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Fedupwithteenagers24 · 2024-12-23T08:21:17+00:00

Usually our bins are collected in the afternoon, today they turned up at 7am to collect! We hadn't put them out yet and it was too late to catch them. Husband is beside himself, had not stopped going in about it. He is considering calling council to complain. It is now being referred to as the great bin disaster of xmas 2024. I think I may have to ltb - AIBU?

LasagneLasagne · 23/12/2024 09:33

Off on a tangent here...

We have to wheel our bins to the entrance of our cul de sac in order for them to be collected - they won't empty them otherwise. Our neighbour, however, through many years of complaints and dogged refusal to do this, has her bin (and only hers) collected from outside her house. One of the bin guys has to walk down, collect the bin and empty it. If they forget to return it outside her house, it unleashes a further torrent of complaints.

That said, we actually get on quite well with her 😌

Anewuser · 23/12/2024 09:33

daffodilandtulip · 23/12/2024 09:29

Your son is a hero!

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Thank you, I think so.

FizzyBisto · 23/12/2024 09:32

daffodilandtulip · 23/12/2024 09:29

Your son is a hero!

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True. Not all heroes wear capes... or, indeed, very many clothes at all!!

BettyBardMacDonald · 23/12/2024 09:31

whenemmafallsinlove · 23/12/2024 08:34

I feel your pain. My dh would have to be sedated if that happened. He also loves going to the tip. He's taking some cardboard today. His little face is so excited. It's such a special time of year!

🤣🤣🤣

Jifmicroliquid · 23/12/2024 09:30

Everyone here puts them out the night before.

Bin collection days and times can change over Xmas so I’d have been prepared for them coming earlier than normal.

jolies1 · 23/12/2024 09:29

Take him for a nice day out to the tip?

daffodilandtulip · 23/12/2024 09:29

Anewuser · 23/12/2024 09:26

My poor son heard the bin lorry, so quickly jumped out of bed and chucked on shorts. Couldn’t find the door key, so climbed out of the window in bare feet. It’s only a 6 foot front garden so the bin operators saw him. Son managed to get the bin to the lorry in time, the bin man suggested he put the bin out the night before. No shit Sherlock, I’m in the habit of climbing out of windows half naked.

Your son is a hero!

FizzyBisto · 23/12/2024 09:29

It's not always as easy as 'just taking it down the tip', though.

Apart from the fact that many places have restricted opening hours and/or you have to make an appointment - and if you only have a van as your sole household vehicle, they may turn you away...

I enjoy a good, satisfying tip run as much as anybody, but I really don't want stinking, sloppy, potentially leaky kitchen and other waste in my car - the sort for which using a bin is so important. No problem at all for masses of flattened cardboard boxes, old broken furniture etc.

mrlistersgelfbride · 23/12/2024 09:27

I missed my bin collection today for the same reason. Kicking myself.
Just let it go, and take it out the night before in future.

Anewuser · 23/12/2024 09:26

My poor son heard the bin lorry, so quickly jumped out of bed and chucked on shorts. Couldn’t find the door key, so climbed out of the window in bare feet. It’s only a 6 foot front garden so the bin operators saw him. Son managed to get the bin to the lorry in time, the bin man suggested he put the bin out the night before. No shit Sherlock, I’m in the habit of climbing out of windows half naked.

FizzyBisto · 23/12/2024 09:24

daffodilandtulip · 23/12/2024 09:20

No I totally agree. If you put them out before 7am you get fined, but the first week they changed the schedule they were here at 6:10am. But because three of us had seen, and had ours collected, the council refused to come back to the others as they had evidence that they had been on time 🤷🏼‍♀️. Now they’re coming at about 6:30am so people are putting them out the night before, so I imagine clipboard lady will be around soon, fining everyone.

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Typical councils, eh?

"We work for you!"

Lisbeth50 · 23/12/2024 09:21

We missed ours this week. It was changed to a different day & I forgot. I woke up to hear the lorry passing...

daffodilandtulip · 23/12/2024 09:20

FizzyBisto · 23/12/2024 09:14

To be fair, if the official rule is to put them out for 7, and then somebody takes theirs out just before 7, without realising that the bin men have already been and gone half an hour ago, I don't think it's their fault in any way - and the council have been negligent in their duties.

If they expect them out by midnight the day before, if they have difficulty with setting and keeping to schedules - so the can send the bin men out at 3am if they must - they need to specify this to householders.

I know that your council tax pays for a lot more than just bin collections, but it's the most visible and regular service and one that, unlike many others, every single person uses. They can't just treat it like they do it as a favour and then say "tough, you missed it" when people followed their instructions and they failed to keep to them.

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No I totally agree. If you put them out before 7am you get fined, but the first week they changed the schedule they were here at 6:10am. But because three of us had seen, and had ours collected, the council refused to come back to the others as they had evidence that they had been on time 🤷🏼‍♀️. Now they’re coming at about 6:30am so people are putting them out the night before, so I imagine clipboard lady will be around soon, fining everyone.

shellyleppard · 23/12/2024 09:19

@Fedupwithteenagers24 it will forever be known as bin gate 2024.......😁😁 Wishing you a very happy Christmas 🎄 🎁 ❄️💐

MyrtleStrumpet · 23/12/2024 09:19

Fedupwithteenagers24 · 23/12/2024 09:07

Thank you for all the comments, he wishes me to say this is the first time EVER he has not put them out them night before. He has recovered his good humour. We won't bother the Council as it is entirely our ( his) fault.
But I forsee that he will be going on about this every Christmas forever more

But, but, but, now he gets to go to the tip! It's like a massive reward for being a dick. My DH just ADORES a tip run.

TwinkleLights24 · 23/12/2024 09:19

WillowTit · 23/12/2024 08:23

you can email the council that you havent had a collection, a missed bin
afternoon collection sounds odd

They’ll only come back if your bin was out and they genuinely missed it.

JustMyView13 · 23/12/2024 09:19

Just report a missed collection and state they were out. Leave them out and they’ll come back and get them.

But most councils say they should be curbside by 7am so it’s your husbands fault. (Because I assume bins = blue job).

UndermyShoeJoe · 23/12/2024 09:18

Our where down by 6:15am the other morning load of people hadn’t put theirs out. But it does state on the webpage bins to be out for 6am.

can he not just drive to the tip.

TwinkleLights24 · 23/12/2024 09:18

Yabu. They have to be out at 7am here.

DappledThings · 23/12/2024 09:17

Redkatagain · 23/12/2024 08:50

Local councillor here. Report the missed collection online.

You won't be alone

It wasn't a missed collection. Why is anyone suggesting that?

TianasBayou · 23/12/2024 09:17

Fedupwithteenagers24 · 23/12/2024 09:07

Thank you for all the comments, he wishes me to say this is the first time EVER he has not put them out them night before. He has recovered his good humour. We won't bother the Council as it is entirely our ( his) fault.
But I forsee that he will be going on about this every Christmas forever more

Standard Xmas dinner conversation with the in-laws was bin collection days, type of spud for the roasties (Maris Piper always) and the route driven to get there <snore>

Balancedcitizen101 · 23/12/2024 09:16

Sorry to hear bad news but where I am and possibly where you are, you are told to put them out by 7am each time, even if they always seem to come later. I accept it's annoying to just miss them but I think the Council will say what I just have. I put them out the night before but have forgotten now and again. If you have a car you could take stuff to the tip if you need to.

gamerchick · 23/12/2024 09:16

You're always supposed to put them out early. Bin days are disrupted this week. There will be a timetable on your council website.

You can ring and ask them to come back usually. But he needs to be told to stop being complacent about it

IrrationalIvy · 23/12/2024 09:15

Nothing wrong with throwing yourself on their mercy. DH did a similar thing a few years ago when DD was a baby (relevant as the bin had stinky nappies in). Entirely his fault but the council were clearly in a festive mood as they did a quick pass down our street to collect a day or two later when the lorries were collecting reasonably close by.

WillowTit · 23/12/2024 09:14

JeremiahBullfrog · 23/12/2024 09:14

They will only be working part of the week this week so will have had to change their schedules. Something to look out for next Christmas!

thanks fore the reminder
i have jsut checked my bin calender