topic Re: Pet Peeves in Garden

Pet Peeves

Snicks1 — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:48:43 GMT

Each Spring, for the last few years, I find a surprise waiting for me out in the far back yard. I have a very large yard. I'll just name a couple...last year, found a couple broken drinking glasses well into my yard, weren't there in the Fall, but there they lay when the snow melted. This year, under a tree in my yard, a nice pile of broken limbs, all stacked up like for a campfire (if a limb of that tree had broken during the winter, they would not have fallen into that nice pile), and of course the never ending plastic Walmart/grocery store type bags that people seem to just open their doors and toss out (why don't people take care of their trash better?) Makes me wonder which of my neighbors has decided to make my yard their dumping ground. Just one of the things that makes me shake my head these days. Sorry for the rant.

Re: Pet Peeves

Harpa — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 12:43:23 GMT

snickster, when I saw this title and then In the Garden, I couldn't think what possible peeves someone would have in a garden except for weeds, slugs and critters who dig where you don't want them to!

I detest littering of any kind, except for an apple core where it will decompose into the soil. Littering in someone's yard is contemptible!

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PamelaSue72 — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:00:16 GMT

We live on a rural road and we're constantly picking up empty beer and liquor bottles that people (probably kids) throw out their vehicle windows. Empty plastic water and soda bottles. Empty cigarette packs. Old flyers that either blew out of people's paper/mail boxes or that they threw out. It's constant during the summer. Before we can mow by the road, we have to walk down and clean everything up. It's not just our yard; it's pretty common throughout the neighborhood. I guess part of living along a rural yard is having your yard used as a trash bin for idiots.

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Snicks1 — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:48:05 GMT

I know...just baffles me, the mind set of, if I break a glass, I'll just toss it into my neighbors yard? As to the pile of limbs, no clue what the purpose of that one was. Like I said, just a pet peeve that people do these things. Oh well, I just clean up the messes they create and go on with my day. SMH.

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circles — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:54:12 GMT

now long after I married we bought a home where there was a grade school on the corner...(this was over 40 years ago) we had litter all the time from the kids eating on the way to and from school.....apparently they were never taught your wrappers....cans...school work papers..are to be thrown in the trash...not peoples front yards....

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justathought — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 14:24:38 GMT

How about the people who empty their cars ash tray on the ground in a parking lot, Or the dirty diapers?

I watched my neighbor get out of his car and while walking to his house empty his pockets of paper and throw it on the ground.

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Snicks1 — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:06:36 GMT

Aren't people amazing??

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Madisson — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 15:59:53 GMT

Do you have a security light in the back yard? Maybe put one of those fake cameras up near the back door. Isn't it hard to believe that people are so lazy that they can't throw away their own garbage?

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JustJazzmom — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 18:08:58 GMT

Sometimes its the fault of the Sanitary Collection people; the trash bag might open and with winds, some of the trash gets blown onto the property.

I did find a deflated football on my utility strip. Asked a neighbor who has kids if it was his; (it was not) and I tossed it out yesterday.

No, it was not one of the Patriot's footballs!

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Lila4Now — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:00:06 GMT

There's a religious group that goes door to door where I live. If you're not home, or don't answer the door, they leave a leaflet stuck in your door. Those things are always blowing away. As you come home, you can always tell if they've been down the block when you see the leaflets blowing around.

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sarpy — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:04:04 GMT

My pet peeve: People who buy a house in the upper 70s or 120s and then put trash cans in front of it. Do they even care how that looks. Some even have up to 3 cans in front. People: Don't do that!

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LolaMontez — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:25:44 GMT

"People collector" neighbors that congregate in the street or their driveways and talk at the top of their voices every single time they see each other during the day and that's about 15 times. The yell at each other across the street and act as if they are the welcoming committee for the street. They literally wave down (accost) all passersby, wether walking or in their cars and have loud conversations with them, inquiring about everything from their health to their visitors. It's a very annoying and intrusive ongoing loud conversation that goes on in the background from dawn to dusk. Apparently, they are unaware that voices carry. I know every detail of their lives and haven't spoken to any of them in a year.

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JustJazzmom — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:30:58 GMT

Wow!

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okaywitheasypay — Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:39:32 GMT

Lola, I am curious --what are people collectors ? drug dealers? or ?

I live in an urban area and the worst items we find when picking up others trash left curbside/alley are used condoms. Of course caring homeowners and neighborhood associations have a supply of disposable gloves to use while cleaning.

Children are frequently blamed for other various trash but when observed it is the drivers and pedestrians throwing down trash items who are supposedly adults. People never taught to respect themselves and consider community.

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tototwo — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 13:51:07 GMT

We got new next-door neighbors a couple years ago. We call them The Beverly Hillbillies. Their yard soon became a trash dump and overgrown, so now their kids come into our yard to play and leave their trash behind. Talking to these people doesn't do any good (they're unfriendly, to say the least). I'm constantly asking their kids to get down out of our trees, off of our deck, and stop tramping on my hosta beds. I'm sure they think I'm a witch -- but, do I care?? Every time I go into our back yard, I have to pick up their footballs, toy cars, frisbies, etc, and toss them back into their yard -- where I'm sure they can't see them for the trash and tall weeds.

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apple1964 — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 14:11:28 GMT

My neighbor has a straw plant [looks like a haystack] outside her house... now that she is putting the house up for sale [she is not taking care of her lawn or the plants there] this straw plant [and it is quite large.] is not get cut back it blows all over the place and it is quite a mess. I tried talking to her about it and she would not cut it back or tie it down with something. Went I went out I saw that once again it blew into my flower boxes and also went around the pipes outside. So, I racked it up and dumped the mess on her side. She must of got the message because she cut back the straw plant to almost nothing. Actions speak louder the words.

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JustJazzmom — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 15:58:09 GMT

Matty6 it might be an ornamental grass and if it is straw like, it should be cut down or back so that the new green growth can come through.

My pet peeve is the lawn scrapers (landscalpers) strewing powdered lime all over the neighbor's lawn instead of using the pelletized lime which is better in a drop spreader.

Second pet peeve is landscrapers using a rotary spray spreader instead of a drop spreader to apply either crabgrass preventer or fertilizer to a lawn. It goes everywhere including the foundation planting.

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RinaRina — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 16:12:37 GMT

On 3/17/2015 snickster said:
Aren't people amazing??

Uhhh, yep. My neighbor's trash is always in my front or back yard. If I see, don'tcha think THEY would see it? One of my window wells has no cover. GUESS what's in there? Ahem ..

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hummermom — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 18:44:43 GMT

tototwo: Regarding your hillbilly neighbors, have you tried keeping the kids' toys that come into your yard instead of throwing them back? Might be successful, unless you fear retaliation from them.

My pet peeves are dog poop and trash.

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Amazinggrace2 — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 20:11:13 GMT

On 3/30/2015 sarpy said:
My pet peeve: People who buy a house in the upper 70s or 120s and then put trash cans in front of it. Do they even care how that looks. Some even have up to 3 cans in front. People: Don't do that!

I want to live where you live! Here, (near Boston), you can't get near a tiny condo for that money! Even small ranches list for $350K+ and that is a fixer upper.

I've been a renter most of my life, did own a home for a few years back in the day. I've had to reconcile that if I want to stay in my area, near family, it is what it is.