I have moved and my new neighbour is very snooty, dont think she likes my 2 chidren aged 4& 6
she seems to dislike anything we do around the house any ideas
we only have neighbours on one side
2007-03-19 02:47:05 · 32 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
Well she may be in a very difficult situation.
She may be unhappy in her life.
She may need a friend and not an enemy.
She may miss her old neighbours and just need a friendly face next door.
She may not be used to children and might even take to yours given the chance.
She may need someone to talk to her adult to adult.
I don't see how childish behaviour would help her or you or indeed be a good testimony of how it is to be grown up to your children.
2007-03-19 06:37:55 · answer #1 · answered by : 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why would you want to wind up a neighbour???? I would have thought you would want to try and get along as you are the new people around. You don't want to be known as trouble maker do you?
How do you know she dislikes what you do?
Have your home the way you want it and ignore the snooty neighbour.
2007-03-19 02:57:54 · answer #2 · answered by laplandfan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh bless oohhaa your neigh needs care and attention. Maybe her nose isnt that far up. She cant do the jobs you are doing, and maybe shes wantee something done for a long time. Not only that she cant get into a converstation about your house, its yours.
My neigh can move away any time they want and they are not the snooty type. Gimme a snooty any time dont have to speak to be noticed. Offer her an envening at your place for a drink or two. Ask her to celebrate your last DIY job that went wrong.
2007-03-19 05:18:07 · answer #3 · answered by jupiteress 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
How about instead of starting a war getting to know her and if she is still being snooty just grow up and ignore her.
I have got to put up with a noisy (upstairs) neighbour 24/7 and my life is hell because of her. I havent had a propers night sleep in six months because she:
1) Puts her washing machine on between the hours of 11pm and 3am. She has laminate flooring so as soon as it hits the spin cycle thats me awake again.
2) Has very noisy sex with her many boyfriends. Bed squeaking and headboard banging as well as the dirty talk I hear it all and Im a floor below her. So imagine what her young child (8-10) hears in the next room to her.
3) when I asked her nicely if she could consider using her washing machine before 11 as me and my boyfriend had to get up early in the morning she told me to f*** off. The next night her and one of her chavvy boyfriends tried to smash my windows.
4) Continual loud parties with the drunken domestics out in the street. She has smashed glass bottles all over the shared stairs.
She has had warnings about the noise and been visited by the police but nothing stops her
2007-03-19 05:49:10 · answer #4 · answered by Lady Claire - Hates Bigotry 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
hi, have neighbours of the opposite kind believe it or not, they think they are snooty, but shes 23 with 5 kids and thinks shes gods gift.
get your kids a basket ball and get them to see how fast and hard they can bounce it on the ground in the morning before school! also get them to shout out how many time they do it! this really really is anoying first thing in the morning!
buy them a doll/pet and get them to call it your neighbours name...eg "do stop peeing against the wall margaret! its so rude!" or "mum margets wee'd have you got a nappy!"
have a childrens party in your front garden, invite every kid along, parents will love you for keeping the kids entertained, then get loads of cheap cakes and put them infront of the children....and say "FOOD FIGHT!" as soon as your neighbour comes out to see what all the noise is about!
when shes sleeping creep around and pour golden syrup or honey above her windows..., then a little trickle down the side, this will attract bees, ants and wasps to the places you put it...
put brightly coloured swings in your garden, put up tents and slides if you can.
get a dog and keep it in the back garden
have a "getting to know everyone" party and invite everyone....but her...tell her that you know very well what shes like and doesnt see the need to invite her...
put all the out door toys in the back garden! make it look messy and just say "kids will be kids" and when you want to tidy up the garden say to the children "come on children margret says youve got to tidy up now..." makes the kids have an instant dislike to her
give your children chalk and get them to draw pictures on your wall... the fct that your houses are joined means that anything you draw on your house, effects her house too! plus its chalk so it wash off!
hope that helps...
but if you just want an easy way out then i suggest that killing with kindness always works...
"how lovely that dress is, my grandma has the same one! she got it from the market, amazing what you can find these days isnt it!"
or how about " gosh you look terrible this morning, are you ok? rough night? get some of that moisteriser...you know, the ones that lift wrinkles, it does wonders yu know, even you could afford it"
anyways...live and let live... she may just be haprehensive... did you find out what the prevuois owners were like? they may have been troublesome and got kicked out, or maybe a close friend lived there and died, she may just be a bit bitter...
find out...that should break the ice...if she genuinly has no reason to be like tht then the rest is up to you...
good luck
2007-03-19 07:29:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
I would go out my way to be as nice as possible cos if she is that snooty then that will wind her up even more if she looks down on you. I would also encourage the kids to be extra friendly and hope she hates children!!! GOOD LUCK!
2007-03-19 02:58:14 · answer #6 · answered by Jaksi 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Kill her with kindness, be as pleasant as you possibly can. This woman probably has issues you couldn't possibly know anything about, and by being kind, you just might find out she's not so bad after all. A friendly approach will totally catch her off guard.
2007-03-19 03:01:27 · answer #7 · answered by barbara 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
This worked for me. Let your kids build snow families in the yard and face them toward the neighbors house. When you get the sticks for the arms, make sure they kind of look like they are her giving the finger. What will she do call the cops because you have snowmen? This assumes you have snow. Good luck.
2007-03-19 03:24:11 · answer #8 · answered by Tamm 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Forget that neighbour, probably she is just jealous of the relationship you have with your kids, try and spend time with them and concentrate more on them rather than wasting your time on snobbish people, if you must interact with her, do so civily and don't start a fight with her, go the extra mile for your babies and stress not yourself over unsociable people.
2007-03-19 02:54:26 · answer #9 · answered by kamarla_phillips06 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
perhaps she got use to the old neighbours and didn't want any change put yourself in her position how would you like it if you lived there and they thought that about you give it tI'me and she might come round saying this I'm glad im not your neighbour if your thinking like this my dear .
2007-03-19 05:51:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋