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Original poster

To steal next doors wheelie bin because they have ours <very childish emoticon>?

126 replies

DooinMeCleanin · 03/03/2011 09:38

DH says he feels bad about it. I don't. They still have a bin, our bin. It is not my problem they love my bin so much they daren't put it out to emptied incase we take it back.

We paid for an extra wheelie bin. I have two dogs, a cat with ibs (who poos a lot) two children and very many visiting children. We go through a lot of poop bags and sweet wrappers.

We always had bin bags in the yard that we couldn't fit into our bin, so we bought the extra bin off the council.

Last fortnight our extra bin went walk about. Last night DH saw it in next doors yard. They must have been hiding it behind our extension, where we couldn't see it and moved it last night closer to the back door, ready to go out first thing in the morning I presume, incase we spotted it last night and took it back. Only it seems like they have slept in as our bin is not out, their bin is. They put their bin out when they moved ours in their yard.

So I have taken their instead. DH feels guilty. I paid for an extra bin, I pay extra to have my extra bin collected, if they want an extra bin, they can pay for one of their own.

And yes, I do realise how petty I am being.

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gallifrey · 03/03/2011 10:06

Go and get it!!

I had bin rage recently, I paid for a company to come and clean my wheelie bin. The next time the dustbin men came they put a different bin outside my house instead of mine! I have no idea where my nice clean one is :(

Should have painted my house number on it I know but I didn't have time.

Snuppeline · 03/03/2011 10:07

I would take out their rubbish bins and leave it at their front door when taking my bin back. Then do as the others have said, make the bin clearly yours. That should teach them to steal bins! [very unreasonable and cross emoticon]

GwendolineMaryLacey · 03/03/2011 10:07

Ooh, have you got a ginnel? My dad's greatest wish (Londoner born and bred) is to have a ginnel like in Corrie. He rings me up to tell me every time they say it Hmm :o

LadyBiscuit · 03/03/2011 10:08

I like tallulah's idea. This used to happen to us a lot where we used to live. Sometimes it was because the bin men put the bins back in the wrong yard but I think that's less easy with wheelie bins.

I need to know how much your extra bin cost to be able to judge how unreasonable your neighbours are being

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DooinMeCleanin · 03/03/2011 10:09

A ginnel? Like a coal shoot? We have an old coal shoot. My Dad put a roof on it for me and a shelf so it's an outside shelter for Fat Cat if he gets caught out in the rain.

We also have an outside loo and an outside cuboard. The loo is now used as a cuboard for tools. I don't think it works anymore.

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DooinMeCleanin · 03/03/2011 10:10

My bin cost £40 and I don't know how much extra it is to be collected, Dh delt with it and it's tacked onto our council tax, I think it was something like an extra £40 per year.

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FannyFifer · 03/03/2011 10:10

So your bin is in their garden, it is identifiable as yours as your house number is on it, don't take their bin, go into their garden empty out your bin and take it back.
Cheeky feckers!

HecateQueenOfWitches · 03/03/2011 10:11

It's a passage between houses / rows of houses.

pronouned Jennel.

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DooinMeCleanin · 03/03/2011 10:12

Ah right, no we don't have one of those. Mil and my uncle do, though.

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LadyBiscuit · 03/03/2011 10:14

£80? Shock If someone nicked a bag that cost that or anything else, you'd call the police.

I think you need to do tallulah's note and say that you've paid that amount for it. Don't be all British about it and pretend that you don't know that they have it.

GwendolineMaryLacey · 03/03/2011 10:14

Sorry for hijack, just got a bit excited...

I never knew you could 'buy' an extra bin. I realise not all councils will do it but I'm going to see if mine does, I am forever running to the tip...and then I'll paint the bin neon pink!

AmazingBouncingFerret · 03/03/2011 10:16

I feel outraged on your behalf. That sort of thing drives me bonkers. I say keep their bin and go and take back your original paid for bin out of their garden and wait for the knock at the door. You can then return their bin back to them informing them that your extra bin was paid for by you. (I wouldnt really do that because I havent the guts but you might be more daring than me!)

HecateQueenOfWitches · 03/03/2011 10:16

OH yes, and not only how much the bin cost, but the annual cost you now have added to your council tax bill.

It's bad enough to nick something you think someone got for free, but they need to know it's costing you money!

2rebecca · 03/03/2011 10:23

If the bins are numbered I'd take your bin back and get their bin as it's empty.
I would knock on door repeatedly at different times to talk to them about it though as it sounds odd.
If it's just been going on for 2 weeks it may be an oversight.

shemademedoit · 03/03/2011 10:26

Leave them a note (or knock if they are in) explaining that in the dark of the morning you accidentally took their bin, and you think they must have done the same as yours is in their back yard, and ask them to get in touch to arrange a swap back. (I'm thinking a full bin is better than no bin?) x

shemademedoit · 03/03/2011 10:28

If their (your!) bin is accessable: just take it back and leave theirs in it's place.

ApocalypseCheeseToastie · 03/03/2011 10:29

We have had 'bin wars' on our street since we moved in ten years ago.

I now have a bright pink bin with purple spots Wink

coatgate · 03/03/2011 10:45

It is sooo not Jennel! Tis Ginnel with a hard G.

HecateQueenOfWitches · 03/03/2011 14:05

G as in gate?

no it bloody isn't! Grin

It's Gi sounding like the Je in Jennifer!

stoatie · 03/03/2011 14:19

When I lived in Yorkshire it was Ginnel (hard G) but growing up in the midlands it was gitty/jitty (soft G)!
Sorry for hijack - take your bin back its yours and abandoned theirs somewhere nearby Grin

MrsH75 · 03/03/2011 14:20

I'm almost glad now we don't put bins out where we live -just the liners/recycling sacks!

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DooinMeCleanin · 03/03/2011 14:21

Mil just calls it the little alley Grin

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MrsH75 · 03/03/2011 14:26

Ginnel always sounds a bit rude to me. "Jinnel" is even worse!

  • I didn't see you come in.
  • I came round the front and up the ginnel.
PaperView · 03/03/2011 14:26

Another vote for Ginnel Grin

Just take their bin back and say "oops sorry, we appear to have mixed our bins up, stick yo rubbish in 'ere and I'll take mine"

PaperView · 03/03/2011 14:27

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ginnel