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Do you have a bin?

272 replies

mumofoneAloneandwell · 17/05/2026 21:10

Apparently noone in Essex has a bin?! (TOWIE)

Its unhygienic - which actually i do get, but i need my bin. I have one in each room 😭

(Edited quickly, a kitchen bin)

OP posts:
abitdodgy · 18/05/2026 12:47

@BlondeshavemorefunThanks for the insight. I can’t help but think that having a bag of rubbish hanging around the kitchen would look quite unsightly, compared to a nice discreet bin. Am I missing something???

Blondeshavemorefun · 18/05/2026 12:43

abitdodgy · 18/05/2026 12:32

Please please please can the people who don’t have a kitchen bin but just use a bag of some kind post a photo of this, because I am genuinely confused by this - is it hanging off a doorknob or something? Is it not just the same as having a bin, except you’re not putting the bin bag in something, you’re just leaving it out? Please help me to understand.

Yes my friend hangs a bag over door /kitchen cupboard knob and then when full places in bin outside

not daily tho like saffron. When it’s full. 2/3 days

Blondeshavemorefun · 18/05/2026 12:41

Ha ha. As soon as I saw this title I knew it was Towie

I have a bin. I have 4 🙀🙀🙀

kitchen
bathrokm
my bedroom
dd bedroom

DiscoBeat · 18/05/2026 12:40

Peoplw obviously have too much time on their hands. It's about 70 steps from my bedroom and bathroom to the outside bin.

Morepositivemum · 18/05/2026 12:38

Oh yeah that would be a nightmare! Its good hosting to have a bathroom bin

First time we had visitors staying I put one in the bathroom then felt bad for never having had them before. Have always had one in the utility room but wouldn’t have them elsewhere just because of smell if someone put food in

Zanatdy · 18/05/2026 12:34

Yes, a kitchen bin, bedroom and bathroom bins and food bin.

abitdodgy · 18/05/2026 12:32

Please please please can the people who don’t have a kitchen bin but just use a bag of some kind post a photo of this, because I am genuinely confused by this - is it hanging off a doorknob or something? Is it not just the same as having a bin, except you’re not putting the bin bag in something, you’re just leaving it out? Please help me to understand.

Lins77 · 18/05/2026 09:17

It's never occurred to me that people could manage without an indoor bin!

I have kitchen bin, two smaller pullout bins in a kitchen cupboard which we use for recyclables, small pedal bin in bathroom, waste paper baskets in each bedroom.

I am now wondering if we are over-binned 😄

wishingonastar101 · 18/05/2026 09:10

Kitchen bin, Bathroom bin, 2 massive recycling bins in the kitchen, waste paper baskets (bins for paper etc) in kids rooms... big outside bin + outside recycling bins and green waste bin. and tiny bin in car.
So 11 bins here!

OriginalSkang · 18/05/2026 08:43

My work are going through financial problems and one of the austerity measures is to get the cheapest possible sanitary bins from Initial.. they dont have pedals! Sometimes I consider taking things out and putting them in the normal bin, just because I don't want to touch the awful flap thats covered in other people's blood

Flamingojune · 18/05/2026 08:39

OriginalSkang · 18/05/2026 08:38

Why teenage specifically?

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Teenage girls are generally more self concious about walking around someones house with used san pro i woukd imagine

Flamingojune · 18/05/2026 08:38

So all the anti bathroom bins must hate san pro bins in public loos but no doubt still use them

OriginalSkang · 18/05/2026 08:38

Flamingojune · 18/05/2026 08:37

What about teenage girls visiting?

Why teenage specifically?

Flamingojune · 18/05/2026 08:37

What about teenage girls visiting?

Mayweatherisajoke · 18/05/2026 08:37

I need pictures of bags people put rubbish in if they have no bin. Because that just sounds like bin without outer shell

PeachySmile2 · 18/05/2026 08:29

Brentwood girl here - we all have bins! Bedrooms, bathroom and kitchen.

OriginalSkang · 18/05/2026 08:26

My parents used to have no bathroom bin, and they also put everything in one kitchen bin (except food waste) and sorted it into recycling etc later! I still put my tampons in there. If they want to look at my tampons that's on them tbh!

fashionqueen0123 · 18/05/2026 08:15

Beekman · 17/05/2026 23:55

My next door neighbours on one side clearly don’t have any bins indoors as they’re out to their wheelie bins all the bloody time. They even walk to the end of the garden to scrape their plates directly into the brown bins. I honestly could not be arsed with that, emptying your inside bins once a day should be more than sufficient. No idea what the females do with any sanpro.

WTF. That’s insanity. Imagine finishing your dinner and walking into the garden for each plate 🤣 in the wind and rain! They’ll have a shock when they have to use a food waste bin

Sartre · 18/05/2026 06:16

My Gran didn’t have one and I stayed most weekends at her house. This caused huge embarrassment for me when my periods started. I used to take a carrier bag in my backpack, wrap them tightly in toilet roll and keep the carrier bag in my bag till I got home. She’s a clean freak so didn’t like the idea of having rubbish sitting around in her kitchen.

Barney16 · 18/05/2026 06:09

I only had a kitchen bin until my mum descended with other bins because "you have to have bins".

Mt563 · 18/05/2026 04:31

mathanxiety · 18/05/2026 03:41

Tampons don't just cause problems in drains. They end up in the seas and wash up on beaches in their thousands.

Please don't flush them, even if your inhospitable hosts don't provide an obvious and convenient place to dispose of them.

I'm firmly on team bathroom pedal bin.

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Same. No bathroom bin or even a bathroom bin without a lid is just rude if you ever host women.

MyGammyEye · 18/05/2026 04:28

I don't have a bin but my kitchen door does open out to where the bins are so I just put thingd straight in. I have a compost bag too in the garden. I did used to use the plastic bags, terrible looking back.

mathanxiety · 18/05/2026 04:07

xyzandabc · 17/05/2026 22:29

I agree that carrying a tampon into a kitchen bin is so obvious you're on your period. I'd feel so uncomfortable doing that.

No more obvious than the tampon being in the bathroom bin after you've left and someone else having to deal with it.

Bin liners are a thing. You don't have to look at the contents before you lift the liner out and tie it closed.

mathanxiety · 18/05/2026 03:41

MyCottageGarden · 18/05/2026 01:12

If a friend didn’t have a bathroom bin and I needed to dispose of a tampon I’d just flush it. It’s their own fault if it causes a problem with their drains!

Tampons don't just cause problems in drains. They end up in the seas and wash up on beaches in their thousands.

Please don't flush them, even if your inhospitable hosts don't provide an obvious and convenient place to dispose of them.

I'm firmly on team bathroom pedal bin.

mathanxiety · 18/05/2026 03:38

Kitchen bin, waste paper bins in bedrooms, small bin for empty loo rolls/ recyclables in the bathroom plus a small pedal bin there. I also have a recycling bin in the kitchen that gets emptied into the recycling bin outside.