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MummyFreckle 
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Posted: 09 February 2011 at 3:40pm |
Following on from the other thread - it got me thinking....
Are you a good neighbour? Or do you just mind your own business and keep your head down?
I like to think we are good neighbours - it was a lot easier at our last house (in a cul de sac), but we collect mail when neighbours are away, keep an eye on each others places...things like that. When I have too much baking I generally take it to my neighbours.....
I "swap" produce with one of my neighbours - they commercially grown tomatoes / cucumbers so we do a swap for home made marmalade sometimes!
We are pretty quiet (apart from our 3yr old) and make sure we dont make "noise" when we know our neighbours toddler is sleeping.
How about you?
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Babykatnz
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Posted: 09 February 2011 at 4:06pm |
haha I'm not... I rang animal management when the neighbours dog wouldnt stop howling at all hours of the night/day 
For the most part we just keep to ourselves, no loud parties, B plays by himself so theres no shrieking or carrying on from our backyard on weekends (besides, we tend to get the kids out of the house and have time out together anyway)
The neighbours on our other side are great, they feed our cats if we go away for longer than 1 night, bring my wheelie bin in if I'm out that day, and they even helped DP switch washing machines when he bought the 'new' one home yesterday, and helped me jump start my car a while back when preggy brained idiot here left the lights on all night
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SquishysMum
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Posted: 09 February 2011 at 6:29pm |
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I like to think I'm a good neighbour, although my neighbours may have different thoughts! I know most of them (we have a lot) after organising the replacement of our ROW 1.5 years ago, and make sure I introduce myself to new neighbours. I regularly have to give away produce, although not so much this year!
My neighbours in turn are pretty good, they pop in sometimes for a cuppa, the teenagers have fed our cat over the holidays and one sent his child over with a pruning saw when I was cutting a tree down with a building one! Embarrassingly enough I even knocked on one door the other day as I couldn't get a jar open...
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kiwisj
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Posted: 09 February 2011 at 7:24pm |
I like to think we're good neighbours too. We collect mail, look after the neighbours' kids, feed fish, swap baking and have playdates with three other families in our street. I have become good friends with two other girls in my street, one I knew a little bit before they moved in but the other I just introduced myself when they moved in and I saw they had a wee girl a bit older than C.
Unfortunately the neighbours immediately on either side of us are "home businesses" and have people coming and going a lot and often people standing outside the front gate smoking ... But my gripes about them probably belong in the other thread  I do try hard to keep things civil with them though!
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busymum
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Posted: 09 February 2011 at 7:56pm |
We kinda ignore our neighbours. One set came over and introduced themselves when we moved in and that was really cool. Now we just wave when we see them. Actually I can't exactly remember what the wife looks like anymore 
On the other side, we just met our neighbour yesterday and we've been here a year. He's been there 2yrs! I went over with a jar of stewed plums - from his tree that overhangs our fence - and asked if he wouldn't mind if we went plum picking on his side of the fence since it didn't look like he did! And when we went to do that for about an hour this afternoon, we found a friendly note offering figs from another tree (when they ripen) as well as a bag of preserving jars!
So I think we're ordinary, boring, hardly ever meet people type neighbours. But I think we have some pretty friendly/generous ones 
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Posted: 09 February 2011 at 8:08pm |
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We are good neighbours, we have a lady and her daughter living next to us. DP goes over and does man things- like getting frog off their front door step because they were too scare to go inside hehehe!
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amme_eilyk
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Posted: 09 February 2011 at 9:29pm |
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i would be a good neighbour, but we dont know any of ours. noicewise they are all pretty quiet, no loud or late parties and the same with us. the worst thing is the dog over the back which is a barker, but it has benefits in that it would scare off any burglars coming to our house.
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Posted: 09 February 2011 at 10:44pm |
I  our neighbours. We jokingly refer to our little cluster of 7 houses as the commune. We look after pets, wheelie bins, children etc and have all become really good friends. We socilaise often but do not live in each other’s pockets . DS and the wee girl next door are inseparable and the people 2 doors over are expecting a baby 4 days after us.
I was gutted when one family put their house on the market but the new owners are awesome and we keep in touch with the old ones so it’s win win.
Sorry I don’t mean to sound smug but I love my nest.
*****This has just reminded me that have completely forgotten to collect the neighbours mail!!! Maybe I’m not that good a neighbor after all. I had better go get it first thing tomorrow. Yikes*****
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RedHeadDuck
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Posted: 10 February 2011 at 9:18am |
One set of our next door neighbours are an old couple. Their kitchen looks straight into our living room 
They were super excited cos from their kitchen they can look right into babies room, and told us they were waiting watching me get bigger and they were SOOOO excited when we all disappeared for a few days
When we bought W home, they dropped off some baking and a lovely card in the mailbox, saying welcome baby! Conveniently she put it in a container I had to return So we often go over there to visit now. They love watching the wee guy grow!!
Neighbours on other side we don't know, but hear them tearing up and down their driveway. I know they have school age kids (I think a boy and a girl) cos we hear them get home at 3pm screeching to each other "HE HIT ME!!!!" etc.
We are generally pretty quiet and keep to ourselves though
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Posted: 10 February 2011 at 9:37am |
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i'm a good neighbour. i mind my own business and prefer if you mind yours!
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astral_monkey
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Posted: 10 February 2011 at 11:53am |
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I think we're good neighbours, but we keep to ourselves. We used to look out for our neighbour at our old place, because she lived alone. A couple of years ago she had a rock thrown through her window. She replaced the window and hid her valuables in the roof then two nights later it happened again. When it happened a third time in the same week the entire neighbourhood was outside her place within minutes. We must have scared them with how quickly we reacted as they didn't try it again.
At our new place we pretty much just say hello to our neighbours and that's it. (One house is empty, one lot keep to themselves, and the other is housing corp and they never seem to have the same people in there for very long).
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MuppetsMama
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Posted: 11 February 2011 at 10:02am |
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we are pretty quiet neighbours. we often give the guys in front of us some fish if we had a good haul that day, and we say hi if we see them but other than that just get on with our lives really.
thankfully we have good neighbours now, the lot we had before were druggies. can't wait to move out of this area.....
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Plushie
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Posted: 11 February 2011 at 1:45pm |
We are average i think, when it was just me and my brother living here we had a raging all night keg party in the driveway ended in burning armchairs, fireworks...the lot. But my brother went over and gave the neighbours car a full service and mowed their lawns after he'd recovered to apologize and to their credit they never actually complained.
I have more vege then i know what to do with atm and was thinking about dropping some to the neighbours in boxes but we don't know each other except for a hello at the gate so it might be a bit weird.
The lady a few doors down is real nice though 
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