi I would go back and forth several times instead of go down the street and pick up a rock each time. If anyone was thinking about posting about me till you read this come over and introduce yourself lol. 😁 |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2020 5:44:37 GMT
We have one neighbor who has been mean and meddlesome the entire 15 years we’ve lived here. She’s in her 70s. She walks 4 times a day, including before dawn and after dark. The joke is that she does it to see who she can call the city or the cops on. Two weird things: she insists on wearing all black, and she walks in the middle of the street (we have sidewalks). If she even hugged the curb it would be fine but many of us have almost hit her because she insists on the middle of the street, in black. But since quarantine started, she’s become super nice. 15 years of meanness and now she’s friendly, chatty, and leaving the kids treats. I'm laughing at how closely I fit this description! And since we live in the same city...lol! I wear a lot of black. From August to April I was walking 10,000+ steps a day. I did it in multiple walks throughout the day, many days every hour when my fitbit gave me a time to walk buzz. I rarely walk on the sidewalk because it is harder than the road and my feet often hurt. I like to walk closer to the middle because I broke my leg 20 years ago and the way my ankle now turns out sometimes hurts if the slope is too much in the wrong direction. But I'm only 52, I try to me nice to everyone and I've only lived here 6 years. I think I'm safe from being your neighbor! If you want to add another odd thing into the mix - we have a pile of larger rocks on the side of our house. I finally decided they might look nice lining our sidewalk to the door. So I started grabbing one each time I walked and placing it on the way in. If I wanted to keep listening to Netflix on wifi I would go back and forth several times instead of go down the street and pick up a rock each time. If anyone was thinking about posting about me till you read this come over and introduce yourself lol. 😁 LOL. IIRC, we even live within a couple miles of each other. One day we should meet! |
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Post by pattyraindrops on Jun 7, 2020 6:37:49 GMT
I'm laughing at how closely I fit this description! And since we live in the same city...lol! I wear a lot of black. From August to April I was walking 10,000+ steps a day. I did it in multiple walks throughout the day, many days every hour when my fitbit gave me a time to walk buzz. I rarely walk on the sidewalk because it is harder than the road and my feet often hurt. I like to walk closer to the middle because I broke my leg 20 years ago and the way my ankle now turns out sometimes hurts if the slope is too much in the wrong direction. But I'm only 52, I try to me nice to everyone and I've only lived here 6 years. I think I'm safe from being your neighbor! If you want to add another odd thing into the mix - we have a pile of larger rocks on the side of our house. I finally decided they might look nice lining our sidewalk to the door. So I started grabbing one each time I walked and placing it on the way in. If I wanted to keep listening to Netflix on wifi I would go back and forth several times instead of go down the street and pick up a rock each time. If anyone was thinking about posting about me till you read this come over and introduce yourself lol. 😁 LOL. IIRC, we even live within a couple miles of each other. One day we should meet! Yes we should. I've wanted to do that. Being high risk we are still being extra careful, but when that is done let's make plans! |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2020 6:38:51 GMT
I’m high risk too so we’re hermitting it up here as well. One day though!
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Post by craftykitten on Jun 7, 2020 8:32:39 GMT
The people in the house opposite painted the bottom half of their house, but couldnt reach the top half, so it is randomly half blue and half white, but not an even line. Just like they painted as far as they could reach and that was it.
I think it's been 3 years now?
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Post by gar on Jun 7, 2020 8:55:27 GMT
The people in the house opposite painted the bottom half of their house, but couldnt reach the top half, so it is randomly half blue and half white, but not an even line. Just like they painted as far as they could reach and that was it. I think it's been 3 years now?  |
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Jun 7, 2020 15:01:47 GMT
When we lived in Singapore, we had some great condo neighbour stories. There was one man who always got home from work and parked under the building diagonally across 2 spaces, opened the boot and took out a t-shirt and a coat hanger. He then took his shirt off, put it on the hanger and hung it on one of the pipes above the car - and went into his condo leaving the shirt there. It was often still there if we had to go out in the evening. We called him "shirt on pipe man"
Another man in the condo block opposite us had his washing machine on the covered back balcony. When he got home from work he would go out on the back balcony, in full view of everyone in my block, and take all his clothes off and put them in the machine, completely naked. It's not that I was watching for him or anything, but it was literally at eye level outside my craft room. We called him "ugly naked guy" after Friends.
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Post by basketdiva on Jun 7, 2020 15:58:21 GMT
I only have one - it’s a family I know a few blocks away. Very nice, perfectly manicured large home. The odd thing is every week they only put out their recycling can and compost can. No trash can. Where the heck is their trash??? It was actually another, mutual friend who pointed this out and was like “where is their trash? ” Then I started noticing it and agree — where is their trash??? One neighbor never puts out any cans. She has a lawn service so no need for yard waste can. I finally figured out why other trash- she has a medical office and probably takes the trash there every day. |
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Post by myshelly on Jun 7, 2020 16:10:13 GMT
I think it’s weird that you think it’s weird to not park in the garage. NO ONE on my street parks in the garage. That would be a waste of space. Growing up, my parents and both sets of grandparents didn’t park in the garage. Maybe it’s regional, but that just isn’t the norm for me. Does your home not have any storage or do you have too much stuff for your house to hold? I park in my garage because 1) that’s what the space is there for, 2) I don’t like getting into a cold/hot car or scraping ice off my windshield, and 3) we get bad hail storms and I don’t want hail damage. I didn’t say I used my garage for storage. I don’t. One bay is a playroom and the other bay is divided between a laundry drying room and a tool room. Those things are simply more important to me than parking my car inside, which I have never done and didn’t grow up doing, so it doesn’t seem like a priority. |
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Post by sasha on Jun 7, 2020 16:45:22 GMT
I can't believe some of the grief you got on this thread! It reminds me when I came back to the board, some people were lecturing me b/c this was supposed to be the nice, new, and improved 2 peas board and I would be a negative presence. This may be nicer, but I've seen a lot of not so nice comments on a lot of threads.
I wish I could give you some neighborly oddities, but I don't really have any other than upkeep problems some in the neighborhood seem to have!
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Post by craftykitten on Jun 7, 2020 17:49:02 GMT
Does your home not have any storage or do you have too much stuff for your house to hold? I park in my garage because 1) that’s what the space is there for, 2) I don’t like getting into a cold/hot car or scraping ice off my windshield, and 3) we get bad hail storms and I don’t want hail damage. I didn’t say I used my garage for storage. I don’t. One bay is a playroom and the other bay is divided between a laundry drying room and a tool room. Those things are simply more important to me than parking my car inside, which I have never done and didn’t grow up doing, so it doesn’t seem like a priority. Well it's not really a garage then, anymore!  I'm just jealous, I live in a tiny house with neither a garage, nor a driveway, nor a laundry drying room. |
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Post by epeanymous on Jun 7, 2020 18:22:18 GMT
I have a neighbor who is just lovely, and who has never been anything but friendly and helpful. But/and, he is a semi-retired contractor with a huge house and a huge lot, and he has people working on the house/wall/yard all day, all the time. It’s like living next door to the Winchester Mystery House in its heyday. It in no way bothers me—there is a lot of space between my house and his, so I only see or hear anything if I leave my own property—but it cracks me up. He. just. can’t. sit. still.
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Post by femalebusiness on Jun 7, 2020 18:54:30 GMT
The people in the house opposite painted the bottom half of their house, but couldnt reach the top half, so it is randomly half blue and half white, but not an even line. Just like they painted as far as they could reach and that was it. I think it's been 3 years now? 😂🤣 |
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Post by M~ on Jun 7, 2020 21:20:24 GMT
I’m convinced my next door neighbor is a drug dealer. He doesn’t work. Very regularly, between 5:00 and 5:30 AM this dude with a huge SUV with tinted windows parks in front of his house and my neighbor and the dude talk right below his outdoor light or illuminated by the lights of the SUV. The reason I know this is because this is the time I leave for work. I say good morning-they stop talking. Gives me a bad vibe.
Neighbor across the street right in front of my house. It’s the worst house in the neighborhood. Half dead palm trees, grass all over the fucking place, overgrown and half dead bushes. It’s so bad that their next door neighbor, who is OCD about HIS yard, built a fence cause it was driving him crazy. The couple is weird. They never go out. As in never. I’ve seen the woman maybe twice in the five plus years they’ve lived there. They’re always dirty and their kids are dirty. The little boy walks around with a dirty diaper and bare feet and the little girl always looks unkept as well. I’ve seen them walking through the neighborhood at night, barefoot in the rain. The woman the other day alleged that I stole her package (she told my housekeeper) but this woman said “it’s my stuff but it’s in a package addressed to her.” Weirdos.
you guys probably would think I’m the crazy plant lady cause my yard rocks. But I’m out there all the time.
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