To have put my rubbish in the neighbours bin

Don't be ridiculous!

I don't see the issue. My neighbour is a 4 person household and I'm a 2nperson household. I rarely fill my wheelie bin to the top, whereas she struggles with extra bags because she has a baby in nappies. I'm always telling her to use any available space in my bin once i've put it out. It just makes sense.

Nobody complained and no harm
done? What’s the problem?

Absolutely would not do this. Yes it’s cheeky.

Yes.

I can't see anything wrong with it. What's the difference emptying a full bin or one a tenth full. It's not the crime of the century.

I live in Sweden and pay 34% of my disability benefits to the council. The 6 weekly bin collections are their new strategy - to be fair they do collect organic, compostable food waste every 2 weeks - but only if you put it in paper bags in the organic bin - the general waste, plastic recycling and cardboard are each every 6 weeks.

It was a bit of a shock when we got back from holiday to find 4 bins.

I don’t think you did anything wrong. My bin is frequently not full so I’ve told my neighbour to put her excess rubbish in mine if she needs to as long as the lid shuts properly as required by council

My vile and continually horrendous neighbours dumped a load of maggot infested rotting food in my bin. They must have done in the early hours of the morning on bin collection day. We can put our bins out from 4pm onwards on the day before the collection and this is what I always do So imagine my horror when I went to pop some extra rubbish in it on the following morning before the bin lorry arrived to find it full to the brim with stinking old food, and maggots and flies crawling around. They are an unofficial HMO and produce tons of rubbish, i noticed that their bin was also filled to the brim with rotting food too. This is just one of the many things they have got up to, I hate them!

I stuck the rubbish out of my car in my neighbours bin this week, ours was overflowing and hers had one small bag in it, and we put her bin out for her.
She wouldn’t mind and had already left to go to work.

Absolutely fine and sensible. Would only find it cheeky if it wasn’t properly bagged and leaving their bin messy or smelly with food or whatever.

Do you wheelie 🤣

IMO it's not at all cheeky. Just practical and good sense! The bin was being collected either way, this just ensured a bit more rubbish was taken. No harm done at all.

me and my neighbours do this all the time. They know if they need bin space they can chuck it in my bin, i don't care one jot. Likewise if i need something in the bin that i don't have space for they said use theirs.

I don't understand why people would be so territorial about bin space.

I do this all the time!

I love a bins thread

My neighbour died recently and his mum came round to put his bin out the night before bin day. Was just after Christmas like you so I filled it 🤷‍♀️
It's just a bin. I'm sure he wouldn't mind.

Definitely don’t see a problem with this. I tell my neighbour to use mine if she needs. I wouldn’t have a problem with anyone using mine as long as the rubbish was tied up, as I like my bin kept clean and I use a liner.
before anyone comments I know I’m OTT.

I am obviously very cheeky and embarrassing as I always have too much rubbish so I go to several half empty bins down our street and put my bags in on collection day. Otherwise it will pile up. If they want me not to do this, they should go back to weekly bun collections!

6 weeks!! You should all be refusing to pay your council tax.

Of course it's ok....I honestly despair that anyone could think it wasn't.

I'd have made sure I disposed of everything possible to make the most of it.

Just to say, my mum (along with a lot of elderly people) became obsessed with the contents of her bin. Woe betide me if a poo bag was put in it!!

I think anyone giving more than a moment's thought to the content of their bin should probably give a bit more thought to the content of their mind.

I don't see a problem if the house is truly empty.

But if not empty - it would cause a riot around here now that we only get out main bins collected every 6 weeks

I wouldn’t worry about it. My next door neighbour has 4 wheelie bins. One because there were complete arseholes living next door when I first moved here, and while my house was empty they stole the wheelie bin from my house, so they had two and I had to order one when I first moved here. Then more people moved to that house, not current neighbours, and they brought their wheelie bin with them from their old house 🤷‍♀️. So by the time current neighbours moved there, there were 3 bins. And next door to them, so two houses along from me, the tenant has been ill and in hospital for the last two years, so they added that bin to their collection too, making 4. I only have 3 people living here and they have 6 but I’m still mystified as to how they manage to fill 4 bins every 3 weeks, I usually still have plenty of room in the one that I have!

sorry i'm with your Husband it is very cheeky its one of my pet hates I have neighbours who do that all the time and i get so frustrated as they usually put something Lose in Rubbish then Binmen wont take so mine dosnt get emptied or worse they bung a Black Bag in Recycling same again Binmen then wont touch

I wouldn’t mind if asked, but my council fines for incorrect items going in the wrong bin so it would piss me off if someone just dumped their rubbish in my bin. Someone kept putting their dog poo bags in my bin and it made the bin stink, thankfully I have CCTV which they obviously hadn’t realised and I discovered it was a neighbour a few doors down, so the next time they did it I gave it back to them…via their letterbox.