Psst...I might steal my neighbor's sunken pumpkin

6 years ago

Halloween was two and a half months ago, and on top of that, my neighbor put this pumpkin on his front porch early! The pumpkin is sunken in and smelling like, well, sunken in pumpkin. It is a mere 20 feet from my own front door and very visible, very "olfactable". I might slip over with my snow shovel and scoop up that baby for the compost.

Other neighbor has a bale of straw on her porch. I think I'll ring the doorbell for that one. I find that people who decorate outdoors with these things for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas are sometimes happy to have them removed gratis. Those straw bales can be really heavy, though, when soaked with ten rains and then frozen through and through. Have bent the axle on my little red wagon towing heavy straw bales like that.

Do you covet your neighbor's goods? The ones they ignore and don't even know are goods as opposed to bads?

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Nevermore44 - 6a

6 years ago

heck yeah! I have a decent sized fig tree that I add a cage around and then fill with straw for the winter.... so for the past few years instead of having to pay for straw... i just keep on eye on the fall straw decorations of my neighbors. After thanksgiving, I will collecting my leaves… and I end up getting a bales of straw…. Corn shocks. This year I also found someone that wanted to clear out their fall pumpkin collection from their front porch. They had a few pallets worth of all the weird types…must have cost a fortune. I snagged as many as I could to have them rot down on the veggie bed.

I do like getting free stuff… probably to a fault. If my DW and I are out and see an old bale of straw on the side of the highway that probably fell off the side of a truck… she will ask as jest… “you want me to pull over”

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functionthenlook
6 years ago
As far as the stinky pumpkin I would please ask the neighbor to remove it because of the smell. Otherwise It is their house to do as they please and it is their decision on what decorations to put up when and when to take them down.
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matthias_lang
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Absentee landlord picked the renters next door with the pumpkin. Last renters trashed the place so badly, it had to be gutted. He can really pick 'em.
annpat
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Functionthenlook, it’s like you’re starving, have had nothing to eat since early Nov., and your neighbors have a pumpkin pie just sitting on their lawn, getting peaked—-and have since Halloween. It seems cruel, but let’s give them the benefit of doubt. They may not know how long Matthias has been without, so if it were me, I’d knock on the neighbor’s door and say, “I’m really hungry and I noticed that you have some pie getting all peaked on your lawn, which I would take off your hands if you’re not going to eat it.”
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toxcrusadr
6 years ago
I found a small white pumpkin at the yard waste dump in perfect shape. Apparently a delicious type for eating. So I baked it and pureed it for pie. Then the wife shows up with a bigger one that was big enough for 5 pies. I tried to 'splain that the freezer was pretty full...but you can't waste food. Anyone want to come over for pumpkin pie? I can make about 6 at this point without breaking a sweat.

I have pulled over for straw before. :-P
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annpat
6 years ago
I canned pears that someone took to our yard waste dump. I kept marveling---for years---how lovely they looked as I fed them to my chickens. Then the flickering lightbulb that is my brain finally came on.
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toxcrusadr
6 years ago
Pears make a wonderful white wine too. In case you ever run into another load. :-]
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old_dirt 6a
6 years ago
Do you covet your neighbor's goods?" What i covet of my neighbor is covered in the good book so I try to steer away from there. lol...JK.

I do gather several pumpkins every year and what I don't feed to the deer, I compost. The good, solid ones, I chop up and put out in the woods. The deer have them gone in a few days and the birds enjoy the seeds left behind. The softer ones get smashed a little and thrown into the compost pile. By spring there is little left of them.
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raee_gw zone 5b-6a Ohio
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I covet my neighbor's pumpkins and hay/straw bales -- the hay to pile around my blueberry pots, but the pumpkins are for eating! I stock my freezer every fall with discarded (still in good condition, uncarved) Halloween/Thanksgiving pumpkins. Any I don't use go into the compost pile, which sometimes results in growing my own.
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