Completely frivolous bin related query..

[CurlewKate]

I was wishing my FB friends a Happy Bin Day this morning, as you do, and it suddenly dawned on me that when I was a child a very long time ago we called it Rubbish Day.

Anyone else? Or is this yet another of my family of origin's unique eccentricities....

I was thinking this is yet another troll thread but then I recognised your name.

Never wished anyone a happy bin day. Wtf is that?

You could always combine the two and wish people a rubbish bin day, but they might think you were being unkind.

@LittleGreenDragons I did say it was completely frivolous. Although I was actually slightly wondering if it was another thing where the UK has moved to American English.

I wish people a happy bin day because it makes me laugh. Fine not to celebrate if you don't want to-let a million flowers bloom.

Always referred to as "bin day" in my family. Not American as that would be "trash day" surely?

I have no problem with you wishing it. I just don't know what it is as I've never heard of it.

Always been 'bin day' where I'm from. Although I've never celebrated it before 🥰

I asked my niece what my much older brother called it and she said he called it "Oh shit- was it today? Day"

Do I have to go out and buy a new front door wreath for bin day now?

"Dustbin Day" in Sarf London.

For me it's recycling box, bag, tub and bin day. Shortened to bin day.

Bin isn't American.
They might say bin to mean a storage cubby or container but rubbish is called trash or garbage and goes in a can, even if it's now plastic.

I think it's always been 'bin day'.

I wouldn't have thought it owed anything to America. When I lived there for a couple of years, in a rental 'townhouse community' we had to haul our trash to the garbage skip.

@Davros "Do I have to go out and buy a new front door wreath for bin day now?"

You mean you haven't got one?

@CurlewKate
I'm going to fashion one from recycled packaging. There's plenty of that!