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Buyers want wheelie bins included.. after discount

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Sellthishousetorhosecunts · 16/05/2024 23:09

Our lovely FTB 🙄have requested wheelie bins be included after generous discount… many unreasonable requests met!

AIBU to leave dead nan ashes under the floorboards & take the wheel bins as a summer plunge pool for the kids 🫣

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theholesinmyapologies · 17/05/2024 16:29

Sellthishousetorhosecunts · 17/05/2024 00:01

Wtf - who pays money for bins and leaves them to greedy buyers!? I would rather ship them off to moody Doris 3 doors down than leave them full of our shit by donating the time, effort and money it took me to order them. Then Doris can tell them I thought they was cheeky fuckers and enjoy not composing her sour grapes

YOu didn't pay for the bins; you paid for delivery of the bins. They go with the property and will be on the council records as having been ordered.

zingally · 17/05/2024 16:20

I'm in the process of buying as a FTB... It never occurred to me that bins WOULDN'T be left!

KTheGrey · 17/05/2024 16:10

JennyJenny8675309 · 17/05/2024 15:48

Leave the cat? Absolutely not! I’d leave a kid.

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Well but the OP may not have a kid small enough to use the cat door.

listsandbudgets · 17/05/2024 15:54

Citrusandginger · 17/05/2024 07:31

That reminds me of the time I was cleaning a hospital bed between patients. The pillow was marked QE2 Mortuary. Not only was the ward very obviously not the mortuary, but the hospital wasn’t the QE2.

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imagine waking up from an operation and seeing that printed on your pillow!

JennyJenny8675309 · 17/05/2024 15:48

KTheGrey · 17/05/2024 15:23

Leave nan's ashes and the cat. Take light bulbs and loo seats.

Buyers can be terrible pains.

Leave the cat? Absolutely not! I’d leave a kid.

JennyJenny8675309 · 17/05/2024 15:46

senua · 16/05/2024 23:18

Leave the bins, as requested. But take the wheels.Grin

Or, even better, one wheel.😈

Great idea!

ttcat37 · 17/05/2024 15:45

Who the fuck takes their bins with them?! That’s not a thing. Stop being weird.

KTheGrey · 17/05/2024 15:23

Leave nan's ashes and the cat. Take light bulbs and loo seats.

Buyers can be terrible pains.

Benthany · 17/05/2024 14:54

Who goes to the bother of loading their bins up along with their furniture? You leave them there home your moving to should have bins.

pigsDOfly · 17/05/2024 14:46

When I moved to my current house - a new build - I was given the option from my local council to take my wheelie bins with me or order new ones; this option only applies if you're moving to an area under the same local council.

Why anyone would want to take their smelly old bins to a new house I can't imagine but perhaps some people find it hard to let go.

What I did find rather annoying though, was the fact that there was no refund of the remainder of the yearly £50 I'd only recently paid prior to buying the new house, for my garden waste to be collected.

That apparently, for my local council, does go with the house rather than the person paying it.

MrsSunshine2b · 17/05/2024 14:29

You didn't give them a "generous discount". I am willing to go out on a limb and state you took the best offer that you got. If you have agreed to their demands, they can't be that unreasonable. And no, you don't get to take wheelie bins with you. Poor buyers, I bet they can't wait for completion so they don't have to deal with you any more!

Coffeegincarbs · 17/05/2024 14:29

I paid for our bins (and recently had to pay to replace a bin that got storm damaged) but not sure I'd want to take them with me if I moved. I wouldnt want the smell of warm sileage from our green bin pervading my soft furnishings in the removal truck 🤮 Surely everyone leaves their bins (with the house # on them)?

However if you are at the end of your tether with CF house buyers, I'd be sorely tempted to leave them a dead kipper behind the bath panel instead of your nan under the floorboards 😘

Willtheraineverstop · 17/05/2024 14:15

Effort and money it took me to order them.

I had to order a new bin after someone nicked mine, you literally fill out a tiny form online lol there was 1% effort involved.

DriftingDora · 17/05/2024 13:56

Minniemooose · 16/05/2024 23:16

Surely your new house will have the wheelie bins left behind from the previous owner. I couldn’t think of anything worse than picking up and moving a mankey germ ridden bin 🤢

I couldn’t think of anything worse....

I can. Inheriting someone else's even mankier, more germ-ridden bin when they get to the next house.😁

JanefromLondon1 · 17/05/2024 13:55

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SetinTime · 17/05/2024 13:54

This thread gave me a proper laugh 😂😂

Londonrach1 · 17/05/2024 13:52

The bins stay in the property. I can't image why you want to take them with you. Yabu

daffodilandtulip · 17/05/2024 13:49

We pay for ours and I still wouldn't want to put them on the removal van with all my things!

Towerofsong · 17/05/2024 13:44

WearyAuldWumman · 16/05/2024 23:23

Ah. Didn't know that.

In my area, your council tax pays for them.

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In my area, the council provides them for the property, but if you lose or break one you can be charged for a replacement.

Wheelieusefulbinlover · 17/05/2024 13:37

Brawcolli · 17/05/2024 12:41

What’s wrong with the word nan?

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This is mumsnet, you're meant to call her grandmama 🙄

JustMarriedBecca · 17/05/2024 13:33

Wheelieusefulbinlover · 16/05/2024 23:19

Not every council provides wheelie bins for free. Mine doesn't, we had to order ours for £50 each! I paid for them, they're mine to take with me like my garden furniture

We have to pay £112 to USE the bins extra on top of Council tax as we have extra green bins for garden waste but the bins belong to the Council.

ThreeTescoBags · 17/05/2024 13:32

If you are going you leave your nan then you'd be doubly unreasonable to take the bin and deprive them of somewhere to empty the bag once they're done hoovering her up.

caringcarer · 17/05/2024 13:30

LittleGreenDragons · 16/05/2024 23:17

The wheelie bins stay with the property. They aren't yours, they belong to the council. Where do you do live if you believe they go with you?

This. Nobody takes Wheely bins with them.

CarolinaInTheMorning · 17/05/2024 13:29

Paperthin · 16/05/2024 23:19

NOBODY takes their wheels bins OP, not in the UK anyway.

Not in my part of the US, either. They are supplied by the county.

Erdinger · 17/05/2024 13:27

Relocate89 · 16/05/2024 23:17

Do people take wheelie bins with them?!

None that I know of