Footballs & balls in garden

superscaper

Do you have a recycling box or something, maybe you could store them in something similar and then leave it on the path for them to collect? If it's the right box/bin you could leave it out slightly earlier than usual to give the owners time to retrieve them and if they don't, when the bin men come, bin emptied and balls gone while at same time you've given opportunity for them to be collected without them having to come to your door.

superscaper

borntobefree wrote: »

This is crazy. It's a few balls! Throw them back. Are you going to start a feud over some balls? What if you ever need a favour?

If it's the odd ball, yes but you've got to draw the line somewhere. If it's daily and if they don't collect them for months etc. As OP said they now don't necessarily know which garden the balls came from anyway. Then do you just carry on perpetually daily throwing balls back into random gardens?

My post was on the assumption it was excessive and even then it was rather tongue in cheek. If balls come into our garden we let the kids get them there and then. But it happens very rarely and the kids ask for them back straight away.

MrsE_2

borntobefree wrote: »

Hi

I'm just letting you know where you might be going if you start a feud. You are probably a nice person, your neighbour is probably a nice person but these situations can escalate. Recently we refused to take a parcel of the postman for our neighbour. Prior to the "balls" my husband used to help her out when ever needed...

.....if you don't throw the balls back where are you heading? Is it worth it?

I have no wish to start a feud with them.

I think they were incredibally rude over the muck (& my patio was covered in it) from their roof, not to warn us or say sorry for the trouble.
It was started when we were out during the day, when we came home after work it was dark (& the bulb has gone in the patio light), so DH went out there to lock the cat flap on the shed (we lock it at night, so no other cats can go in there, ours is in at night) & his shoes were covered in the muck & moss.
But I still said nothing.

Had it have been me, I would have brought round a box of chocs & a sorry for the bother. I also would have been conciderate to warn in advance, lucky we had no washing out:rolleyes:

BACKFRMTHEEDGE

Just a thought, if you allow this dispute to escalate it could end up effecting the value of you house - all disputes have to be declared these days when you sell.

Can't believe that posters are advocating "stealing" childrens footballs though - what happene to "Love thy Neighbour"

superscaper

BACKFRMTHEEDGE wrote: »

Just a thought, if you allow this dispute to escalate it could end up effecting the value of you house - all disputes have to be declared these days when you sell.

Can't believe that posters are advocating "stealing" childrens footballs though - what happene to "Love thy Neighbour"

Nobody's advocating stealing children's footballs. Personally I only said dispose of them if they're not collected, after months, (when there's far too many to keep throwing back which is what I'd count as many balls daily and don't know who to throw them back to).

Where exactly is the "love thy neighbour" when leaving your own property in other people's gardens expecting them to be returned to you every single time without even a by your leave?

MrsE_2

BACKFRMTHEEDGE wrote: »

Just a thought, if you allow this dispute to escalate it could end up effecting the value of you house - all disputes have to be declared these days when you sell.

Can't believe that posters are advocating "stealing" childrens footballs though - what happene to "Love thy Neighbour"

I don't have a dispute, I've never said a word about it or the roof muck.

I never had any problem at all with the nice boy next door who comes to get his ball, when it was just him, I knew if I found any they were his & just threw them back, they are nice & its an accident.

These people are totally different, they are odd.
The women come round with the child & said "we come to get the balls back", that was it! So my husband went into the garden & gathered them & handed them to them (about 6 - 8 balls). They probably said thanks & walked off.
I've given way to her on the road & waved & shes ignored me.
If they are on their drive when we are on ours they seem to make sure they never make eye contact.
They were very out of order about the roof muck.

You know what, if they were pleasant, I probably wouldn't have a problem about the balls. Its just that they are rude too.
But they come back so quick, I do wonder if the kids deliberatily

sillyvixen

i have balls and frisbees from next door all the time and i always return them but generally in the evening after the children have gone to bed. its not that i'm mean, its just that the young children next door cant be seen in the garden over the high fence and i would hate to hit them with the ball. today a ball came over while i had visitors one of them picked it up and chucked it back immedieatly much to the suprise of the nieghbours.

Maxjessdru

It can be really annoying - I have children on both sides of me and numerous toys (not just balls) would land in my garden on a regular basis. I suggest getting a dog! I now have three (large) dogs - one of whom really loves balls so anything landing in my garden has usually been found within minutes - which usually results in his teeth going through said ball very quickly! Its amazing how quickly the balls stop coming into your garden when they get back a ball which has been chewed ...

MrsE_2

sillyvixen wrote: »

i have balls and frisbees from next door all the time and i always return them but generally in the evening after the children have gone to bed. its not that i'm mean, its just that the young children next door cant be seen in the garden over the high fence and i would hate to hit them with the ball. today a ball came over while i had visitors one of them picked it up and chucked it back immedieatly much to the suprise of the nieghbours.

You know what if they smiled or said hello one in a blue moon, I prob wouldn't have mentioned it.
Its never bothered me from the other side.

superscaper

MrsE wrote: »

I don't have a dispute, I've never said a word about it or the roof muck.

Some neighbours can be like that. It's almost as if they're started off in a state of dispute no matter what you've done or not done in response. We had some awful next door neighbours a long time back. My brother, who was quite young, playing with other kids on the street and the football went up the drive of next door neighbour. (only happened once ever AFAIK). Neighbour came out got in car with ball and drove off (apparently to the tip), came back and denied all existence of the ball. At least I'm advocating giving the kids every chance to get their balls back.