Taking out the bins - should DH empty all the house bins too?

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DH generally always takes out the bins on bin day. He never empties the bins in the house before he does so. Well, he might do the kitchen ones. Neither do I , I just empty the bins as I think of it. When I was growing up the bins were all emptied before bin day.
This is not even a conversation between DH and I , I couldn't care less. Just wondering if everyone else has a rubbish free house come bin day?!

We don't. Terrible waste of bin bags for the bins that have bags (kitchen and bathroom). Each indoors bin gets emptied as it fills (or before it becomes a biohazard!) rather than on a schedule.

I empty the inside bins after tea the day before collection day. DH takes the bins up the drive.

All bins emptied into a bin bag and placed in the wheelie on the morning of bin day. If they don’t empty the wheelie til later in the day I’ll put any rubbish accumulated into it before they come too.

Bins is my DS13's job and he dutifully empties all the "little bins" before he puts the big bin out. He does this every week whether it's the recycling one or the waste one. He's a good egg.

Yes all rubbish is put in the bins on the day before collection.

Dh does the heavy stuff (most of it) and I go round the house emptying the other bins. Then the lot goes out.

Ours are only done every three weeks tho, so house bins tend to be a bit fuller by then.

Yes I go round and empty all the bins the day before collection day,
Me too!

I empty all bins as needed but I also check all indoor bins before putting the outside ones out for collection.

I will often empty third/half full bins as although our domestic waste is collected weekly and our recycling fortnightly, I don't want indoor rubbish sitting around longer than necessary.

We have paper, food, glass, plastics, garden and general...... Inside bins are always done before anyway but we have the in drawer ones so plastics, paper are done every 2-3 days anyway.

I love bin day. I empty all the bins the night before and put the wheelie bin out. I then put any extra out in the morning.

I empty the kitchen bin if more than 3/4 full, otherwise it's a waste of a bag. Fortnightly bin collection but we compost food so it could be six weekly and that would be fine too.

My sons put the bins out. The "job" includes emptying the kitchen bin, food waste caddy and kitchen recycling, but I do the bathroom bin and waste paper baskets as part of the cleaning of those rooms.

Teenagers job here - they empty all the bins Wednesday night for bin collection on Thursday. Quick and easy job 😄.

I do the bins and recycling, DH does the household waste. No, I don't empty all the household bins beforehand.

Ive never heard of anyone not emptying all the bins in the house before bin day, how weird.

Of course. Take out rubbish and recycling into black and blue, as required. But every week, night before recycling or rubbish, then check upstairs bathroom bin and kitchen bin, and / or recycling, add it to bin, wheel it out for collection. Surely this is standard. Because it doesn't come for another 2 weeks.

Another weird mumsnet thing that in real life is definitely standard for most people

Thursday is out collection day; they usually come early in the morning. Every Wednesday night, around 8 pm or so, DH will say, "okay time to get the trash out." I go upstairs and empty all the bedroom and bathroom ones and DH does the kitchen and other downstairs ones. He then puts it all in the big bin that lives in the garage and rolls that out to the curb. Thursday morning after collection, he rolls the empty bin back into the garage. We have been doing it that way for the nearly 40 years we have been married.

The recyclables are collected on Friday and we have a similar system for those.

Dc do the bins here. All bins around the house are emptied into big kitchen bin and then bag gets taken out. Kitchen food waste and recycling are all done then too.
One evening a week we are rubbish free!

Our various bins are collected every 2 weeks, so each week, the bin or bins to put out is different. (We have 3 large bins for general, paper and plastic/cans, plus a kitchen caddy small bin.
Each week, the day before bin day, I empty ALL the bins in the house, including the bathroom bin, bottles, recycling, etc to the outside bins.
Then DH checks which bin is put out for collection that week.

People who empty every bin, do you also make sure every additional piece of rubbish goes to the bin until the point it is collected? Otherwise what's the difference between rubbish from the day before and rubbish from the collection day? If you emptied the bin two or three days before collection day, do you do it again even if the bag is almost empty?

I empty the inside ones into the big bins. Dh puts the big bins out on bin day. It just doesn’t occur to either of us to do what the other one does. 😂

DH does the bins as The Bins, everything from DD’s tiny pedal bin, bed & bathroom bins through to the bigger office & lounge bin & finally to the huge kitchen bin.

Bins = all bins, unless one you’re having to play Bin Jenga with due to being full, then the first to play a Jenga’d item will do that bin before carnage ensures. In theory, although when my son lived at home he took it as a challenge rather than an absolute chore.

Recycling is different; place recycling straight into the outside recycle bin, unless you’re cooking & a small pile may accrue by the draining board until you lob it into the outdoor bin at the earliest convenience (usually during a break in proceedings whilst tea is brewing).

If DH is away, bins become the responsibility of anyone around on the night before Bin Day.

If Bin Night is missed (usually due to festival & bank holiday confusion), then there must be a visit planned to The Dump (or Skiptopia as we call it as it has the most fabulous reuse centre shop). And hope that DH, if left alone, doesn’t go to the Small Appliance area to bring home more random electronic stuff, he views it as a giant, free pick & mix.

Unfortunately, last week he was momentarily unsupervised as I threw the last of the ivy into the green skip, and he met a fellow Electronics Womble & they both managed to rescue full sized Casio keyboards that were laying forlornly on the top of the pile. One dead hedge trimmer was replaced by the electronic piano thing 🙄. Gah!

Depends. 2 weekly collection here too. Big bin in kitchen and the bin bag sized bag for that goes out only when it's full. We have a smaller bin upstairs that I empty the little bedroom and bathroom bins into and I'll take that one out for bin day and replace the bag. DM had a little fancy bin in every single room of the house and would place a square of kitchen roll in the bottom of every one after it was emptied. I don't do that!

Broadly speaking I empty the downstairs bins on bin day but upstairs ones get taken downstairs when full.
Though I do try to notice upstairs bins on bin day and empty into each other / bring down if I remember.