I may well BU here, but I need to check!

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It was bin day yesterday and I cant bring them back in (I just cant ok, dont ask!) and DH got back too late to do it last night as it makes a right racket.

So, the bins are on the front and a couple walked past and shoved some rubbish in. Nothing major, a chip paper with some chips still in it, and a coke can. I dont mind that, better that than they are dropped on the ground. But, and this is where I might BU, I got steaming mad because the chip paper with the food still in it went in the blue recycling bin and the empty coke can went in the black non recycling bin!

I have seen them around before, so I know they live around here so they know the drill with the bins, would it really have killed them to put them in the right bins if they are going to go the effort of using both?! I now have to fish the chip bag out, no pun intended although I will probably leave to coke can where it is! I have been FFSing around the house about it! am I being OTT and U?!

I'm all for recycling but why can't you bring your bins in??? YABU

YANBU. I wouldn't mind at all if they had put them in the right bins.

Because I cant! Does it matter? DH will do it when he gets home.

OTT and quite U.

Your neighbours cant help being colour blind.

YABU - take the rubbish bins in

It's irritating and thoughtless but don't let it obsess you! It's not that big a deal in the scheme of things. Really.

And I cant understand why, if you could check what is in the bins, you cant bring them back in...

YABU to get worked up about it.

No-one's business why the OP can't bring the bins back in. Numerous disabilities of varying severity would make this difficult.

FFS, because they are heavy and I have SPD and arthritis that is playing up at the moment. Is that OK?!!

But that had nothing to do with the original question. I wanted to know if i was U for being annoyed that I have to get food leftovers out of my bin because of them. My being able or otherwise to shift the bins isnt relevant to the question.

WTF, op said she can't. How rude are some of you! You ob have not engaged brain before posting!

It would irritate me that they had used my bins tbh, but I am a mardy cow.

OP - your council will actually get the bin men to take the bins in and out for you if you speak to them about your circumstances.

PMT ANSWER

It would have annoyed me a bit too, because nothing goes in our black bin without being in a bag (don't want it minging and don't want to be fishing lumps of 'wahtever' out of the bottom!) and nothing goes in the recycling bin before being at least rinsed (also to stop the bin getting mining) - so yes, I would have been a bit annoyed, carry your own bloody rubbish until you either get home or pass a public bin - they are our bins not random strangers - the other option to not using your bin is not dumping it on the ground.

As for putting stuff in the wrong bins - utter twattery - feel free to post it all back through their letter box.

NON PMT ANSWER

Get over yourself it's a bin :)

Feel free to chose!

Or even choose :)

DH can do the bins it just means that depending on when he gets home, it may have to wait, as it has today.

Thanks for comments, I am v v sensitive about my limited abilities at the moment, I cant even get to the shop for my chocolate fix!

Now that is serious!!

Order a takeaway from somewhere that does chocolate

Nobody will have a go at you for being unable to do it due to disablity!!. The wording of the op made it sound like you were being a bit precious perhaps because of germs or something thats all.

YANBU - I'd be irritated by people shoving their crap in my bin without asking (we have asked neighbours when ours have been full - e.g. over snow and Christmas etc. - when they have more space in theirs)but I would never just shove my rubbish in anyone else's bin!
Lazy sods. Especially when you now have to root around to sort out the items.

yes unreasonable

I think those asking OP why she can't bring the bins in are being horrible, actually - as she said "please don't ask why I can't", my immediate thought was "she cannot physically bring the bin in and she has asked us not to as her, which means it's something she doesn't want to talk about".

YANBU, anyway, OP - if they know the drill they should have put the rubbish in the correct bin.
But, OTOH, we should be grateful they used the bin and not the pavement

is DH bringing you some chocolate when he comes home?
that should be his most important task.

You are being very unreasonable and in my head I am saying 'get over yourself' at least they didn't throw it in your front garden/ or on your car bonnet. They were courteous enough to put them in the bin, choose your arguments and this isn't a big enough deal to be one.

Get your DH to fish the chips out (hehe) when he brings the bins in.

Have a glass of wine or a nice bar of chocolate when he comes home too, put your feel up and chill out.

(I have got stressed over far worse of course but at the moment am in a chilled phase)

I agree, get dh to fish for the chips. Little things always seem worse when you are not well. Hope that you get your chocolate fix soon.

YaBu to keep mentioing chips - i really fancy some now!

I refuse to recycle until they lower council tax (I'm not a binman I shouldn't have to rake through rubbish).

So I think YABU about the whole "wrong bin" fiasco.

I make my dh take out the bins because of germs. But I'm precious about things like that. so shoot me.