Neighbour being cheeky? Or AIBU?

It’s cheeky, but if my bin wasn’t full I wouldn’t mind, as it’s not costing me anymore. I wouldn’t be so cheeky but many people have a brass neck with this kind of thing

Easy for posters to say they wouldn't mind when they're not paying for the bin. It would irritate me that someone else was getting out of paying when they needed to use it regularly.

Take it to the tip or pay for a bin yourself, don't put a neighbour in a position when they feel awkward saying no.

Next time he asks, can you say " yes, but I am worriedit will get full so if have any surplus that won't go in then it would be great if you can take that to the tip"

He is the one that needs to sort any surplus, not you.

I'd suggest that you go halves, since he uses half of your green bin! He can't get stroppy at that.

YANBU - we have occasionally asked our neighbours but most of ours goes to the recycling centre or in the composter. The reason we haven’t got one is that we have a bin box with space for the other two bins only. Splitting the cost is the best suggestion as they may be happy to pay but don’t have space for one themselves. If they say no, start saying no when they ask to use it

This wouldn't bother me at all.

I think you're being a bit unreasonable as you could just be kind and let him use it and know you've done a good deed. Unless he's trampling your garden or something while using the bin. From your replies it seems you just think he's being cheeky and you want him to pay for his own bin because you had to. That's a bit mean imo. If it's not costing you anything to help (you still have room for your own waste) then why not continue to do so? I wish my neighbours would ask me for favours instead of being miserable!

In a minority here I think, but honestly, although I don't think you're unreasonable per se, I think it's a teensy bit stingy to care (so long as your bin isn't too full and he's asking every time). You're basically doing him a favour with a monetary value of about 20-30 quid a year at no added cost/inconvenience to yourself. It's nice when neighbours help each other out.

I'd mentally log it as a bit of a favour/good deed. Maybe you'll need a favour and he'll reciprocate one day!

I guess for me it wouldn't bother me IF he recognized that he was using a service I was paying for. For example, to pop round with a bottle of wine or a cake they had made. Nothing outrageous but just to acknowledge that I was doing him a favour.

If that makes sense?

My neighbour once did this with permission once, but without permission a few more times. The one that gave me the rage was when he filled it after the final collection of the year, so I had a full bin over winter and it really irritated me. Even though I wasn't using it during winter. I didn't like that my first collection of the new year was needed to empty the bin rather than being able to do a first lawn cut etc.

I think he is being very tight.
Oy local council suggests that if people have small gardens they share the cost of one bin. If he asks after the bin has just been emptied, tell him to wait and see until the day before collection how much space you have left as you are planning on doing quite a lot of gardening. The inconvenience of keeping it for a while should put him off.
Are you sure he used to take it to the tip. Perhaps he just hid it in with his general waste.

You need to make sure your bin is full the next couple of times he asks. Point out he probably needs to get his own bin now summer is here as you’ll be cutting your lawn more regularly and don’t want the bin filled with his waste and no space for your own ( as has previously happened to you )

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He is a greedy bastard that will take the water off a frog leaping off a leaf and the more you allow him to put in your bin the more he will use you! Next year say to him you pay and I’ll put
my waste in yours and she what the greedy fucker says!!!

Silly question maybe but I take it he knows you have to pay for it? Where I am (Scotland) we don’t pay extra for our brown garden waste bin so it might not be obvious to everyone.
To be honest if it’s only a small amount I’d probably let it go. But if he is as keen a gardener as you, uses the lawnmower and weeds etc as often as you then I think I would ask him to split the cost. Or, tell him he might be better getting his own as you have a big garden job coming up…..

I think you can put a padlock on wheelie bin lids?

I’d be inclined to say no next time he asks, with the reason being it’s summer and your bin is now likely to be full each week.

i’d also probably then send him the link for the ordering of a green bin of his own

What you could do is tell him to check the night before collection if there's space and if there is he can use it. Then you don't even have to know if he's used it, but the inconvenience might get to him. If you share the cost he might fill it up himself and you'll have another problem on your hands.

Maybe Im just super intelligent and know what the solution is. Well I know I am.
When we humans rub along together we do each other little favours, it makes the world go round and its good to use other facilities as they can use our stuff in return..Now, as these activities go along there is a danger; what happens is as its all going on ONE PERSON can start getting another feeling. Its called : Being ' Used'....if theres a danger of one person starting to feel this way then small token of appreciation us in order. Some flowers from your garden, or vegetables, or bar of chocolate. If someone regularly takes in and cares for parcels dont take the piss, buy them a drink !!!!!!

So then say no?!?!
He asks you and you say yes....

Yes, another vote for cheeky. It's irrelevant how much spare room you have in your bins - they're YOUR bins.

Yes, so are absolutely at liberty to not stress about something so stupid and stop being petty and mean about some empty space in them.

He’s very cheeky. I couldn’t possibly have got more in mine yesterday, must ask the adjoining neighbour to cut back the ivy that’s taking over my garden! If another neighbour asked to put stuff in, I’d say no, it’s cheeky and I’d tell him to get his own!

I have someone who does this and I see the annoyance but feel if it isn’t full it’s ok

If I had the space it wouldn’t bother me, but if it’s pissing you off why don’t you just say next time he asks ‘Oh sorry Geoff, we’ve been blitzing the garden this weekend and my green bin is full to the brim!’

If you say that the next few times he’ll get the message, but if yours isn’t full, I can’t see the problem, it’s a neighbourly thing to do and one day you might need the favour repaid. It pays to keep neighbours on side.

Yes, another vote for cheeky. It's irrelevant how much spare room you have in your bins - they're YOUR bins.

Also, I think a favour is something you ask once. Any more, and it's overstepping the mark into CF territory. My friend bought a special long brush/hose thingy for cleaning the roof of her conservatory and another friend asked to borrow it every year. She didn't mind at first, but after a couple of years said 'Why don't you buy one yourself?'

Doesn't matter that 'it was no skin of her nose' to lend it. This woman was being very cheeky to continue asking. When I've done anything like this, after the first time I've gone out and paid for the useful gadget myself.