My Neighbors Are Awful (I Can't Sleep)

[Jackie Daytona]

Do you have bad neighbors? Leave a comment. I got ya'all beat though.

3-4 years ago I moved to a new neighborhood. I dislike all of them. To protect identities (and myself) I'll be assigning numbers to these people.

Some of these complaints will seem unreasonable. Until you understand that I spent YEARS working night jobs. Which make it very hard for me to sleep at night. And my neighbors? They make it impossible to sleep during the day. I'm so tired.

Neighbor 1
Has endless woodworking projects. Opens his garage, and moves his saw table to the entrance. This creates an amphitheater. Which blasts my house with a high-pitched sound. He'll do this FOR HOURS. He's doing it right now as I type this.

He also setup (and purchased) a drum set for his son. Which he decided to put in the garage. (Never mind the spare car they don't use is parked outside. Because what is a garage for if not for junk?) And they also open the door each time they play the drums. Because I guess they want me to hear clearly how bad their son is at playing. Dude could not keep time if he strapped a watch to his ear.

Oh, and they have non-stop guests. Which park in places that block me from backing out of my own driveway. And make noise. Because they leave their car running. And stand around talking outside. All of which drives my dog crazy.

Neighbor 2
Some old guy. 70+. Stares at me. Literally comes out of his house and stares at me. Every time he sees or hears me outside. It's like he spends the whole day looking out the window. (Seriously, it was 4 a.m. and my dog randomly barked at a guy going past. This dude turned on all his lights, opened his door, and stared at me from his doorway.)

Why? I've no idea. I tried confronting him and he ran inside his home. All I know is my dog won't take a dump with someone staring at him.

He also obsesses over his lawn. Mowing even when there is barely any grass growth. Even during droughts. And he'll go over the same section multiple times. It takes him an hour to mow a section that is roughly 8'x10'.

Autumn is the worst. He has one of those backpack leafblowers. I heard him holding it down at full blast for over 20 seconds. I looked out the window. Dude is staring at a SINGLE LEAF on his lawn. It's stuck. And he spends MINUTES blasting this high-pitched machine at ONE LEAF. Unlike the leaf, I was blown away.

Neighbor 3
Has never heard of a condom. He has a ton of kids. Which scream. Endlessly.

That could be forgivable. Kids are rough. Being a parent isn't easy. But your kids really shouldn't be keeping me up at 10:30 p.m. because you're having a party. A week away from the last party you had. And I couldn't sleep then, either!

One of their dogs escaped from their back yard. I tried to wrangle it. The dog was insanely aggressive, and starving. There was nothing I could do.

Also, owns a chainsaw. Spends hours cutting wood. Sometimes all day. Where did all the wood come from? I don't know. But he sure has a lot of it to cut.

Also sets off fireworks on random evenings.

Neighbor 4
Grandparents of some kids. Which get dumped on them every weekend. They are completely out of control. All they do is scream, squeal, shout, or talk loudly. Non-stop. From 10 a.m. to dusk. They very literally spend all their time in the back yard. Which is just outside my bedroom. It's a nightmare.

Neighbor 5
Old lady that puts her cat out at random. Climbed up on my car. (Multiple times!) Scratched the paint. Then had the nerve to ask me for a favor. Nope!

Neighbor 6
He's a pretty good guy. Except that he uses a high-pitched mini chainsaw to cut small branches into exact 1.5 ft lengths. And will spend hours doing so. For days. I dread the next windstorm.

Neighbor 7
Installed a super-bright porch light, and aimed it at my house.

Neighbor 8
Two doors down. Brings his dog to my yard to take dumps. Sometimes he cleans it, sometimes he doesn't. Why can't this bozo walk in his own yard?

Neighbor 9
Retired cop. Smokes a cigar at midnight. Why would he do this? Beats me. All I know is that he stares at me.

Neighbor 10
Lives a good distance away. Has shooting practice in the evening. At complete random. Throughout the year.

Neighbors X
Then there are these people that are outside between 12 a.m. and 4 a.m. People riding bikes around town. There's quite a few. I don't know what's going on around here. It's weird.

Not Neighbors
There are owls, random animals, and other birds that make it impossible to sleep at night. As they constantly make annoying noises. With no rhythm.

Randos
For reasons unknown, lots of people throw their trash in my yard. It happens multiple times per week.
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This place was perfectly fine when I moved in. Now? It's intolerable.

All my other options are far more expensive. I don't know what to do.

[aqua493xd]

Have you ever considered earplugs?

[KingSimpson369]

Call the police!

[the vampire of time and memory]

bro's life is a sitcom

[Netaris]

Buy some earplugs to begin with ? It may help for the sleeping part. Try to close your terrain with some plants high enough to hide you, no more staring. And for the noises when you're awake, that an annoying one. Maybe try to put some additionnal sound insulation on your walls ? Or buy better windows ?

[Yzal]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Jackie Daytona:

Some old guy. 70+. Stares at me. Literally comes out of his house and stares at me. Every time he sees or hears me outside. It's like he spends the whole day looking out the window. (Seriously, it was 4 a.m. and my dog randomly barked at a guy going past. This dude turned on all his lights, opened his door, and stared at me from his doorway.)

Hey, keeping tabs on the local psychopath is not a fun job but someone gotta do it.

[Rod]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Zepondrax:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Walach:

Pour some vinegar in a wide open container and see, I mean smell, the cleansing!
Works great to clean most things, the dishwasher and cloth…washer…can't for some reason remember the name of it. >:I

I tried spraying deodorant that gets wiped out by their pungent cooking, I tried opening the side door and opening my windows the smell from their cooking still penetrate their door and comes into my door and through it.
I think I need something more powerful like spraying vinegar and water. I tried lemon spray that failed too

I told ya buy Ona Liquid. You cant mask an odor you need to have it bind and do the science thing ona does.

I also hadna bad neighbour. The crazy female type i had to move and lost thousands. Last i heard she is torturing a new family now. I would say to anyone in this scenario SUE THIER ASS. Typically though they have 0 assets 0 money 0 manners 0 hygiene and 2 boyfriends, 2 hifis and 5 cats and 4 dogs and 2 parrots.

[SHAZBOT]

so much potential and opportunities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29jij4ldkNs

i had problems with one of my neighbors. i was patient. then one day i saw them arguing with their neighbors over parking too close to the driveway. time for patience was over.

i keyed the metal out of their door that same night. i almosyt broke my wrist i did it so hard.

the next day they were screaming blood curdling screams so loud i was afraid to look outside. police came next

and thats why they call me. the grand ayatrollah ;)





neighbor 5 leaves a bag of cat poop on neighbor 9 doorstep. neighbor 3 leaves dog poop bag on neighbor 10 doorstep. if im reading the situation correctly, youll want to watch fro crossfire from the northwest. if its the evening.

[SHAZBOT]

no no no wait. tell neighbor 1 and 3 (the ones with the annoying children). that you heard neighbor #3 (mr. staring pants) may be a pedophile.

thats a checkmate.

[SHAZBOT]

something i always wanted to try with neighbor #7.

same deal. porch light. aim at his house. cut out a stencil penis. hang in front of your light. so he has a giant shadow of a dong on his house.

thats the money

[SHAZBOT]

what type of cigars neighbor #9 smoke?

pile of cigar butts on neighbor x lawn.

things could get hairy. so to speak.

[SHAZBOT]

polaroid pictures of neighbor 6 from the direction of neighbor 8's house.

lets see who havent we done here yet.

put the pics in neighbor 1's mailbox. with a note attached reading "i wanna ride your 1.5 meters sticks"

random penis pictures dont hurt.

[miakisfan]

My neighbors are horrible because some of them vote Liberal. Doesn't stop me from sleeping, though.

At least I don't live with the nutters.

[Zepondrax]

I dont think my negbors have manners. They know they made a bad smell in the lobby and they just leave the horrible foul smell. That to me is appauling manners. I thought maybe buy a spray bottle and put eucalyptus oil in the bottle and then fill with water, that might be worth trying

Początkowo opublikowane przez Rod:

Początkowo opublikowane przez Zepondrax:

I tried spraying deodorant that gets wiped out by their pungent cooking, I tried opening the side door and opening my windows the smell from their cooking still penetrate their door and comes into my door and through it.
I think I need something more powerful like spraying vinegar and water. I tried lemon spray that failed too

I told ya buy Ona Liquid. You cant mask an odor you need to have it bind and do the science thing ona does.

I also hadna bad neighbour. The crazy female type i had to move and lost thousands. Last i heard she is torturing a new family now. I would say to anyone in this scenario SUE THIER ASS. Typically though they have 0 assets 0 money 0 manners 0 hygiene and 2 boyfriends, 2 hifis and 5 cats and 4 dogs and 2 parrots.

[swillfly]

typical 'Murican middle-class neighborhood

[Zepondrax]

For me its an apartment block. Only 2 people per floor and because the way the apartment is built narrow and thin and high up your right next door to each other so any noise, smells etc go into the lobby and each others apartments