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AIBU to expect my sister to store my bike briefly?

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AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:08

On Friday I bought a new bike off marketplace. I currently have my old bike in my hallway as I need to clean it up and sell it so I took my new bike to my sisters and popped it in the hallway. She was at work so I sent her a message saying I’ve temporarily put a bike in her hallway and it will be moved in about a weeks time. Didn’t hear anything back until evening when she messaged telling me to come and move the bike. I told her I had nowhere to put it until I sell my old one but reassured her I’d be cleaning it up over weekend and will list it on Monday.

Yesterday morning she sent another message saying her husband was fuming about the bike saying it was “ruining their hallway” and he wanted it moved. I said it will be moved asap.

This morning I got up to see my new bike sat in front of my house on the driveway. I’ve messaged her and she said she didn’t do it, her husband did. So I said I’m bringing it back as it can’t stay on the driveway because obviously it will get stolen!! Not to mention weather damage. She replied saying not to bring it back or her DH will simply leave it in the street.

Im fuming because there has been many times they have stored stuff at my house and I’ve had to just work around it.

Anyway they have a keyboard at my house and I’ve told her either the bike gets stored there for a few days max or the keyboard goes to live outside. She’s not replied yet.

AIBU?? I could get my bike sold by Wednesday.

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Butchyrestingface · 19/04/2026 08:55

You both need to stop storing things at each other's homes. You both have your own homes and this arrangement clearly isn't working any longer.

I also think you both need to change your locks. Grin

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:55

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What in god’s name are you waffling on about?

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VickyEadieofThigh · 19/04/2026 08:55

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:53

Since Christmas

And why is it with you? Have they said when they're going to remove it?

Pinkgin00 · 19/04/2026 08:54

You and your sister need to stop dumping stuff on each other's properties, its really bizarre. You can't just 'pop' a massive bike in someone's hallway without asking, its absurd . If you asked first and they refused, then you are in your rights to ask them to remove the keyboard/piano you've been storing for them.

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AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:53

VickyEadieofThigh · 19/04/2026 08:53

I'm curious - how long have you been storing this keyboard and have they said when they're going to remove it?

Since Christmas

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VickyEadieofThigh · 19/04/2026 08:53

I'm curious - how long have you been storing this keyboard and have they said when they're going to remove it?

BlueRidgeMountain · 19/04/2026 08:51

Maybe you and your sister need to pack in buying stuff you have no space for. Also, if you stopped storing stuff in each others houses then you’d have room for your own shit in your own house. Problem solved.
also, a bike will not get weather damage in less than a week. Get a tarp and chain it up outside. Christ.

Loulou4022 · 19/04/2026 08:49

SoScarletItWas · 19/04/2026 08:48

Your posts are all memorable because they’re all so bloody weird. You’re strangely enmeshed with your sister. Holidays, toilets, blowing out nephew’s candles, now using each other’s houses interchangeably. What a bizarre dynamic. Not surprised her DH is pissed off.

Oh the candle blowing incident! This does add another level to a strange dynamic!

MissCooCooMcgoo · 19/04/2026 08:49

Put it in your own damn hallway!

parietal · 19/04/2026 08:49

Surely you can lock your bike in your own garden and put it under a tarp. No need to keep it at your sisters.

jacks11 · 19/04/2026 08:49

YABU

i would not store a bike in the hallway, as others have said- they get in the way and the handlebars can scuff paintwork. I’d be furious at the lack of consideration and not asking permission. I think I’d be a lot less annoyed if you’d left something in the garden without notice, but not in my house and in a place where it will get in the way and possibly cause damage.

You have a garden- why can’t your bike stay there? Or in any other room in your house. When you were asked to collect it, you were in no position to refuse and expect them just to suck it up. You should have collected it. And if your are so inclined, you could have dropped off the keyboard at the same time, thereby freeing up room for yiu to store your own bike.

The keyboard situation is different, as I’d have thought they would have to have asked you first, given it is the size of a piano. If you agreed to put it in your living room. then it is really not the same situation- plus a bike can be kept outside, secured (under cover/a tarp or plastic sheeting if it cannot stay outdoors for a short while), whereas a keyboard cannot. You would not be unreasonable to decline to store any more of their things in the future, that said.

mindfulmoaning · 19/04/2026 08:48

Put your old bike in the garden and your new one in the hallway at your house.

Loulou4022 · 19/04/2026 08:48

You can’t just dump a bike in someone’s hallway without asking first! That’s beyond rude!
If you’re not happy about storing the keyboard long term then you should have said and asked them to move it

SoScarletItWas · 19/04/2026 08:48

Your posts are all memorable because they’re all so bloody weird. You’re strangely enmeshed with your sister. Holidays, toilets, blowing out nephew’s candles, now using each other’s houses interchangeably. What a bizarre dynamic. Not surprised her DH is pissed off.

Goldengirl123 · 19/04/2026 08:48

A bike is a bit different to a keyboard!!! I think you’ve got a cheek doing that and I don’t blame her husband at all

Meadowfinch · 19/04/2026 08:46

If someone let themselves into my house and dumped a bike in my hallway, I'd be furious. Of course you can't do that. It's dirty, dangerous and completely unacceptable.
Put your bike in the garden under a plastic sheet, and give your sister's key back so you aren't tempted to be so absurd again.

Laserwho · 19/04/2026 08:46

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:44

Weather damage plus a bike is easier to steal than a load of garden furniture !

Easy to solve, get a waterproof bike cover and lock up your bike.

BudgetBuster · 19/04/2026 08:45

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:44

Nobody likes HIM, she doesn’t even like him!

But you don't like ANYBODY based on all.your previous outrageous CF threads

Auroraloves · 19/04/2026 08:45

If I was your sister I’d be asking for the key back, no you can’t expect her to store your massive muddy bike

HeadDeskHeadDesk · 19/04/2026 08:45

How did it transpire that you ended up with their a full size keyboard in your living room and how long has it been there? A bike in the hallway is a pain in the neck to be honest. I think it was wrong of you to put it there without asking first. I'm not sure why you've tolerated letting her dump unwanted outdoor furniture in your garden though. Are you sure she didn't do it because you didn't have any and she was genuinely of the belief that it would be welcomed by you?

Anyway, I think you need to stop this daft arrangement where you both enter one another's houses without prior permission and stop using them as storage depots. You have a garden so I honestly don't understand why you don't just store both bikes there. Tell her she has 48 hours to collect her keyboard or it's going in the street.

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:44

BudgetBuster · 19/04/2026 08:43

No wonder he doesn't fucking like you 😂

Nobody likes HIM, she doesn’t even like him!

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1980isitjustme · 19/04/2026 08:44

Have you spent the weekend sorting the old bike out then? Is it ready to list?

Tablesandchairs23 · 19/04/2026 08:44

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:11

Where exactly??

That's a you problem isn't it. You had a cheek dumping your bike at her house without asking. I'd have been fuming.

BudgetBuster · 19/04/2026 08:44

AliceNotInChains · 19/04/2026 08:44

Weather damage plus a bike is easier to steal than a load of garden furniture !

Weather damage... in a week?