Buyers want wheelie bins included.. after discount

I bet they want you to leave the tiles on roof too!

Oh at least we don't have to first buy it and we pay about £60 a year which I thought was excessive, I feel less so now!

We pay annually for our brown, garden rubbish bins so people do tend to take them as they would have to pay again for a new one though I suppose it depends on the time of year, if the renewal is due then it's pointless.

Where we live, you have to buy them! And they're on such a backorder, it takes ages to get them sorted! How do I know? We just moved house into this new area and the seller took the bins with her! Fair enough. But it was six weeks before we got our own bins. And the council, idiots, kept telling us to just put rubbish outside in bags and they'd get collected. On more than one occasion, they didn't! As the bin men refused to take them due to "health and safety". And this is a council that's declared itself bankrupt!

Maybe she'll end up preferring to live with them than with you because you dissed her ashes 😆

What?? There are places where the council don't provide bins? What the hell?! Are they big Tory areas or something?

What if your Nan likes them though and doesn’t haunt them properly?

She may turn into a helpful poltergeist who moves their bins out in the night before bin day, then moves them back again?

This has got to be a joke - nobody could be so pathetic to take the wheelie bins with. Actually when you consider taking light bulbs toilet seats etc it isn’t just pathetic - it is actually nasty

@Sellthishousetorhosecunts stick to your guns! I think this is an MN thing, like the mumsnet infinite roast chicken, where councils have a ring fenced wheelie bin budget and every household has at least 3.

I live in a London Borough previously mentioned in the thread and they don't give anything away for free. When I move I'll be taking my wheelie bin with me. I don't care how dirty or stinky it is, I'll clean it, that bin cost me £50!!

This. I can't believe people take their wheelie bins when they move.

MN never stops surprising me.

I'm struggling to believe this is real

Taking lightbulbs is really spiteful and an arsehole move.
When my friend moved into his first property, the lovely selling householder left them a lovely note to say she hoped they'd be really happy there.

That reflected far better oil the seller than some spiteful person being petty about bins and lightbulbs.

As to the Grandmother's ashes, that's just disrespectful to the Grandmother.

Taking a Wheelie bin when you move?? That's crazy.
I thought they belonged to the local council anyway - not the householder.

We have to pay for our garden waste bins every year - it's not a fee for the bin, it's a fee for them to be emptied.

The previous resident left his garden bin anyway. As would I. Can't believe anyone would take a wheelie bin with them.

Id only take my wheelie bin if i had bought a nice new one and it was nice and clean or I was on a budget myself. Otherwise, If they were old and manky, I think Id like a nice new bin for my new property. If you want your wheelie bins for the above reasons then say no. But I wouldnt do it out of spite, its not worth bringing spite into it, just think logically if you want those particular bins or not.

Taking lightbulbs is pathetically petty.

As for nan's ashes, no one would care, why would they? There's already lots of debris, dust etc under floorboards.

Discount/negotiation is entirely normal and you're being very unreasonable to get wound up about it. You either agree or you don't and then you move on.

I'd also caution against annoying your buyer. You don't know when you may need a favour from them, i.e. if post or a parcel gets delivered there, you need an element of goodwill for them to hold onto to it and let you collect. If we bought a house with an unhinged and stroppy seller like the OP who took all the lightbulbs, I'd be immediately shredding all post that came for them and putting parcels in the bin!

I've never heard of someone taking their wheelie bins with them. I thought they belonged to your local council.

Why would you take them? They're not yours, they're the council's!

How many would you need at your new house?

How much was the discount for the cat flap? Surely you could’ve just said no?? I’d prefer to pay £40 for a new bin than put my gross bin in a removal van with my belongings. How much have you pissed off the seller of your new house that they’re taking their bins with them too???

I thought the wheelie bins belonged to the council? We pay £50 a year for ours.

Unless they're extra ones that you've bought, aren't wheelie bins council property?

You need to leave or take whatever you've agreed to leave and take on your Fixtures and Fittings Form (assuming you're in the UK).

If your buyers have queried something on the form and you don't like it just say no? If you had to buy them and can use them where you're going explain that. They are likely to be of the don't ask don't get school of thought. They are unlikely to pull out of the purchase over some bins.

Taking the lightbulbs and not leaving a single loo roll is petty. Don't be that seller. And leaving your Nan's ashes is plain weird.

Conveyancing is horribly stressful. It will be over soon. Good luck.

I pay to get mine cleaned monthly and I wouldn't take them with me 😂

I dont think leaving your grans ashes is going to be the punishment you think it is. I'd just chuck them in the bin. Surely the only one here being disrespected is your granny?!

Also, who would want to use a bin as a plunge pool vomit nothing more relaxing than marinating in used tea bags, bin juice and old potato peeling slime 😂

Not just take them but use them as “a summer plunge pool for the kids” - is everyone overlooking that part? 😂😂😂