On one side I share a drive with my fabulous retired neighbours, Gabby and Ed. Since my car doesn't fit between the houses, we only use the drive to walk our recycling and garbage bins. Gaby and Ed have a private parking pad off the drive within their yard.
On the other side, there is a young married couple. Our yards are split by a garden in the middle with no clear demarkation, no tree or power pole, of where our property ends and theirs begins.
Each time I head out to shovel, I'm never really sure about where I should stop. I usually do our walk right past any clear middle point to our shared wall neighbour and then the walk behind the full shared drive, including the retired neighbour's private drive.
I don't mind doing extra to either side, our neighbours are really good to us. We share a garden, including planting and weeding with one side, and the others bring us fresh produce from their garden in the summer and took care of our shoveling while we were gone for two weeks.
Does shoveling really aggravate you? Do you feel like your neighbours don't do their fair share? Or does your partner take care of it? Or do you think your partner doesn't do their fair share?
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what a timely topic!
ReplyDeleteeveryone on my street is great, we all live in semis in our little stretch and we always shovel more than we need to, and everyone reciprocates...except for one couple, lol
they have been here for two years now, and nobody is saying anything, but i noticed that because they always wait for someone else to do their walkway and sidewalk, nobody is doing that anymore
neighbours will even come over to my side to do my sidewalk but they'll skip theirs entirely, lol
I don't have enough space to vent about this topic. Pat and I actually really enjoy shoveling. But living on the main level of a house split into three apartments - the sharing of maintenance duties can cause a lot of frustration.
ReplyDeleteBecause we moved from an apartment building (where snow removal was taken care of by the super), we didn't own a shovel. Our neighbors upstairs would leave their shovel out on our shared front steps. We would borrow it in order to shovel our walkway and sidewalk, as well as the alley driveway shared by about 20 people. Our neighbors saw us one day using their shovel, and the next day they moved the shovel inside.
This wouldn't bother me so much if they shoveled the walkway on occassion, but they don't. So, we had to go out and buy a shovel that we will use only for two months (since we are moving into our condo in March).
Oh... also, they NEVER put out our shared recycling and garbage bins. That task is always done by Pat and myself. Did I mention that this is a family with two teenage boys?
We live in "Leave It To Beaver" land here in the burbs. Our fire chief neighbor often will shovel our sidewalk PLUS our walk itself (he loves being outside). Mike does his share too... not only does he do ALL our outdoor work, he also will shovel out the widow across the street and on our other side (they pay him in chocolate!).
ReplyDeleteLuckily we have fantastic neighbors!
Carol
Shovel? I live in Wisconsin. Nothing but snow-blowers. Clearing that extra bit of your neighbors sidewalk is just pushing the snow-blower a bit further.
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