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Is this cheeky re neighbour's wheelie bin?

19 replies

Namechanger20183110 · 18/02/2020 22:02

Really boring question alert

It's bin day tomorrow (general waste, collected fortnightly). Binmen usually come about 7am.

My bin is completely stacked full. I have 2 carrier bags of really old stained and battered Tupperware boxes that the skip wouldnt take when I went today , they told me they need to go into general waste, but the bags won't fit in mine this week.

My elderly neighbour across the road lives by herself. We are friendly and chat to each other if we are both outside. I know her bin has space as she put hers out today before I did, and I checked it on my way to knock on her door earlier around 7pm to ask if she'd mind if I put my bags in her bin. She wasnt home. I knocked again around 9 but still no answer. I've just noticed now that her upstairs lights are on, however I don't want to startle her as 10pm seems too late. However with the binmen here at 7am, I dont want to be knocking on her door at the crack of dawn either and wake her up!

Would you just put the bags in there tonight, or is that really cheeky and should I just hold on to the bags for another few weeks?

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PersilOrAriel · 18/02/2020 22:03

Shove them in

Leeds2 · 18/02/2020 22:05

I would just do it!
But, I would email her (if she has email) to tell her that I had done so, tonight if possible, or I would go round there and explain myself tomorrow, even if that is after the bins have been collected.
I doubt she will mind, but I think it is nice to explain.

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Namechanger20183110 · 18/02/2020 22:07

Thank you! I think I will do it and just shove a note through her letterbox , just on the off chance she sees me through the window and thinks I'm a CF!

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TheReef · 18/02/2020 22:07

I do it all the time with my ndn

CodenameVillanelle · 18/02/2020 22:08

Just put them in, and a note so that if she planned to pop out at 6am to add more bags she won't be furious

Drum2018 · 18/02/2020 22:11

I gather you don't pay per weight? I'd kill my neighbours if they did this as we pay per weight If not then away you go. She'll hardly see you unless she's perched at the window.

Parkandride · 18/02/2020 22:14

@drum2018 where are you!? I've never heard of that

Sure its fine op, pop a note through the door

captainprincess · 18/02/2020 22:16

Once they are out for collection it's a free for all!

youngestisapsycho · 18/02/2020 22:19

My neighbour never has a full bin so I often chuck a bag in there.... it makes no difference to the bin men. Neighbour couldn’t care less.

Drum2018 · 18/02/2020 22:29

@Parkandride Ireland - some places here have pay per weight. I just worked out today that we paid around €340 in the past year for bin collections. It worked out less a few years ago when it wasn't per weight.

Iamacrapmom · 18/02/2020 22:29

At 9 you knocked her door is she alive!???she's not answering and the lights were on ????

Holymolymackerel · 18/02/2020 23:11

I did this once, when we had been stripping wallpaper. Popped it in her bin at gone midnight which she had put out on the street. Unbeknownst to us she had seen us and a couple of days later she went bananas at us.

It wouldn't bother me at all.

AmelieTaylor · 18/02/2020 23:16

It’s clean rubbish too, so I really can’t see the problem. But different if it was a family. I put the last bag in, on the way out to work in the morning, so I’d be a bit annoyed if the neighbours filled it up (or if they put leaking rubbish in there.)

AlCalavicci · 18/02/2020 23:20

Me and my NDN do this with each others quite often , but we also put each others out / bring them in too ,
We have a understanding that we dont put stuff in each others bins at night in case we want to put more in our own before going to bed but in the morning its a fine ,
So in your case I would say wait till the morning put your rubbish and leave her a note , it would be nice if you took her bin back in for her too .

Bawbags · 18/02/2020 23:27

I use my NDNs bin often but it's because he rarely goes home and his bin is never full. Maybe an empty carton of milk, couple of cig packets and ready meal box if anything at all.

I always used to put my bags in just as the bin men were coming up the street so my neighbour didn't suddenly find they had no room for their bags last minute. If you think there's even a slight possibility of your neighbour needing it do it in the morning. If not, tonight is fine with a nice thank you note through the door.

Taylr1733637 · 18/02/2020 23:38

I think it's fine as long as you mention it to her next time you see her or leave a note.

Someone on my mum's street keeps putting rubbish in her bin, it's filling her bin up!
They never bloody ask and she has no idea who is doing it as they do it sneakily at night.

BlankTimes · 19/02/2020 00:10

All the elderly folk I know are in bed by 9pm or before and would be uneasy if anyone was knocking on their door at that time or later, especially in the dark nights.

I'd drop my stuff in her bin early morning, just in case she's planning on putting more in before the binmen arrive.

@Taylr1733637
Someone on my mum's street keeps putting rubbish in her bin, it's filling her bin up! They never bloody ask and she has no idea who is doing it as they do it sneakily at night

Google Wheelie Bin Locks, they are fine to use and don't stop the bin being emptied on the lorry, but they do stop other people using them.

Parkandride · 19/02/2020 06:51

@Drum2018 interesting! And pricy!

vhs95 · 19/02/2020 07:35

Did the council tip not have a general waste container that you could have put them in? Personally I would prefer to be asked in advance if someone wants to put stuff in my bin but perhaps I'm just feeling curmudgeonly this morning. I suppose you could have asked her if it was OK for next week's collection as they're not going to go off and smell. Anyway, it's obviously water under the bridge now.

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