To be angry at my neighbour for putting rubbish in my bin? *title edited by MNHQ*

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I'm a perfect recycling saint (and we have a real fire) so I normally have space.
My next door nemesis is trying to kill me and the planet by not doing ANY recycling.
ANY!
Not even dog food cans.
Now the cheeky mare is putting his ginormous black bag of doom in my bin on collection day.
And it gets worse.
He doesn't even push it down so the lid doesn't close.

If I get a yellow card from the bin men he had better run....

my neighbour does this she (the neighbour) puts all her dirty rubbish in all the neighbours bins complain to the council

I would take it out and return to sender. Find evidence it belongs to them...a grubby task but it can be worth it. I did this to mine, I knocked on and asked if they had an issue with their rubbish and why theirs was in my bin (after the bin men had been so no room for my rubbish). They said no so I said well I thought you might have because I found your rubbish in here - this letter has your address on. I just dumped the split bin bag down and said don't try and pull that trick again and walked off. They never did it again.

Thank you for the absolution OP, I feel much better now.
DH tells me I am 'anal' about the rubbish, I have a can crusher, though its only me that uses it and I've just squashed all my Tetrapaks (as penance).

It's a shame that bin lock isn't a bit cheaper, it would be the ideal solution.

I have been out in the garden witht he dog late at night i watched the neighbour take stuff from her bin and put it in the guy next doors she wouldnt dare put it in mine I would be telling her,

Speaking of neighbours, im utterly convinced mine are deaf, bloody telly!!!

Why on earth would someone take stuff out of their bin to put it in someone else's? That's just strange!

Well you have more than a jury worth of your peers agreeing with you,

I would say yep go for it murder the git you will probably be fine.

Disclaimer I am not actually instructing the op to go murder the errant bin space thief of course one should not take the law into your own hands,it's just a joke.

My neighbours tried this. On black bin day we very nearly didn't get our bin collected because overnight she'd rammed a huge black bag in and our lid wasn't closed. We took it out and left it on her porch. She never did it again, but now she keeps taking our paper bin off our drive and putting it on hers. WHY. She's sat there now with two green paper bins, and I swear she's going to fill ours with cheese and try and get us fined.

When's your bin day OP? We could set up a watch.

Why on earth would someone take stuff out of their bin to put it in someone else's? That's just strange!

not a clue she is a bit batty though tbh i think it is her dirty rubbish food mainly she did say she hated her bin smelling once I think that is what it is she hates a dirty bin

We recently had neighbours move in opposite and the cheeky buggers shoved a big bag of rubbish in our bin so it wouldn't close (theirs was already overflowing). I opened the window as the bloke was walking away and said "I don't mind you doing that, but please do me the courtesy of asking". It pissed me off big time, especially as it was stormy at the time and there was a good chance I was going to have to pick all their rubbish up from a blown over wheely bin.

Some arse decided that my freshly emptied bin was just the place to dump their dogs shit :( it was stuck to the bottom of my bin. If I found the culprit, he/she would be going into my bin head first.

An old guy in my street kept doing this. One night he was squishing his bag into my bin and I told him 'that won't fit!' He said 'oh I'll make it fit!' Just him and his wife lived in their house so they only used 1-2 bags a week. Once he did it and lid wouldn't close so I put his bag back on his doorstep ans told him to ask before using MY bin. He used all the other neighbours instead.

In our last house we had bin sheds next to front doors but the anti-social arseholes next door couldn't be bothered to put it in shed or round for emptying (I hated these arseholes who let me get 3 hours sleep a night). They then kept moving it out of the way of their path onto ours and didn't get the message that I kept moving it back!

Take Unreasonable Neighbour to your nearest [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyEBXTL1Y3U pig farmer].

Hazel, you do realise, by the activities you're describing, OP is going to have to have a crotchless fox costume.

Do I even want to know where one gets those?

Sorry:

When I moved into my old house I couldn't find a bin, so when the vendor popped round to pick up some post I asked him about it. He said, 'Oh, it got stolen a couple of years ago and we didn't want to pay for a new one so we just put our rubbish in other people's bins.'

Simple remove rubbish and return to neighbour saying i think you put this in my bin by accident. X

All these stories reminded me of the time that my neighbour took my bin into her garden on bin day after it had been emptied and filled it up with dog shit and all kinds of other disgusting rubbish. I do think she had mistaken it for her own bin despite the huge numbers on the side. I had to go and empty it in her garden and then disinfect my bin

But dress up as a fox while you're doing it.
Then take a shit on his lawn

PURE GENIUS

but in keeping with MN hot topics can I suggest changing into a cat costume before pooing on the lawn

How rude, Mrsjay!
We have a separate wood waste bin which I keep clean by using biodegradable liners. I did mention my bin fetish, didn't I?

That's gross kc77

It's a bin. It's bin day so there's no problem with you being unable to your rubbish in.

Total non issue.

'"non issue"
Must be the neighbour.

It's not a non-issue if you live in an area where you get fined if the lid doesn't fit properly because the bin is too full.

YANBU!

In our old road our NDN did this frequently, DH set up bin watch on bin day to catch them at it. Even when approached they still kept doing it.

What's worse is they ran a cafe and used to bring food rubbish from there home (why?!!!) and put it in the neighbours bins.

It's not a 'non issue' - it's a cuntish thing to do.

I can't believe all these places where you get a fine or they won't take your bin if the lid isn't shut. Our bin men aren't fussed at all.

My last house was a terrace and we would keep our bins on the pavement outside as we had no front garden (the council used to keep threatening to take us to court over that). We were down the road from the corner shop. People kept putting their empty wrappers in our bins. If it went in the usual rubbish bin that was OK but they kept putting non recyclable stuff in out recycling bin! So I bought some bungee cords and used them to clip the bin closed. Sodding things got taken!